Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [conj] [pron] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Pretender nearly gave the game away by holding his skirts too high crossing a stream : ‘ some women whom they met reported that they had seen a very big woman , who looked like a man in woman 's clothes . ’ |
| 2 | Luckily , the picture has altered as it has become clear that in agriculturally wealthy areas , where farmers were often owner-occupiers , they lavished great attention on their houses . |
| 3 | On the shores of uncharted CCT requirements the Computer Co-ordination Section has realised that it had to come up with a leaner , meaner , faster name for the Section . |
| 4 | And I have said yes , because there 's a couple pairs of his trousers has ripped because he has put weight on . |
| 5 | In conducting this exercise the Commissioner has explained that he has adopted the wide test of subversion formulated by Lord Harris in 1975 and that his duty ‘ is to look at each case individually and say whether the Home Secretary could reasonably take the view that the warrant was necessary in the interests of national security ’ ( Lloyd , 1987 ) . |
| 6 | Although it started as a mutation , it is one nature has favoured and which has become established . |
| 7 | But now Ellen the time I have long awaited has come and I write to tell you that an Italian maidservant by name of Gigia who is travelling home to Florence having been in Scotland with a family who are friends of the Brownings is to come to you to collect Oreste and take him to Liverpool where she will be joined by Mr Ogilvy and from whence they will sail for Italy . |
| 8 | It 's er er somebody on business is visiting and they the wife has come and she has to entertain the wife . |
| 9 | It has impressed but it has to have the right tools if it is going to provide the safety that councillor referred to and the saving of life which was referred to by councillor . |
| 10 | Now say your diabetic has stabilized as they have done for , a couple of years or so with their insulin injection in the morning and their breakfast and that 's how they carry on then till their tea break or lunch time they know exactly how much they 're taking . |
| 11 | Interest in the code has grown as it has become clear how swiftly the end of the cold war has begun to undermine NATO 's defence base . |
| 12 | De Matteo ( 1977 ) has argued that one has to understand sign language in terms of its visual imagery and he has particularly highlighted the syntactic devices used in ASL which derive from a visual representation of events . |
| 13 | We have to respond to these developments and it is being made clear now in public , that the Health and Safety Executive are giving every indication to employers that they are not going to rigorously enforce the law and indeed in the local authorities a leading figure there has said that they want to take a softly softly approach . |
| 14 | But Mr Ashdown , who is demanding a full-scale coalition , has so far rejected anything that Labour has offered , threatening to vote against a Queen 's Speech that does not include a commitment to electoral reform ; and Mr Kinnock has said that he has made no overtures — not even played the ‘ opening chords ’ — which would lead to a post-election pact . |
| 15 | As I understand it , the Home Secretary has said that he means to cut down on exceptional need to remain . |
| 16 | It may well As far as I know it 's it is only Mrs er who has said , I I 'm sorry to er to say this Mrs , you are the only person who has said that you wish to produce additional representations . |
| 17 | Our eyes lit up on reading in the Wall Street Journal that the Deutsche Bundespost Telekom has said that it plans to respond to foreign competition by rebalancing its telephone call charges to make long distance calls cheaper and local calls more expensive , but it was a false alarm and you can all go back to sleep again : the piece goes on to quote an official saying that no decision about a rate structure had been made and that any change wo n't occur before 1995 at the earliest . |
| 18 | Two-mid range RS/6000s are expected from IBM sometime next month , as well as a new version of the AIX operating system for the PS/2 : IBM has said that it plans to bring its various Unix flavours closer together , and is expected to add some — though not all — of the features found in its flagship AIX for the RS/6000 to the somewhat neglected PS/2 version . |
| 19 | Since the socialist government has said that it intends to pass this year 's defence bill anyway , it was the duty of the opposition to move a vote of no confidence . |
| 20 | He he has said if I do go for maintenance he 'll deny that Ricky 's his . |
| 21 | It is called a ‘ faith projection ’ because it relates to the measure of faith which God has granted as we have analysed our performance , related these to biblical priorities , and prayed through our response . |
| 22 | Eventually , when he has decided that we wish to learn and that we love the Ocean as much as he does , he teaches us things that it is important to know . |
| 23 | JWP Inc , the Rye Brook , New York electrical and plumbing services conglomerate that bought struggling Businessland Inc and almost immediately regretted it , has decided that it has had enough of computers altogether and on Friday announced that it will sell its information services business ; it has retained Lazard Freres & Co as its financial advisor to attempt to find a buyer ; the unit now provides personal computer-related hardware , software and integrated services primarily to large corporate and institutional customers , has some 3,000 staff and had 1992 revenues of $1,700m . |
| 24 | If your Association has decided that it wishes to take up the offer of accommodation at South Gyle the Council needs to know : |
| 25 | I pay tribute to the efforts that he has made since he has held the office of Secretary of State to bring all constitutional politicians together . |
| 26 | Coyle has shown that it pays to leave some distributed free space within a file . |
| 27 | He said : ‘ I 'm delighted with the work he has done in training and the commitment he has shown when I have asked him to play . ’ |
| 28 | When when he has got when he 's got the time to go to , I do n't know where he gets them , he does n't get them at Marble Arch Marks I think . |
| 29 | To show willing she has watched while I 've prepared dinner this week . |
| 30 | I shall be elaborating upon this point in a short while , but for the moment let us observe that fundamentalism has flowered because it has concluded that liberalism is effete , ineffectual and impoverished . |