Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Secretary of State put before us a whole catalogue of countries that have ballistic missile capability , and a substantial number of them appear to have embarked on a nuclear weapons programme . |
| 2 | It is not a label which I want to see attached to the British economy . |
| 3 | but er , so now I 've got a thirty six , thirty five , thirty four , thirty four , thirty four , thirty two and thirty , so that 's a B count in B file , so there 's no hassle with that , but if I can get on and get rid of the er , I 've got twenty eight , twenty nine in there as well , er twenty eight in there as well , so I want to get rid of the twenty eight and twenty nine but it is a guarantee that a B file , so there 's |
| 4 | I seemed to have stumbled into a painting by Hogarth . |
| 5 | White cotton sheets that I 'd had bought as a wedding present . |
| 6 | there is a further letter from R Jasper More and one from a local person which I hope to have published in the next Journal . |
| 7 | But I seem to have hit on a compromise , a way to make them feel they still have a stake in the treasure , but in addition an enhancement of their family 's reputation . ’ |
| 8 | In the present instance however , ( the poems of a certain Mrs. Leapor excepted , who published some 40 years ago ) I discern , I think , more marks of a true poetical talent than I remember to have observed in the verses of any , whether male or female , so disadvantageously circumstanced . |
| 9 | Q SHOULD I try to get rid of the large number of slugs and snails which have got into my compost bin ? |
| 10 | It did n't need much concentration , and all through the morning I kept getting interrupted by the thought of Oliver standing there not being able to say anything , and then practically shouting what he did . |
| 11 | I do n't I thin I think there 's probably a lot lot less sexism just in terms of I think we 've won their respect by you know and and certainly when th they did n't want us to picket in the beginning , and then over the months really the women have done quite a lot of successful picketing when we 've been asked and and we 've staged quite big pickets quite a lot of you know the big pickets were really organized and the rallies have been organized by us and really sort of quite a lot of the input into into the strike I think has come from the women 's support group in in quite a unique way . |
| 12 | There are two members I think have spoken from the Liberal benches concerning funding bureaucracy and I would agree entirely with what that means but they 've also mentioned in the same bet , budgetary control and if you 're going to control budgets , you have to have a minimal amount of bureaucracy and the function really of the head of the er of the project , er the head of the the post that 's now slipped into oblivion with this motion , would actually have been to do two things it would have been to hold the two groups together and it would have been to have overall control of that budget and it would n't have been easy and I would n't have like the job and I wouldn't 've applied for it and certainly would have been very difficult indeed . |
| 13 | Macaulay Culkin is wonderful — I like him a lot — but I did get frightened at the bit when he slipped over on the ice and the bad men caught up with him . |
| 14 | I had to get rid of the gun as soon as possible . |
| 15 | Over the years I suppose I 've become known as a dotty naturalist but I try to be rational and I think it 's a pity the Greens are n't more practical . |
| 16 | The purpose of general management is to try and ensure that in the city that we are getting the best value we can from the health resources that are in the city , and I have the authority now , and the responsibility to spend the budget that I 've had allocated from the Oxfordshire Health Authority , by Gerald Simon who 's the general manager . |
| 17 | The anger goes , no point in being mad , and I remember a tasty bit of gum I 've got stashed in the classroom , and I fancy it . |
| 18 | No it 's cos I 've got done by the other teachers before . |
| 19 | I 've got rid of the damn thing now . ’ |
| 20 | Come on man , I 've got Come with a nice young lady , intelligent In a cardboard box , informer lick your boom boom there lick your boom boom there with my dibby , dibby dob , police knock my door , they shout my crib , rough me up and I ca n't do a thing , pick up the when the telephone ring informer . |
| 21 | I 've got caught in the post office once or twice on pension day when I was buying more stamps for my fruitless job applications . ’ |
| 22 | I 've got sunk in a sort of despair . |
| 23 | Instead , I had sent an open letter to John that I hoped to get printed in the Lebanese press . |
| 24 | It 's just that … well , I need to feel touched by a topic , connected . |
| 25 | ‘ The fears that I have heard expressed about the possible negative impact on these groups are totally groundless , ’ he said . |
| 26 | I have grown used to the fact that I will never ‘ convert ’ some colleagues however enthusiastic , persuasive or reasoned I am . |
| 27 | The little shop had been arranged as what I have seen described as a mini-hypermarket , so I found a basket and busied myself with collecting what supplies I thought I might need for the next couple of days . |
| 28 | There 's paperwork I have to get done at the store before tomorrow . ’ |
| 29 | The half-dozen letters from Summerchild that I have found scattered through the porridge oats box seem to be replies to letters from Serafin , but not one of Serafin 's letters has yet come to light . |
| 30 | and I felt I was being spread in so many directions erm , that erm I wanted to get rid of the Glasgow coordination |