Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [conj] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I feel that these difficulties have gone on too long for there to be a realistic prospect of change in time for these children and given their improvement whilst in foster care , where they are not brought up in their parents ' conflict , it is not in the children 's interests for them to go and live with the father and that they need to be placed in an environment with permanent substitute parents , who can meet the boys ' physical , emotional , educational and social needs . |
| 2 | What makes them think and function in the way they do ? |
| 3 | So he told me to go and ask for a job there . |
| 4 | In the meantime , the director who would have done it , who is a name director , has asked me to go and work at the RSC because she 's now busy for exactly that period of time . |
| 5 | We are more seriously cheating children if we fail to teach them how to use language than if we fail to teach them to enjoy and participate in the arts . |
| 6 | Everyone laughs and bangs on the table . |
| 7 | ‘ In the end we asked them to come and sit at the back of the stage , ’ Miss Picon recalled . |
| 8 | In an interview in 1983 Bishop Peter said : ‘ I have a house full of young people who spend a year with me praying and working in the community to get closer to God , and I let them impinge on my ministry . |
| 9 | We could hear them laughing and chattering beyond the reeds , their dresses flashing bright glints of colour through the green stalks . |
| 10 | He subsequently saw them laughing and talking with the guard before the train left Birmingham and described both youngsters as well dressed ; the boy was wearing a school uniform of yellow and brown with cap to match and scarf . |
| 11 | Let me be buried in lead at Claydon next to where your father proposes to lie himself , and let no stranger wind me , nor do not let me be stripped , but put a clean smock on me , and let my face be hid and do you stay in the room and see me wound and laid in the first coffin , which must be of wood if I do not die of any infectious disease , else I am so far from desiring it that I forbid you to come near me . |
| 12 | Neil had told me to try and forget about the ‘ mystery ’ , and this proved surprisingly easy to do . |
| 13 | But no-one used that label in the ninth century ; nor did Charles ever call himself king of the West Franks : his own royal title was simply " king by the grace of God " . |
| 14 | Since we needed someone to skin and look after the specimens we collected , we eventually employed a lanky youth called Yusuf German who had worked for a Greek taxidermist in the town . |
| 15 | That was the point I made when responding to the intervention of the hon. Member for Swansea , East , when I mentioned section 12(1) of the Theft Act 1968 . |
| 16 | Then I fainted and fell to the floor . |
| 17 | You see we 've had some very good reports , I mean that went through a very bad patch but they 've this new Doctor Colin he 's meant to be pretty switched on |
| 18 | What do I think and feel about the others ? |
| 19 | I fret often for the days when I lived and worked in the countryside , but one sad sight used to be that of herds of demented idiots vandalising the scenery and terrorising nature in their delirious lust for an innocent animal 's life . |
| 20 | When he 'd gone I lay and thought for a long time about poor young Mr Vickers , and of what I should have told Doone , and had n't . |
| 21 | Eventually , having decided that calling out the Cave Rescue for a simple case of overeating would n't look good in the newspapers , I recovered and got to the lane by Clay Pits Plantation that leads to Victoria Cave . |
| 22 | I sit and fidget like a child . |
| 23 | ‘ When I see him racing I yell and scream with the best of them , ’ Sharon confesses . |
| 24 | I changed and bathed at the tavern where my master was staying in Great Mary Axe Street near Bishopsgate . |
| 25 | ‘ I have to go , ’ I say and go to the hall for my coat . |
| 26 | I rose and walked to the other side . |
| 27 | I stopped and looked at the big house . |
| 28 | As a stepmother I should like to say how much I identified and sympathised with the writer of ‘ I Love Him But Not His Daughter ’ ( October GH ) . |
| 29 | I stop and think for a moment — shocked by my act of sadism . |
| 30 | I 've got some apples erm I stewed and stuck in the freezer , to make |