Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [conj] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | GOLFBREAKS HOLIDAYS THAT SUIT YOU TO A TEE |
| 2 | Such a visit should involve talking to personnel to try and understand something of their jobs and to work out how best to tell the story in visual form . |
| 3 | His face moved continually , different expressions rippling and flowing across it as if he really were a sea creature , moved and swayed by the changing tide and currents in water , in continual motion — flickering from smile to grimace to pain to peace , eyelids half rising to reveal a sea-shell sightless crescent of pearly blue-white , lips parting then closing , breaths shuddering and shivering him as if air were too strong and coarse a medium . |
| 4 | On closer inspection the bundle of rags rose and revealed itself to be a woman , filthy dirty , her skin so grimy she was almost invisible in the gloom . |
| 5 | Third , you are aiming to create an atmosphere in the interview which will encourage the candidates to talk and show themselves to best advantage . |
| 6 | Even horses that appear to be asleep or resting , continue to change their weight from one hind foot to the other , to swish their tails , twitch an occasional muscle in their sides , and to keep their ears moving and informing them of what is happening all around . |
| 7 | Bailey 's Jamaican informants did when providing her with examples of JC for her book , Jamaican Creole Syntax ( 1966 ) . |
| 8 | Their legal rights were not affected by admission to a home and the guidelines warn that restraining someone without their consent , or on the instructions of a third party , is unlawful and unacceptable . |
| 9 | This chapter gives you some guidelines to explain and help you in your work : |
| 10 | Therese was standing on the stage , Madge Grimsilk on her knees crouching and doing something to the bottom of Therese 's costume , which was most certainly not the hired costume . |
| 11 | A herd of Asian elephant cows with calves drink and cool themselves with mud . |
| 12 | A fifteen-year-old in grey flannel wandering around London in school holidays with an adolescent 's apocalyptic vision , praying that he would lose his virginity before the bombs came and blasted him to oblivion . |
| 13 | There the bailiffs pushed and shoved me through a porticoed entrance , down a long , dark , musty passageway into the main well of the court , fastening me to the bar ; beyond it sat the three magistrates before a square table ringed by clerks . |
| 14 | In response to Mr Fothergill 's letter concerning Carlton amps , we enjoy being in the music business , and to us that means listening to what guitarists want and doing something about it . |
| 15 | As casualties occur you can remove any of the models fighting and replace them with any models from a rearward rank — so you can change the ratio of nets to clubs by , say removing a club and replacing it with a net . |
| 16 | The old woman came and silently cleared away , without once looking at me , even when I pointed at the few cakes left and praised them in my stilted Greek ; the hermit master evidently liked silent servants . |
| 17 | Ever since his election as ARFU president in 1988 , French has been involved in many discussions with South African rugby officials assisting and advising them in their aim once again to be welcomed back into the international playing fraternity . |
| 18 | Are we truly prepared to offer no model of co-operating nations sinking their differences to achieve greater security , or are we prepared to live with a Europe that is increasingly fragmented , where nations ' first demand on sovereignty is to equip themselves with weapons to tackle or to defend themselves from new nations on their own borders that have the same heightened state of frenzy and determination to do the same ? |
| 19 | IBM Corp and Blockbuster Entertainment Corp were yesterday due to launch their joint venture to market systems for duplicating audio compact disk recordings in retail stores : the idea is that record companies could eliminate the need to press hundreds of thousands of copies of major recordings — instead the store would tap into central databases at each record company to collect the tracks requested and record them onto a blank disk ; although no pilot systems have yet been launched , IBM said the system also could be used to make and sell computer software and video games on demand ; the IBM-Blockbuster system is expected to be designed to distribute albums in original form , rather than enabling customers to mix and match their choice of tracks , and negotiations are reportedly already under way with several record companies ; a typical CD would take about six minutes to make , complete with the glossy packaging buyers expect . |
| 20 | What is clear from these comparisons is that ‘ occupational status is not the only factor which individuals consider when assigning themselves to a given ‘ social class ’ . |
| 21 | Preston , at the mouth of the River Ribble , lay roughly halfway between Lancaster and Warrington , and Forster 's horsemen reached and occupied it on 9 November , to be followed a day later by the slower-moving infantry . |
| 22 | Rain came down , floods rose , gales blew and hurled themselves against it , and it fell not , for it was founded upon a rock . |
| 23 | It was thought that if Calvinism were undermined the Presbyterian churches would give up their people to the Episcopal Church ; in fact the slow waning of Calvinism in the Presbyterian fold took away the one advantage the Episcopalians had and doomed them to irrelevance . |
| 24 | Your right to use your ex-husband 's contributions to improve or provide you with a pension depends on your age and/or whether you remarry before the age of 60 . |
| 25 | As she called in at the supermercado , toured the fruit and vegetable market , bought chicken legs from the Dutch butcher , a kaleidoscope of questions formed and reformed itself in her head . |
| 26 | and all sorts of things to try and discourage them from this . |
| 27 | Last night forensic experts were testing the guns to try and link them with crimes in Britain , Europe and America . |
| 28 | His mother told him she made things to sell and left it at that . |
| 29 | Alternatively , you could decorate the order of service , if one was printed , or even write out the words of one of the hymns used and frame it with a selection of the pressed flowers . |
| 30 | Efforts to strengthen and improve it in the last decades of the century had only moderate success . |