Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [v-ing] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You quoted David Griffiths saying that he had told the RAF Benevolent Fund that we would be ‘ pretty disappointed if they failed to raise one million pounds from the Marathon ’ . |
| 2 | A couple of weeks after my appointment to the Arts Council , a letter arrived from Downing Street asking if I wished to accept the honour of a peerage . |
| 3 | By 1966 , the Church was better able to take advantage of the new interest in its separatist stance because it now had a core of Ulstermen who had been converted under Ian Paisley s preaching and who had grown up with his politicized evangelicalism . |
| 4 | One thing that went seriously wrong is that we did n't hear more of Neil Kinnock speaking as he did amid the wreckage of his political hopes and personal career . |
| 5 | My guess is that , with a few exceptions , it wo n't but that in four years we 'll have another Mogg-Davidson book claiming that they got it right all along . |
| 6 | we 'd never , like I mean , I can remember in Plymouth dad saying when we get there , erm we 'll buy a television , we 'll have a television and we did n't know what he was talking about and he said it 's a wireless with pictures , you know , and our minds were boggling we just could n't understand it , and then of course that was another bit of bribery got us to come . |
| 7 | ‘ He only tries when there 's an England selector watching and I said his OBE stood for ‘ Overweight Bag of Excrement ’ . ’ |
| 8 | Kate finished her cocoa , listening to Mr Blakey breathing while he drank his tea beside her . |
| 9 | It followed Iraq 's formal acceptance that it would comply with a UN directive demanding that it submit by March 27 a comprehensive plan for the destruction of equipment and installations used for its ballistic missiles programme . |
| 10 | And in Amabel 's experience it had always been the wife who complained of it , Ethel Lord , for instance , fretting herself into a decline , or very nearly , when her husband had taken to spending so much time in Leeds ; Maria Colclough turning to religion because her man emerged so rarely from his counting house ; even strident Lizzie Braithwaite complaining that she had been neglected for the sake of the business . |
| 11 | IBM Personal Systems Business Unit Europe/Middle East/Africa says it had record volume of sales in the first quarter of this year , and points to Dataquest figures suggesting that it outshipped its nearest competitor by 66% during the last quarter of 1992 and the first quarter of 1993 — gaining 4% in market share over the previous six months ; the company also said it reorganised its manufacturing and distribution operations at its Greenock , Scotland , plant , cutting distribution costs for its ValuePoint and ThinkPad brands by more than 65% , cutting its inventory by 17% since the end of 1992 ; this magnitude of savings will also be realised for the PS/2 and PS/1 lines this year . |
| 12 | Obtain an appropriate claim form ( e.g. baggage/money or medical expenses ) by either telephoning Norwich Union on 0603 683924 ( 24-hour answering machine ) , or on 0603 683195 , or by writing to the Norwich Union clearing stating that you travelled with HCI at : TRAVEL CLAIMS , NORWICH UNION FIRE INSURANCE SOCIETY LTD. , P.O. |
| 13 | Dr Kennedy has sent a letter to Mrs Falconer saying that he does not see what benefit can arise from any further extension to consideration of the matter . ’ |
| 14 | I remember now Mrs Maybury grumbling because she 'd had to do it all herself . |
| 15 | One day a child came home from Sunday School declaring that he had just been hearing about how Moses crossed the Red Sea with tanks and Bailey bridges . |
| 16 | It 's difficult these days , when he talks so seriously , to imagine Steve Martin laughing while he works . |
| 17 | And let's face it brothers , sisters , some of our members have more chance of seeing Lord Lucan riding as they have of finding a job . |
| 18 | Readers may have received mail shots with the Barclaycard logo suggesting that they stand a good chance of winning a six figure sum of money and a car in a prize draw . |
| 19 | Related to this is Brunner 's objection that he led theology back into a ‘ false objectivism ’ , the complaint we shall later find Reinhold Niebuhr making that he does not take the challenge and struggle of Christian life sufficiently seriously , and the widespread feeling that he seeks to approach theology , and especially christology , ‘ from above ’ , from the side of God , whereas today we must work ‘ from below ’ , from ‘ the man Jesus ’ and ‘ the human situation ’ . |
| 20 | From Wimpey Homes to Dr A.J. Watson stating that they regretted their inability to level the area of open space and provide some form of play equipment at Baberton Mains . |
| 21 | For centuries racing took place on Clifton Ings with the House book of the York Corporation recording that it took place there as long ago as 1530 . |
| 22 | Having driven herself to meet Travis to obviate Naylor Massingham knowing that she had n't heeded his ‘ … in your interests not to see him again' warning , Leith discovered that she need not have bothered . |
| 23 | A Grand Jury in California handed up indictments against two officers of Symantec Corp alleging that they stole trade secrets from Borland International Inc after a six-month investigation by the district attorney 's office of Santa Cruz County , California into the allegations that a Borland officer brought confidential company material with him when he left Borland to join Symantec ; Symantec says that last it hired an independent law firm to look into the charges , and it was given the opinion that there was no crime committed and that none of the items constitute trade secrets . |
| 24 | They had to get rid of a leader before they could bring themselves to admit that the poll tax was a mistake and I ca n't see John Major going before he loses the next election . |
| 25 | The quote is : ‘ At the inaugural dinner for its first showing at the San Francisco Asian Art Museum in April 1991 , Rand Castile , the director , admitted to a personal call from Henry Kissinger suggesting that he drop the show , diplomatic relations with China being at stake ’ . |
| 26 | At the inaugural dinner for its first showing at the San Francisco Asian Art Museum in April 1991 , Rand Castile , the director , admitted to a personal call from Henry Kissinger suggesting that he drop the show , diplomatic relations with China being at stake . |