Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [verb] the [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She had known him since he was a very small five-year-old , perched like a mosquito on one of the placid beginners ' ponies , so she told the class to carry on walking their ponies while she came to him . |
| 32 | ‘ So you mean the confederate closed the window — with gloves on — and hid somewhere . ’ |
| 33 | ‘ So you had the equipment assembled for Mr Gray on this particular evening , yes ? |
| 34 | Up your eye contact early in the presentation , so you make the status-player feel important . |
| 35 | And so you opened the window to have a look and what happened then ? |
| 36 | Once she had the confidence to walk outside , she would see the older children to the bus-stop and then perhaps go shopping or meet friends . |
| 37 | We have given it up , partly because we can not afford all the exercise tests and partly because we believe that once you know the patient has got ischaemic heart disease , which he has by definition if he has had an infarct , that the exercise test on a beta blocker is as useful prognostically . |
| 38 | Once you know the thing consists of electrons and atoms , you can more or less calculate what structure it has , what properties the molecule will have . |
| 39 | Instinet is still small in London , but has had reasonable success in its five years in the US and , says Cavill , ‘ once you get the ball rolling this is the only game in town . ’ |
| 40 | Once you have the technique mastered , you will want to try out interesting yarns and looser tensions . |
| 41 | Once you have the sub-menu dropped down you can select from it using the cursor keys to move the highlight bar or by just typing the first letter of the option 's name . |
| 42 | Now just specify the variables that you want in this regression , right , your dependent variable first okay when you 've specified the equation , sorry once you specify the equation press the end key which is between the alphabetic and the numeric key pads , that will then submit that request , right . |
| 43 | We thought that the site over at the station centre would be good as a shop outlet and as office space for recycling , and that the site behind it would be a good place to keep all the stuff until it can actually be recycled , erm , so we identified the site to start with , then we started looking at what 's actually possible as op opposed to desirable . |
| 44 | Team manager Mike Bantin , manager of Folkestone , said : ‘ The team won the South Eastern area fun day competitions on the last two occasions , so we relished the opportunity to compete on behalf of the company in a national event . ’ |
| 45 | It was n't worth going back to Edinburgh ( after the graduation ceremony ) so we took the opportunity to visit our old friends the Kembles , who live in South Croydon , which is only a mega traffic jam 's throw from Gatwick . |
| 46 | We all know packaging is often superfluous … an excess to make people buy the product rather than just wrap it up and that must be recovered … so we want the industry to use minimum packaging and we want the industry to come forward with ideas on that — if they do n't then we 'll legislate . |
| 47 | Although they enjoyed the session provided , it was at odds with their expectations . |
| 48 | Their lawyers and supporters were grim-faced , although they said the hearing had held no surprises . |
| 49 | The House has two very effective European Committees , but there seems to be an astonishing dearth of Liberal Democrats prepared to sit on them , although they have the right to do so . |
| 50 | However , the powers of the authorities are not very extensive , for although they have the right to buy land within the parks they largely lack the means to do so , and ownership , therefore , is predominantly in private hands . |
| 51 | And they would n't want that , any more than they wanted the Firm to have them . |
| 52 | The cells are dead , so they lack the ability to repair themselves . |
| 53 | The owners are being contacted in writing and advised of the situation so they have the option to surrender the dog . ’ |
| 54 | When engineers build the plant and install the computer control , they do not know the precise values of these coefficients ; so they start the process running with approximate values , and write control programs which improve the values . |
| 55 | Erm and once they got the problem resolved , you know , then they became different people . |
| 56 | ‘ Think how it wakes the seeds ’ , this itself suggests that the force in question is not God and is indifferent to whether the man lives or dies as although it takes the effort to wake the seeds and the earth it can not wake ‘ sides full-nerved — still warm ’ . |
| 57 | Professor Ted Wragg , GH 's Education Consultant , regrets this backward-looking view , although he thinks the report contains useful information . |
| 58 | He was , he said , too confused to stop them , although he believed the request to search the church was quite improper , and that the police had acted illegally . |
| 59 | Radek was equally polemical and uncompromising , although he broadened the debate to include the international scene . |
| 60 | Eubank is n't a fucked-up man venting aggression in the ring , he 's a skilled professional , although he has the punch to destroy anyone in his division . |