Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] the [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we came to Préfleur I asked Jean-Claude if he would teach me to drive the motor cycle . |
| 2 | When you have collected and transcribed a large body of texts this may take two or three years — you can have a concordance made from them using the TEXT ANALYSIS ( TA ) programme . |
| 3 | One day , they met in the second class compartment of a train — unemployed but taking the bad days as cheerfully as the good , knowing that tomorrow probably would find them enjoying the material rewards of advertising yet again . |
| 4 | ‘ Managers were proud to lead their staff into dispute and out into the streets over the years ; unfortunately , very many of them became the pit bull terriers of 1992 ’ . |
| 5 | Today about 650 of them graze the sand tips and there are also about 40 South Devon ewes . |
| 6 | It is natural to ask … why it is that countries have Constitutions , why most of them make the Constitution superior to the ordinary law , and , further , why Britain , at any rate , has no Constitution , in this sense , at all . |
| 7 | ‘ It has been very disturbing and hurtful for me to see the way things have happened , ’ Charlton said . |
| 8 | If so , it may only be necessary for me to see the Executive Summary to get the gist of its conclusions . |
| 9 | They went ahead and applied to Hesel Heseltine , who agreed to let them build the power station . |
| 10 | ‘ If he was here today he would be urging everyone to support the research efforts of the Foundation . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Everyone thinks the Amaranth Line was enormously wealthy , but so much of it went in the Sorcery Wars — dear me , I intended no discourtesy , sir . |
| 12 | Thirdly , it is also possible that the advances in birth control operating within the climate of an ‘ acquisitive society ’ might well have permitted couples to plan their family lives in such a way as to allow them to enjoy the consumer benefits of society . |
| 13 | Listen , listen so you may have a right to defend at any cost which you think is privileged society the fact of the matter is people out there I received twenty seven letters in support against the fox hunting I did not receive a single letter asking me to support the fox hunting . |
| 14 | It was here that Mr Adsett , one of Eva 's " shining people " , taught his class of talented youngsters , several of whom passed the scholarship exam . |
| 15 | Then it was time for me to attend the evening reception on Britania . |
| 16 | If the manager runs a sales team where everyone has the job title ‘ sales executive ’ , then that manager can only manage effectively when his or her team have regard for the manager 's active status over and above his or her overt status . |
| 17 | This management agreement is to formally set out the relationship between them to establish the investment policies to be pursued , the powers of the trustees or the investors , and the investment advisors , to establish clearly the fees and charges which are to be made by the advisors and the basis on which they will be made . |
| 18 | Attlee , for his part , was equally strong in urging me to accept the majority opinion . |
| 19 | The dream lingered through the endless moments while I trudged up the clinging sand , seeing our little cottage grow larger and more ominous , till suddenly it was if the film director grew tired and cut to me opening the cupboard door and peeping out . |
| 20 | Under this threat , Gaitskell allowed them to increase the investment allocation for supplying industry and new housing estates , though there were some cuts in the rural electrification programme . |
| 21 | Reformers were seeking to integrate working-class adolescents into the ‘ common good ’ by means of an educational programme which it was hoped would lead them to internalize the community perspective and , therefore , use it as the criterion for evaluating their own wishes and responses . |
| 22 | But not everyone loves the Yankee dollar . |
| 23 | Can you let me know the fax number you used to get in touch with Mr. Silver ? |
| 24 | In order for them to find the blood vessels they must have some way of sniffing out nutrition , or fleeing from the products of metabolism . |
| 25 | To find out what the food was like in the RAF today I asked the Catering Branch to tell me how things were different from my days ( the 1950's , I 'm not that old ! ) . |
| 26 | I asked the probation department if they could arrange a visit as it did n't look like anyone else was going to . |
| 27 | I asked the Home Secretary to list the kinds of information currently held on the police national computer under the data class of warning signals . |
| 28 | At the end of the first teaching practice I asked the teacher tutors ( who had all had experience of the previous system ) to make any comments they cared to about the new set-up . |
| 29 | I asked the VD clinic about the glands while on a routine checkup . |
| 30 | Against my better judgment , I asked the record man if he were able to bring impoverished blues singers over to Ireland . |