Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [adj] [vb base] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , for example , a haulage company wished to acquire a Volvo heavy goods vehicle as an addition to its existing mixed Meet of lorries , it would be given time — say , three years — to repay the sum borrowed , paying interest at a commercial rate each month for 36 months . |
| 2 | The level of safety in the workplace can be inferred from the fact that 20 per cent of the rise in death rates for men in their late thirties arise from ‘ accident ’ . |
| 3 | The Yanks , whose aim is to be great World Cup hosts rather than realistic trophy contenders next summer , hardly dared to dream that they might equal their famous 1950 win over Walter Winterbottom 's star-studded side led by Billy Wright . |
| 4 | John Byrne made both Oxford 's goals in their two all draw at Milwall . |
| 5 | An otherwise outstanding ethnographic study by Beynon of a motor manufacturing plant , Working for Ford , gives only three pages to the two to three hundred women sewing machinists whose historic 1968 strike for regrading and equal pay was one of the inspirations of the 1970 Equal Pay Act ( Wintour , 1984 ) . |
| 6 | We all three sit in the warm front room , watching each other . |
| 7 | She wanted to turn to face him , to bury her face against that broad chest , to feel his bodily stirring grow until … |
| 8 | Rufus leaves one guard on each prisoner and his other three come with us . |
| 9 | Fab news : Beatles Story boss Mike Byrne , 50 , expects his Fab Four show at the Albert Dock to make a profit this year , for the first time . |
| 10 | Bearing that in mind , we find ourselves setting whole group dramas on spaceships or sailing ships , in medieval castles , on expeditions ; and what all these have in common is that within the setting it is comparatively easy to ensure that each participant has an essential role ; we can easily create a chain of dependency , to ensure that each child feels they have a stake in the drama . |