Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [noun pl] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DARLINGTON Conservatives say they are pleased with election canvassing returns showing they have the support of half the townspeople they contacted . |
| 2 | Such cosseting made passengers feel they were very special and the airlines did all they could to encourage distinguished people to fly with them Imperial Airways carried HM King Feisal from Baghdad to Gaza in 1927 and later took to publishing monthly lists of their important passengers . |
| 3 | The fixation shift results make it clear that orienting behaviour can be evoked by stimuli that can not have been processed by any contralateral cortical structures . |
| 4 | WHILE watching the Olympic boxing , I realised what a sensible idea it is for the amateur fighters to wear headguards to protect them from brain injuries . |
| 5 | When the KGB make moves to track him down , he and another ‘ sleeper ’ , union leader Albert Robinson ( Warren Clarke , far left ) decide they do n't want to return to the USSR . |
| 6 | On Dec. 18 , as part of the first round of the CFE talks , the US Defence Department announced proposals to cut US forces by 55,000 , an increase of 22,000 on Bush 's initial proposals in July 1989 . |
| 7 | Beth stood before him now , a dignified creature , her slim shapely figure taut with anger , her wild brown hair loose to her shoulders , and her dark flashing eyes daring him . |
| 8 | Müller made soothing noises while Eloise moved seats to comfort her and then he settled back to plan what he must do . |
| 9 | He added : ‘ Kaiserslautern will pack defensively , but Waddle has skills to open them up . |
| 10 | Forewarned of the Orc advance , the Halflings gathered to defend themselves , and the Count of Averland sent troops to support them . |
| 11 | The equipment leisure officers have in mind is mainly made of wood , treated against vandalism and decay , while its lay-out means children using it will at no time be more than one and a half feet off the ground . |
| 12 | Despite the mechanics ' worries motoring organisations say they are confident lead-free means trouble free . |
| 13 | " There was a shipment of gelignite heading into the quarry at Soloheadbeg , and the Brigade had orders to capture it … " |
| 14 | Of course , in theory , the mirror image rule makes printed forms matter since it encourages or even forces parties receiving documents to read them carefully . |
| 15 | In a letter of 25 January 1620 Sir John Chamberlain remarks a very significant event in the contemporary cross-dressing controversy : James I 's instruction to the clergy to suppress women doing it . |
| 16 | MIKE Watkinson 's pick ‘ n mix deliveries brought him ten wickets in a match for the first time yesterday as Lancashire thrashed Warwickshire by an innings and 25 runs at Edgbaston . |
| 17 | From Oct. 1 , Czech and Slovak citizens would have the opportunity to purchase coupons enabling them to buy shares . |
| 18 | ( 59 ) Two and two is four ( 60 ) Iguanas eat ants Let us , following Lyons ( 1977a : 682 ) , distinguish the semantic or theoretical category of tense , which we may call metalinguistic tense or M-tense for short , from the verbal inflections that a traditional grammar of a particular language may call that language 's tenses , which we may call L-tenses . |
| 19 | The Payment of Wages Act allows employers to make it a condition of employment that new employees should be paid through a bank , but prohibits them from doing this with existing employees ( though of course individual existing employees can agree voluntarily to accept bank-account payment ) . |
| 20 | Below The Bundorragha River flows south of the gold-prospecting area , but should mining begin locals feel it would still be too close for comfort |
| 21 | The authors of the Black Report , who included one of the most eminent Fabian academics , Professor Peter Townsend , were clear that such disparities were socially unjust and the NHS needed policies to address them , but they were forced to conclude from the evidence that the major causes of health inequalities lay beyond the NHS and were rooted in the material conditions of life experienced by the different classes . |
| 22 | THE LEITH Aged Mariners ' Fund asks members of the public and companies to send donations to enable it to continue its financial assistance to more than 100 former merchant seamen and their dependants . |
| 23 | Since the campaign started bosses say it 's saved them fourteen million pounds by reducing staff turnover . |
| 24 | We have lived in a wonderful variety of houses , including one normally occupied by a pit deputy in South Yorkshire ; a leaking gothic horror of a Victorian rectory in deepest Sussex that was literally falling to pieces while administrative matters blocked efforts to replace it and our present one near Lewes built in 1934 in the days of live-in maids , recently modernised but still half as big again as any built these days and with a double-size garden . |
| 25 | A special issue on the centenary of the death of Darwin contained articles saying he was right , he was half right and in many respects wrong . |
| 26 | Jane persuaded volunteers to give him food and attention . |
| 27 | It is conceivable , too , that the Sihtric dux who witnesses three of Cnut 's charters may be the Dublin monarch Sihtric Silkbeard , who used dies evidently made for him in the mint at Chester to strike pennies naming him king of the Irish and modelled on Cnut 's Quatrefoil type . |
| 28 | They occur because information is costless to transmit , and the public policy problem that they create involves trading-off the full disclosure of new information ( which is optimal whenever the marginal costs of information transmission are zero ) with the need to preserve incentives to generate it ( i.e. to cover the costs of producing that information ) . |
| 29 | Papa spent weeks researching it . ’ |
| 30 | When they went into dinner and she was sitting beside Peter Suvarov , Julia took pains to draw him out and discovered him to be quite as attractive a character as his wife . |