Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [noun pl] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I would n't want my clients to have to make the decision and feel guilty about saying no . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I lay down for a rest after lunch and was about to drift into sleep when there was a definite pop inside me , which made me think my waters had broken . |
| 3 | Erm well it makes sense but I 'm , I 'm glad you cos I mean my bonuses have gone down , I mean they have n't gone up then why is that ? |
| 4 | I want my colleagues to continue to enthuse about the job and teach effectively . |
| 5 | Well I , I 'm having some difficulty in keeping my remarks addressed to question A and not drifting into question B because obviously Leeds City Council and perhaps speaking for the rest of West Yorkshire 's concerned about regeneration effects . |
| 6 | After I turned the engine off and opened the door , I found my legs had turned to blancmange and moulded themselves into a sitting position . |
| 7 | His office says he has kept at least 20 top-flight journalists and analysts cooling their heels waiting to interview him since October . |
| 8 | Thanks very much , and if you er were to er , accidentally lose some files , you would know which files have gone missing . |
| 9 | The gentle caress of warm lips pressing her eyelids closed seemed part of the fantasy . |
| 10 | The ceiling had the creamy colour of a pub and everything in the place smelled ; it was always a simple matter to discover which files had passed through James 's hands , just by sniffing them . |
| 11 | If business leaders , who say their companies have benefited from previous privatisations , do not support such changes why should anybody else be expected to ? |
| 12 | She even started making other arrangements so she would n't just end up sitting at home staring at the phone and forcing herself not to ring him and say her plans had changed and she was free after all . |
| 13 | MEMBERS of Parliament are being canvassed by the New Statesman , the weekly left-wing magazine , to find which books have influenced them . |
| 14 | And she found her eyes drifting to examine his left hand , noting that as usual he was wearing no rings , hating the way hope stirred foolishly for a moment . |
| 15 | Perhaps long exposure to tennis , bad public transport , English weather and the sight of miserable middle-aged people walking their dogs had driven this particular breakaway section of a breakaway section of the Nizari Ismailis right round the bend . |
| 16 | For one thing poor countries produce similar commodities , and encouraging them to increase their exports has flooded the market . |
| 17 | The soldiers escorting it used their weapons to help destroy the creatures . |
| 18 | The widow of Alfred McTear , who died before completing his legal battle against a tobacco company , says she 's amazed her lawyers have agreed to continue the case free of charge . |
| 19 | Keith 's immediate future is secure while he has his parents to help look after him . |
| 20 | A Middlesbrough schoolboy ran away from home and spent three nights sleeping rough when he opened his parents ' quarterly phone bill and found his conversations had sent it soaring to over six times its usual amount . |
| 21 | He held his spear gun out in front of him with the safety off and used his flippers to keep facing the fish . |
| 22 | By keeping it more or less behind them and to their left they could be sure of travelling north-west which was the direction they believed right but the inequalities of the ground often forced them out of their way and although they always returned to their line they had to guess what corrections to make to allow for obstacles . |
| 23 | It is important , then , to establish what linguists have had to say and are now saying about literacy . |
| 24 | In supposedly dog-friendly Britain , getting accommodation and keeping your pets have become regularly conflicting objectives . |
| 25 | Rulers who let their hearts rule their heads tended to court disaster , be they male or female ; and there have been plenty of examples of both . |
| 26 | Incredulity at seeing her parents changed to anger when she saw Paige and Travis side by side . |
| 27 | Peter Lilley as a right winger has to combine his reputation as a zealous cutter of the state sector with a departmental budget that eats up to forty percent of the hole , one MP groans , rather inconsequentially , a weeks social security payments would buy a warship , even Kenneth Clark and Michael Portillo , sharpening their axes have to admit that Lilley did not exactly invent unemployment personally , but the burgeoning budget for invalidity benefit , together with much anecdotal evidence , suggest that somebody in Whitehall , well before his time , decided to cut the unemployment figures artificially by allowing , even encouraging people with little hope of jobs to remember that troublesome pain in their backs , and in the process get better benefits . |
| 28 | The report , the second of its kind , said that the situation had deteriorated ; the percentage of mills breaching their limits had risen from 65 per cent before 1990 , to 75 per cent in the 1990-92 period . |
| 29 | Although the great American Thomas Jefferson in 1807 used the term " public relations " , and in England the pen was mighty and writers such as Swift and Dickens promulgated their ideas hoping to change public opinion about a whole host of social or scientific or political issues , until the First World War , public relations was thought of as propaganda . |
| 30 | But doctors are now trying to see which drugs do work before they 're given to patients . |