Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [pos pn] [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British government — and a substantial number of British citizens — effectively opted to exclude Blacks from the United Kingdom and deny them their rights to live as equals with other British subjects . |
| 2 | People often bring me their problems to solve |
| 3 | There will be genealogists who will be fascinated to discover who their ancestors spoke with on the 15th of July 1993 or historical demographers who might wish to use these records to assess the role the telephone played in family communication ( Did the phone help to maintain family structure over extended distances ? ) |
| 4 | A Sikh woman from Jullunder , recently arrived in Britain , described what her feelings had been when her daughter got married six years ago . |
| 5 | Now this store in Banbury is among several out to smash what its owners call the cosy club of perfume companies and their favoured retailers . |
| 6 | Sue is still building up her range and is willing to stock new qualities when in sufficient demand , so she likes to know what her customers want . |
| 7 | It is worth remembering that it is useful to the Bank to know what their customers think of the services they receive : it enables them to improve upon the services they offer . |
| 8 | By contrast , the radical position has interpreted control as suppression , and has focussed attention on the ways in which lawyers appropriate the right to know what their clients need . |
| 9 | Let them commission a research team to examine the phrase in all the languages of the world , to see how it varies , to discover what its sounds denote to those who hear them , to find out if the measure of happiness changes according to the richness of the phrasing . |
| 10 | The Opposition must withdrawn their policy , and do so today , or everyone will know what their policies mean for British Steel . |
| 11 | Many wives did not know what their husbands earned — as many as one-third of those surveyed in Middlesbrough in 1907 — and the vast majority of husbands kept back a proportion of their income for their own use . |
| 12 | She had been ill for some time and , driving back again to Cardiff to join my father , I reflected on the sadness that parents can never know what their children owe them . |
| 13 | In February 1340 Edward himself came back to secure what his commissaries had failed to get , but only in May was he able to return to the continent assured of a grant . |
| 14 | Commonly , the tales of adulterous wives end with counsel to men not to trust what their wives tell them , not to let them out , and so on . |
| 15 | ‘ Licensed retailers have now got the kind of security they have long desired and the chance to take their own business into their own hands and reap the rewards , by being able to play to their strengths and provide what their customers want . |
| 16 | She could just see his face when she told him her mornings began at six . |
| 17 | you can give him his tables written out |
| 18 | She had glanced at him when directions were needed , observed his chiselled profile just for a moment , saw the unreadable expression , the tightness in his angular jaw , the closed look that told her his thoughts had moved on , were miles away from the insignificant circumstances of the foolish girl beside him . |
| 19 | The heirs of the executed and forfeited rebels lacked the means and the backing to use force to regain what their fathers had lost , and the enemies Edward had made in the extreme north by concluding a truce with the Scots were in no position to make their influence felt . |
| 20 | I mean , imagine what his friends thought ! |
| 21 | An organisation embodying what its members want out of life now , the beginning of totality through total opposition , and what we do to change the world being enjoyable in itself , not a sacrifice ‘ |
| 22 | The peasants did not fail to note that the correspondents were often ex-clerks of the Tsarist regime , and so extremely bureaucratic and long used to writing what their employers wanted to read . |
| 23 | This is the premise on which Andy Selters has written what his publishers claims is the ‘ only book devoted to understanding glaciers and how to cross them ’ . |
| 24 | He was the master of most of North Wales and part of the central lands , but a swathe of bracken and heather covered by a skin rug and his own cloak was bed enough for him , and he ate what his men ate , and wanted no more . |
| 25 | Predictive typing is of particular value with disabled learners ; the software guesses the word or phrase you are currently typing , and offers you its guesses to save you key presses . |
| 26 | Oh yeah cos I got you your fags did n't I ? |
| 27 | He added that several people had told him their windows had been covered in oil again — a problem most islanders faced ten weeks ago when the Braer hit rocks near Sumburgh . |
| 28 | Because then they knew that we a couple of the kids were really terrified of him and if they 'd only have to hear his his footsteps walking up the street and they 'd start to shake . |
| 29 | Before she could withdraw it his teeth had closed lightly , trapping it there , while his tongue played over the sensitive tip . |
| 30 | ‘ It cost £500 and I really ca n't see what my boys got out of it . |