Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] [verb] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Redundancy Payments Act of 1965 was introduced to give redundant workers some recompense for losing their jobs and to encourage companies to release labour they no longer required ( feather-bedding ) , thereby encouraging labour mobility in the face of growing changes in the technological make-up of industry . |
| 2 | There are provisions enabling investors to recover loss they have suffered as a result of entering into the share transactions . |
| 3 | Whereas when we make appointments to see people we are there |
| 4 | On the other hand , we sometimes withdraw completely from words as they are spoken , for example when we work on a dialogue that breaks certain social taboos , that shows characters saying things we can not imagine people actually daring to say . |
| 5 | I think maybe English men would refer to their car as She or so on if they get to think you know they make things have personalities you start to give them personal pronoun there . |
| 6 | She taught women to embroider designs she herself had made as an addition to the income of families hit by the destruction of the vines by the oidium disease in the 1850s . |
| 7 | But effective pursuit of some of the revolutionary goals was the province of older men — of respected ‘ average Libyans ’ , who used their position and influence , their kinship connections and the respect they had earned , to persuade others to do things they thought desirable . |
| 8 | In addition to examining ways to generate resources it would act as a consultative group linking potential donors and beneficiaries . |
| 9 | In mitigation Lawrence Hazell said the defendant had acted stupidly in accepting invitations to drive cars he knew were stolen . |
| 10 | The moguls are coming up with a new gimmick to get audiences to see movies they have ALREADY seen . |
| 11 | And I hate dishes sitting Raymond I really do |
| 12 | He always had to spend ages reassuring Lennie he did want to travel with him and George had to keep on reminding Lennie of their dream , of alfalfa and rabbits , to comfort him . |
| 13 | Newspaper technology is so sophisticated we can even make politicians say things they do n't know they 're saying . |
| 14 | He pulls the hair of a young uniformed constable , shouting at him , ‘ If God had intended policemen to have hair he would n't have created barbers ’ . |
| 15 | They compelled officials to investigate matters they would much prefer to keep out of : all for the administration of a basically unworkable rule . |