Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] and [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She saw his eyes change and knew he had witnessed her realisation . |
| 2 | Right , now they 're both ethers try and name them first in naming them take the biggest hydro-carbon chunk that you can find and pretend that that was an alkane so the smaller chunk then becomes the substituant . |
| 3 | I hardly date write anything about the goats as there are so many strongly held views on management that each time I say I did something one way , lots of readers write and tell us how completely wrong that way is ! |
| 4 | The incendiaries set the villages on fire and the foragers visit and sack them . |
| 5 | We all develop throughout our lives , but experiences affect and change us differently . |
| 6 | We were to wait for the oyster-fishing season in the Bay of Cancale without giving the boats notice and stop them as they sailed past Barfleur Head … |
| 7 | It is planned to achieve this by renovating the original ( 1903 ) corrugated iron goods shed and extending it on the sou east side where the dilapidated lean-to addition will be removed . |
| 8 | Although social arrangements constrain and control us , they are still constructed and reproduced by human action . |
| 9 | Gannets amaze and impress me every time I see them . |
| 10 | Ken Hunter , the youngest national chairman in BAIE history , has two main aims during his year in office : to listen to what members say and to give them value for money . |
| 11 | PRESIDENT Bush last night pledged that US military forces ‘ will remain in Europe as long as our friends want and need us ’ , no matter how great the changes in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union . |
| 12 | Do you know , at Fontainebleau he set up a system of mirrors so he could watch his young ladies pose and inspect them from every angle , whilst his palaces were full of secret passageways with peep-holes in every bedroom for Francis was deeply interested in the sexual exploits of others . |
| 13 | When the adventurers get within 48 yards of the arch , three Daemonettes appear and attack them . |
| 14 | They said that every year at the end of winter the cows are so thin and weak that diseases spread and wipe them out like flies . |
| 15 | First and foremost , Borland have taken the Windows interface and used it to good advantage . |
| 16 | They have their local medicine and the witch doctors try and cure them of their diseases first so they would even bore holes into people 's skulls to let the spirits out for headaches and things like that . |
| 17 | Absurdly , she wanted to lay her head on his broad , muscled chest , feel the strength of his arms surround and protect her . |
| 18 | However , this will be done with a very broad sweep to permit the focus in later chapters to concentrate on what is the essential and most interesting feature of routine policing in Northern Ireland : namely , how societal divisions affect and constrain it . |
| 19 | Unfortunately when other divisions come and use it they seem to think they can pick up the caravan and there 'll be a wonderful display in there |
| 20 | Furthermore because these societies change and evolve it was natural that morals and laws should also change according to the social and economic system . |
| 21 | I gave him a hard releasing shove in the general direction of Sam , Perkin and an open-mouthed Gareth and at last watched a dozen restraining hands clutch and keep him from destroying himself entirely , but he struggled against them and turned his vindictive face my way and shouted in still exploding rage , ‘ I 'll kill you . ’ |
| 22 | Dr Joseph Miller , a clinical ecologist working in Alabama , writes : ‘ These patients are not basically neurotic , but they are less able to cope with daily problems because their symptoms distract and bewilder them . |
| 23 | Generally speaking , they achieve obedience ( albeit sometimes grudgingly ) because their children love and respect them , seek their approval , identify with their point of view , and wish to emulate their example . |
| 24 | The idealised language-system encodes meaning through grammar , phonology and the lexicon and the question of how this system is used differs from that of how linguists analyse and describe it . |
| 25 | That 's why I 've decided to let his wife and children come and see him . |
| 26 | At speeds of ninety miles a Police car chased a stolen white fiesta … through narrow country lanes … cars coming in the oppositie direction swerve to avoid it car as it weaves in and out of the traffic … at times the Police try to overtake it … without success … forty miles after they spotted the stolen car … the road clears and the Police overtake and stop them … three schoolboys are arrested … one of them … a passenger … is fourteen … in the past eight months he 's been arrested twenty eight times … the day before he 'd been placed under another supervision order by Milton Keynes Magistrates where he 'd faced charges of robbery and burglary and joy riding … it was from the children 's home he 'd been sent that his two friends picked him up . |
| 27 | In his anger and frustration , he picked up a long , curved clothes brush and banged it down hard on the surface of the table . |
| 28 | Others try and tell you about your future , but you never really believe them . |
| 29 | Some abhor variegated plants , considering their colours unnatural , others collect and treasure them , growing so many different kinds together that their gardens acquire a somewhat bilious overview . |
| 30 | As a source of power , it can only be claimed and used if others recognise and accept it as a source of power . |