Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [verb] [v-ing] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A more extreme tactic is to start addressing them in similar vein — using ‘ my dear ’ or something worse back ( at a seminar I attended , ‘ baby ’ was suggested … but if it 's your boss you 're dealing with you may need to decide whether your job 's worth it ) . |
| 2 | In fact , timber felling grew to such proportions that a law was passed restricting it ; anyone found guilty of contravening this law more than three times , could be hung . |
| 3 | It would have been better if the programmer 's skill was recognized making him the author or joint author of " computer-generated " works . |
| 4 | Well that 's what Breeze am keep telling me when I got to work in the morning it 's about the time of recession people should advertise more not less that maybe but the hard financial situation of the theatre finds itself in is to find that sort of money is very difficult at the moment . |
| 5 | Although convicted of taking part in the attack no evidence was brought linking him to the knife . |
| 6 | A familiar scene , yet one that had changed subtly since yesterday — just as everything else had been changed by that newspaper item , the whole of her life being undermined making her feel that nothing was quite as it had seemed . |
| 7 | On the morning of 9 January 19571 was working at the Treasury when a message was delivered summoning me to Number 10 at 3 o'clock . |
| 8 | As it is among your flowers , the best thing is to keep pulling it out ( this is easy as the roots are very shallow ) and hoe between plants weekly to remove new seedlings . |
| 9 | Your best course is to keep visiting her , if she will have you , with patience and understanding and watch how the situation develops . |
| 10 | Garden centres stock sachets of blueing powder for hydrangeas , but the most reliable way is to continue growing them in pots . |
| 11 | Back in 1974 , the idea was to avoid turning it into another Costa of cheap , pack-'em-in highrises , and concentrate instead on upmarket accommodation . |
| 12 | And then she said to me , and then , when I was going , she went to me , would you like to come on holiday , I went , then she went , because of me and mum and dad , we went another day to holiday , we went to beach , and er , mum said , that , yeah , mum said that she was saying , erm , to her , why , why is it not , what was it she said , about the weather , mum was moaning saying it was cold , and she went why , why are n't we go on holiday , mum , and mum said we ca n't , we ca n't afford to go on holiday , and she ah , why do n't we go to seaside when it 's cold . |
| 13 | Tutilo was standing fronting them , erect and rigid , his face a narrow , pale flame , his amber eyes wide and wild . |
| 14 | And the first step is to stop treating him like a tube of toothpaste — something you can squeeze the contents out of whenever it suits you — and start appreciating him for the easy-going patient guy he obviously is . |
| 15 | After all the trouble your mother 's taken driving you round the country , why the hell are you deliberately trying to hurt her ? ’ |
| 16 | No time was lost putting them into service for the season , still in the L.U.T. livery , which was similar to Blackpool 's . |
| 17 | As he explained when I met him , he became so angry when he read what they had to say about the Princess that he wanted to ring the editors and complain , but realized that , rather than spending every day on the telephone , a simpler solution was to stop reading them . |