Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Miss Honey met her gaze without flinching . |
| 32 | Because her social isolation was made worse by her inability to drive she agreed , before the next session , to take the therapist 's advice to arrange driving lessons . |
| 33 | Having gained that second term , Lange appointed himself Minister of Education , swapping his foreign affairs portfolio with Russell Marshall , thus signalling a major initiative in education reform . |
| 34 | These section 52 agreements became the object of increasing contention in the 1970s , with local authorities seeing them as a means of bargaining for planning gain , while developers , at the extreme , regarded them as blackmail . |
| 35 | ‘ They view themselves as strategic transport authorities seeing what congestion problems can be solved by rail , ’ says Causebrook . |
| 36 | Looking at it , Nutty realized you could use the Smiths ' bath without the Smiths knowing . |
| 37 | If the vicar thinks it does he is mistaken . |
| 38 | No , but every whenever his chest goes he 's |
| 39 | Investigations revealed he was driving without insurance or a licence . |
| 40 | Alison met him in the same bar . |
| 41 | Fairbank 's contribution to handwriting made him known to a larger public . |
| 42 | The story goes its designers drew up the plans in millimetres and the maker mistook the measurements for inches . |
| 43 | and the story goes he was stuck within minutes . |
| 44 | So he fought with him and and took his stick from him and gave him a whack on the head and he dropped , and the story goes he says we 'll go home now lads . |
| 45 | The story goes there 's a little carved head which is nailed by the ears to the door and everyone here says that 's Oliver Cromwell . ’ |
| 46 | The Archdeacon realised he had been carried away , cleared his throat and gulped the last of the sherry . |
| 47 | Charley asked him . |
| 48 | And the Board thinks there 's a reasonable subsidy to offer to its elderly residents . |
| 49 | But perhaps a pink Cadillac and James Dean to drive you away are the most desirable extras . |
| 50 | These imperfections make it all the more important for regulators to enforce the BIS minimums and set higher standards for riskier banks . |
| 51 | Sophie passed her hand over her forehead , then began to unfasten the drip . |
| 52 | In fact no recent government has reduced local authorities ' statutory duties , only the money to perform them . |
| 53 | Ghosts did n't have to be stupid and scary like in stories Mrs Mills read them . |
| 54 | So in the end , even the chairman agreed I was right . |
| 55 | Father Devlin clapped him on the shoulder with a large heavy hand . |
| 56 | Devlin clapped him on the shoulder . |
| 57 | Colin asked her . |
| 58 | Heat struck through the thin soles of her sandals as , joining the straggling file of other passengers , Luce made her way across the tarmac towards the rather unprepossessing terminal building . |
| 59 | Acquiring this kind of expertise brings its own rewards and it is gratifying to discover that it is often easier to explain a subject to others when you have had some difficulty mastering it yourself . |
| 60 | ‘ It is n't like that , ’ he began , but Ben interrupted him , a sharp edge to his voice . |