Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Nothing to preserve now the Vascars have no limbs to sell to us . |
| 32 | Later , when we 're nearer completion , you might like to offer a free trip to the agents he recommends — get them to pass on the news to their customers . |
| 33 | So I opened this one with practised diffidence … and , if it brought neither emotional nor financial reward , it caused me to dash off an angry — ‘ Disgusted , Centre for Policy on Ageing ’ — letter within the hour . |
| 34 | Nothing illustrates better the fluidity of viewpoints by which we can swing towards and away from egoism , and how little it has to do with morality . |
| 35 | No-one cares how a construction worker talks or whether he has much education . |
| 36 | ‘ He wanted me to pass on a message to the police . |
| 37 | You must also let them know when the work is complete . |
| 38 | We are writing to all existing claimants to let them know how the change will affect them . |
| 39 | In any case , the Dwarfs saw in the savage human tribes potential allies to help them fight the Orcs and , ultimately , to help them win back the lost Dwarf fortresses . |
| 40 | As they poured in further canfuls , I encouraged them to work out the amounts mentally by rounding off £1.19 to £1.20 , and taking away 1p . |
| 41 | take better policy decisions by assisting them to work out the implications of their basic strategy in terms of policies in specific areas , to establish the relative priorities to be given to the different sectors of their programme as a whole , to identify those areas of policy in which new choices can be exercised and to ensure that the underlying implications of alternative courses of action are fully analysed and considered . |
| 42 | ‘ I was extraordinarily lucky in starting off in a post that was small enough and compact enough to enable me to meet quite a sizeable proportion of the population . ’ |
| 43 | That 's where they should be , but we can see them lurking up the top there there 's |
| 44 | So to the beach Kaptan and I would go , or walk around the garden , pulling out weeds , me trimming back the undergrowth while he handed spare tools up the ladder . |
| 45 | We half expected them to come back a few days later , but they have never returned to the barn we prepared so painstakingly for them , although they are still sometimes seen in the vicinity . |
| 46 | Many passengers specially request to sit in the row of seats immediately behind the pilot , and you can see them checking out the instruments with the guide published in the airline 's in-flight magazine . |
| 47 | ‘ Oh , Beth , I do love you , ’ she said : the two of them laughing all the more when a little voice piped up from its place at the table , ‘ I do love you too ! ’ |
| 48 | Gary wants me to find out a bit more about it cos he wants a new one , another , well he wants a new one , cos we done a deal , get my bed , if we get the bedroom done |
| 49 | They want me to write out the stuff . |
| 50 | But I could have them send up a tray if you 'd rather stay in bed . ’ |
| 51 | Somewhat naïvely , I had expected it all to be sorted out then and there , but the chap just took my name , gave me a form to fill in and told me to come back a few days later for a full interview . |
| 52 | If anyone had seen me bent over a motorbike with my ear pressed to the back of a Transit van outside the Barbican that morning , probably nobody would have looked twice . |
| 53 | STANDARD LEVEL OF SERVICE : These amounts are the Government 's view , for the purpose of sharing out Government Standard Spending Grant ( see next note ) , of the appropriate level of spending for the authorities in your area to enable them to provide broadly a standard level of service , taking into account the particular circumstances of the area . |
| 54 | I give you my word that I wo n't attempt to get away if you let me know when the police are called in . ’ |
| 55 | ‘ Let me know when the prize is to be collected , ’ he said sarcastically . |
| 56 | Let me know how the seeds you planted get on . |
| 57 | Make sure that everyone writes down the five you agree on . |
| 58 | Jahangir 's irritation was with the refereeing which , he reckoned , had hindered him throughout the tournament and yesterday he said it ‘ made it hard for me to catch up a couple of points ’ . |
| 59 | Students will appreciate the word-list ( over 800 terms with a phonetic transcription ) and the index of grammar exercises which enables them to find immediately a range of exercises on a number of key grammar points . |
| 60 | Previous experience of using visually stimulating material , encouragement to do so , interest in the task in hand , curiosity and enjoyment seem to play a part in the way that some pupils use even low levels of vision to help them to find out the things they are interested in . |