Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it means that when we cook and eat puddings we can do so wholeheartedly . |
| 2 | The human members of the community are here mainly because out in the commercial world , they had been doing things they did not want to do , using skills they wished they did not have . |
| 3 | Ruth was n't conscious of moving , but perhaps she shivered — or perhaps the light touched her , reminding Fincara she was there . |
| 4 | As he passed Garry he pretended to punch him in the arm . |
| 5 | The petitioners wanted to know whether a legacy of liberatio to them in the first will could now be held to include debts they had first contracted after the making of the first will ; and whether , if the heirs were to sue them for that , they could be barred by an exceptio doli . |
| 6 | Yes I think , so erm er I , I think really it 's that as the movement gathers pace and landlords , or small landlords and other people who have prospered under the old scheme , try and gain admission they are blocked |
| 7 | If I make money I I 'll make you I can pay you as well , if I go up I mean if I go down , he said , I can go up or down as well , he said . |
| 8 | Dad told him I 'd lost that labouring job and he said if that was what I wanted to do , he had a job repairing houses he owns . ’ |
| 9 | You make contacts you impress people |
| 10 | To keep this depth and spread without using chorus I just left the chorus switched on and backed off the rate and depth controls to 0 ; switching the chorus off again put the sound back in the middle of the speakers and sounded quite boring by comparison . |
| 11 | But why wo n't Labour support it ? |
| 12 | Er as a result of the success we 've now got to go back and revisit it , I mean Ian you know has been leading in from from this office er and that it 's the person contact which counts for so much . |
| 13 | He knows his affair caused the split but instead of accepting responsibility he is trying to ease his guilt by upsetting you . |
| 14 | ‘ Where children are given responsibility they are placed in situations where it becomes important for them to communicate — to discuss , to negotiate , to converse — with their fellows , with the staff , with other adults . |
| 15 | As she passed Pascoe he pressed play and a voice whispered ‘ … dead . ’ |
| 16 | I had to promise mum I 'd write to each of them , and apologise in person at the first possible opportunity , and also that I 'd stop off at Lochgair before I returned to Glasgow , to see dad . |
| 17 | With their broader streets and freshly painted houses they might appear to be so , but , as Engels remarked , those streets were often unpaved and lacked a sewer , the paint was bound to fade within a decade , and their apparent solidity of build would then be revealed as no more than that of bricks laid end to end . |
| 18 | He looked up and stared at his audience with the slightly accusing look he used for classes of students . |
| 19 | ‘ That drugs story you asked me to investigate , Ken , has turned out amazingly . ’ |
| 20 | Only the hi-tech gym equipment gives you that information , so even when your simply using bar-bells you will still be able to keep track of energy being used . |
| 21 | It 's certainly will be difficult , Chair , but in answer to Mrs Tidley , what 's happening to our housing , the answer is we 've stopped building it . |
| 22 | They 've got stacks of Christmas they got walkies they got everything . |
| 23 | In that limited area where we lacked expertise we have employed outside consultants to advise the council . |
| 24 | Some of the apparatus is made by Philips and Westinghouse , some by manufacturers he has never heard o It all looks slightly unfamiliar . |
| 25 | Experience indicates that when investors lose money they are often unable to recall being warned of the risks involved and indeed may question whether the transaction was suitable for them at all ( see " Suitability " below ) . |
| 26 | Control of local authority borrowing began in the nineteenth century when central government was suspicious of the new local authorities and their potential to borrow money they could not repay . |
| 27 | I 'll tell you what R I mean Roger I 'll leave it entirely with you . |
| 28 | And , miraculously , there was little resistance and I stared in disbelief as the great organ disappeared gloriously and wonderfully from sight I was right behind it with my arm , probing frantically away up to the shoulder as I rotated my wrist again and again till both uterine cornua were fully involuted Ben I was certain beyond doubt that everything was back in place I lay there for a few moments , my arm still deep inside the sow , my forehead resting on the floor . |
| 29 | I take modelling for what it is ; I made money I 'd never otherwise have made so quickly , and I 'm still young enough to do something else . |
| 30 | Then with fumbling fingers she extracted her soap and hurled the bag after him across the bathroom floor . |