Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saved up for us to have a holiday , I booked a caravan and paid the coach fares and then on the morning we were due to go he said , " I 'm not going without a penny in my pocket , I ca n't , I ca n't . " |
| 2 | Yeah , erm , I was going to is that erm it was always the same , two jobs down so it was due to go his boss would have then I 've been there as well cos he 's caused such a stink |
| 3 | And probably be an idea if you remind me sometime during that week when I 'm due to see you . |
| 4 | The Albanian leader could express his shock at the gangsterish methods of Gheorghiu-Dej in the late 1940s without for one moment admitting to himself , let alone to his readers , that he was even remotely hypocritical given his own tendency to resort to rubbing out rivals personally ( including shooting his prime minister and long-term comrade-in-arms , Mehmet Shehu , in 1981 ) . |
| 5 | This was discussed with Mr Brown and as a result he was given a variable height bed which could be kept low to enable him to get in and out easily . |
| 6 | Surgeons tried in vain to sew it back on . |
| 7 | We have received so many messages and letters that it is just not possible to acknowledge them individually . |
| 8 | PC Williamson , from Portadown , Co Armagh , who was separated from his wife , was due to attend his niece 's wedding tomorrow . |
| 9 | He is due to conduct his first such service in the Capital in July next year . |
| 10 | If we confess our sins he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness . |
| 11 | It came just three weeks before the students were due to sit their examinations . |
| 12 | He told his colleagues about his great aunt 's Daimler , which had travelled at the ‘ sensible speed of thirty miles an hour ’ , and was sufficiently spacious to enable one to descend from it without removing one 's top hat . |
| 13 | The SNP voting with Tories is a profound mistake , but Labour overstates its case . |
| 14 | It will also help if the players can hit the iron shots a little higher than usual to enable them to stop the ball on the firm greens . |
| 15 | Social Worker : Does feeling guilty make you guilty ? |
| 16 | Alongside all this , gaining momentum in the second half of the century , was a new taxonomic and labelling zeal which attempted to classify ‘ scientifically ’ the characteristics and increasingly the aetiologies of the forms of sexual variety , and in so doing helped construct them as objects of study and as sexual categories . |
| 17 | Nikolai Demidenko is certainly the name on everyone 's lips these days — his extensive marketing and publicity has paid dividends — so it is refreshing to see him tackling repertoire which deserves to be recorded properly . |
| 18 | Having briefly described ten tests of language , it is now possible to compare them on a range of criteria . |
| 19 | The aim of Sussexdown is to enable the residents to enjoy as full , varied and independent a life as is possible given their disabilities . |
| 20 | The aim of Sussexdown is to enable the residents to enjoy as full , varied and independent a life as is possible given their disabilities . |
| 21 | The assembler does not directly offer these facilities , but it is possible to implement them by using other features of BBCBASIC(Z80) . |
| 22 | He allows , however , that it 'll take six to nine months after the acquisition is complete to see which way the wind is blowing . |
| 23 | The Spanish admitted their guilt but no agreement could be reached and the two sides moved apart . |
| 24 | I only had a trim , but the blow dry made it sort of Do you remember when I got that , my hair cut really short ? |
| 25 | It 's a sort of That 's right push it through the hole and catch it at the other side . |
| 26 | In patients with acute ventilatory failure due to COAD who received NIPPV there was a significant rise in pH , a reduction in PaCO 2 and breathlessness , and reduced mortality . |
| 27 | Sorry pick it up . |
| 28 | He was probably grateful to drive something which did n't blow up every time the mechanics wanted lunch , which is what life was like for Patrese at Alfa Romeo back in the mid-Eighties . |
| 29 | In addition , the Department of Health seems loth to continue its imaginative programme of creating NHS nursing homes . |
| 30 | She certainly needed something strong to steady her nerves . |