Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [pron] [pron] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For one thing , he found it hard to accept that anyone who lacked the advantage of being American could pose much of a threat , and for another , he needed every scrap of material he could get from any quarter , even the newspapers , to sustain the nonstop barrage of reports he was firing into headquarters . |
| 2 | One glimmer of hope though , tonight police say that someone who knows the couple claims to have seen them at a garden centre in herefordshire . |
| 3 | He says that somebody who experiences the fire of love will find that he is affected physically : he may find that he develops a stammer and is unable to speak quickly or clearly any more and that his whole body has slowed down : a job that once took half an hour will now take a whole morning . |
| 4 | They take for granted that they themselves have a name they may be called by , as well as nicknames and endearments , alongside such designations as the kid , the boy , and so on . |
| 5 | Harriet walked home wondering why she had not organised something of this sort before and marvelling at Mrs Rafferty 's complete acceptance of her own role in the community , one in which she obviously took it for granted that she herself had no need or right to ‘ a bit of a break ’ . |
| 6 | This is a topic on which McClellan himself has written and one which presents a fundamental problem to anyone planning book provision for public libraries . |
| 7 | If you reach the conclusion that the asking price is reasonable , ring the agent and ask if any other offers have been made and what he thinks the owner might accept . |
| 8 | personally , I 'd have thought that anyone who heard a gunshot round our manor would have just moved away from the window and kept his head down , but I 've got to accept that someone may have phoned . |
| 9 | They may even believe that he who pays the piper calls the tune , and that PFK editorial is slanted towards one or another manufacturer . |
| 10 | Do remember that anyone who becomes a member now gets free membership until December 31st . |
| 11 | However , on Jan. 7 Russian Federation President Boris Yeltsin declared that what he called the " budget war " was not over , and that although his republic had agreed effectively to increase its contribution to Rbs78,000 million by funding specific all-union programmes , the central government was still demanding an additional Rbs27,000 million . |
| 12 | The European Community reckons that what they call the ‘ decency threshold ’ ought to be £207.13 , while the minimum wage proposed by the Labour Party was £147.85 . |
| 13 | My Lords , as I would submit , the report contains a great deal which confirms and nothing which contradicts the interpretation of the word ‘ appropriates ’ which I have preferred , and a comparison of the Act with the draft Bill gives no support to the contrary view . |
| 14 | He maybe sees a different process and and I do n't know about you Chairman but it would it would help me to see if to hear whether they they see a different process at work . |
| 15 | It was to meet cases of this kind that Equity invented the great remedies of specific performance and injunction : specific performance to compel a man actually to do what he has promised — to give you the land in return for the money , to pay you the purchase money in return for the land ; injunction to forbid him to do what he has promised not to do or what he has no right to do — to forbid him to open the public house or the music-school , to forbid him to build so as to block up your light , even to compel him to pull down the objectionable wall ; the last sort of injunction is called mandatory . |
| 16 | But the women know that they themselves made the changes happen . |
| 17 | But it seems that whatever the century or means of transport , parking is always a problem : in the seventh century BC Sennacharib , King of Assyria , decreed that anyone who parked a chariot on the processional way to his capital would be punished by impaling . |
| 18 | Just remember that whatever you decide the worst case scenario is very unlikely to happen . ’ |
| 19 | Remember that what you think a word means is not necessarily what it meant for the writer . |
| 20 | I should have thought that good sense would dictate that someone who opposes every measure begins to lose credibility . |
| 21 | The conditions to be satisfied are simply that the meaning ‘ must be one which lex will tolerate and one which dispels the uncertainty in such a manner as to settle the dispute without immediately provoking further controversy ’ . |
| 22 | We are also influenced by the situation in which we receive messages , by our cultural and social relationship with the participants , by what we know and what we assume the sender knows . |
| 23 | The tables on page 54 show what men have done , what they 'd like to do and what they have no intention of doing . |
| 24 | If you think only in terms of the problem of the moment and why it ca n't be solved , if you think only of what other people should be doing , if you think only of how you feel or what you want the other person to do , the chances are you will lose sight of the end-result and not actually achieve it . |
| 25 | Although disapproval of sacred dramas continued to be vehemently expressed , as , for instance , by Gerhoh of Reichersburg ( 1039–1169 ) who , according to Kolve ( 1966 ) , warned that he who portrays the rage of Herod is guilty of the very vice he portrays ( a deep-seated objection not entirely eradicated today ) , anxiety about its blasphemous nature was dispelled as more people came to regard it as merely a ‘ game ’ rather than as a sacrilegious act . |
| 26 | As PC Lesley Harrison lies fighting for her life in hospital the Government should take immediate steps to ensure that anybody who attacks a member of any of the security services is imprisoned for a long time . |
| 27 | The research is being conducted within the theoretical context of ‘ discourse models ’ — the mental representations which a listener constructs on the basis of what he knows about the world in general , what the speaker is actually saying and what he thinks the speaker is intending to say . |
| 28 | A generation or more later , Baron Cederhielm , the Holstein envoy in Paris and chamberlain to the king of Sweden , was sent to the Châtelet prison at the demand of his creditors , while in 1772 the Hessian minister in the French capital was officially warned that his furniture could be seized and he himself refused a passport to leave the country if he failed to pay what he owed . |
| 29 | In " Area B " , one of two areas of South-East London where Hewitt worked and one which has a relatively high density of Caribbeans , even white children may learn some Creole in primary school , through peer contact ( 1986 : 150 ) . |
| 30 | This does not mean that he himself thought a trust the ideal way to realize his intentions . |