Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [pron] [vb mod] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was so preoccupied that she merely nodded , but she looked up sharply when he added , ‘ Dawn has offered to help with any difficult operations where you might need assistance . ’ |
| 2 | I said er you might put housewife or you might put market researcher down , he said whatever you like so that 's that one . . |
| 3 | Lowe stripped to swim , and getting on the trunk of an uprooted tree , hoped to be carried down the eddying flood to some part where he could obtain assistance . |
| 4 | You can get separate sensors to wire up to an existing exterior light or you can buy security lights with a built-in sensor . |
| 5 | When an English-speaker went into the foyer of the regiment , a NAAFI-style canteen where you could buy beer , cigarettes , sweets and memorabilia , he would head over to the table where the Mafia was sitting . |
| 6 | Which force on a weight or something can feel acceleration , I think you can , my son said you ca n't but I think you can |
| 7 | Cast your vote or you could win cash in our £40,000 prize list |
| 8 | Between shows the girls dressed in sweatshirts and jogging shorts ; some of them stayed in the dressing rooms and stretched out to sleep or read , others went to another room in the basement complex where they could watch TV . |
| 9 | The integration of these systems followed gradually , and much later , when man learned to grow and store crops for his now domesticated animals that they might survive winter or drought at home . |
| 10 | Intel Corp has confirmed a report in the San Francisco Chronicle that it will delay introduction of its Pentium microprocessor until May , but denies the paper 's assertion that it is holding the chip back to exploit demand for existing 80486 products . |
| 11 | It is considered that in the last resort it is to civil remedies that she should have recourse . |
| 12 | In this case , a more precise purpose might be , " I want to find out the relative sizes of the most common dinosaurs so I can draw scale pictures of them on a wall chart . " |
| 13 | Claudia made up her mind that she would help Roman as much as she could . |
| 14 | It had never once crossed his mind that she would take exception to what he had done . |
| 15 | we , we , we , we , we 've , we 've , we 've got one decision I think which we are making , which is that we should n't at the moment , make any recruitment until we 've got confirmation that we can guarantee employment next year , se , secondly I think we 're saying that the first appointment that we do want to make is of a complaint examiner , and that if further investigators leave us , then we would n't be seeking to replace them as investigators , we 'd be seeking to replace with the complaint examiner , that , that , that , |
| 16 | But Lewis 's dramatic demonstration that he can mix knockout punches with impeccable boxing technique was straight out of Ali 's famous butterfly and bee nature study . |
| 17 | He faced growing opposition , even among those who had been his closest supporters , particularly when he failed to honour an undertaking made in 1979 to his party supporters that he would relinquish office in 1990 after the first 10 years of independence . |
| 18 | We give birth surrounded by people who reflect our own fear that we will lose control and that our animal self will burst forth noisily and messily . |
| 19 | Whatever its actual effect , the English wanted at least to make sure that they would not be out of pocket over expansion in America , and the fear that they would lose money was expressed by the economist Charles Davenant when he wrote in 1698 : ‘ it can not reasonably be admitted that the mother country should impoverish herself to enrich the children nor that Britain should weaken herself to strengthen America . ’ |
| 20 | However , on Jan. 13 , 1990 , Ankara University decided not to withdraw the ban on headscarves for fear that it might provoke unrest on campus . |
| 21 | Only the fear that he might win custody of their son Robert held the marriage together . |
| 22 | The reference may be invalid because there has been no agreement between the parties that it should take place . |
| 23 | This means that your solution may differ , quite legitimately , from your neighbour 's ( in fact it is one of the characteristics of a good case study that it can give rise to equally valid alternative solutions ) . |
| 24 | Basically , the plot was to get me to bribe Murrin so he would give evidence helpful to me in my libel case against the Sunday Times . |
| 25 | I mean obviously the it 's a I perhaps it 's an exaggeration to the effect that nobody can guarantee planning permission until they 've got planning permission . |
| 26 | On 21 September Prime Minister Clement Attlee informed Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin , then in New York , that he favoured a declaration from the United Nations that it would take responsibility for the rehabilitation of the whole country . |
| 27 | After being among the first of the former Soviet republics to fight to free itself from the embrace of Moscow , it has now come full circle with the recognition that it must look East as well as West for its own benefit . |
| 28 | In March 1989 Hungary became the first East European state to accede to the 1951 Convention and 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees ( under which states agreed not to expel refugees or return them to their homeland if they would face persecution there ) . |
| 29 | It is a rule that one may not use a trump card if one can follow suit . |
| 30 | Hitler did n't like Jews and it could make trouble for me . |