Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pron] [verb] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Honesty made her admit she had hoped , but it had been merely dreaming , nothing like this harsh reality . |
| 2 | Very occasionally his path crossed that of a couple walking home or a group of a young friends going up to the centre , and then the brief appraising glances they gave him left Zen feeling obscurely ill at ease , underlining as they did his lack of purpose or direction . |
| 3 | What sort of a racehorse d' you think you get for a hundred quid ? |
| 4 | Sunnyvale , California-based MasPar Computer Corp wants us to know it shipped 13 MP-2 massively parallel machines in 1992 , calling it a ‘ faster-than-projected start-up ’ for a box introduced in October 1992 . |
| 5 | Although Frank obtained a first-class diploma from the College , he did not find an opening in farming and his thoughts turned once more to medicine for which his experiences at College led him to think he had an aptitude . |
| 6 | Yet still Jacob has him in his grip , and the mysterious assailant begs him to let him go ‘ for the day is breaking ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've had a sticker for my car made which says I Like My Windscreen Dirty , ’ said Griff . |
| 8 | So if you differentiate sine squared what do you get ? |
| 9 | I should have spoken to you this afternoon about the stock footage you asked me to follow up on . |
| 10 | Eva tolerated them since they paid for Dad 's thoughts and therefore her dinner , but when they went into the bedroom to chant I heard her say to Dad , as she put on her yellow silk blouse for that brilliant evening , ‘ The future should n't contain too much of the past . ’ |
| 11 | Heather Boxer says she makes them do the washing up and she enjoys their company . |
| 12 | A witness says she saw them knock on the door . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ When the delegation arrives I want them brought here , ’ he said . |
| 14 | Workstart is an experimental programme to help us assess what forms of wage subsidy work best . |
| 15 | To this letter I received a reply dated I March which contained some of the most interesting remarks he ever communicated to me , and which is of permanent value in reflecting his opinions on much wider issues : |
| 16 | When we were talking just now before the programme started I think you said that you were n't sure that you 'd had a great deal of contact with the university one way or another , but surely you 've been surrounded by university people ? |
| 17 | Mm , have to remember that in future Do you mean she 's got over her illness then ? |
| 18 | whose , whose car do you want us to take ? |
| 19 | Pete has never touched my hair in my life and there was some downstairs in that bathroom downstairs and I thought hey that looks a bit of fun , I 'll have a go at that and erm and I was outside and I took my hair down , I 'd just washed it and I said oh look , you know , I used this hair thickening shampoo do you think it looks thicker , as a joke , and he goes yeah it does actually , yeah it really does . |
| 20 | He got de temp'ry permit which clears him to work for up to six month , but I hear you makin' him your general manager which got to last more than that , is n't it ? ’ |
| 21 | They 've got to see you sign the will or at least acknowledge it and in practice see you sign they do n't need to know what 's in the will they just want to see you sign but they 've got to be there it 's no good up the road as one witness did for not for me to her husband who was working in his shop witnessed the signature afterwards . |
| 22 | So I got Peggy up from Somerset , on the same farm you see , and that was much better , and erm we 've been cycling to Stroud , to the pictures you know , 8 miles there and 8 miles back , and erm but the awful job he gave me to do for a few days was along , there was a young lad there and he was going to drive the old heavy fords and tractor and I was going to walk behind , and he 'd got converted horse drags I suppose they call them |
| 23 | She said : Our Blessed Lady asked me to ask you to have a small chapel built here in her honour . |
| 24 | The angle of the lamp cord on the bar made me think I saw a hearing-aid cable extending from Fielding 's ear . |
| 25 | ‘ The Chief Constable says he has everything tied up . |
| 26 | But he had paid part of that apothecary 's bill that very morning , and the attorney to whom the bailiff took him agreed there had been a mistake . |
| 27 | And I see he beginning to believe , and so I go what work do you think she do ? |
| 28 | Sorry to keep you waiting but the bellman said he thought you 'd all gone to your rooms . ’ |
| 29 | A Firstly , to help your hair to grow we recommend you use a professional treatment such as our Vivagen — this conditions the scalp and helps create a healthier growing environment for the hair . |
| 30 | They needed to engage more senior and junior counsel to help them to fight what looked like turning into a very long legal battle . |