Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | USL repaid approximately $13m to AT&T from the proceeds and the remainder allows it to fund its cash flow requirements . |
| 2 | And a few months later the Prince asked me to marry him . |
| 3 | ‘ I thought it rather spiteful but the Prince ordered me to burn them . |
| 4 | The CO sent me to find you . ’ |
| 5 | We have the expertise to help you meet your ideal partner . |
| 6 | The other side of the coin is the agonising trust in the dark , the utter obedience when all our inclinations go the other way , and the willingness to suffer which marked our Lord . |
| 7 | Cos it selects anything that it touches right and cos it 's inside the board outline it thinks it 's touching the board outline |
| 8 | ‘ We shall not need to use that formation again , ’ Thorfinn said , and saw that the forest was quiet and the scouts had nothing to disturb them before turning to walk to his men . |
| 9 | They frequently leave sufficient of the shell to allow us to recognise its original size and shape . |
| 10 | Reading Mary Bailey 's article this month , which is both a celebration of seven years of service to the hobby , and a cry from the heart to help her to help you , I thought it was time I promoted , explained and outlined our superb readers ' query service . |
| 11 | Undertakings to be won from the lairds binding themselves to undertake nothing punitive against tenants seen at meetings . ’ |
| 12 | It had taken her virtually the rest of the afternoon to find someone to take her . |
| 13 | The smell accompanying him suggested he 'd brought fresh coffee beans . |
| 14 | Familiarity with both the form and the content of the text helps us to understand its meaning . |
| 15 | I told him about our own lack of any real bomber force until the Germans made us build one . |
| 16 | Er I will have explained er er I certainly would 've explained on the phone that er part of the contract requires them to give us a list of prospective advertisers . |
| 17 | ‘ It must have taken a lot of practice to become so fluent , ’ she called down the hatch to let him know she was back . |
| 18 | It is at the time of delivery that the goods must be reasonably fit for the purpose for which the buyer indicated he wanted them . |
| 19 | For the present let me put it on record that the main hold-up has been with me , in setting up the Journal for printing . |
| 20 | How do you measure the contribution of organizations like Canadian University Service Overseas or the Methodist Church , who bent the rules to allow us to mail their supporters with our advertising literature ? . |
| 21 | In the evenings the merchants invited us to join them as they sat chatting on their cots in the middle of the courtyard . |
| 22 | Why on the , hm , why on the chart do they show it seventy one to a hundred and five ? |
| 23 | The male does nothing to feed them and from the start they find all their food for themselves . |
| 24 | And how the thunder do you know she was murdered ? |
| 25 | ROGER Rance , owner of a turf supplier in Hemel Hempstead , has resorted to shock tactics to drum up business with the slogan Sod It heading his local newspaper advertisements . |
| 26 | If the vicar thinks it does he is mistaken . |
| 27 | Mrs Bottomley , 44 , has been dubbed variously ‘ the milkmaid ’ and ‘ golden Virginia ’ , but the epithets do nothing to promote her cleverness and political acumen — she coined the jibe ‘ scaring not caring ’ on Labour 's health pronouncements . |
| 28 | So he fought with him and and took his stick from him and gave him a whack on the head and he dropped , and the story goes he says we 'll go home now lads . |
| 29 | The angling of the control panel towards the driver helps one to reach everything while driving , without having to let concentration waver . |
| 30 | Once the fry hatched I moved them into a tank of their own . |