Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will oblige them to make long drives across the desert to Egypt or Tunisia when they want to leave the country . |
| 2 | That barrier , a common external tariff , was integral to the Treaty of Rome , which wanted to go beyond a free trade area to a customs union , which the Six believed was a far more effective way of developing the potential of their internal market , the logic of which would ultimately oblige them to adopt common policies and harmonise their regulations . |
| 3 | Yes er what what er the pitch I think in fact I 've heard them say this er because I 've been out with two of the top fliers up here |
| 4 | That you can easily lose your concentration and go off to sleep and so it is in the truth , so we need to stay awake , stand firm for almighty , be vigilant and again in the scriptures we could look up half a dozen scriptures in the Christian Greek scriptures to show that we need to keep spiritually awake and it uses different terminology you 've heard me use some already , remember the one in verse Peter four , verse seven ? |
| 5 | Experience has taught me to avoid those parts of a city with modern architecture . |
| 6 | Experience has taught me to avoid those parts of a city with modern architecture . |
| 7 | In other words , the payment of high dividends depresses the security 's price which means that investors require a higher income rate of return to induce them to hold those securities paying high dividends . |
| 8 | He believed that the Great Powers would be ‘ in a position to exert the pressure on their clients necessary to induce them to accept such arrangements ’ . |
| 9 | My chaplain begs me to say more but I sha n't satisfy him ! ] |
| 10 | After young bands have had a couple of hit singles , with their album selling well , everybody wants to see them perform live . |
| 11 | We like to see them brought low , made to suffer , made to pay . |
| 12 | It was strange to see them grown older , and more familiar with the Corporal , whom they 'd always feared , than me , their old mentor . |
| 13 | ‘ I hate to see them do that , but it is better than the children being trampled underfoot in the rush . |
| 14 | The band failed to advise said fans , who have endured a five-year wait to see them play live in the UK , that tickets went on sale last Saturday , and sold out on the same day . |
| 15 | FRED 1 's proposals in respect of extraordinary items were generally well received , although several commentators wanted to see them taken one stage further and recommended banning the use of the category of extraordinary items . |
| 16 | Herr Schikenader , the former proprietor , chanced to see me perform one evening . |
| 17 | I pay a great tribute to my dad , who as a trade unionist on the railway would have been so proud to see me receive this very great honour . |
| 18 | When I was out of the room , he told Margaret that he wanted to see me write weightier books than that . |
| 19 | We do n't as yet have any friends in the street , but we 're on Hello terms with a few neighbours , and frankly I would n't want them to see me putting all these flowers on a skip . |
| 20 | Well it 's not a yes yes for the garden because I would n't have room for it but it 's certainly a yes yes in my shelter delt because the birds love the berries and it really encourages them to use that shelter delt but it is n't as , as easy to grow , it 's , one tends to think of the nature plant as a tough plant but I 've been trying to establish about thirty of these in the shelter delt and I 've found they object to any form of total weedkiller round the root , so all the , the weedkillers that you would use for the first couple of years maybe to , to keep the , the weeds from growing round the stems , they tend to get chlorotic and die . |
| 21 | ‘ Profit-centre ’ managers in their turn submit to the iron law of quarterly or annual return-on-investment ( ROI ) calculation , which hardly encourages them to become far-sighted captains of industry . |
| 22 | ‘ Leaving videos aside , I wo n't sign a band without seeing them perform live , if that is possible . |
| 23 | Seeing them like that , and the strange fear in their faces , stirred Harry in a way he could not quite understand , and for a moment he almost felt sorry for them . |
| 24 | Other ways we find bands include : ( a ) being recognized in the industry as a company that is worth approaching ( managers with new artists drop in to play a tape to me or any of the other A&R people ) ; ( b ) demo tapes ( they all get heard eventually , but to get your tape picked out of the pile for special attention is difficult ) ; ( c ) seeing them play live on the London circuit . |
| 25 | ‘ You 're enjoying seeing me laid low , are n't you ? ’ she snapped testily . |
| 26 | ‘ Awful , seeing me like this , ’ she murmured . |
| 27 | Grief , I hate people seeing me like this , she thought . |
| 28 | ‘ Yes , I feel awful anyone seeing me like this , ’ said Ianthe faintly . |
| 29 | I worry about what my neighbours might think , seeing me dumping three or four black bin-liners outside when they know I 'm living alone . |
| 30 | ‘ Do you want me to give those to her ? ’ he would ask when people desperately pointed bunches of flowers in her direction . |