Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Someone in the audience has asked me to greet them the way the chimpanzees greet each other in the wild at Gombe , ’ Jane Goodall began . |
| 2 | You feel like you 've heard them a couple of hundred times when it 's only been twice . |
| 3 | We also had to shear and dip them every year and friends would come to help . |
| 4 | There is a very smart woman working in Conservative Central Office who has taught me a trick at least as useful at that of Shirley Williams . |
| 5 | The experience has taught me a lot , not least about Margaret Thatcher 's single achievement in changing the class contours of British politics . |
| 6 | Fortunately for Conran , he had attended the sort of public school ‘ which had taught me a lot of practical skills ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ Her first professional job was before I was born , and she has taught me a lot . ’ |
| 8 | Four years with a handicapped child have taught me a lot of things , but three in particular : |
| 9 | I was very naive but the last year has taught me a lot . |
| 10 | Kate has taught me a lot about motherhood — mostly because she approaches it in a completely different way to me . |
| 11 | My father who was a er a clergyman taught me the piano from an early age and er I first became interested in the organ purely for money purposes in fact , when at the age of fifteen a local methodist church in Durham where we lived at the time said er , We need an organist . |
| 12 | But you 've taught me the difference between art and life . |
| 13 | Without trying looking very heavily at these type of sales , where savings plans have been sold for future mortgages , erm , the clients are left thinking it 's building up money for their , for their deposit , for their legal fees , and it guarantees them a mortgage at sometime in the future . |
| 14 | I with the jack , so I thought well somebody will throw me the thing , you know ? |
| 15 | On the other hand , you wo n't want to input them every time you run the program either . |
| 16 | In a sense this Northern mythology asks more of men , even makes more of them , than does Christianity , for it offers them no heaven , no salvation , no reward for virtue except the sombre satisfaction of having done what is right . |
| 17 | It offers them an alternative to expensive air fares . |
| 18 | But whatever age , Stow offers them the chance to meet up with old friends and catch up on the gossip . |
| 19 | Whereas the Third Republic did set out to improve the aesthetic education of these citizens , the modern welfare State offers them the bread and circuses of culture as spectacle and entertainment . |
| 20 | Cooke says : ‘ Egg pasta is certainly preferred by many chefs not only because of its excellent colour and flavour , but because it offers them the possibility of upgrading their pasta menus , thus increasing their profits . ’ |
| 21 | Sally Cline 's Women , Celibacy and Passion ( Deutsch , March , £15.99 , 0 233 98804 1 ) will reawaken the debate about sexual abstinence last seen in Liz Hodgkinson 's Sex Is Not Compulsory : Ms Cline identifies a new breed of passionate non-performers , ‘ women who believe that celibacy offers them the independence , the creative time and energy for their own growth and work which conventional sexuality has not allowed them ’ . |
| 22 | The prison governor tells them they are about to be shot and offers them the choice of dying like men or wearing blindfolds . |
| 23 | Later that night she came into my room in her kimono , bringing me a glass of champagne and carrying a book . |
| 24 | ‘ Oh , by the way , Blair , ’ I called , ‘ whilst you are there , would you mind bringing me the fish I caught in the stream ? |
| 25 | Thank you very much for bringing me the transistor — and I 'm sorry , Dr Vaughan . |
| 26 | The DHSS made me go to see them every day — I had a broken bone in my ankle but they still made me go every day ! |
| 27 | Oh I 'd hate to see them every day would you ? |
| 28 | He said he was n't when he came to see me a couple of years back . |
| 29 | She came to see me a year later , total loss of weight , total short of breath , hardly , she 's struggling to keep body and soul together . |
| 30 | He strode to her , eyes blazing , and shouted , ‘ Why did you specifically come to see me the minute you found out I had my own investment bank ? ’ |