Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two minutes later Zurich area control centre asked Base whether they had an aircraft flying outbound towards the Hochwald beacon ( ten miles south of the airfield ) as they had an unidentified trace . |
| 2 | You certainly make money if you begin . |
| 3 | The following morning I asked Mum if I could spend the day with Miss Louise . |
| 4 | I asked Mum if I could go on the Pill . |
| 5 | Pressure on the pound lightened yesterday as financial markets decided to suspend judgement until they heard what the Chancellor had to say , a mood which was reflected among Conservative representatives . |
| 6 | She represents hope and it is the purity of MacMillan 's design which shows how ‘ the whole body dances ’ . |
| 7 | If they , they got they got piecework or they got th th the , they get either piecework or they get so much for the job so much , an hourly rate for the job . |
| 8 | Mm , cos mum had Reverend come round , you see cos dad were n't , none of us were religious least of all dad , he could n't do none of it , so we said to , we did n't , we did n't know what vicar to choose cos none of us go to church so me mum said dad used to go to the church where me sister got married to the little Derby and Jones twice a week and Reverend is always there so mum said we 'll have him , dad got on well with him , he liked him , he knew dad , anyway he come round to see mum and I were n't there cos I had to go and sign on , I bloody wished I had been , anyway she said , she told him all about dad and she said I want you tell everybody how brave he was in the war and what a good father he were and a good provider and how he lived for his grandchildren and so on and so on , she said I do n't want no hymns I just want his own organ music all through the service and nothing else and just some , do a couple of prayers , she , so he said right the Lords Prayer will be fine that 'll be nice , well he never said nothing , he said I did n't know John but he said I 've been told he was a good man , he worked in a hospital , which he did , but I mean you 're only like an engineer we were n't really emphasising on that and that was all he said , he played a bit of the organ music before we went in , a bit as we come out and there was about eight bloody prayers and the songs and everything read out and made us sing a hymn ever so disappointed , hardly said anything , hardly play , played his music , no , I was well disappointed about that |
| 9 | But I still say , it seems a shame that they are prepared to make money by selling it to a Tescos of all people to er really make money so they can move somewhere else ! |
| 10 | Tell that to Mike Teague , who can only make money if he can work . |
| 11 | But he he did n't half make money cos he had nothing before that . |
| 12 | Dip this end into hormone rooting powder while it is still moist from the cut so that some powder adheres , shake or tap off the surplus and lay it aside for a few minutes while the others are being prepared . |
| 13 | cream and grow potatoes and all this and probably they have bees and sell honey and you know they eat er they really try to be self- sufficient sort of community as much as they can . |
| 14 | So , for example , the behaviour of people who fall in love , such as kissing in public , is tolerated rather than drawing censure as it might in other circumstances . |
| 15 | The user probably has limited expertise and he may be working under various stress conditions . |
| 16 | It , it goes click and it 's stopped . |
| 17 | For the Reaganites , economic policy was the legislative priority ; first came budget cuts and then tax reduction and it was essential that these should be in place within a few months , before the end of the honeymoon period . |
| 18 | Essentially , this relates to risk assessment but it is made especially difficult because genetic engineering affects so many regulatory bodies , including those concerned with public health as well as the environment . |
| 19 | There was nothing we could make stick so he got away with it . ’ |
| 20 | Only a small amount of money could be taken out of the country because of post-war restrictions and , as this was a personal rather than a business trip , he was forced to prepare lectures from which he could earn income while he was away . |
| 21 | So because we 're doing something from our normal end of the spectrum as it were right through to trying to involve everybody in the city , erm we 're hoping to get the issue across to a lot more people , and also raise money while we 're doing it . |
| 22 | Ministers can experience difficulty when they find themselves in a situation where refusing the baptism is their only option and parents can take grave offence . |
| 23 | According to this interpretation , the associability of each stimulus element might be expected to decline as it becomes associated with others , just as a CS as a whole is thought to lose associability as it becomes linked with a US . |
| 24 | However , several informants indicated that parents have a more relaxed attitude to their children using Creole when they are somewhat older . |
| 25 | However , to choose either route is to lose information on either means or status that is helpful to targeting support where it is most required . |
| 26 | Not only must you spray regularly , but it 's a good idea to vary the brand of spray that you use ; the nasty wee beasties soon develop resistance if you use the same one over and over again , and that 's something worth taking the time to avoid . |
| 27 | ‘ He drives mum and I daft with his eccentric ways and eternal gloom , ’ said Christine , 31 . |
| 28 | Many more of the 226 schools that have taken control of their own affairs in the past three years fear victimisation if they are returned to hostile local authorities . |
| 29 | He asked parliament whether he should proceed to assert his own authority over Scotland , or seek to persuade one side or the other there to acknowledge English superiority . |
| 30 | Foucault is particularly critical of the appropriating structure of totalization , Marxist or otherwise , insofar as it implies the superiority of the theorist who produces the totalization of knowledge ; in the same way , he distrusts the use of history as an encompassing framework because it works as a power structure that enables the expropriation and control of the past according to the perspective and truth of the present . |