Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taking the radical students ' ideals at face-value one might have expected them to see this incident as yet another example of oppression by a fascist regime and protest against it — after all , they protested enough when it used such methods against its own people . |
| 2 | However , since the database files were in dBASE format , it is possible to interrogated them using this software rather than Doctor Data if you choose . |
| 3 | ‘ We regret that the Department has encouraged parents to expect schools to report to them using these measurements so prematurely . |
| 4 | The aim was to ensure that subjects had been fixating correctly by requiring them to report this digit immediately prior to recalling the stimulus . |
| 5 | Nor does it impress Freud to be told that religious propositions are ‘ as if ’ types of proposition , and that one should live ‘ as if ’ it were true that there were gods , or God , for there is nothing to lose this way . |
| 6 | Studies carried out in Hull , did nothing to confirm this prediction . |
| 7 | Do you want me to sew this back on for you babe ? |
| 8 | No , not everyone goes that way . |
| 9 | We should approach the white public school middle class networks in the business world and let them deliver some money . |
| 10 | Doctors can ask us all sorts of intimate questions and expect honest answers ; in return , we expect them to treat this knowledge confidentially and not to gossip about the state of our health . |
| 11 | ‘ Please , let me stay another minute or two , ’ said Melissa quietly . |
| 12 | Let me inscribe these words on this papyrus of a person that I have become and trust , my saviour , that one day they will enlighten me . |
| 13 | ‘ When I saw death coming towards me I began to think it had been a bad business for me to kill that guy . ’ |
| 14 | There were an awful lot of tedious hours for me to kill that evening . |
| 15 | Erm , I do n't know how , what we can do , I , I would suggest that we er , the Council writes to the President of the Board of Trade , making representations in support of the original boundaries of the bid , and , and also writes to our M Ps , whose constituencies are involved in this bid area , asking them to support these representations , er , er , and do the best we can to make sure that the , the five B area is as we submitted it . |
| 16 | ‘ You can come and help me to carry some pictures , George dear , ’ she said to young Curdle , who was skipping about the playground . |
| 17 | Or perhaps it is all that rain which makes me want more water . |
| 18 | Everyone agreed that investiture by lay rulers conferred no spiritual power : it did no more than put a prelate in possession of the rights , lands , and secular dignities of his new office . |
| 19 | Everyone agreed that tinnitus was worse when they were tired , particularly when they were mentally tired rather than physically tired . |
| 20 | ‘ Everyone agrees that confidence is the magic ingredient needed to spark recovery . |
| 21 | EVERYONE agrees that computing in the 1990s will be dominated by client-server networks , but there is no agreement about the form these will take . |
| 22 | There was , nevertheless , an element of truth in both these allegations , but Wigg was the wrong man against whom to hurl such invective and he launched a libel action . |
| 23 | ‘ No-one made any block-bookings at all , ’ she said . |
| 24 | She do n't pay me got another pack of peanuts so I have got a few that few , but you do n't need any old bag do you ? |
| 25 | Gravity attracts objects towards each other ; antigravity would make them repel each other . |
| 26 | ‘ Clever of me to acquire such information , do n't you agree ? ’ |
| 27 | They wanted me to wear this wig , a gross , thick , nylon thing like something out of the Nolan sisters . |
| 28 | He dodged between the startled shoppers , none of whom made any attempt to stop him . |
| 29 | Nothing made any sense . ’ |
| 30 | What was there to be so glad about when nothing made any difference ? |