Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was an illusion of tired eyes , but before he got back in the car he stood , his collar open , looking up at the sky where there was nothing to see but black , and let the water splash down on his open face , his wet shirt clinging to the skin of his chest and belly . |
| 2 | This echoed the view of a number of solicitor respondents , one of whom argued that sole practitioners should be required to change their accountant annually ; whilst others said sole practitioners should be prohibited from instructioning sole practitioner accountants . |
| 3 | During a visit to Portugal on Jan. 14 Levi held talks with the Foreign Ministers of Angola and Cape Verde , both of whom announced that diplomatic relations with Israel would soon be established . |
| 4 | Although the Geneva-based International Electrotechnical Commission is making progress on standards to safeguard against RFI , not everyone agrees that international bodies ( or individual governments ) should act to stamp out RFI . |
| 5 | Despite the fact no-one doubts that popular opinions on crime and its containment are extensively and deeply held , whenever Criminal Justice Bills are before the Commons the atmosphere seems detached and wary , with few MPs participating and a majority keeping the subject at arms length . |
| 6 | Lal rode them , so neatly and prettily , on as many days in a hunting season as her box could carry them to near or far-distant meets . |
| 7 | This book is a must for everyone involved or interested in course management and aficionados of the history of the game in this country . |
| 8 | I saw them driving and driving . |
| 9 | Phone — Office again to let me know that free school meals have been confirmed for pupil B. Back to typing . |
| 10 | Jamaicans usually claim to be able to understand everything said in Standard English ; it comes as something of a shock to many of them to find that English people can by no means always understand them . |
| 11 | Nor am I suggesting that black children are somehow linguistically deficient or unable to separate English from Creole . |
| 12 | In August I revealed that Prime Minister 's son James Major had a £3-an-hour holiday job . |
| 13 | I made that clear in the advertisement , I hope . |
| 14 | Commenting on the resignations , he said : ‘ I regret that certain people were unable to accept the majority decision of the executive . |
| 15 | I , hope , too , that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State will address the technical problems of billing , particularly carry-over yearly billing , to avoid current confusion with many charge payers , because I regret that separate billing has not increased accountability . |
| 16 | Earlier this year , I announced that local authorities would receive aggregate external finance of £5.13 billion . |
| 17 | … American and European societies became increasingly interdependent , by which I mean that complex urban-industrial societies involved individuals in unprecedentedly complex patterns of relations extending beyond personal and community ties to distant bonds no less real because of their obscurity . … |
| 18 | I mean that big red thing , that was n't meant to be ordinary clothes , was it ? ’ |
| 19 | I mean but interesting but not the ideal answer . |
| 20 | I think they , if they , I mean as long as they know we are going to tell them or give them something each month they ought , ought to begin to look out for it . |
| 21 | I mean as long as you understand the laws of slander and liable ? |
| 22 | I mean as long as we 've got something which is in the of where we want to be , we can actually measure how well we 're performing against our own plan , which I think is what you 'd like to be able to do . |
| 23 | I mean as long as it , as long as the graph is reshaped rather than the massive overspend cos at this rate , we 're gon na be spending out er three hundred thousand pounds over just on overtime er which we obviously ca n't afford to do . |
| 24 | Yeah I mean as long as people want you . |
| 25 | I mean as long as I have enough to take care of this house and my children , that 's alright . |
| 26 | I mean as usual with financial journalism , er i it 's somewhere in between , I mean endowments are having a bad run at the moment and that 's because they 've paid out such excellent bonuses in the past so if you 've had a maturity in the last four or five years , you 'll have seen how good they are . |
| 27 | I mean if possible that he ca n't be any better |
| 28 | Drawing nearer , I realized that warm air had twisted their outline — they were two men using scythes , no , garden rakes . |
| 29 | But , gradually , I realised that kinky underwear gives me sexual freedom . |
| 30 | but I realised that big weight losses often happen to very overweight people at the beginning of their diets , so I did n't expect to continue at anything like that pace . |