Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 One witness described the scene as they uncovered 18 bodies : ‘ Everyone starts digging frantically , some with spades , others with pick-axes , and others with their bare hands .
2 Miss , let's go down before anyone sees us and unlock it before everyone starts coming on down .
3 As I said , everyone has to go there and a list of Swifts as long as my arm have been to it and now it 's your turn . ’
4 The game continues until everyone has run twice .
5 It is much more difficult to get at property profits than at share profits — everyone has to live somewhere .
6 At cocktail party noise level everyone has to shout simply because everyone is shouting .
7 Curator Hilary Wade said : ‘ Everyone has worked flat out to get things going again , it has been a marvellous effort . ’
8 You wonder if all the effort everyone has put in is worthwhile .
9 Put simply , everyone has come together for the common good and economic prosperity of the river .
10 Every sound jerks them awake : when the alarm goes everyone has to get up .
11 Everyone has got so used to safe , tidy music .
12 The morale of the teachers is very low after everyone has tried so hard for the school .
13 ‘ The morale of the teachers is very low after everyone has tried so hard for the school .
14 In order to create a system that delivers first-class customer service across the full range of C&P businesses , everyone has to work together .
15 Everyone has to make up their own mind and define their own position with respect to the revolution and maternity .
16 They were used to taking the young seriously , and they were right , I see now : everyone has to begin somewhere .
17 To avoid sailing in dirty wind everyone has to tack slightly late and the queue stacks up above the layline .
18 The banks too must get involved and everyone needs to work together because if the marriage proves to be a barren one it will affect the wealth of the nation for generations to come .
19 Alina added by way of explanation , ‘ Everyone needs to belong somewhere .
20 BETTY BOO and Boy George make a very Hattractive pair … even if one of them needs to cover up a lack of locks more than the other .
21 ‘ The search for me has died down .
22 Dividing the strata into two broad bands — the male non-manual and the male manual workers — Table 2.2 demonstrates the degree to which the distribution of earnings between them has remained relatively constant over the past fifty years .
23 Separate studies by the Roper Organisation , a research group , and DDB Needham , an ad agency , have found that the proportion of shoppers seeking out particular brands and willing to pay more for them has fallen sharply since the late 1980s .
24 We can for instance , endlessly discuss the need to maintain and reinforce brands , now that the service promise bound up with them has become so important .
25 To put it into some form of perspective it is perhaps worth reviewing the whole issue of how fonts get displayed on a computer screen and why the method chosen to display them has become so important .
26 It may represent a list of deities , a list of soldiers , or a discussion by a Hittite king of the building of the temple at Phaistos : all these suggestions have been put forward , though none of them has convinced even a quorum of scholars .
27 Since they are both high-class batsmen this comes as quite a surprise , but looking through the records one sees that one of them has failed fairly often ; their strength is that when that has happened the other has usually gone on to a big score , thereby relieving the pressure on the middle order .
28 One of them has come back .
29 One of them has taken up residence in a hut in Roche 's garden .
30 Indeed , the business of turning some of the Act 's most central provisions into the regulations needed to implement them has proved so exceedingly complex that some crucial regulations , more than six years later , are still in draft .
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