Example sentences of "[vb pp] [noun pl] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 've been prescribed suppositories and you 're not sure how to use them or are too embarrassed to ask , the pharmacist will have explanatory leaflets . |
| 2 | We had been given books and we soon began learning . |
| 3 | ‘ I take risks , but they 're calculated risks and I would n't take them if I did n't think they had a good chance of succeeding . |
| 4 | The simultaneous withdrawal of the state from regulative intervention in labour matters clearly advantaged employers and it is hard to deny that all this amounted to class legislation . |
| 5 | For most months I have included titles that I think are worth ‘ having a go ’ with , although they may not figure in the first rank . |
| 6 | [ He says ] moreover that the testator 's intention , which is particularly important in trusts , supports this opinion , and that the testator would not , after this preamble , have added objects if he had wanted only cash to be paid . |
| 7 | He lived down Gypsy Lane with his two sisters , he was a single man you see and my father and mother lived here and my , they not only mended shoes but they made them and er course naturally , you know , well of course Needham was n't as big as it is now but they made them for the best people , if that , if that 's the right , not the right expression say , but er but you know what I mean er and er and he , you know , all his life you see he did that and then one day he had a shock because his er , what would you call him colleague , he , he died suddenly in the night . |
| 8 | We 'd have mixed appetites if you 'd given it any thought . |
| 9 | I 've always owned bitches and I 've always had them done . |
| 10 | You remember they did the changeover five or six years ago now , and the schools were mi er were getting mix er er they were mixed sexes and they were Archbishop Holgate 's was going to be two sexes and so was Queen Anne 's . |
| 11 | He told a Westminster press gallery lunch that the problem was not the properly prepared Queen 's Speech programme of bills , but the demand for instant legislation following a serious event , with ministers being deemed failures if they did not promise a new bill . |
| 12 | After achieving power we 'll be considered monsters but we could n't care less . ’ |
| 13 | Admittedly , in recent years , top coaches such as ‘ Chalkie ’ White at Leicester and Alan Davies at Nottingham has provided a focus and created a centre of excellence which has attracted players but I am not so sure that the same parameters still apply . |
| 14 | I doubt that anything like this would have happened in the Revie days , that was a time that Leeds were truly considered champions and it was Leeds that would be doing the ‘ poaching ’ of players as such . |
| 15 | I 've always owned apartments because I was born in a tenement in Glasgow and I like flat-life. , If he has one regret it is that government never saw fit to offer him another major job as challenging as his chairmanship of British Steel when he gave it up in 1976 . |
| 16 | What the ad does n't mention , either , is that cells which contains traces of blood are naturally excreted in the faeces and in some babies the amount of cells that are shed increases if they are fed cow 's milk — but still not enough to worry about . |
| 17 | Iran has recently been prominent in world events , which has reminded outsiders that it has never been more important to understand the people of Iran , their culture and their traditions . |
| 18 | He could have attacked others if he had n't been caught . |
| 19 | The criticisms that have been levelled at Coleman on educational and other matters have included assertions that he admitted unsuitable pupils ; unduly shortened the course of instruction ; concentrated that instruction solely on diseases of the horse ; allowed undue medical interference in the development of the profession , particularly in respect of the examining committee , solely composed of medical men ; barred veterinary surgeons from becoming subscribers to the College , and thwarted attempts by the profession to obtain a charter . |
| 20 | A six inch deep channel of water still flowed over their wader clad feet as they stood in a rough circle looking down at something in the mud . |
| 21 | They do n't tell you why you are given honours but I would like to think it was because of Minder . |
| 22 | Measurements of body damage ; for example , if you find that keeping chickens in a particular way results in a large number having broken bones before they die , that is important in assessing the effect of that condition on the welfare of the animal . |
| 23 | Conversely , though , if this Committee instructed groups as it well could that it wanted regular updates on the pay position of this County , and he had to put someone to work on researching them , it would cost you what like that ? |
| 24 | I had thought that builders built houses when they thought they thought they could sell them , I did n't realize it was part of some altruistic policy of complying with planning policy , still we learn everything every day , do n't we ? |
| 25 | Assets are frozen , you ca n't get your hands on them on the whole until you 've got your grant of probate or you 've made declarations if it 's a small will . |
| 26 | Do you have any recollections of any particular disputes and maybe an answer that you could possibly sort of , make a few comments on whether you felt the the procedures were worked out so finely that they in fact prevented disputes because they were so long and drawn out perhaps or er it took the fire out of disputes if you like ? |
| 27 | Of course I 'd seen pictures and I 've always wanted a guitar like that . |
| 28 | Partial implementation of the system has already shown benefits : half the usual number of engineering changes on one new model ; on another , cost savings of $300m thanks to early suggestions from sections of the company that would not normally have seen designs until they had been fixed . |
| 29 | now I , I have seen foxes and I mean they are they are now in built up areas are n't they ? |
| 30 | ‘ I have seen countries where you substitute a white oppressor with a black one . |