Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pos pn] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of them turns her tired beam on us . |
| 2 | But it can stop them seeing its underlying gender biases . |
| 3 | Some in the colony 's business community share that view since following it in policy terms would allow them to continue their prosperous trade links across the border . |
| 4 | BELVILLE : This happy estray thus restored begs leave by me to acknowledge its lovely owner ! |
| 5 | ‘ Would you really , a man of your enormous wealth , sue someone like me for a sum that to you is little more than pocket-money , but to me represents my very livelihood ? |
| 6 | First of all let me emphasize our common experience that most human relationships are asymmetrical . |
| 7 | I think they rather wanted me to wear my old farm clothes , but we compromised with a grey check skirt which a good friend gave me , and a blue jumper . |
| 8 | ‘ Do n't you like me using your Islamic name ? ’ said Mrs Wilson . |
| 9 | Although reporters gave the impression that the troupes were new to the American stage , they had in fact made their debut as far back as 1900 when George Lederer booked them to perform their original Pony Trot . |
| 10 | To enable them to conduct their private practice economically and sensibly from their viewpoint , pay beds were an imperative . |
| 11 | As the barges plough the blue waters nothing slows their stately progress , no wind fills their sails , no hand guides their tiller . |
| 12 | As I detest midges more than most things in life , leaving them to enjoy their open season for humans is no hardship either . |
| 13 | The US Seniors ' Tour may outstrip the USPGA Tour in terms of waistlines and average age , but no-one expected its leading money winner to also claim higher earnings . |
| 14 | ‘ The only result is that a large heron discovered that when it activated the floodlight it enabled him/her to decimate my expensive collection of koi carp , brazenly standing in the middle of the pool at 10.30pm . ’ |
| 15 | The extreme toxicity of their venom enables them to kill their main prey — eels — very rapidly and thus prevent them from wriggling free . |
| 16 | ‘ Isa has not seen me since the happy news and it is that which restores me to near my old self . ’ |
| 17 | Finally , functional elites may be offered incorporation within the policy process in order to compel them to sacrifice their organizational muscle , and to undertake the state 's dirty work by disciplining dissidents within their organizations . |
| 18 | Martin Randall believes in allowing his clients off the leash for a good deal of unorganised time , which enabled me to enjoy my favourite occupation : finding my own way around a new city . |
| 19 | The reason why these had survived so long was because they required the most money spent on them — in the case of valley bottoms , to pay for initial drainage and then to maintain it — to make them yield their full potential of arable and pasture . |
| 20 | Politicians are wary of doing this , of course , because it forces them to accept their proper share of responsibility for the present state of anomie . |
| 21 | Two aspects need consideration : the tendency of workers to lessen their weekly amount of work at times when higher money wages or lower food prices allowed them to meet their customary expectation of comfort from fewer hours of labour , and secondly , the ability of home-based out-workers to control their own pace of work , compensating , if they so chose , for a slack early week with a bout of late-week intensity . |
| 22 | Let me shave your head boy . |
| 23 | Their muscular limitations did nothing to diminish their tactical awareness . |
| 24 | Mrs Pipchin 's niece , Berinthia ( Berry ) , a middle-aged spinster whose exploitation as a drudge by her aunt does nothing to diminish her dog-like devotion to Mrs Pipchin . |
| 25 | The fact that the rumour had probably been planted by Tosh himself did nothing to diminish his fearful aspect . |
| 26 | What would happen to these two women who had done nothing to deserve her evil body and heart between them , what would happen to them when she was dead ? |
| 27 | In addition , the aerobic activity helped them to increase their metabolic rate which is , after all , what every slimmer needs . |
| 28 | Most of the parents , however , had come intending to talk about their boys , either out of a genuine or an assumed interest in them ; and few of them were prepared to waste time on Onyx when there were real teachers on whom to vent their parental concern . |
| 29 | Guy topped Mortimer 's height by at least six inches , and the civilising garb of Savile Row suit and Jermyn Street silk shirt did nothing to hide his athletic physique . |
| 30 | So the superficially more relaxed atmosphere at home did nothing to modify my anorexic behaviour . |