Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Too run-down and curiously situated to appeal to most families , it had stood empty for several years before Frankie 's parents made it their home . |
| 2 | He also became embroiled in another conflict with Britain over Syria and Lebanon . |
| 3 | Apart from a few straightforward effects ( slow motion , freeze frame ) , art movies tend to fall outside this area , because by and large SFX are expensive and time-consuming , whereas art movies of limited appeal tend to be made on relatively low budgets . |
| 4 | R.A. Hamilton asked that more mature trees be obtained and the chairman agreed to attend to this matter . |
| 5 | However , the patient is likely to continue coughing for some time after the antibiotics have been stopped , and the sputum that is produced when the patient coughs will be found to contain numerous pus cells on microscopic examination . |
| 6 | ‘ We will not develop the business where there is no emphasis on quality , and we intend to continue in that framework . |
| 7 | We can not abandon people to the horrors of primitive siege warfare , so the ramshackle institutions of the United Nations will have to be drastically overhauled to cope with this crisis and others like it which are festering in an increasingly unstable world . |
| 8 | Some people will want to quarrel with this analysis ; but for our present purposes its accuracy is less important than the use Miller makes of it . |
| 9 | In July 1973 , after months of preliminary exchanges , a meeting of foreign ministers agreed to proceed with such talks which took place over the next two years . |
| 10 | Why would she want to go with this man ? |
| 11 | Did you want to go on this side ? |
| 12 | I do not want to go into that argument ; I simply wish to illustrate my point . |
| 13 | I 'm sorry about that , it really is more of a second thought , although I do n't want to go into any detail and I 'd like , like any broad that you have to be in my mind in this case at least |
| 14 | ‘ We do n't want to go through that business we had with A&M . |
| 15 | The training in on offer appears to be about increasing management capabilities and if you do n't want to go down that road there is a problem , for there is a significant and genuine gap between the expectation of school boards and how their task was perceived by the Scottish Office . |
| 16 | Er I I I he said that oh yes I do want to go down these stairs but there 's folks coming up and down and the esc you know , someone coming on the escalator . |
| 17 | Harold Samuel was furious , ‘ What do you want to go to that place for ? |
| 18 | ‘ Who 'd want to go to those places ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I do n't want to go to any Florida ! ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Do we really want to go to this bash ? ’ |
| 21 | You say you got to go to that golf club or you 've got to go to that school . |
| 22 | If pressed to go beyond these limits they should suggest that the questioning be addressed to ministers . |
| 23 | ‘ But my life never really started at any stage — which I know you wo n't believe , but it 's true — so it never really got stopped at any point . |
| 24 | I was out and under the bonnet when I got stopped by this policeman . |
| 25 | Steve , asked to sit at another table , astonished their host , Lord McAlpine , with the reply : ‘ Mah woman and I sit together . ’ |
| 26 | I do n't want to raise your hopes too much , Rebecca , but I think what , er the idea behind this , I er , thing is , families with two tellies , paying twenty pounds extra for the second set , and perhaps for the third set , another twenty pounds , it 's to try and lessen the burden on viewers who genuinely ca n't afford the existing licence fee as it is now , and Rebecca , I would have thought that you would 've fallen into that category . |
| 27 | Unlike Descartes , who felt the need to prove their existence , and Malebranche , who was certain he could not , Locke simply had no doubt that material things existed and caused our ideas : ‘ The actual receiving of ideas from without … makes us know , that something doth exist at that time without us , which causes that idea in us . ’ |
| 28 | Many plants are common to both disciplines , but the manner in which they are prescribed differs in many instances . |
| 29 | We do n't want to fall into that situation . |
| 30 | I think you mentioned earlier on in the meeting that some authorities have n't taken advantage of European money and we do n't want to fall into that trap . |