Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [verb] [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Of course they still have time and may be using that to prepare their case . ’ |
| 2 | Maybe you should eat that knowing your complaint ! |
| 3 | ‘ You seem to hate everyone , and do n't you think this pursuing your career as Miss Efficiency is making you forget you belong to the human race ? ’ |
| 4 | The rule that inducing or procuring another to break his contract could be actionable at the suit of the other contracting party who suffered damage thereby was only accepted in the face of strong dissent , but the good sense of it is clear . |
| 5 | The proposed Directive is only aimed at establishing essential standards and principles and member states will remain free to extend its ambit to unlisted or private companies . |
| 6 | I really got embarrassed collecting my dole , and in the end I gave it up . |
| 7 | This does not involve going to Court and you remain free to remove your child at any time ( although it is best to do this by arrangement ) . |
| 8 | Tiller 's theatrical enterprises were expanding so fast it became inconvenient to use his warehouse during the evenings and at weekends , so he took over part of St James 's Hall in Oxford Street , Manchester , adjoining the St James 's Theatre . |
| 9 | I trust this settles your mind — IM |
| 10 | Once rape ceased to be a capital offence , however , the judges became willing to broaden its scope . |
| 11 | He bent low to examine his prisoner 's face even more closely . |
| 12 | When I wrote the entry on Hayward for the DNB , I found this made my task difficult . |
| 13 | Once they were outside the grounds , the thieves dumped one vehicle and used another to make their get-away , with the cream coloured caravan in tow . |
| 14 | Ironside looks set to lose his understudy tag after a patient wait in the background since he joined Boro last summer . |
| 15 | He told Majesty magazine that the royals will have to work hard to justify their existence . |
| 16 | We had to work hard to justify our existence . |
| 17 | While national newspapers have to work hard to increase their readership levels , the sales of local newspapers continue to rise . |
| 18 | I know I 'll have to work hard to keep my standing , ’ he said . |
| 19 | Willie Carson looks likely to continue his association with Robert Sangster 's Rodrigo de Triano in Saturday 's Greenham Stakes at Newbury as Badie , who belongs to Carson 's retaining owner Sheikh Hamdan Al-Maktoum , looks certain to miss the race and run instead in the European Free Handicap at Newmarket on April 15 . |
| 20 | Rotherham 's on-loan keeper Stuart Ford looks likely to make his League debut for Scarborough against Hereford next Tuesday . |
| 21 | Force the other party to try hard to get your attention and let them know or think that they could lose out to someone else . |
| 22 | Most Japanese regard whale meat as overpriced and appear unlikely to throw their weight behind the government 's campaign to support the whaling industry . |
| 23 | What seems more likely is that Basquiat could be the beneficiary of a process operating in the market ( and among some critics ) , where artists who appear able to retain their market value in the next decade are promoted and shown , whereas others considered beyond rehabilitation are ignored . |
| 24 | There are also signs that in the new era of competitiveness between them , institutions are becoming reluctant to open their course offerings to the critical gaze of panel members drawn from institutions competing for contracts with the funding bodies . |
| 25 | But as I suggested in the last part of Chapter 2 , this difference is not of any great practical significance : whether deviant motivations are taken as given because they express free will ( classical theory ) or because it is not deemed fruitful to attempt their explanation ( control theory ) does not , in itself ; have any practical implications for the subsequent criminological enterprise . |
| 26 | ‘ If we do run into the others , you , Akbar , will strip naked to maximize their chance of recognizing a fellow Brother . |
| 27 | If I can not come out soon — much of me will die , and only I will know enough to mourn its passing . |
| 28 | In 1946 , in the top front page article in the very first edition of his newspaper , whose title in Arabic means ‘ The people ’ , he urged Arabs to struggle harder to maintain their land in Arab ownership in Palestine . |
| 29 | The doctor was concerned ; he did n't trust Myeloski to honour his word . |
| 30 | ‘ So , my cousin is becoming anxious to have her husband back , my lord . ’ |