Example sentences of "[verb] [det] [conj] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , having D'Arcy in the band has been an education , not only from playing with someone who 's obviously a girl , but seeing how people perceive that and seeing the kind of shit she takes because she 's a girl . |
| 2 | Getting out to open the passenger door for her , he noticed that , in contrast to Francesca , she expected this and accepted the courtesy gratefully . |
| 3 | The first time he sang the poem Bilbo had just handed over the Ring and was off to Rivendell ; the words accordingly express a sense of abdication , of having been left behind , along with determination to accept this and make a new life somewhere as yet unknown . |
| 4 | The FMLN radio station Venceremos described this as marking the reintegration of the guerrillas into civilian society . |
| 5 | Defence Minister Col. Rene Emilio Ponce described this as representing a " major escalation " in the war . |
| 6 | Identifying districts for the development of comprehensive local mental illness services and making firm plans to provide these and facilitate the closure of two large hospitals , and providing local inpatient facilities for severely mentally ill elderly people . |
| 7 | Clearly the same did not occur in the UK ; the increased propensity to offend more than counterbalanced the decline in the high-offender groups in the population ( Liddelow 1990 ) . |
| 8 | This example shows that tailing has more than prevented the loss of £22 424 from meeting variation margin payments . |
| 9 | The most daunting problem facing Louis Gerstner is that as yet he has absolutely no idea just how much he does n't know — and he will be Superman if in six months he has more than scratched the surface on that problem . |
| 10 | He has more than earned the right to confront the IRA with the tragic error of their ways and to demand a cease-fire . |
| 11 | The Conservative Government has more than halved the top rate of tax . |
| 12 | He , Jacob , who has wrestled with God all night and has more than survived the experience , now grovels before his brother ! |
| 13 | The invitations to foreign races started coming in after he ran ‘ about 162 miles ’ in a 24-race in Chorley , and Zarei has made the most of them , often running ultra races consecutively and by doing so he has more than proved a point about his approach to running . |
| 14 | I also have a jet-ski which is good for fitness but I am going to sell that and buy a boat with my father . |
| 15 | Rosemary Burns has been there , done that and got the T-shirt . |
| 16 | The water had to be drawn up out of one of a battery of long-necked cisterns behind the cottage , and when we had done that and fed the plants we sat on a seat by the Priapus arbour , with the unusual smell , in summer Greece , of verdant wet earth all around us . |
| 17 | Having said that and confirmed the conventional wisdom , however , Butler and Stokes went further . |
| 18 | But I was able to transfer it onto a separate system and compile that and produce the lexicon there . |
| 19 | He knew Carter was lying , but at that precise moment he could do little except inspect the premises and then write up his notes . |
| 20 | I 'd rather do that than kill the Hydra . |
| 21 | Well would you rather do that or have a conservatory ? |
| 22 | ‘ For instance , should a child who has run away from home ring and ask that their parents be contacted , then the counsellors will do that and tell the mum and dad concerned where the child is , ’ she says . |
| 23 | They did n't what he 's done , he 's thought well I 'll just do that and incorporate the sink in it . |
| 24 | He ignored that and put the notebook away . |
| 25 | Some stabilisation of Gaelic has occurred since 1961 and the project , following previous pilot studies , aims to indicate the factors promoting this and to assess the strength of factors working against language-maintenance . |
| 26 | If it is clear that a listed building is being neglected and is in urgent need of repair , and the owner has no plans to remedy this or to sell the property , the next stage is simple . |
| 27 | Moderator I , I feel I 'd still want to resist this and hope the assembly would not accept it . |
| 28 | Their supervisor noted this and investigated the situation . |
| 29 | When I say working , I include just everyday general obedience , for I class this as working every bit as much as training dogs up to very high Schutzhund standard . |
| 30 | But liberationists like Regan and Clive Hollands ( 1985 ) , as we saw in earlier chapters , scorn this as requiring no more than kindness towards animals ( Hollands , for example , dismissed it as ‘ a Victorian concept ’ ) and demand a great deal more . |