Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr in due course did you go to the flat ? |
| 2 | To finish , we should emphasise that the kind of short-term contract working we have observed in manufacturing is a specific phenomenon . |
| 3 | Things get much more complicated on later levels , though , where you have to keep moving around to nudge bubbles in the right direction to avoid them colliding and dropping all the grubs . |
| 4 | That bit made me think even then . |
| 5 | Her calm , lazy response made him laugh . |
| 6 | She is also on the books of Premier model agency , ‘ to get a little money til I find a proper job ’ . |
| 7 | And the next fortnight I would be on the afternoon shift , which meant getting the same distance , to half past two to work till They were eight hour shifts you see and the night shift likewise had to come a very er a tremendous number from working at the Ford Motor Company at Dagenham ev even in those days , travel from various places . |
| 8 | Our debate on this intended insult by the French was summarily ended : a wand-bearing chamberlain told us to assemble in the great hall below for the rare privilege of an audience with His Most Christian Majesty . |
| 9 | Fearon glanced in that direction to see what had upset her , looked vaguely surprised , slapped half-heartedly at the mud with his hand and mumbled , ‘ It 'll brush off … ’ |
| 10 | A concentrated assessment helped us focus on teaching procedures and materials more effectively and the problems we uncovered could be tackled immediately as we had direct access to the Subject Assessor ’ . |
| 11 | When what I 'd like to say is , ‘ I 'm going to pay a lot of hard-earned money to have you killed . ’ ’ |
| 12 | In neither case did they mean they had personally been involved . |
| 13 | Deacon had taken over the head of the formation as the leader 's R/T was not working , and calling a warning to the other pilots , he swung into the attack on one Messerschmitt from the quarter position , breaking away to attack a second similarly , though in neither case did he observe any results . |
| 14 | The questions raised by conceptual material are discussed by the main characters and illustrated in their actions , but in neither case do they affect the plot structure itself which marks a return to formal strategies of the past : Under the Net to the picaresque tradition , and The Languages of Love to the paradigmatic plot of fall and salvation in which rhetorical devices remain subservient to the basic three-tiered design of Christian allegory . |
| 15 | In this case the animals get quite a good deal , but in neither case do they contribute much to wealth . |
| 16 | Although total parenteral nutrition does nothing to treat the primary disease directly , it helps the patient receive enough nutrition until bowel functions return to normal again . |
| 17 | After all , just look round any bar and you 'll see that everybody there , myself included ( you too if it 's your kind of bar ) , has in their time been both The Boy and The Older Man , both Banker and Domestic , Ingenue and Other Woman , booted Prince and stirrup-holding Groom — but I do n't mean either that you should have complete license to make him look just how you wish ; I do n't want to think of anyone hearing this story and grinning and thinking of Boy as some permanently , conveniently smiling blue-eyed blonde , because he was not that in any way and that is not what he meant to us . |
| 18 | And each experience helps you to mature emotionally . |
| 19 | This might mean that a firm was ‘ released ’ from ties to traditional , skilled ( and often well-unionized ) labour ; the technical change freed it to seek out cheaper and less well-organized labour elsewhere . |
| 20 | What emerge is the Shahs complete inability to understand what had gone wrong , what mistakes he had made . |
| 21 | This broad sketch helped me to explore the crayon 's versatility without using the final painting as a trial piece , it also helped keep the whole composition in mind as I concentrated on a specific detail in the finished painting . |
| 22 | In any case would not the right course require me to give his advice prima facie rather than pre-emptive force ? |
| 23 | And the London-based scientist said he believed it was more than a coincidence that the same colony seemed to have been affected by a second strain of the gizzard worm infection which killed 137 birds last year . |
| 24 | The basis of the control was that the courts have held that , when Parliament gives a public body statutory authority to act , it can be implied that Parliament intended it to act in a particular way ; in good faith , in a reasonable manner , in accordance with the requirements of natural justice . |
| 25 | The two partners tendered for several workplace nursery projects but in each case found themselves losing out to competitors who were already running nurseries . |
| 26 | When I got down to the park , the combination of the cold and my long sleep that afternoon made me feel too restless to contemplate actually going to sleep again , so I just sat there on one of the benches , thinking . |
| 27 | In view of the evident divisions within the Cabinet , he advised her to speak to ministers individually that afternoon to ensure she had their full support . |
| 28 | But Rosemarie felt so strongly that mum suggested she write to director Steven Spielberg … and to her surprise she received a reply from his scientific adviser Don Lessem in Massachusetts . |
| 29 | Is that worth repeating , that course do you think ? |
| 30 | In that case have you time for me to go over it again in case anyone 's listening |