Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His teeth gleamed as he smiled . |
| 2 | And then his iron control seemed to give way for a moment , his fingers clenching as he pulled her roughly against him . |
| 3 | Or one might look to the content of specific rules and judicial pro-nouncements to see whether they conform to certain moral standards for family behaviour laid down by community or authority . |
| 4 | You 've been set in a certain class and no matter how your opinions change and you want to throw that class off , if ever a man does , it wo n't let him , it 's there in his voice , in his manner ; even if a gentleman was to take to the road he 'd still be a gentleman ; I mean , according to the kind of education he 's received , so to my mind that has become a kind of cage . |
| 5 | In mid-July the Croatian authorities announced that they did not have the resources to cope with any more refugees unless substantial help from abroad was forthcoming . |
| 6 | I must now turn to the decided cases to see whether they refute the prima facie views I have formed and expressed in the foregoing paragraphs based on the construction of the statute and indeed otherwise to see what light they shed on the issues falling for decision . |
| 7 | There 'll be new acts coming in yet and there 'll be acts goin' before we hit 42nd Street . |
| 8 | ‘ Times change and you have to keep up with them , ’ says John King . |
| 9 | got home late last night — left N. at 2.30 which was 1.30pm our time and then got , just — with literally only about four minutes to spare once he had rung me , the 6pm train from Kings Cross . |
| 10 | Trees were bursting into leaf and birds singing as they wandered along the banks of the river , their arms entwined round each other . |
| 11 | pollution , drug abuse , theft , murder erm the way you 're treated by adults , the way we treat one another , equality , no racism , violence , riots , everybody should have a right to an education , everybody should have the right to have their , their teeth filled when they need it , and teachers deserve more pay and more , it 's only for instance |
| 12 | And watched him walk inside , and sat in the car watching for ten minutes to see that he stayed . |
| 13 | Penry 's been on the phone every few minutes to see if you 've arrived . |
| 14 | Ian Smales 's try and Fox 's fourth goal tied the scores again with 10 minutes to go and it took Fox 's drop to separate the sides . |
| 15 | Tsu Ma leaned forward , his teeth flashing as he smiled . |
| 16 | On June 25 a number of Kurdish deputies announced that they had formed the Freedom and Labour Party ( OZEP ) . |
| 17 | The Iranian authorities countered that they had repeatedly asked the Turkish government to present evidence for such claims . |
| 18 | What will the Germans think when they arrive in Glasgow with players still fresh from a ten-week break in the Bundesliga and a legislative system which means that if any of their players has called off from this game they must not play for their club sides next weekend ? ’ |
| 19 | Léonie licked Thérèse 's fingers to see if they tasted the same as her own . |
| 20 | Eye-witnesses insist that it did happen and , further , that 80-odd ( or even very odd ) people showed up . |
| 21 | PC Chris Eden said : ‘ It 's amazing how drivers ’ attitudes change when we ask them to look at the recording . |
| 22 | Eventually when one has had enough , he signals submission by contracting the pigment in one set of cells and expanding that in another so that his flank patterns change and he hoists the flag of surrender . |
| 23 | That still meant she had fifty-six metric minutes to wait until they scrutinized her ticket-chip . |
| 24 | The Democratic incumbent , Richard M. Daley , was re-elected Mayor of Chicago on April 1 , with unofficial returns suggesting that he had received 73 per cent of the vote . |
| 25 | Who checks up on employers to see that they keep their side of the bargain ? |
| 26 | Her description was so detailed and precise that experts agreed that she had seen the eagle . |
| 27 | Our teeth gritted as we kissed . |
| 28 | You heard about the eh education secretary 's faux pas somebody from Jack section , he , he 's apparently he slipped up er , and said right and Jack said to him I was to tell the education authorities suggest that you do when the education er clerk turn to Mr and said you are just , streaming is when he put one child in the same group for all subjects , setting is when there in different groups according to their ability , so you could be a Maths set A or an English set B , awkward is n't it ? |
| 29 | ‘ Well , New Zealanders ruck and you do n't . |
| 30 | There are now so many bikes in the city centre there 's a bike-park next-door to the library where cyclists can have their bikes repaired while they take out a book or go shopping . |