Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [conj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After long and entertaining research ( that 's hours sitting watching the story unfold and telling everyone that this really was work ) I can divulge that Johnny has a long-distance girlfriend , fishes an awful lot , is taken water-skiing by sharks , enjoys parties on passing cruisers , is invaded by ancient midget pirates , and is a very clean living , regular bathing type of guy . |
| 2 | Here in the final work , the shaping of a total unity , there returns a crucial division , and because I can not read from it , even badly , I will not talk about it , which leaves intact your freedom to go and read it . |
| 3 | They could not distinguish public splendour to dazzle and impress their people and foreigners alike ( if that is the effect their trappings achieved ) from the conveniences of private life . |
| 4 | At one curve in the road the driver stopped and flashed his main beams . |
| 5 | The driver stopped and welcomed me aboard . |
| 6 | I did n't accept er the opportunity to retire and take it easy , it seemed as if I had worked twenty seven years for nothing ! |
| 7 | When the Campaign for Real Ale embarked in the early 1970s on its crusade to preserve and promote our disappearing beer heritage , three watchwords came quickly to the fore ; choice , quality and tradition . |
| 8 | The fragments may be eaten there and then or tucked away beside the column to be collected when the hunt is over and taken back to feed the queen and those who stayed back in camp to tend and protect her . |
| 9 | and he go and mum goes where have you been ? |
| 10 | No executions had been carried out since 1984 , and there were currently 287 people in prison waiting for parliament to confirm or commute their death sentences ( mostly handed down in the early 1980s ) . |
| 11 | ‘ Dennis had played a seasson for Northants and I got the opportunity to go and see him in Perth , ’ he explained . |
| 12 | So you have to keep spending your money to go and visit them . |
| 13 | And er to a certain extent I do that , for instance people pay a lot of money to go and buy what they call boxes , they 're quite expensive . |
| 14 | It makes the British attitude to planemaking — make it commercial or defence oriented and make it pay PDQ — look plain shortsighted and stupid . |
| 15 | There would be a couple of quick scenes of frenzied activity and then they would cut to a grand finale of Mickey Rooney & Co singing and dancing their way across a barn miraculously transformed into a splendid stage . |
| 16 | A partly-exempt business with branches outside the UK has not been allowed to include the value of overseas branch supplies when calculating its proportion of recoverable input tax . |
| 17 | Robyn has only the dimmest memories of the country of her birth , and has never had the opportunity to refresh or renew them , Professor Penrose 's characteristic response to any suggestion that the family should revisit Australia being a shudder . |
| 18 | I hope it will provide your parents ’ she stressed the word — ‘ with an excuse to come and visit me more often . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Gives me an excuse to come and put you to bed , I guess . |
| 20 | And if not I 'll see if I can think of an excuse to try and contact her myself . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm going to feel like an idiot if someone comes and opens that door right now , ’ she muttered , using words like a shield to try and hide her real distress , the real reason she was feeling like an idiot . |
| 22 | Relentlessly , the amazing force of the tide rolled and twisted his body along like a dead sheep . |
| 23 | So erm and another thing I was going to suggest erm I need help really erm for the meetings , I need somebody who will help , a social secretary say somebody who will help with the raffles and somebody who will organize meetings , what 's going on at meetings because it 's getting , the job is getting most difficult and I work part-time and it 's , it 's , I 'm not getting any younger and I 'm finding it a struggle to try and get everything fixed , the raffles and the what 's going on and everything organized , so if you , if you if you could see the way clear , perhaps we could create a social secretary or an assistant secretary where we could have somebody who can give a hand with the organization of the meetings |
| 24 | It will inevitably be a political process but it will be a more informed political judgement , the reformers claim , than the pure bargaining process that preceded it . |
| 25 | The captain of the submarine surfaced and took his craft alongside one of the schooners . |
| 26 | Their inability to concentrate or order their thoughts means that they generally do not learn much at school , even though they may be quite intelligent . |
| 27 | His main complaint was inability to concentrate and remember his school work . |
| 28 | Johnson 's reflections under the heading of ‘ Coriatachan in Sky ’ amount to only eighteen hundred words or so , yet they constitute the clearest view of him I have had so far , the best opportunity to try and assess what made him . |
| 29 | I appreciate obviously tonight we have are not not gon na carried today but nonetheless it is something that we believe in very firmly and I hope we have the opportunity to try and persuade you otherwise at some other time . |
| 30 | Thankfully Merrill escaped , glad of an opportunity to try and get herself together again . |