Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brewery leases are proving extremely popular , according to agent Christie & Co It has revealed around 850 applications for new leases over the last two months and according to Paul Newman of the company 's leasing division ‘ unlike other business sectors there is a strong demand for them . ’ |
| 2 | Look , if she can send him to Westminster or Eton she 's got money . |
| 3 | it keeps no record of wrongs or times she has told him to wipe his feet . |
| 4 | express neatly and attractively an idea , comment or judgement you wish to make . |
| 5 | A second point is that each investor must , in my opinion , be willing that there should be a rescission of the investment transaction in question and be willing to return any shares or money he has received under the transaction . |
| 6 | If the title 's already registered , then as either seller or buyer you begin to reap the benefits of the system . |
| 7 | It is therefore conceptually useful to distinguish between what the mass media tell us to think about — this is signalled by the events they cover — and what specific attitudes or opinions we have to adopt towards those events , though clearly these distinctions may be difficult to uphold in practice . |
| 8 | As infants they cry or scream , as toddlers they whine or have tantrums , as older children or teenagers they learn to quarrel , argue , sulk and make hurtful remarks . |
| 9 | When it 's like pancake mix I tend , or omelettes I tend to use two bowls and even though I only really need to use one . |
| 10 | Change words or phrases you have repeated . |
| 11 | Whether in Indochina or Washington you 've got to learn to interpret events correctly . " |
| 12 | ‘ We do n't have telephones because our research showed that the average business person makes perhaps only one phone call from their room — probably to tell their wife or husband they 've arrived . |
| 13 | You buy only the week , or weeks you want to use , at a fraction of the cost of purchasing the whole property . |
| 14 | When people stop working through redundancy , retirement or maternity they need to find other ways of getting their needs fulfilled . |
| 15 | Bachelor Phillip said : ‘ Out of all the things I 've done or commendations I 've received , I think this is the one she is most proud of . ’ |
| 16 | Suppose by mistake or accident he fails to repay on the day named , is it fair that he should be held to the terms of the deed ? |
| 17 | Knowing an author 's homosexuality makes that decoding far easier ( if at the same time rather less triumphant there 's an undeniable pleasure in finding out that a favourite writer , actor or director you have admired for years turns out to be gay , as you always privately hoped and ‘ knew ’ ) but it returns us once again to the problem of biography , the danger of regressing to a simplistic reading of texts which simply locates their meanings in the author 's life story . |
| 18 | As a result , when I did Friends or War I had to make sure there was a distance between them , because they are about completely different subjects . |
| 19 | In the afternoon or evening they love to hear Rupkotha ( fairy tales ) . |
| 20 | In previous Lectures we have examined the incidence of taxation by factors or classes we have asked whether a tax is borne by those receiving capital income or those with wages . |
| 21 | First of all , the guests will search for existing connections , such as people and places they know in common , or films they have seen , and establish a network that way . |
| 22 | At a joint one-day Wedgwood and Sotheby 's identification and valuation event at the Westfries Museum , in Hoorn , Lynn encountered many Dutch visitors who brought in a variety of heirlooms or pieces they had collected . |
| 23 | In interpreting the studies by Vonk and by Garnham & Oakhill we have taken an effect of gender cue to indicate name mapping and one of congruity with bias to indicate role mapping . |
| 24 | These patients have been referred by their General Practitioner to an Outpatient Clinic at the hospital because of symptoms or problems they have developed . |
| 25 | This involves deciding what it is you are looking for before you start general reading , and , equally important , assessing why you need to read particular works or sources you intend to consult . |
| 26 | Consumers can push buttons on a display unit to see how much electricity , gas or water they have used , what it is costing them , and how big their next bill is likely to be . |
| 27 | Now , if you 've got nowhere else , erm , at the bottom end of the door to fit it , that 's fine , but as a matter of a preference , Crime Prevention like to see them fitted a third of the way up the door , that is where our thieves put the boot in , and thieves will work to pressure points , to leverage points they come equipped , or most of them do n't come equipped , because obviously if they 're walking along the street and a police officer sees them , you know , pull them over and start to talk to them , most of them will actually er use the tools from the back garden or or things they find lying around to help themselves in . |
| 28 | a current event or relationship I need to reflect on . |
| 29 | Every girl or woman I know does agonise over every meal . |
| 30 | He had slipped into a rather alarming habit lately of looking at every girl or woman he encountered to see how big her bust was . |