Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] [conj] [pron] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has forgotten that I do not drink , or perhaps he thinks I am bluffing . |
| 2 | As George Graham put it : ‘ The day has come when we see that the country has gone to the dogs . |
| 3 | But now Ellen the time I have long awaited has come and I write to tell you that an Italian maidservant by name of Gigia who is travelling home to Florence having been in Scotland with a family who are friends of the Brownings is to come to you to collect Oreste and take him to Liverpool where she will be joined by Mr Ogilvy and from whence they will sail for Italy . |
| 4 | Now say your diabetic has stabilized as they have done for , a couple of years or so with their insulin injection in the morning and their breakfast and that 's how they carry on then till their tea break or lunch time they know exactly how much they 're taking . |
| 5 | ‘ But since then our League form has slumped and we appear to be suffering a confidence problem ’ . |
| 6 | The attractiveness of Britain today for new business and job creation has ensured that we have consistently secured more Japanese and American investment than any other member state of the European Community . |
| 7 | So I I think time has moved on , th the pressure from erm the economic pressure and the right wing pressure has grown and i think we 're now doing the right thing . |
| 8 | Or he has written and I have not received it . |
| 9 | Councillor has said that we have , that his group do not believe in the testing of seven year olds . |
| 10 | We have to respond to these developments and it is being made clear now in public , that the Health and Safety Executive are giving every indication to employers that they are not going to rigorously enforce the law and indeed in the local authorities a leading figure there has said that they want to take a softly softly approach . |
| 11 | Now every opinion poll in er Britain for the last twenty two years has said that they believe that has shown that the people believe that the troops should not be in Northern Ireland . |
| 12 | It may well As far as I know it 's it is only Mrs er who has said , I I 'm sorry to er to say this Mrs , you are the only person who has said that you wish to produce additional representations . |
| 13 | He he has said if I do go for maintenance he 'll deny that Ricky 's his . |
| 14 | It is called a ‘ faith projection ’ because it relates to the measure of faith which God has granted as we have analysed our performance , related these to biblical priorities , and prayed through our response . |
| 15 | A Gallup poll of businessmen has revealed that they expect interest rates to be 1.6 per cent higher under Labour . |
| 16 | Eventually , when he has decided that we wish to learn and that we love the Ocean as much as he does , he teaches us things that it is important to know . |
| 17 | I ca n't say I approve of what he has done but I do n't ask him and I do n't want to know the details . ’ |
| 18 | So as a small token of appreciation , I just have two books or two copies of the same book which I would like to hand to your president and to your general secretary as a token of appreciation and it 's the authorized biography of Nelson Mandela of whom we are all very proud , considering what he has suffered through and what he has done and we hope that this little token will be a kind of memento for all your support but by doing this I 'm not saying that your support is over because the struggle continues . |
| 19 | I think if we go through and have a look at these other ones that Jenny has done and you make a decision at that point as to whether . |
| 20 | But , erm all that time I was running the young wives ' and we used to hold a stall in the garden , at the garden party at the church , and w when you took your takings in , you know th the treasurer would say you know , who are you , you know and I used to say young wives ' and then one day I said well , you know we 're no longer young wives , you know we were getting old and I decided there and then I 'd had enough of young wives ' , you know and er , er because I , I said , I , I was secretary and I 'll close it down it , it erm the young wives ' closed down and er er it , it had actually closed down and this lady was marvellous this secretary of the Guild , who would kno known mother and she was a councillor , she come dashing down , you know you , you , th the young wives ' has closed and you know you 've got excuse . |
| 21 | This research has shown that they swim away from the European coast in a roughly north-westerly direction at a depth of about two hundred feet until once again they reach the edge of the continental shelf . |
| 22 | Experience has shown that they call for more work from officials , and that they meet with resistance from officials ( see Jenkins , 1978 ) . |
| 23 | Research done among the Greenland Eskimos has shown that they have almost no record of heart disease . |
| 24 | ‘ I had the option of pulling him out because I was concerned about the ground , but the run has shown that I have been far too soft on him . |
| 25 | He said : ‘ I 'm delighted with the work he has done in training and the commitment he has shown when I have asked him to play . ’ |
| 26 | My Lord the only point of interest and it 's really one that I took in the of the submission is that if you use an up to date nineteen ninety three figure for calculating it when it was first back to years three and a half , two and a half and one and a half years ago , then intre it would n't be fair if interest is awarded on that as well because in a sense the increase in the figure that inflation and the increased cost of living has produced because you use an up to date figure , probably equates with the interest and we can the figure an up to date one to avoid just that otherwise it would be getting the figures for each of those years and then working out interest . |
| 27 | To show willing she has watched while I 've prepared dinner this week . |
| 28 | Where only a proportion of the damage has occurred since we have been on cover , we should pay the cost of the underpinning , subject to the adequacy of the sum insured and the policy excess . |
| 29 | The defensive manoeuvre behind it is something like this : if I do n't acknowledge that this thing has happened then I do n't have to believe it is true ; I wo n't have to understand what has occurred if I hold off from consciously realizing that it has happened . |
| 30 | Give plenty of praise and encouragement once it has performed as you want before calling the youngster by its name to follow you back indoors . |