Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [adv] [pron] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within a long programme you may find a short sequence which contains exactly what you want for a particular lesson . |
| 2 | I am constantly called a fool , because I have not that literary indigestion which throws up what it feeds on , every week or so . ’ |
| 3 | They might be the only thing she has here which he used personally . ’ |
| 4 | In assuming that it may be rational to be a sceptic about value alone , we had stopped at an uncomfortable halfway house between philosophy and common sense , between the pure thinker who doubts everything and the plain man who questions neither what he sees nor what he likes or dislikes . |
| 5 | She says bluntly what she thinks about landowners , the Royal Family , social injustice and access to the hills . |
| 6 | ‘ He is a straightforward guy who says exactly what he thinks . |
| 7 | As she brings up one I 've got another one to throw and she drops what she 's got . |
| 8 | In Winograd 's ( 1971 ) well-known language understanding program , for example , there is a syntax analysis module and a semantics analysis module : these can demand answers from each other to specific questions about the structures of sentences but can not ‘ get at ’ how the other one finds out whatever it does . |
| 9 | The drafter should not begin to draft until he/she knows exactly what he/she wants to say . |
| 10 | More generally , it illustrates how everything you do — even your choice of a title — is a part of your thinking about your essay , and contributes to its development . |
| 11 | As with any type of climbing it 's the footwork that 's all important , and it matters little what you have in your hands if your feet are n't used properly . |
| 12 | ‘ If He was n't a God , I do n't see that it matters much what He taught . |
| 13 | I do n't think it matters much what you study , but I think to do so is very important in terms of promoting the power to think about issues . |
| 14 | But he says exactly what he thinks , and he always makes me think . |
| 15 | Those obviously include all the further education colleges that do the basic um and the basic things and then the H N C H N D it gives you the open learning things which includes then the private sector people communicate and all sorts of other agencies , erm it depends really what you see as a beginner , do you mean a beginner in the communications field in its entirety , or do you mean a beginner as an in-house industrial editor or a freelancer by definition a beginner is not likely to be a freelancer ? |
| 16 | But if a passage you have written seems confused , yet you think it says basically what you want it to say , it can be worth moving elements by changing around active and passive constructions ( or experimenting with cleft and pseudo-cleft constructions , which are described above , Chapter 3 , p. 64 ) . |
| 17 | ‘ It was n't a hang-on or hang-in performance and it bears out what I say about an improvement here . ’ |
| 18 | It delivers just what it promises in the shape of 10001 short paragraphs , each containing a simple practical idea which might be put into practice in our daily lives . |
| 19 | Ramsay pulls no punches in his characterisation ; refreshingly unsycophantic , he paints clearly what he sees . |
| 20 | ‘ When I use a word ’ , Humpty Dumpty said in a rather scornful tone , ‘ it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ When I use a word ’ , Humpty Dumpty said , ‘ … it means just what I choose it to mean , neither more nor less ’ ( Lewis Carroll — Alice Through the Looking Glass ) . |
| 22 | ‘ When I use a word , ’ Humpty Dumpty said in a rather scornful tone , ‘ it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less ’ — so what does ATM stand for ? |
| 23 | But the tendency of such an argument is in the direction of complete relativism , or an entirely arbitrary nominalism , of the type represented by Humpty Dumpty in Alice through the Looking-glass : " " When I use a word " , Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone , " it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more or less . " " |
| 24 | Well it means exactly what it says . |
| 25 | Esau may be rich and powerful ( he has four hundred men with him after all ) , and undoubtedly he means just what he says . |
| 26 | He means precisely what he says — ; but one must enter the language on its own terms or the meaning vanishes . |
| 27 | , he does exactly what he likes , Luccini . |
| 28 | ‘ He does only what he has been told . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ It does just what you ask of it . |
| 30 | you know it does n't they they do n't erm sort of exist in the social security system like the rest of us do , |