Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [coord] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone laughs and bangs on the table . |
| 2 | Where someone dies and leaves behind a debt which is not insured , this has a claim on his or her estate . |
| 3 | To make the pistol more accurate it is supplied with a shoulder stock which clips and secures to the rear of the pistol , a barrel and a make-believe telescopic sight . |
| 4 | A truly free press is a press which irritates and infuriates along the way . |
| 5 | A truly free press is a press which irritates and infuriates along the way . |
| 6 | The word ‘ sperm ’ is derived from the Greek meaning a ‘ seed ’ , and reflects the Aristotelian idea that the male semen ( the latter word being derived from the Latin word for ‘ seed , ’ ) contains the formative element which grows and develops inside the mother 's womb . |
| 7 | It is a completely random distribution , within limits , about a mean which sounds and looks like the snow-like flurries on television screens when there is no input . |
| 8 | We have defined crime as an act which breaks the criminal law and deviance as behaviour which breaks or departs from the norms or standards of the majority in society . |
| 9 | This alternative model moves away from the conventional idea of a child with learning difficulties to one which recognises and builds on the child 's learning achievements . |
| 10 | Yet other organizations see marketing as essentially a selling activity , and finally , there are those who see marketing as an activity which begins and ends with the customer . |
| 11 | Despite their manifest differences , all five views that I have just sketched out are united in that none of them hangs or falls on the notion of critical abilities . |
| 12 | I do , I think I 've got somebody buying me another so I go and look into that oh I do what Mavis does now , she goes and looks in the book shop |
| 13 | She turns and calls down the corridor for a guy named Malcolm and all the time she 's leaning hard against the door trying to break my foot . |
| 14 | Organiser Pat Devey , of the Ferries Project , said : ‘ Anyone who lives or works in the area will be welcome . ’ |
| 15 | It 's pretty good knowing someone who lives and works on a big Highland estate if you want to sort out your attitude to the big debate on stalking and access . |
| 16 | Harris , who lives and works on a farm , pleaded guilty to speeding at 62 mph in a 30 mph zone . |
| 17 | Bonington said he also hoped to see closer co-operation and understanding between the national park authorities and the farmers , tourist operators and everyone else who lives and works in the parks . |
| 18 | My good friend Alec Dawson-Shephard who lives and works in the Maldives and swims in his aquarium ( the open sea ) every day as part of his work in fisheries . |
| 19 | ‘ She looks and moves like a winner . ’ |
| 20 | Fly is a tall , skinny , short-haired , very independent lady who dresses and swears like a Vietnam veteran ( North Vietnam that is ) . |
| 21 | Under the 1961 Constitution executive power is vested in the President , who appoints and presides over a Council of Ministers . |
| 22 | The administration consists of an executive President who is directly elected by universal adult suffrage for a five-year term , and who appoints and presides over a Council of Ministers . |
| 23 | The Constitution provides for an executive President who is directly elected by universal suffrage for a five-year term , and who appoints and presides over a Council of Ministers . |
| 24 | ‘ She shoots and fights like a boy , but there is something different about her . |
| 25 | She sings and acts like an angel and is extremely pleased because Wolfgang has served her extraordinarily well . ’ |
| 26 | From then on , she trips and twirls like a prima donna at an infant ballet class , gurgles and squeaks to the point of practically begging to be mercy killed , and generally flaunts a dodgy child sexuality that is neither funny nor subversive , but is stupid and dangerous . |
| 27 | Any person , organization , or government department who buys and pays for an advertisement is " the advertiser " . |
| 28 | The winner is the one who jumps and crawls for the longest time , and he receives a blue ribbon to wear round his waist . |
| 29 | Yet one understands and sympathizes with the reader who urges for that word to be said ( even as he/she understands that it can not be ) , and no amount of earnest preaching that this is the way things are , that no certainties can be reached , will attenuate the sense of frustration that accompanies our contemplation of the ruins . |
| 30 | This will not do , for it is no different from saying that when one experiences ‘ red ’ one thinks or conceives of the colour , whereas the point of the theory was to explain what such thinking , or conceiving , is . |