Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] and [pron] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | It is the trap into which Italy has fallen and it is not an example to be copied . |
2 | It is the trap into which Italy has fallen and it is not an example to be copied . |
3 | approach , that 's why everybody ca n't , you know , everyone has to conform and it 's like |
4 | Well , the tide has turned and we 're now viewing the fruits of the UK 's most productive period for some time . |
5 | Otherwise it tends to make the whole picture , like , I went to er er one club once and there was a very nice portrait , not unlike this , there was a girl sitting on a stool , rather less clothes on than this girl has got and it was very nicely done except she was sitting on a painted stool and all the paint was chipped and that to me looked really tacky ! |
6 | The child needs to know that it is not his fault that everyone is so upset and that someone has died and he is not being punished . |
7 | Well , of course Gordon has the sort of Liverpool record which one has to respect and he is certainly not the man to argue with . |
8 | Proud dad Rod , from Sydney , said : ‘ Casey loves to swear and she 's pretty good at it . ’ |
9 | In fact , when a pair of any large Cichlids are in a tank of their own care should be taken to ensure that the male does not vent his anger on his mate , if he wants to breed and she is not quite ready . |
10 | It keeps a list , called OPEN , of nodes which the algorithm has found and which are not goals but whose children might be goals . |
11 | And now Terry has gone and there 's only Mother to cope with — and a long , sterile life looming in front of me — without my little Ellie , who briefly brought some sunshine in . |
12 | ‘ Look , Adam , ’ she said at last , ‘ I admit I felt a little peculiar for a while , but whatever it was has passed and I 'm absolutely fine now . |
13 | She starts to cough and there 's faintly green foam around her mouth . |
14 | When I walk on it the whole thing starts to move and I am soon covered in the grey dust I am stirring up ; it fills my nostrils and triggers a memory that links the smell with rock climbing . |
15 | The early promise of desmopressin in this role has faded and there is now little to support its routine use except in patients with uraemia . |
16 | I personally believe that erm education has changed and I am now talking specifically of very small schools . |
17 | ‘ You 're right , it was n't , but something has changed and I 'm not at all sure it 's for the best . ’ |
18 | The situation has changed and it is now possible to determine , for example , how much oxygen is being used by a particular area of the brain while a subject does a task like reading or memorizing a word list ( Raichle 1983 ) . |
19 | In the context of the discussion , however , this disagreement is not treated as face-threatening : it is not directed at Brenda 's personal position but at a proposition ( that the existence of " halfcastes " has confused racial boundaries ) which she has articulated and which is now " up for grabs " . |
20 | Now , after two or three treatments , his coordination has improved and he is also doing much better at school . |
21 | Unfortunately , the number of cheese-making farms has dwindled and there are now only four or five left to maintain the tradition . |
22 | oh the cupboards are brilliant it 's just the fronts are so dated and the man in these reports in the house said erm , kitchen is satisfactory but it needs updating and it was only about seven years ago it was brand new , no , not seven , have we been in then , no eight , so nine or something , I know the fronts need sorting out . |
23 | Patrick is still having difficulties with girls : the married man keeps going to bed with them , not liking it very much and not liking the distress it brings to a wife whom he does like and who is carefully crafted to be likeable . |
24 | The situation continues to improve and we are now recycling 200 kilos of paper each week — equivalent to almost four trees , compared to only 100 kilos a week when the scheme was first introduced , ’ Andrew added . |
25 | But she , she 's asked me to perm it and she 's cancelled and she 's ever so funny with hairdressers sort of thing . |
26 | It 's not in either of those and so it must be the one that 's closed and I 'm not gon na open that it 's yukky . |
27 | is a foot deformity , present at birth right , present at birth , it does n't happen afterwards , it happens , it 's caused before the baby 's born and it 's more common in boys can be one or both foot , feet . |
28 | I get worried when he does things because when he 's working like he 's working and he 's travelling like he 's doing I 'm , he goes Monday morning , he comes back Friday , by the time we 've done our shopping Saturday , he 's , he 's , if we go out Saturday night it 's what , eleven , twelve o'clock or more , it 's gone twelve o'clock usually after he 's gone and he 's back up then . |
29 | what would happen cos it 's gone and you 're not |
30 | I know , but it 's switched and it 's still working ? |