Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [pos pn] [noun pl] [coord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Profitboss. genuinely cares for his customers and develops sound trusting relationships with them over a long period of time . |
| 2 | He receives for his employment a take home pay of seventy three pounds per week , he lives with his parents and pays a board of twenty pounds per week he 's fortunate in that his employer takes him to work in the mornings but he has to catch the bus home in the evening and at lunchtime on Saturdays which costs him seven pounds forty . |
| 3 | He lives with his parents and pays board of twenty pounds per week . |
| 4 | This area has within her villages and retreats some of the finest pensiones and most lovely villas in the world . |
| 5 | Satan lies to his followers and has convinced us too of his mighty strength and even starts to believe in his own lies when he claims he was ‘ self-begot ’ , caused by Fate , or he sprang from the ground or willed himself into existence , an absurd contradiction in terms . |
| 6 | She looks at her hands and looks visibly disgusted . |
| 7 | ‘ Maybe for a short time somebody takes a free course at the great university of misery , and pays attention to the things he sees with his eyes and hears with his ears . ’ |
| 8 | The cowering patrons were pulling silver crucifixes from their pockets and holding them between trembling fingers . |
| 9 | A magazine that virtually invented the ‘ designer ’ lifestyle of Soho and Covent Garden , but which operates from the light-industrial slums of London 's Farringdon Road ; which obsessively dissects the most costly clothing , but whose editor , Sheryl Garratt , is a friendly size 14 in sloppy shirt and leggings ; a paper that lists 40 smart writers on its masthead — but buys in their columns and does n't employ them on its staff . |
| 10 | That 's your ability for your heartbeat and your heart to get the oxygen it requires from your lungs and to keep going , cos if that d h does n't happen all the rest just goes . |
| 11 | The PLAYER gets to his feet and walks over to his barrel and kicks it and shouts into it . ) |
| 12 | All are entitled to attend the local school , to receive an education which responds to their needs and allows them equality of opportunity . |
| 13 | The synthesised female voice that responds to your commands and verifies that it has heard them correctly is amiable enough , though clearly not to be trifled with . |
| 14 | And stares at its fingers and hears : ‘ Look at that child ! ’ |
| 15 | Such people manifestly lack those human characteristics a society both produces in its members and relies on for its continued existence . |
| 16 | We may generalize from very limited samples : for example we may say , echoing the words of Michael Flanders ' and Donald Swann 's lovely song of patriotic prejudice that the Irishman ‘ sleeps in his boots and lies in his teeth ’ , that the Welshman is ‘ dishonest , little and dark — more like monkey than man ’ or that the Scotsman is ‘ mean , bony , blotchy and covered with hair ’ . |
| 17 | Health and safety also applies on our roads and bearing in mind , we may be acquiring a large transport section , we should be seen to take an interest in not only our members ' safety , but the safety of others as well . |
| 18 | But an army marches on its boots and relies on much the same footwear as the soldiers of the past . |
| 19 | Moral victory there for Lawrence who very smartly , it 's good to see , oldies pull through , turns on his heels and sets off back again in search of his mark . |
| 20 | John Allen , chief negotiator for the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union , said : ‘ It is disgraceful that these workers , many of whom have been with the company all their working life , are just thrown on the scrap heap , while the Government sits on its hands and does nothing . ’ |
| 21 | He feels for my breasts and sucks them like an earnest kitten . |
| 22 | Their father sometimes baths them , often puts them to bed , irons , sews on his buttons and makes cakes , but as far as the kids are concerned , the main thing about Daddy is that he goes off to work in that magical place known as The Office . |
| 23 | There is even a bit at the end where the singer metaphorically falls to his knees and testifies . |
| 24 | The sand cloud settles on their bodies and obliterates their tell-tale outlines . |
| 25 | Asturias 's The President , which recounts the story of the dictator 's henchman who falls out of favour when , under the influence of love , he repents of his misdeeds and changes his ways , re-creates in inverted terms the myth of Lucifer 's rebellion against God . |
| 26 | The sixth principle , that ‘ personal data held for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes ’ , follows from its predecessors and places a heavy responsibility on data users to ensure that they regularly weed out data once it has served its purpose . |
| 27 | Teddy 's television enthuses behind his curtains and keeps him busy . |
| 28 | Ace and Petion slipped off the safety catches on their automatics and pressed themselves in close to the walls , ready to spring . |
| 29 | We have a God who longs to answer prayer ; a God who listens to our words and answers them ; a God who knows our thoughts and answers the prayers that we can not express in words ; a God whose ability to answer prayer is not limited by the finite , but who can do infinitely more abundantly above all that we can ask for or think of asking . |
| 30 | No one strikes at their interests and walks away unharmed . |