Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [pron] [vb -s] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Sunday , all afternoon it 's flipping football and it drives me crazy ! |
| 2 | He had little in common with other boys and girls in his neighbourhood and he remembers his secondary school simply as ‘ horrid ’ . |
| 3 | Keith goes for the goal line , looks around , he 's all by himself in the end zone and he does his patented wiggle , the ancient dance of triumph and sex , all hips and contained muscle and bursting joy , forget the penalty , celebrating his touchdown and his run and his body , and little Jimmy Grady from the fourth year is standing on the path looking at him . |
| 4 | on long play and it lasts us eight hours . |
| 5 | They are custodians of a vast variety of potatoes — hundreds of genetically differing kinds , no doubt containing between them the secrets of natural disease resistance , tolerance of climate change , chemical-free extended shelf-life , frying without fat absorption and who knows what other desirable characteristics . |
| 6 | ‘ You pays your money and you takes your chance'-that was war . |
| 7 | It 's good experience and it keeps you fit . |
| 8 | I mean they do n't put , they do n't , I understand in , in , when you 've got your own business like Brad and them , well our Joe ca n't be hard up he does a job and it brings him thirty grand in |
| 9 | Borrowings largely relate to NGC , which had £80m of debt at the time of takeover and which finances its rapid growth from cash flow . |
| 10 | David Nobbs i in London for the preview and he professes himself pleased with the TV version . |
| 11 | Well you heard what he said he wants his children to have a good education and he pushes them all the time , they 've got ta if they do anything |
| 12 | They eat a tremendous amount in the weeks running up the race and she cooks everything fresh . |
| 13 | Celibate ‘ whoopsie ’ Peter ( Stephen Fry being very like Stephen Fry ) is a newly-minted Lord and he invites his old college revue friends for a 1992 New Year reunion at his country mansion . |
| 14 | My television licence is a colour television and it costs me eighty three pound for this year . |
| 15 | Irene is in a great deal of pain at the moment her bad back is giving her trouble and she finds it difficult to walk . |
| 16 | Four four , square root and it gives you two . |
| 17 | You get wee hooks and you hang them up and they stick there right , and just put your cups on it in a row and it gives you more room on the table . |
| 18 | and John one in verse twelve it says but as many have received him , to them he gave the right , the authority , the , the power , to become children of God , even to those who believe on his name and this of course is what making our commitment to Christ is , it 's receiving him for ourselves , it 's plugging in , it 's saying yes I have n't got that power myself , I am not able to do it I need you to come and do it for me , I accept that you have that power , you have that authority , you have dealt with my sin and I receive it for me , we trust Christ to save us from sin and commit ourselves to his kingly ruling our lives , we are as the bible says then , born again , new creations , we are made alive in Christ , I give you one verse in Colossians and in chapter three , verse four it says when Christ who is our life is revelled , then you also no sorry verse , verse three , verse three , sorry for you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God but you say that 's all very well that , that brings me into the place of becoming a follower of Jesus yes I 've accepted him , but what about all this pressures here , Christ I , I 'm willing to receive them and to make the centre of my life , I 've received that he died for me , but what about all those things that 's twisting and marring and distorting my life , that 's rubbing me , my life can be more , God wants it to be , well that 's the great thing when Jesus comes , he does n't just come and sit down and that 's all there is to it , but he comes in by the holy spirit and as Christ is the centre of our life so he , as we submit to him and to his authority as we become obedient to his word , doing what he tells us , what he says for us , then the power of his spirit in our life starts operating , God the holy spirit , cos that 's how we become Christians , we are born again of God spirit and God Christ was in us , not the man who walked here on Galilee , he is a man in glory , but he comes into your life and into my life by the holy spirit and he gives us new spiritual resources which help us to overcome those influences of evil that are pressing in on us and trying to , to , to , to distort our lives and depress it into its mould , those things that have spoiled our lives , he gives us spiritual power and spiritual resources over them . |
| 19 | Molly 's uncle , Philip , Lord Noel-Baker , one of our Vice-Presidents recently celebrated his 90th birthday and it gives us great pleasure to add our greetings to the many he has received from all over the world . |
| 20 | I live in an area of high unemployment and it drives me mad when married mothers go back to work just to get out of the house . |
| 21 | The girls are required to plan their own day , and when they are used to this system , most prefer it to the structure of school and it gives them some control over their daily lives . |
| 22 | This , he reckons , has never been more true than in the Unix software arena and he reckons it likely that just one big company will seize control of the Unix world , and its subsequent dominance of the market will result in software prices going up . |
| 23 | It gives students access to another source of spoken English and it gives them one or two hours ' exposure to the language . |
| 24 | It gives her tummy ache and she administers something similar when she flattens her daughter 's body , locking it in the tightest of corsets . |
| 25 | The meaning of ‘ volley ’ here is : when a ball comes to the player and he hits it first time at the goal before it touches the ground . |
| 26 | Very often one sees schedules which have never been taken beyond the question-asking stage and one wonders what terrible time and effort must be expended on forcing all sorts of answers into categories later on , especially when electronic means of analysis , such as computers , are to be used . |