Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [conj] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over a loudspeaker came a voice speaking Latvian , but Harvey handed me earphones that carried an English translation . |
| 2 | She looks and feels a million dollars now . |
| 3 | She rises and clasps the astonished Marion Russell in her arms . |
| 4 | She shifts and gives a subterranean , a subaqueous sigh . |
| 5 | The puppy is born blind ; it sleeps and eats a great deal , gradually building up its size and strength . |
| 6 | The destruction of the Ealdorman Brihtnoth and his followers by the Danish invaders of England in 991 was the occasion for the poem on the Battle of Maldon , which is firmly in the tradition of the German heroic lay : it records and assumes the overriding virtue of loyalty between a lord and his followers . |
| 7 | The head is made , erm , the tail , all the bits are made and eventually they , they all stick together like a kind of Lego , and the result is a new bacteria is made and this goes on until eventually the cell , there are so many inside the cell , that erm the cell just ruptures , when there 're about two hundred or so , the cell is now bulging with T four bacteria , it ruptures and releases a whole blob of new ones to start the cycle all over again . |
| 8 | Off he goes and returns a few minutes later with friend and a dirty great Roller , all pristine chrome and gleaming fenders . |
| 9 | Was n't satisfied with it , he goes and makes a big one as well but I do n't want a big one , I do n't wan na do a big one for the sale I just wan na do a small one . |
| 10 | the prison system has a tendency to create more problems than it receives and has an equal tendency to fail inmates because , out of its survival fear , it tends to respond to corporate threats , real or imaginary , rather than the real problems of inmates . |
| 11 | The doctor may exercise therapeutic privilege if he thinks that revealing a particular risk would be adverse to the patient 's health ( Canterbury v Spence ( 1972 ) 464 F 2d 772 ) . |
| 12 | He pauses and gives a lazy Dirty Harry-style smile : ‘ But if it 's falling off a building I 'll let someone else do it . ’ |
| 13 | The press blamed us for Labour 's defeat , the Tories blamed us for Labour 's defeat and now it looks as thought the Labour Party is blaming us for Labour 's defeat . |
| 14 | stuff 's no problem but er once it starts and get the medium stuff done as well |
| 15 | Repeatedly , he says that to brush a vicious old woman aside like a swatted fly and get on with life is to prove oneself a Napoleon — not Napoleon himself who lost whole armies and forgot about them , but a Napoleon . |
| 16 | Analogue design remains important because it accommodates and defines the basic building blocks of electronics . |
| 17 | He welcomes the thinking behind the changes , particularly the idea that people who use community care should take part in planning services , but he warns that implementing the new philosophy might prove very difficult . |
| 18 | He will certainly play another club season at the Quins and , although he certainly nurtures a strong desire to play against the South Africans in November , he realises that come the new season he may not feel quite as strongly . |
| 19 | It marks and establishes the arcane authority of the ( usually male ) development expert much more profoundly and severely than his outer lineaments of specialness such as the belted safari suit he wears ‘ in the field ’ and the flap and epaulet-laden trench coat he sports at the conferences he attends with sickening frequency in the West . |
| 20 | First we should discuss the atmosphere , and how it intercepts and modifies the various radiations . |
| 21 | The New Ager certainly demonstrates some of these qualities in the way that he creates and refines an original artistic fiction . |
| 22 | The pluralist perspective makes no attempt to criticise British politics , and it chooses to bend democratic theory in a conservative direction so that it justifies and defends the established order . |
| 23 | ‘ A man no more sees and feels the same thing than he hears and feels the same thing . ’ |
| 24 | It will be incompatible if it creates or strengthens a dominant position as a result of which effective competition would be significantly impeded in the Common Market or in a substantial part of it . |
| 25 | It senses and delivers the correct amount of power to the driving wheels , eliminating wheel spin and ensuring stable handling . |
| 26 | Thus it seems that following the early manifestations of the id and its component sexual and aggressive drives in early childhood , from about the age of seven until the age of puberty a period of relative quiescence and control of the id sets in , associated with the development of the ego and especially of the superego . |
| 27 | ( He rises and dons a black hat . ) |
| 28 | When the star reaches a point where its total surface area equals that of a sphere of radius 2 GM/c2 , it disappears and becomes a black hole . |
| 29 | The second point is on correspondence , I 'm absolutely certain that when a member of public writes in to any department , not necessarily highway , he expects and needs an immediate response , now I know you have , you have started the acknowledgement of our system , but I think it 's , it does n't go far enough , an acknowledgement card that simply says the thing is received and is receiving attention , needs to then indicate the individual to whom that matter has been passed for attention and that leads me to the third point and I think the general complaint on the public is that local government is seen as faceless people and I think we have to get in our mind to name people within our department , there 's not one mention about it in our promise , I think we need , unless I 've not read it , but I think , I think we , yes , but I think we need to mention people by name , senior people within the department who will respond to particular things and certainly where public comes into contact within the offices we must get around to wearing a name badge who says who that person is , people want to relate to a person and I think we can do that if we try . |
| 30 | So he relaxes and enjoys a brief dance with her after she has fed him with cherries . |