Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [coord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sends them dozy and open the door and put them back in again . |
| 2 | This requires careful measurement and joining to keep the two elbow bends aligned — assemble them dry and mark with a pencil . |
| 3 | I can assure you that there is nothing sub-standard or left out of a home built machine . |
| 4 | A blaze of glory , a fury of passion that left them weak and trembling in each other 's arms . |
| 5 | I 'd better let her take you home or she 'll eat me alive and spit out the bones . ’ |
| 6 | Called me frigid and said all the other chaps ' girls were willing enough , and would it matter all that much if he put a bun in the oven for me ? |
| 7 | However , most of the campaigns are run by authorities in the more accessible countryside ; there are few campaigns organized by those in the remoter or upland areas , either because they deem them undesirable or consider the likely returns insufficient . |
| 8 | By sending permanent representatives to the courts of Europe the Ottomans would have been accepting a kind of regular and established contact with the west which denied their most deeply held assumptions , which implied an at least partial renunciation of the inherent superiority to the Christian world which they claimed , and which for a surprisingly long time , even after the balance of military strength had turned decisively against them , seemed to almost all of them unnecessary and to promise no real advantage . |
| 9 | If the rules are inadequate , then the answer is to get them right and enforce them , not to rely on equitable principles which are uncertain in their application to a modern market . ’ |
| 10 | If we want to keep the best scientists and the best engineers in this country , we 'd better do two things : we 'd better attract them with good pay and we 'd better train them right and give them the proper facilities . |
| 11 | People come up to them daily and thank them for helping with ‘ the best thing that 's happened to the valley in decades . ’ |
| 12 | He wiped them clear and peered inside the smoking gap . |
| 13 | We go for a walk up into the hills in the afternoon ; me puffing and panting and coughing after Andy as he strides quickly , easily up the rutted forest tracks . |
| 14 | Mike dragged me clear and carried me into the house . |
| 15 | Because there 's nowhere to move the children , all them orphaned or abandoned , the work tomorrow will go on around them . |
| 16 | I wanted to get on with the drop — the pilot had been in that freezing water for long enough ! i changed to a right-hand hold , then I talked to my passengers as much as possible to keep them calm and show that everything was under control . |
| 17 | The task becomes one of persuading people that earthquakes will not follow , and that this step is merely another in the gradual process of acceptance and tolerance of varied social and sexual behaviour begun by the Sexual Offences Act , 1967 ; that there is nothing harmful or threatening in institutionalizing , and thereby recognizing , a relationship which some fear , many object to , and most still misunderstand . |
| 18 | ‘ If you make them public and fail to make them , you give people a good laugh and I do n't want that . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ It leaves me high and dry as far as the debt 's concerned . |
| 20 | Obviously most of them had them marked or had their name on them , so that they would have the same er the same set of tools every day . |
| 21 | ‘ If I walked into a Catholic school they 'd all look at me funny and shout ‘ Proddy ! ’ |
| 22 | I kept the rooms clean and made sure that no-one robbed or attacked the clients . |
| 23 | Stack them high and sell them cheap . |
| 24 | The local people caught them in vast numbers for food , eating them fresh or drying them in the sun , and until recently they made up 80 per cent or more of the total catch . |
| 25 | Lot eleven the Tibetan model there 's the model showing eighty pounds for this , at eighty , eighty five offered , at ninety , ninety five , ninety five bid , one hundred and ten , twenty , thirty a hundred and thirty is offered at one hundred and thirty , one forty a new bidder now , one forty to my right and selling for one hundred and forty thank you , one forty for join on . |
| 26 | Lot number seventy eight Lot seventy eight a patinated bronze teapot there 's the bronze teapot a hundred pounds at one hundred and ten , twenty , one hundred and twenty pounds at one hundred and twenty pounds , one thirty , forty , fifty , sixty , seventy , eighty ninety , two hundred two twenty bid I 'm offered two hundred and twenty to my right and selling for two twenty , two forty two sixty , two eighty three hundred and twenty three fifty three eighty four hundred and twenty four fifty , eighty five hundred and fifty six hundred six hundred pounds offered anybody else at six hundred pounds still to my right at six hundred pounds . |
| 27 | Thank you , Lot number eighty four Lot number eighty four a square seal there 's the seal showing eighty for this one , at eighty pounds at eighty pounds , eighty five , ninety , ninety five , a hundred pounds and ten one twenty thirty one forty fifty one hundred and fifty at the back against one sixty one seventy eighty one ninety two hundred two hundred to my right , at two hundred pounds , any more at two hundred , two twenty , a new bidder two fifty , at two hundred and fifty , two eighty three hundred offered I 'm offered three hundred to my right and selling for three hundred pounds . |
| 28 | ‘ Or how about someone alive and tied up in there , writhing in agony ? ’ |
| 29 | But if it sometimes seems to be saying , on Salim 's behalf , that race or kinship wins , it is also the case that it is full of losers , that it has a lively feeling for the Africans of market and bush , and for their African troubles , and for the situation of Salim as someone evolved or emerged from a tribal narrowness to an experience of sexual love which is liberating and dramatic , and that it does justice to Metty 's last state , left behind in the dangerous town at the bend in the river . |
| 30 | I am sure that my hon. and learned Friend is right to praise Perth and Kinross district council . |