Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] and [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For both parties it monitors the number of users logged into software , how often its used and reports back licence infringements . |
| 2 | She gives her half-laugh and tells me she does n't know how old people generally are when they get married . |
| 3 | But if it makes somebody uncomfortable and makes them overly conscious of their gender erm and perhaps how they look , then that 's what I think is sexual harassment . |
| 4 | At the last possible moment , she glimpses a slip-road to her left and swerves down it . |
| 5 | Apart from preventing the helicopter from rotating about its vertical axis , this also makes the model drift to its left and requires some right cyclic trim to balance it . |
| 6 | However , the suggestion is quite different from analysis because as what we 've seen what happens in analysis is in analysis the , the individual faces up to their inner and resolves them themselves , it 's a kind of a loner solution to use to use , to use Heather 's term . |
| 7 | a. a man and woman sitting in the living room + the woman sitting reading quite happily — the man 's bored goes to the window looks out the window + and gets himself ready and goes out + |
| 8 | Following this there may be discomfort on urination , and a vicious circle is started in which memory of previous discomfort combines with apprehension at the possibility of its recurring and perpetuates the nervousness or fear that was responsible in the first place . |
| 9 | If that 's what you 're doing in practice , say so , do n't put all these exclusions in the document because that makes me suspicious and makes me think you 're trying to exclude these things . |
| 10 | It does n't make you odd and does n't mean that you never will . |
| 11 | The insect jerks itself free and hangs on the empty pupa case , its body trembling . |
| 12 | It keeps you fit and helps you to have a healthy baby . |
| 13 | It keeps you fit and helps you to have a healthy baby . |
| 14 | There is a sense which is appreciated in almost all the religions that religion is itself unsatisfactory and has to be left behind . |
| 15 | Loperamide-N-oxide is itself inactive and has negligible affinity for opiate receptors . |
| 16 | Frost ai n't good for plants , it turns them black and kills them off if you ai n't careful , but I reckon grass must be OK . |
| 17 | Calvin takes a look at Jerry , mumbles something inaudible and sits down heavily on the step with his back to all of us . |
| 18 | Valuable as town or coal field studies are , such as Urry and Murgatroyd 's ( 1985 ) investigations in Lancaster or the work of Beynon ( 1982 ) , Hudson ( 1986 ) and Cooke ( 1985 ) on coal field regions , the great city is something different and needs special attention . |
| 19 | He smites you with something vile and declares that he still loves you . |
| 20 | It was n't an act of vanity , or even a professional kind of analysis ; it was more with the unease of a person who picks up something familiar and finds that , at some unrealised point in the recent past , it has somehow been exchanged for the property of a stranger . |
| 21 | She has since declared herself bankrupt and has not paid anything towards damages or Dr Smith 's costs . |
| 22 | Horbury was on drugs for high-blood pressure which had made him impotent and claims his wife admitted adultery , Mr Rees said . |
| 23 | It is a great mistake : Barbara has to give up her small tress-shop and the cosy flat above where Percy liked to come round in the evenings ; while Percy , lacking that place of resort , now leaves her alone and goes out to play billiards . |
| 24 | Which is pretty much what happens , although one of the new jumpers does n't quite get it right and ends up doing an unscheduled , but spectacular stunt . |
| 25 | ( John draws deeply on his joint and seems to be gathering his strength for an onslaught . |
| 26 | If the process of taking evidence abroad is to serve its purpose , the evidence must be in a form which makes it admissible and gives it proper weight in the proceedings for which it was prepared , and this requires the authorities of the country in which the evidence is to be taken to show considerable flexibility in allowing , and it may be operating , modes of procedure which are quite unfamiliar . |
| 27 | A CENTENARIAN 'S recollection of a long past event makes it immediate and gives a human perspective not matched by any written account , or artifact . |
| 28 | It makes it over-anxious and gives out the message that , if something happens , YOU wo n't be able to handle it . |
| 29 | You have to give him credit : he keeps his cool and works the percentages . |
| 30 | The record company folk who have been talking Gulf and eating her sarnies leave and Susanna draws up a chair , sits on it cross-legged and starts to play with her hair , twisting it and knitting it . |