Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The West Indian family values education , but the way it goes about it makes it impossible for the kids . |
| 2 | Then we would visualise an alarm clock with carrots for fingers and imagine that when the alarm goes off it switches on the television set . |
| 3 | if I , if I sleep some one else 's house she flips and do n't speak to me for three days , but she goes off you know , I do n't mind that at all , but its just the fact that she 's so hypercritical |
| 4 | And it goes and when it goes off you have ten seconds to get up at night then |
| 5 | It goes through you does n't it ? |
| 6 | I ca n't think that all that much goes through you know , to be honest . |
| 7 | Goes through you dun n it ? |
| 8 | At seven o'clock it goes through it gets into Glasgow . |
| 9 | He goes for it do n't he ? |
| 10 | When Blanche 's trunk has arrived Stanley looks through it to try to prove to Stella that Blanche has sold Belle Reve and bought herself pearls and diamonds and a huge selection of clothes . |
| 11 | Many craftsmen take pride in a good job well done and often friendly rivalry develops between them to achieve personal , rather than financial , objectives . |
| 12 | The message in this charter has as you know , at last received universal acceptance after many years and much determined effort by those concerned . |
| 13 | The All the Year Round Christmas Number for 1865 , ‘ Mugby Junction ’ ( CS 19 ) , which includes the ghost story of ‘ The Signalman ’ , has for its setting a great railway junction in the Midlands ( Rugby ) , and CD 's journalism contains many references to railways , e.g. ‘ A Flight ’ ( RP ) , which vividly evokes the journey from London to Paris by train and boat . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , by ‘ obey ’ Paul is not referring to servile obedience to an authoritarian master , but an injunction to workers to carry out the job an employer has for them to accomplish . |
| 15 | It is , it 's sort of like it 's sort of like extradited from the rest of the er the rest of the whole university , you know , nobody really cares about what goes on at Handsworth . |
| 16 | It also looks for what Bensted called ‘ the unknown x-factor ’ which makes the placement work . |
| 17 | Encore Computer Corp , Fort Lauderdale , Florida has teamed with New Straits Times Technologies Pvt Ltd of Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia to establish Asia Pacific Encore Pvt Ltd , and looks for it to generate $55m of business over the next five years . |
| 18 | An independent charitable hospital which cares for anyone affected by AIDS . |
| 19 | But such is Rachael 's devotion to Stephen that when his wife , an alcoholic from whom he has parted company , appears at his lodgings , ill and incapable , Rachael looks after her to spare Blackpool the task of doing so . |
| 20 | ‘ To me , she looks like something preserved in a bottle . ’ |
| 21 | FA yesterday and it looks like me getting tickets from them is the same chance like the famous snowball in hell — i might settle for a new video player instead — in fact i still have got almost all of WC'90 on video — pictures from — all — games — and complete games from the 1/8 finals and onwards — including the England-Kamerun game which is quite a favorite . |
| 22 | It looks like its got a few tricks up its sleeve about Solaris-on-Intel as well : expect announcements of some OEMs . |
| 23 | Looks like its gon na be a complete waste of time watching next years WC . |
| 24 | Yeah , but if they 'd have , if they 'd have said look , we 're onto erm a job now which would 've been a big job and it looks like it finishing up in Yorkshire , finishing up in Lancashire , be ready if we give a call out . |
| 25 | It looks like it see cos they 're not actually sent out from here they 're |
| 26 | looks like it do n't it ? |
| 27 | Good to see a few from the list , Paul ( plus Sticky , who holds the World 's record on making a pint last ) , Sunil ( and mates ) , Halvard ( + 1 — looks like you saw a good ‘ un yesterday ) , Kev and Haitch . |
| 28 | It 's a question of not being discouraged and persevering until suddenly a drawing looks like you hope , of seeing the possibility in something , in a line , and thinking ‘ Oh quick , I must n't change that . |
| 29 | It looks like you know what you 're talking about , does n't mean you do but i I mean if you use th if you if you start going on about that thing that there is er when some what on earth ? |
| 30 | it looks like you know , it goes on until at least nine thirty or ten . |