Example sentences of "[vb -s] [conj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if the child is a drain on her health , and she can not cope with it , public opinion will totally condemn her if she neglects or injures her child . |
| 2 | There are several mirrors in our house , as you would expect , but he never confronts or consults them . |
| 3 | More exactly , since these five writers differ not only from other New Critics but also among themselves , I shall for the sake of clarity and simplicity concentrate on two texts , Wimsatt 's The Verbal Icon and Brooks 's The Well-Wrought Urn , referring to the work of the others only insofar as it corroborates or develops what is said there . |
| 4 | In the case of products ( like salt , oil or coal ) which are won or abstracted , the person who wins or abstracts them is the producer . |
| 5 | For both Kung ( 1981 ) and Lyotard , art moves within the area between man 's capacity to conceive an idea and his ability to create an artefact that evokes or articulates it so that one of art 's more important roles is the symbolization of what does not yet exist . |
| 6 | Should she pick up the baby whenever it cries or leave it until it settles of its own accord ? |
| 7 | and he go and mum goes where have you been ? |
| 8 | The pain centre is observed by the mind which receives the sensory message , minimises or magnifies it , dresses it with memories , significance and emotion , and generates perception with all its quirky infuriating individuality . |
| 9 | Traditionally , the law has said that allowing someone who is terminally ill to die is lawful , but bringing about his or her death is unlawful , even if he or she consents or requests it . |
| 10 | Personal honour will affect us in so far as we can believe in the man or woman who defends or loses it . |
| 11 | Rule 37.1 provides that where a company redeems or purchases its own voting shares , with the result that the directors and any persons acting in concert with them hold 30 per cent or more of the voting rights , then a Rule 9 obligation to make a mandatory offer arises . |
| 12 | She has from day one showed her disdain for me as one opposed to hypocrisy and her type of esoteric or pseudo intellectuality — being satisfied as I am with intelligence , integrity and interest ( ! ) — and has manifestly made it clear she overtly dislikes me because I wo n't be moulded or do what she wants or tells me — she suffers the matriarch/ bossy syndrome ( childhood nickname I am told was ) and does not like the fact I am utterly my own forthright person who spoils the incestuous sibling smythe-watson quartet which she ‘ ran ’ so self-interestedly for so long … |
| 13 | The offence is committed not just by a trader who supplies consumer goods that are not reasonably safe but also by a trader who agrees or offers to supply them or exposes or possesses them for supply . |
| 14 | Progressively the A examines both the P and C data , evaluates it according to experience and then accepts or rejects it . |
| 15 | ( If this proposition is doubted , consider s.76(4) ( b ) of PACE , under which a confession , inadmissible as evidence of its truth , may nevertheless supply evidence of the way that the accused ‘ speaks , writes or expresses himself . ’ ) |
| 16 | For the next few years the horde ravaged at will through the mountains , desecrating shrines , despoiling tombs , and waylaying travellers , but Grom was unable to take any of the Dwarf holds or bring them to battle . |
| 17 | You can even create subject profiles that guide you to the pages containing stories most relevant to yourself . |
| 18 | Consider those stately columns , regard the coils of plaster vine that trail from the windowsills , meditate on the dados in the shape of fasces that stud its pitted hide . ’ |
| 19 | The sun set alight the water drops that speckled their leaves and shadowed the ground beneath them . |
| 20 | Dexter turned round one of the gold rings that adorned his fingers and made a stab at humour . |
| 21 | This series of cookbooks illustrates each stage of every recipe with attractive colour photographs that show you exactly what to do . |
| 22 | ‘ When I look back I wish that had n't happened , because out of that comes the written situation and something develops that has nothing to do with the game at all . ’ |
| 23 | She liked to dazzle Montparnasse with her originality ; sometimes she wore long flowing veils , usually she appeared in the smocked Liberty dresses that suited her pert little-girl look . |
| 24 | And though he was never to make such almost innocent remarks again , and though Eva and Dad continued to want to make love all the time , and I caught her giggling while she did idiotic things with him , like snipping the hair in his ears and nostrils with a huge pair of scissors , there were looks that escaped all possible policing , looks that made me think he was capable only of a corrupted happiness . |
| 25 | But then , it was not his good looks that made him famous . |
| 26 | Control F seven , that what causes that Got it in caps . |
| 27 | Aerobics ( or exercises that make you puff ) have the advantage of making your heart fitter , but sometimes the disadvantage of pushing the body too far and causing excess wear and tear on ligaments and joints . |
| 28 | He was like a gold miner , chipping away at the rocks and occasionally discovering tantalizing little nuggets that spurred him on towards his dream of striking a rich seam . |
| 29 | And plainly Peirce does not deny that we have some common sense grasp of it ; but he holds that taking it seriously transforms the character of inquiry . |
| 30 | He 's a kind of Giant Holdfast who both loves and terrorizes his children . |