Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , nothing turns on this point . |
| 2 | But no-one cares about those things nowadays ’ , Aghredien added . |
| 3 | And everyone joins in this charade with talk of them now having time to do all the things they have always wanted to do . |
| 4 | Everyone looks at each other , and somebody finally says : ‘ Floyd says you 'll drop dead in a year . ’ |
| 5 | Everyone looks at each other with the blank expression reserved especially for when someone who is off their trolley comes into the near vicinity . |
| 6 | And if someone writes in another language , you wo n't get it for a long time . |
| 7 | When someone intrudes into that space , our natural reaction is to move back , unless they are a lover or an attacker , so that we can keep our private area intact . |
| 8 | When I moves to this area just over two years ago I knew no-one , my two older children were at school and , although I enjoyed being at home with my two-year-old toddler , I felt that I was getting past the stage of discussing sleepless nights and dirty nappies ! |
| 9 | I know she were , she were brick shit she were , I said to Lyn I said I 'm bloody sure , I could have actually , she , she were nearly eating out of my arm , in them last few weeks , I 'll tell you , ooh the encouragement I got about the driving ooh I ca n't do it Lyn and when I comes in that day the first test I had she 'd made a great big fucking cake |
| 10 | Nothing happens in this work , he wrote , but what of the world ? |
| 11 | Each of these challenges comes to nought in the end though , for , as one of the interpreters explains , ‘ Some will say nothing happens in this novel , in this , Convention , and they 'd be dead right . |
| 12 | Then on a Sunday night , the village , what they call wakes , they call them wakes in those days , not the village fair , it was the wakes . |
| 13 | One definition of function often found in present-day texts is : " A function is a rule which associates with each element of some set A a single element of a second set B. |
| 14 | Bangladesh is gifted with a rich supply of water which drains via many rivers into the Bay of Bengal ( see Figure 1 ) . |
| 15 | First , it makes good sense because everyone understands the language of money as a common denominator which goes across all boundaries . |
| 16 | ‘ It is just a country festival , which goes on all night . |
| 17 | For gritty realism there is a piece on London squats , which goes to some lengths to avoid sentimentalising its subject : ‘ Dirty dreadlocks , dogs on strings , and cans of Special Brew . ’ |
| 18 | They work as two separate writing teams Baddiel and Newman , Punt and Dennis before they collectively decide the material which goes into each show . |
| 19 | However , the aim would also appear to be to attempt to override the case law of the European Court which goes beyond this principle . |
| 20 | For the sake of individual autonomy , liberals attempt to establish a political system which defers to each person 's chosen way of life rather than one which imposes a conception of the virtuous life upon everyone . |
| 21 | One is represented by the Biblical ‘ power to heal sickness and cast out devils ’ ( Mark 3 : 15 ) … the other is represented by the Hippocratic oath … which refers to that ability of healing and that mastery over death which no profession save medicine can claim . |
| 22 | The term word group is a term which refers to these groups of words which are grammatically related . |
| 23 | It is in fact derived from the Afrikaans wyd meaning wide , which refers to this species ' square upper lip , contrasted with the triangular lip of the other African so-called ‘ Black ’ Rhinoceros . |
| 24 | There is nothing more seductive than vanilla which evokes in most people cosy feelings of home-baked cakes , warmth and security . |
| 25 | The final element of the geography of the South which contributes to this chapter 's paradox concerns its growth as a major manufacturing region of the United States since about 1960 . |
| 26 | Teaching and particularly a scheme of one-to-one tutoring and counselling has to encourage a response from each student which testifies to that student 's commitment to thorough enquiry , hard thinking , self-scrutiny and honesty of purpose , all set within a context of the daily practicalities of management . |
| 27 | A fierce and often unscrupulous controversy arose over the relative merits of vaccination and inoculation , which persists to this day in demography journals . |
| 28 | Lehr Brisbin , of the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory in South Carolina , believes that radiocaesium , which accumulates in those tissues eaten by humans , could be present in quantities hundreds of times higher than the average in the area . |
| 29 | Clearly there is no complete consensus regarding the effects of emotional arousal on memory , the reason for this is that there is no single simple relationship which holds for all types and degrees of arousal on all types of memory performance . |
| 30 | And that is a general point , which holds across all disciplines , whether English or engineering , whether mathematics or medicine . |