Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] and [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 've been set in a certain class and no matter how your opinions change and you want to throw that class off , if ever a man does , it wo n't let him , it 's there in his voice , in his manner ; even if a gentleman was to take to the road he 'd still be a gentleman ; I mean , according to the kind of education he 's received , so to my mind that has become a kind of cage . |
| 2 | ‘ Times change and you have to keep up with them , ’ says John King . |
| 3 | Eventually when one has had enough , he signals submission by contracting the pigment in one set of cells and expanding that in another so that his flank patterns change and he hoists the flag of surrender . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , New Zealanders ruck and you do n't . |
| 5 | I do n't feel too bad — my legs ache and I got a sort of tight feeling in my tummy , but apart from that I 'm OK . |
| 6 | Her legs shake and she hides away . |
| 7 | ‘ I need a really simple room to sleep in , 'cos if I sleep with things overhanging or weird , too complicated visual stuff , my eyes open and they make things out of it . |
| 8 | Stress affects posture : often people look slumped , their shoulders sag and they hunch their back ; alternatively they hold themselves very rigid so that the muscles of the shoulders and neck especially are set ; their face takes on a fixed expression with perhaps staring eyes or clenched jaw ; muscular tics and involuntary twitches can arise ; for some people cramp is stress-related . |
| 9 | The fry emerge and he shelters |
| 10 | Before the H B F respond and I appreciate they want to respond to what Mr said . |
| 11 | However , something on new or developing areas of law , specific cases ( if your clients agree and you believe that it may help them ) and items of genuine local interest can all bring you to the attention of the editors . |
| 12 | And that was er under John John was the manager and er I tell you Scott come and he started swearing at me and I says , I did n't m ask you for your bloody job , so next er next morning when they goes , he they had they had me walking the rope . |
| 13 | John 's legs buckle and he falls onto the wet grass . |
| 14 | My legs buckle and I fall off the catwalk shouting , ‘ Stop it ! |
| 15 | ‘ For more than four hours Tally and I lounged around in the carry-out , talking , drinking coffee , watching people come and go , watching other hangers-on as they bantered with the waitresses , horsed around among themselves , or danced to the juke-box . |
| 16 | My fingers ache and I feel my face to be beetroot-red . |
| 17 | I found it hard to find Mill 's arguments for this , although he seems to be , he seems to be arguing the point over several pages , but erm we get pretty much rhetorical claims and evidence and so he wants us to consider those states which have been ruled by despots with those contemporary states which have been democracies England versus Spain say and he thinks it 's obvious which type of system we ought to prefer . |
| 18 | When you get a prognosis like that , trivial matters disappear and you concentrate on the really important things in life — home , family and caring . |
| 19 | ’ My parents know and I know that this is the best place I could be . |
| 20 | Perhaps Ted told Jean of the walks the four of us took when Eva got tired of working ; and the time Eva 's feet hurt and she hailed a cab — absolute Roman decadence for Dad , Ted and me . |
| 21 | And he , the first bloke come and he said oh I 'll have all three of them . |
| 22 | those fellers fought to keep those mines open and they got one of lot miners divided and said oh bugger them ! |
| 23 | Once we went to a fish stall and he bought 30 crab sticks for 20p each . |
| 24 | Er I go to Kwik Save and I come back |
| 25 | Then something cracks open and you have a case . |
| 26 | In other words , the effects of government expenditure on private profit is a far more complicated process than Bacon and Eltis imply and it does not always work to the detriment of private capital and private profit . |
| 27 | It is cheaper than the proprietary machines most organisations use and it means that users have a wide choice of suppliers . |
| 28 | I strongly believe , as I 'm sure all my group do and I think perhaps many of of of erm opposition , in local authority housing function . |
| 29 | .. ( Burst of national anthem with them very bored , cracking gum etc. , then lights change and they come together to do a little knackered home-time dance , they sing unaccompanied by the silver screen . ) |
| 30 | No active nodes remain and we have explored the complete enumeration tree . |