Example sentences of "[adj] [vb base] [verb] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And since the rich tend to sit in their own gardens , public parks help redistribute enjoyment towards the poor . |
| 2 | Some want to chat about their problems : their upcoming court cases , where they can get an Aids test , how they can get into drug treatment . |
| 3 | Of course , if you have even a distant eye on a whole series of books featuring one detective ( and the late Margery Allingham once pointed out to me that the advantage of this is that half your potential readers want to read you and half want to read about your sleuth ) , then you are likely to land in difficulties if you hit on , say , a Victorian governess who happens to deal in the course of her scholastic career with as many as twenty or thirty " orrible murders . |
| 4 | A rather unpleasant and damp flog came in its place . |
| 5 | Some become associated in our minds when they recur in the same order . |
| 6 | Some children never learn it , not because they can not read , but because the books they are given do not include this need to attend to what the author is not saying — the beginning of an experience that leads to Jane Austen . |
| 7 | The French have known about their beauty benefits for years , using poultices of fresh carrot to clear blotchy complexions . |
| 8 | Most of them have been about the health warning on the advertisement being obscured or obliterated , some have referred to their being too close to schools . |
| 9 | Of these , some have quarrelled with his view that individuals are determined by practices on the grounds that , as Lukes puts it , any theory built on such a foundation fails to deal with the central problem of the relation between structure ( i.e. the constraints on actors ) and agency ( i.e. the freedom of agents ) . |
| 10 | Some have to pay for their hotel rooms ; others do n't . |
| 11 | There are few nations as proud as America , because few have instilled in its population the pride and glory of being a citizen of as great a nation as this . |
| 12 | The AD1 protein sequence is clearly a type III repeat based on its overall homology with the other type III repeats of human tenascin . |
| 13 | One knew theoretically that the chamber held only about 465 members ; but it is interesting to watch 651 try to get into it . |
| 14 | Hundreds have benefited from its training schemes . |
| 15 | ‘ We very much need to speak to them , and to anyone else who lived in the area at the time or thinks they know anything , ’ Mr McEwan said . |
| 16 | ‘ We very much need to speak to them and to anyone else who lived in the area at the time or thinks they know anything , ’ Mr McEwan said . |
| 17 | ‘ The good news is that paramount have gone for it . ’ |
| 18 | The results of analyses are equivocal , and these appear to depend on which outgroup ( cephalochordate or tunicate ) is chosen to root the analysis . |
| 19 | I saw blank , blank come sailing by I saw blank , blank |
| 20 | This dedicated band of three have given over their lives and wallets to visiting every football ground in the Multivite Vegeburger/Singletons Valve Replacement League . |
| 21 | We both knew that if you draw — or more likely have drawn for you — lane I then you stand no chance . |
| 22 | These have varied in their emphasis and precision , but in November 1984 the panel accepted the following : |
| 23 | Ancient worthies and the great and good tend to vote for what they know ( often very little ) , and lend their weight to the familiar . |
| 24 | She joins me on the carpet , and we all sit blowing on our coffees and warming our hands on the mugs . |
| 25 | His voice sounded unbelievably distant , cold , and she was very tempted to ignore it , but if she did that he would come in anyway , she knew that , and she did after all want to talk to him , did n't she ? |
| 26 | We find today that using the media is something which we all want to do , we all want to get our message across , we all want to get over our aims and our objectives . |
| 27 | Then we all stand gazing at it . |
| 28 | By giving through a central fund to which all give according to their means and from which those in need receive , we fulfil our Lord 's precept : Do not let your right hand know what your left is doing . |
| 29 | In fact , I think that we all get affected by it through prolonged exposure . |
| 30 | Most mothers have n't the heart to deny their children the care and comfort they have given them all their lives and many continue to run round them long after they are old enough to look after themselves . |