Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pron] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem with keeping the original ( e.g. as a photocopy , with sections highlighted ) is that you have n't really done anything with it yet : you have n't assimilated it or made it your own , in the sense of fitting it with ( and so allowing it to affect ) your existing thoughts and knowledge . |
| 2 | He had never made a secret of what he wanted from her , and pretending he enjoyed her company , pretending he wanted to laugh with her or show her his favourite places in Rome , was n't part of it . |
| 3 | I think they , if they , I mean as long as they know we are going to tell them or give them something each month they ought , ought to begin to look out for it . |
| 4 | And you can line up a special treat to celebrate when the battle is won — using the money that has been saved on a holiday or to buy yourself something special . |
| 5 | With the outbreak of war the ILP put itself in opposition to the trade-union leaders by its refusal to support the war and by its criticism of those Labour Party members who either joined the government after 1916 or gave it their loyal parliamentary support . |
| 6 | Christ 's example is not that of helping us across a road , or showing us what good neighbours we must be — but costly , redemptive , self-emptying love ; love which lays down its life for others so that they might be restored to God . |
| 7 | It was unfair that Rosa appeared to others to stumble through the day with her heavy clumsiness when Cati knew the brilliant forkings of her sister 's spirit in intimacy , the bright patterns she could weave out of the darkness , that made her something rare and starry . |
| 8 | Later on there was an incident that shows us his declining ambitions . |
| 9 | I can do no better than give it my full recommendation . |
| 10 | By the time they are mature , hedgehogs can have several thousand of the modified hairs that give them their prickly appearance and an ideal form of defence against attackers . |
| 11 | During the previous three years , Crawford had written hundreds of letters to producers and directors in his search for work , but it was his love of cycling — he sometimes rode from South London to Brighton and back in a day that landed him his first work in repertory theatre . |
| 12 | Good nothing wrong with that , nothing wrong at all , now I think rather than set you something new , it 's better to , try to get another bar . |
| 13 | It was n't classical music that brought him his widest audience , but musicals like ‘ On the Town ’ , ‘ Candide ’ and ‘ West Side Story ’ . |
| 14 | He 's become better known as a zoologist , but has n't forgotten it was Swindon that offered him his first exhibition . |
| 15 | BILLY JOEL is battling to save the tiny New York club that gave him his first pop break . |
| 16 | The girl singer was in good voice by the pool , singing some sentimental Spanish favourites , with that wistful lilt that gave them their distinctive charm . |
| 17 | He was in the top three after round one , and that gave me my first taste of a possible major win . |
| 18 | Each dust particle inherits the characteristic defect structure of the parent clay that did the damming , the structure that gave it its damming properties . |
| 19 | David Preece scored the second-half goal that earned them their first win in seven games and , though they remain in the bottom three , they do have a chance of making the Premier League . |
| 20 | It 's the one that gives you your worst fears , is n't it , when you conduct it , and you go and nothing happens . |
| 21 | So they you are Hereford that makes you something special . |
| 22 | ‘ You do n't know anything that makes it anything more ? ’ |
| 23 | His face bore an expression of holiness and rapture which his habitual place of worship never saw . |
| 24 | Shall I do that , Lissa — shall I hunt out your secrets and make them my own ? ’ |
| 25 | Moreover , they interpret a piece of music and make it their own , even if they have never encountered the given orchestra until a few hours before . |
| 26 | Each age and each individual has to make the imaginative effort to appropriate the religious tradition and make it their own , as Julian did . |
| 27 | This policy is most politick , for many leave the island daily in their rough-hewn barques for other parts and thus confirm our powers here : the world is open to them , they can wander abroad at liberty until they discover those skills of civility to settle a land and make it their own . |
| 28 | You want to be very careful er , Mr Chairman , how we put out erm , information , I mean , let's face it , you know , you start sort of raising a lot of hairs if you 're not careful and if , if , even if it 's totally irrelevant people will latch on to a particular com comment and make it their own . |
| 29 | Today , she was going to do some heavy-duty cleaning — stamp her seal on the place , and make it her own . |
| 30 | How many fifty-somethings would search out an almost incomprehensible hit single by a teenybop dance-pop group and make it his own ? |