Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [pron] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two lads , went up to them and says get off that bike or we 'll pull you off ! |
| 2 | Folly can mean a useless building or it can mean a clump of trees on a hill . |
| 3 | But he was reserved , and he used to do a lot of thinking , especially on the golf course where he used to keep himself to himself . |
| 4 | Readers may effect mappings between role fillers in different clauses of a text or they may effect mappings between names and role fillers . |
| 5 | Finally , he found another field where he could hide . |
| 6 | ‘ Do n't cut her hair or it will stop her talking ! ’ |
| 7 | Make sure you apply the mousse evenly throughout the hair or you can end up with a stiff , sticky mess ! |
| 8 | My mother said I should never cut my hair or I 'd lose my strength , like Samson in the Bible . ’ |
| 9 | Council can raise income through fees and charges , they have balances which they can choose to spend or retain , they have assets which they can use for their service provision or they can sell to raise capital . |
| 10 | The poem is about the extinction of a season , of a day , of a fire and , overall , of a life which is apparent in the last couplet where we can see more clearly the relationship between the poet and his . |
| 11 | Not to put too fine a point on it , this was his love-nest where he used to bring Lucia . ’ |
| 12 | This temporary retreat may bring the immediate refreshment of change or it may widen our horizons either by romantic hyperbole or by an unexpected psychological authenticity close to the reality of life as we know it . |
| 13 | I am going to tell Roy Plumley 's successor where he can stick the one luxury he allowed us to bring . |
| 14 | Off to Champagne where you will have the choice of two great hotels for your overnight stay . |
| 15 | Crawford recalled of Lennon , ‘ He 'd come in and sit cross-legged on the bed with his guitar or we 'd take his Rolls to the beach . ’ |
| 16 | Agency is used in systems of municipal law to maximise commercial dealings by avoiding the restraints of privity , and imposing liability where it should lie . |
| 17 | The main route goes along a narrow elevated ridge from Gray Crag to Thornthwaite Crag where you 'll find the tallest cairn in the Lake District at around 20ft high . |
| 18 | Swimming baths or bleach or You can put some universal indicator or erm P H paper or |
| 19 | The participants will provide advanced adaptive lighting of complex interiors with support for dynamic lighting and environmental modelling , so that designers and customers can enter a realistic virtual building where they can change the placement and intensity of light fittings and even modify the environment . |
| 20 | The track 's existence came under threat — there was talk of it becoming a gravel pit and it was , after all , a prime industrial area — but in 1982 tobacco giant Gallagher purchased the site and handed the important sections over to the Brooklands Museum Trust , erecting its new headquarters building where it would create least damage . |
| 21 | I said er you might put housewife or you might put market researcher down , he said whatever you like so that 's that one . . |
| 22 | But well it 's one way to do it you can use a calculator or you could say what would , could you work out a tenth of three sixty ? |
| 23 | I prefer my ferrets to have the benefit of a flat base where they can lie down in comfort . |
| 24 | ‘ Er — just the one night , I think , ’ she replied , having hoped not to stay even that long but suddenly realising that , since she needed some kind of base where she could go to collect her thoughts , that perhaps to have a room where she could relax and think in private was n't such a bad idea after all . |
| 25 | He was taking a group of his own men plus dogs and their handlers out to the helicopter base where he could brief them together with the pilots . |
| 26 | Lowe stripped to swim , and getting on the trunk of an uprooted tree , hoped to be carried down the eddying flood to some part where he could obtain assistance . |
| 27 | Alive inside my skin , indifferent to the blister smarting in the soft cruck of my thumb , I sensed the world changing round me — ; a sensation of risk , of things poised on a hot brink where anything might happen and never be the same again . |
| 28 | And as I say , the middle one had a sling on his arm , so , as I was opening the outside door one of them says , well if you 've not got cigarettes , you better give me a tenner or I 'll thump you ! |
| 29 | Leaping out of bed , she threw the window open and yelled , ‘ Stop that noise or you 'll wake the neighbours and Aunt Louise will be furious when she hears about it . |
| 30 | Stroll along the disused railway line from Lewes to Uckfield and around the Seven Sisters Country Park where you can enjoy the coastal scene . |