Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [vb -s] [pron] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tell the children we have a poor refugee dog which suffers from a terrible fear and displeases me because he is dirty and snores at night . |
| 2 | This is best explained , not by suggesting that they do not have interests in common or that they are satisfied with things as they are , but by attending to the crushing significance of those ideas in society which preach that to be poor is an individual 's own fault and reflects his or her lack of preparedness to study and train , to work hard , to postpone having a family , or what have you . |
| 3 | This monitors nine separate areas of the car and immobilises it if someone tries to break in . |
| 4 | A wide recording head stretches across the jumbo roll of tape and magnetises it before it is slit to domestic size . |
| 5 | The tube can be lowered into the tank and once a syphon has been made , the tube picks up gravel and agitates it and once you apply your thumb to the end of the hose , the gravel falls back to the bottom , leaving you with clean substrate and a bucketful of dirty water . |
| 6 | It has been suggested that " on " means " against " and therefore it is not robbery if the accused snatches the victim 's bag unless the victim retains hold or recovers it and there is a fight . |
| 7 | Joe is Pip 's brother-in-law and he suffers with Pip at the start as Pip regards him as a youthful counterpart and describes him as |
| 8 | Thus one couple living in a basement were ‘ respectable ’ , ‘ very superior and very particular about cleanliness ’ ; the wife spent most of her day on housework and mending clothes , while the husband ‘ does such things as chopping the wood and mends anything that is broken . |
| 9 | There are , however , clear attempts to make us giggle , like when the Swamp Thing ( Dick Durock ) conceives a passion for Heather Locklear 's leading lady but tells her that he ca n't give her the love she wants because he 's a plant . |
| 10 | She is not aware of their presence and sees them as ‘ simply a part of the familiar atmosphere of the room , a background which does not touch her preoccupation ’ . |
| 11 | It not only involves the user more demonstrably in the process and provides him or her with a visible record of the interview , but also begins to construct a historical picture of the older person . |
| 12 | It comes in the evening after a busy day and tells me that it is past my bed-time . |
| 13 | D : A daring character who likes nothing more than to crack the whip and digs anything that has a bit of a history connected to it |
| 14 | The PLAYER gets to his feet and walks over to his barrel and kicks it and shouts into it . ) |
| 15 | Well obviously the sad reality of the thing does n't come home to , to our countrymen and a man comes up last week and tells me that he 's been paid off by the Daily Record he 's been working for them for thirty five years and he asked what how much pension will he have and says that he 's getting four years pension . |
| 16 | The UK , however , is far from happy about the prospect and sees it as helping to create a paradise for criminals , terrorists and drug traffickers . |
| 17 | So it 's an attempt on , on , on the second level to minutely reconstructing historical , the lost , the truest but what really happened and in that on that level , it 's important for Freud to establish that Moses was not Jewish but Egyptian , because this gives him the link with Egyptian monarchism and the events of the exodus and explains it as well . |
| 18 | Brundle puts the car into a massive slide across the bend and catches it after we have left the track on the other side . |
| 19 | I do n't know how strong it is because as I say , erm most contracts of employment do include a provision that if somebody h has a driving licence and loses it and driving is part of their work , even if it 's only a minor part of their work , then the employer can erm dismiss . |
| 20 | New features include the Veritas file system , which is claimed to guarantee file system integrity and enable rapid file system recovery ; a new user-level state-check program that monitors processes deemed vital to system operation and restarts them if terminated ; and a new fast-reboot feature that enables upgrades to the Non Stop-UX kernel to be performed in less than two minutes . |
| 21 | Cocooned in an ivory tower of antique furniture and unfinished jigsaw puzzles , she spends an inordinate amount of time doing simple things like pouring hot water into a teapot ; then she gets on the telephone to her friends and either hangs up just as they reach the receiver or asks them if they would n't mind coming round to tea and picking up some skate from the fishmonger on the way . |
| 22 | ’ ‘ The aroma leaps out of the glass and assaults you while your senses wallow in big good fruit and a long , long finish . ' ’ ' |
| 23 | He looks in the glass and sees himself as perhaps others see him — physically negligible , mentally ill-equipped , poor , unimportant , unsuccessful . |
| 24 | Marie helps me off with my coat and holds it while I slip the jacket on . |
| 25 | Even when it eschews prescriptivism and presents itself as science , grammar/linguistics remains a branch of patriarchal scholarship which is guilty of perpetuating sexism . |
| 26 | The wildest approach is the ‘ free hand ’ ; a fund manager agrees to spend a certain amount and buys anything and everything up to that limit . |
| 27 | The sufferer from anorexia may be told by others that he or she is thin but has a distorted body image and believes himself or herself to be " fat " or " normal " regardless of body weight . |
| 28 | I go back and sit down again , and she takes a hold of my hand and squeezes it like she 's saying sorry or summat . |
| 29 | He takes me and picks me up from school and takes us where we wan na go you know , off to the shop , off to here , off to get some get some drink and takes us for a drive and |
| 30 | Graham puts an arm around my shoulder and swivels me until I am staring squarely at the stage . |