Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] [adv] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gollum wins them round by saying how hard done by he is and they take pity on him . |
| 2 | When he gets you he beats you up for leaving him ; you go back and start working for him again ; then you try to get away from him ; he finds you again and you just go on like this all the time . |
| 3 | All that holds him back from doing it himself is the desire for an heir to the clan — an heir of his own blood ! ’ |
| 4 | By this time Mum is worried about me , but she covers it up by joking . |
| 5 | In general , the former method of organising by themes and keywords involves you more in doing analysis and thinking at the moment of reading , which is generally a good idea . |
| 6 | the relative informality and openness of literature teaching , its disinclination to impose judgements or dictate pre-given conclusions , itself constitutes a determinate discursive regime , constrained by its own rules , limits and positionalities : a regime that can be characterised as " liberal " in so far as it imposes itself not by insisting on the positional authority of the teacher , nor by compelling assent to a given and explicit curriculum of knowledge , but by inviting a voluntary recognition of the existence , purpose and value of a " subject " : Literature itself . |
| 7 | Meditating on God 's word leads us forward into contemplating God himself . |
| 8 | The muddled thinking that makes us claim at least some vague idea of what God is leads us disastrously to thinking that if we say God can not be one kind of thing we must be saying he is the other . |
| 9 | This leads us back to considering not the detective short story but the crime short story , the equivalent of the crime novel we have looked at , one of those stories which has in it no more than , in Stan Ellin 's words , " that streak of something wicked " . |
| 10 | And the Jockey Club can not be accused of headlong profligation of its long held principals , though Caulfield accuses them now of handing the rule book straight to the animal welfare groups . |
| 11 | Having shown Cade 's pointless destructiveness Shakespeare reins him in by confronting him with more speakers who exemplify the old definition of the orator as a vir bonus peritus dicendi . |
| 12 | The carer gently levers him forwards by placing her hands behind his seat and swivelling his hips sideways and forwards . |
| 13 | And this gets us back to looking at process . |
| 14 | Right , that takes us on to looking at er Pink team minutes which we have n't got , is that right ? |
| 15 | ‘ Is it not the time when all those who have an interest in our industry should sit down and discuss our future together and try to get back to the situation where the industry controls and governs itself instead of allowing it to be manipulated by those who purchase our product ? ’ he asked about 200 delegates . |
| 16 | The consequence ( usually ) is that he achieves his goal ; he coerces you both into giving way a very rewarding state of affairs seen from his point of view , a very unrewarding ( and sometimes humiliating ) state of affairs seen from your perspective . |
| 17 | If you eat an ice cream it prevents anyone else from eating the same ice cream . |
| 18 | If we can laugh out loud about getting old , break the silence that surrounds it instead of suffering quietly , then we are beginning to escape from a fear society wants us to have — so we will buy uplift bras , expensive face creams and continue to fear and envy younger women . |
| 19 | And when the program is ready , the student enters it simply by moving a light pen across the bar codes . |
| 20 | His memory plays him false in averring that I ‘ chose the post of Home Secretary ’ . |
| 21 | So it 's very important that if we do n't get erm visitors coming into the country from overseas that we perhaps erm help the industry , the industry helps itself indeed by giving and providing holidays for people from this country . |
| 22 | Let's move on before some young copper picks us up for soliciting . |
| 23 | The house is a mobile home , carried about as the caddis walks , like the shell of a snail or hermit crab except that the animals builds it instead of growing it or finding it . |
| 24 | ‘ That serves me right for going out to fetch it fresh . ’ |
| 25 | It serves them right for playing a game in which even the winners become losers if they try to repeat their success . |
| 26 | ‘ Serves you right for overdoing it . ’ |
| 27 | Serves him right for sucking up to them — being the Thinking Person 's Tory , and all that , eh ? |
| 28 | Serves him right for leaving it open . |
| 29 | Serves him right for biting off more than he could chew … but then , he 's always doing that . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Serves him right for pigging out on egg and pickle sandwiches ! ’ |