Example sentences of "[vb -s] [subord] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looks like I feel on a very bad morning . |
| 2 | Yvonne 's wearing a little black number that to my untutored eye looks like it could have cost ten quid or a thousand ; Clare is rather more ostentatious in a short , sparkling , crimson creation that looks like it wants to be a ball-gown when it grows up . |
| 3 | Sometimes they were so drunk they fell asleep where they were and lay without pillows or covers until I returned from work , and then I would rage at them in Arabic , telling them that thanks to them my room was no better than the Italian 's pigsty at home ; we used to spit on the ground whenever we went near it , children and grownups alike , shouting exclamations of disgust , even though all we could see of it was the outer fence . |
| 4 | Tory also makes the other common complaint that the novelist knows less than anyone else what is in fact going on around him — he wants to make a satisfactory pattern , and hardly cares if it corresponds to anything outside his mind . |
| 5 | West Dorset District Council , for instance , was refusing to house people evicted from winter-lets unless they qualified for housing prior to entering such accommodation , even though in this case they would presumably have sought council accommodation in the first place ( Larkin 1979 ) . |
| 6 | It had been all whispers and lies till they got to the shop . |
| 7 | It counts because it counts to them . |
| 8 | has before they go to heaven , account |
| 9 | That is what Britain needs as we move into what we all want , a really Happy New Year . |
| 10 | ‘ We do n't want to go for the sort of so called innovation that can alienate an audience , ’ he exclaims when we talk about the sometimes clichéd dynamics of their music . |
| 11 | What I ca n't understand is who she thanks when she wants to be thankful , for example when her son was born . |
| 12 | My day starts when I climb into my ‘ green machine ’ and switch on that ‘ phone . |
| 13 | Empirical evidence of the participants ' interpretation of next turns is not available , and conversation analysts instead fall back on circular arguments , claiming that the conversation develops as it does by " orientation " to the same organizational devices which have to be taken for granted in order to get this interpretation of the data ( p. 120 ) . |
| 14 | He blanches as he reminisces about past indiscretions . |
| 15 | He exaggerates when he speaks of a ‘ deafening silence , from historians on the land question , but he makes a strong case for placing the land issue near the centre of any sound historical analysis of the period . |
| 16 | If I can please er I think our comments on that er perhaps Mr Ray is being er using the grob global flays when he refers to employees . |
| 17 | The planet grows to fill the screen , the saucer glows as it passes into the atmosphere . |
| 18 | Those who had previously found part of their income from ironmaking were thrown back on the less adequate resources of Wealden farming , although a small number of nomads continued to burn charcoal for the London market , camping in branch and sod hovels as they migrated from wood to wood . |
| 19 | The presenter of This Is Your Life flinches when he speaks of the recent major surgery on Patrick 's hip . |
| 20 | But what happens if you come across a Windows program or application which you desperately need and it does n't have an Install program ? |
| 21 | Well what happens if you go to the wrong place ? |
| 22 | That is actually what happens if you look at processes of social change in history |
| 23 | The lowest line shows what happens if you deflate by the rise in NHS salaries and prices . |
| 24 | Think what happens if you start with four and add on different numbers . |
| 25 | It seems to me what actually happens if you think about it is that , is that technology and culture builds on trends that already have a natural foundation . |
| 26 | No , Hayden says if we go to Comet cos he said , cos I said I bought my video at Comet and they were offering twenty five per cent off , twenty five per cent off off the at Comet so that 's about the third of the place . |
| 27 | Let me read you those tremendous ver words from John , first John in chapter one , says if we walk in the light as he is in the light , he or your fellowship with one another , and the blood of Jesus , his son , cleanses us from all sins . |
| 28 | What he says is that erm you know when he was writing of six hundred and fifty eight seats in parliament , I do n't know how many there are now , but he says if we allowed for people to be paid , then we have as it were six hundred and fifty eight prizes to people 's six hundred and fifty eight jobs for people and he says and this is rather astonishing to hear , to read this is that it will attract adventurism of low class to er parliament if we pay members of parliament . |
| 29 | and this girl says if you go to the very top you 'll get it done |
| 30 | And what they did n't understand was the basic experience of any trade union branch which says if you wan na get six or eight people elected you do n't put fourteen up . |