Example sentences of "the words [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But why ? ’ she cried , the words wrenched from her throat . |
| 2 | It seems necessary to conclude that in his view the words set up no trust . |
| 3 | We shall consider the words set , collection , aggregate as synonymous . |
| 4 | The words set up an echo in Lorton 's mind : he remembered Sue 's death , and the doctor saying , She ca n't tell us what the problem was now , Mr Lorton . |
| 5 | The words at reasonable times of the day should be inserted after the words to view the Premises |
| 6 | ‘ Away with the atheists ’ , he cries out , not as if the words applied to Christians but as if they applied to pagans . |
| 7 | Did I actually say the words does anybody |
| 8 | The words sounded like a phrase of love , the way he said them . |
| 9 | ‘ Do n't ever doubt that I want you , Isabel , ’ he said , his voice so hoarse that the words sounded as if they were torn from deep inside him . |
| 10 | What is impressive is that these distinctions can be made without any prior knowledge of the syntactic and semantic categories of the words involved . |
| 11 | The Marshall formulae , ( 1.3 ) and ( 2.3 ) , are modified by taking into account the relative grammatical frequencies of the words involved in each specific transition . |
| 12 | ‘ He approves of the mingling of the peoples and their bonds of union ’ : that was what the words meant , and again they were very old words , from the days of ancient Rome . |
| 13 | ‘ BORVEL NEM AKT ; the words meant no more now than they had last night , and the feather looked simply ordinary . |
| 14 | He was aware that what exactly the words meant was in a curious way less urgently important than the necessity of uttering them . |
| 15 | The words meant nothing to Franco but the situation was all too familiar . |
| 16 | This was a slow process , for Tom had to keep stopping to explain what the words meant , and several times had to look them up in a dictionary . |
| 17 | He had added the last three words with the same morose carelessness with which he had decried the car dealers ' convention , but he offered no elucidation as to what the words meant . |
| 18 | The words meant nothing , or should have meant nothing . |
| 19 | Here 's what I did : just at the moment the tears were about to gush out over the waterproof liner , taking the soft lenses in a Niagara-like descent towards the jawbone , I looked at a poster or a newspaper and thought about what the words meant . |
| 20 | For an aeon of time the words meant nothing . |
| 21 | Item 3 is a button , as the words tell us , from the uniform of a prison officer . |
| 22 | The words ended on a grim note , while a small frown drew his brows together as he regarded her . |
| 23 | ‘ By the time the words get from her brain to her mouth everybody 's talking about something different . ’ |
| 24 | Without really thinking what the words mean in policy terms , the US has been parroting the ‘ need for stability ’ . |
| 25 | Hence , a music that demands to be considered at the level of what the words mean , the coherence of the narrative , the intentions of the artist , biographical input . |
| 26 | It 's the other kind of thinking I 've never been able to muster , the long-term stuff , ‘ Never confuse strategy with tactics , ’ one of my tutors advised me , but I ca n't even remember what the words mean . |
| 27 | The words mean the same things whatever they may be , so why should one be nicer or nastier than the other ? |
| 28 | The applicants , who are the administrators of an English company , Paramount Airways Ltd. , claim that the words mean exactly what they say : any person . |
| 29 | I mean one of the things I was taught when i my training for work with children , was that erm , it 's alright to use big l long words , for children , as long as you explain to them what the words mean . |
| 30 | 1 Try reading it aloud to work out what the words mean . |