Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's one way of reminding them how complicated your task is so with six months overlap so we 're talking about September are n't we ? |
| 2 | And he clips them in and he goes all over the cars . |
| 3 | You need to know where to find your enemy 's weak spots , how to hit them effectively , and which parts of your own body to use . |
| 4 | So any shortage of places will be likely to hit them hardest . |
| 5 | ( We inevitably got the ‘ you fancy each other ’ spiel but I ignore people like that — I would like to hit them very hard ! ) |
| 6 | He probably wants to hit me again . |
| 7 | And on the Dixon fight , the British , European and Commonwealth champion said : ‘ I gave him a taste but he got a bit feisty by trying to hit me back and I took him out . |
| 8 | Whether he wanted to be hurt and suffer , or an excuse to hit me back , I do n't know , but I 'm sure he wanted me to hit him . |
| 9 | I did n't expect it to hit me quite so hard , but when I think about it it 's because I 'm so bloody sad that the last fourteen years were spent in dying not in living . |
| 10 | Jack and two others who had witnessed the performance , found me and piloted me back to the warmth and safety of the ski-cabin . |
| 11 | Skirting a small lake , they had stared to see a great , grey fisher-bird that stabbed and paddled in the sedge , until a flight of wild duck had frightened them away with their clamour . |
| 12 | ‘ You 've frightened me stiff , ’ I said frankly . |
| 13 | Secondly , we must recall that the mental conflicts which I am identifying as the origins of human society and civilized behaviour — essentially those portrayed in the story of Oedipus — were as intensely painful and unpleasurable to those who experienced them then as they are to those who experience them in our own times . |
| 14 | And then Boy cut back to the man on the bed , who was saying ( actually it was a different man in a different room , Boy realised ; the sofa and the quilted nylon counterpane were in a different colour in this room , though the man sitting there looked just like the last one ) , the man was saying I like your shoes , please take off your shoes ; and Boy cut backwards and forwards between this man and the politician beginning to lose his self-control and saying I would just ask people to forgive me really and to forgive my wife as well . |
| 15 | What irritates me most about him is his way of speaking . |
| 16 | In fact , he irritates me intensely sometimes . |
| 17 | Sometimes he irritates me so much that I could scream at him . |
| 18 | ‘ Nothing irritates me more than righteous indignation , ’ he said lightly . |
| 19 | Cessation of growth is most likely to result from starvation , which may arise because : the whelks eat out their food supply , or the supply fails for some other reason ( perhaps as a result of pollution Bryan ( 1969 ) ; wave action dislodges the whelks and transports them away from their food supply , or prevents them from feeding in some other way ( Cowell and Crothers , 1970 ) ; the temperature drops so low that the whelks become inactive for a long period ( Feare , 1970a ) . |
| 20 | Between demonstrates how a multiplicity of different discursive systems intertwine to form the substrata of an individual mind which plays them off against each other , combines them and uses them to generate the repertory of stories that determine how she ‘ reads ’ the world in which she lives . |
| 21 | That was the stratagem , but the Emperor was as aware of those allied hopes as any British or Prussian officer and he would be planning to slash the net into two pieces and separately tear them apart . |
| 22 | Tear them apart . |
| 23 | I 've seen my mam take sheets off a bed and tear them up in squares . |
| 24 | In order to ensure that pupils who have come to enjoy the advantages of the unit do not deliberately fail on a return to school , Owen refuses to readmit them once reintroduction has taken place . |
| 25 | Good girl ! " he commended Lally as kindly as he would any keen bitch , and asked nothing further . |
| 26 | So I 've said I 've listed them well the important points for me were the Aldershot method the arousal curve and the need for audience content . |
| 27 | To simplify his thoughts he had listed them under two headings : first there was that which directly affected Belpan . |
| 28 | I hate them already ! |
| 29 | The first two rounds were on the first day of the Championships , and I cruised them comfortably . |
| 30 | I had visited the apartment at least a dozen times , but I still found the fact of a lift opening directly into a living room incredibly impressive ; a proof of wealth as convincing as the possession of gold taps or of mink rugs or of the girl who waited to greet me just beyond the lift doors . |