Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its very existence guarantees them life . |
| 2 | Thus it could be alleged that we are all vulnerable to this power , individuals having little control over their lives , in the shadow of a powerful and looming state which offers them protection and a set of civil/political rights , the main being to elect representatives in return for their acquiescence . |
| 3 | After ballots of parents , 215 schools have so far opted out : but another 2,000 are known to be keen to do so , given that grant-maintained status offers them money and freedom . |
| 4 | And he offers them money . |
| 5 | It asserts that women 's social position offers them access to aspects or areas of reality that are not easily accessible to men … |
| 6 | A political process that offers them power over their own lives ? |
| 7 | So that second verse is one which takes up the traditional Jewish prejudices and turns them upside down , one by one . |
| 8 | Dehydrated packet breakfast , dinner and supper drives me potty . |
| 9 | ‘ The way he turns on the television as soon as he walks into the room drives me nuts , ’ she says . |
| 10 | It drives me nuts to see all the jobs that are out there to be done . ’ |
| 11 | I told you , this phone drives me nuts ! |
| 12 | Auntie kindly offers me tea as well , but I 'm beginning to feel iffy myself , so excuse myself , go outside , and quietly get on with the clearing up . |
| 13 | She tells us how foolhardy we both are and offers me information on something called a ‘ towback ’ which her superiors have told her about . |
| 14 | His assistant Julian immediately offers me coffee , and explains in apologetic tones that Tony has been called out — ‘ but you 're down for 11.30 ’ — and that he 's expecting him back any moment . |
| 15 | And the society investigates them , and if they are deserving , either refers them to some appropriate charity or grants them relief or refers them back to us with a note of recommendation . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Oi builds me innins . |
| 17 | They cite Germany 's Abitur , where school-leavers are graded in eight subjects , and where their grading wins them entry into an apprenticeship if they do not go to university . |
| 18 | just now , for instance , I could not sit & do nothing , since that only irritates my brain ; & it was then only my pipe that enabled me comfortably to read Rousseau 's ‘ Julie ; or the New Heloise ’ . |
| 19 | I wear contact lenses and find that eye make-up , particularly mascara , irritates my eyes . |
| 20 | And while I can understand certain people saying that yes , smoking irritates my eyes , my nose , and yes , they 're quite right they are entitled to breathe erm u u unsolid air , if yo if you want to put it that |
| 21 | Suffice to say , I was in street clothing at the time , looking , I 'd thought , the right if not the accurate side of forty , and Linal Haft , who plays my son , is three years older than I am . |
| 22 | This heavy emptiness afflates my heart . |
| 23 | She sort of ruffles my hair and goes out . |
| 24 | ‘ The thing that most impresses me and most encourages my students when I use Streamline is that Streamline is an audiovisual course . |
| 25 | There goes my thunder . ’ |
| 26 | Oh there goes my dad . |
| 27 | ( There goes my chaplain again , squirming on his stool . |
| 28 | [ Oh , dear , there goes my chaplain again , tut-tutting and shaking his noddle ! |
| 29 | [ Ah , there goes my chaplain again , jumping up and down on his stool . |
| 30 | So bang goes my tactic of inventing the so-called ‘ Maidstone ’ scene . |