Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What irritates me about going shopping in any supermarket is having to bag my own goods up . |
| 2 | What irritates me about Vienna is a certain not-quite-definable smugness , a feeling that somehow this place feels itself to be the centre . |
| 3 | And what irritates me about them more than anything is the artificial device that actors somehow compete one with the other for the prize . |
| 4 | And he irritates me by repeating things over and over again . ’ |
| 5 | He then transports them to earthly space for human use . |
| 6 | ‘ And they play the pipes , just as the Arab plays them with a bag holding air , ’ I added . |
| 7 | ‘ He plays them like game fish . |
| 8 | If he plays games to while away the tedious time , thought Cadfael , he plays them by noble rules , even those he makes up as he goes . |
| 9 | So , if a couple are not married , the surviving partner receives nothing at all under the Intestacy Rules . |
| 10 | But the location is , as it were , accidental , and contributes nothing to the tension between Circe and Persephone as it has been teased out , in this passage along with others , by Guy Davenport ( see his ‘ Persephone 's Ezra ’ , in New Approaches to Ezra Pound ) . |
| 11 | Thus the illustration contributes nothing to the text , which runs ‘ Edward [ actually Edgar ! ] lightly sprung aside and avoided the cut aimed at him , and then delivered a blow with all his force just in front of the ear , and the man dropped again as if shot . ’ |
| 12 | Such cynical behaviour and insincerity is a waste of parliamentary time and contributes nothing to democratic government . |
| 13 | I never use plonk — it contributes nothing to the recipe and can ruin a dish . |
| 14 | I learned that even if you pay the mortgage on your home and your husband contributes nothing to bills , you can not legally lock him out of the matrimonial home . |
| 15 | Tell him that a young lady who has read his story with interest and affection offers them as a gift . |
| 16 | He offers them to his friends . |
| 17 | The draft orders are again the subject of consultation , following which parliamentary approval turns them into legal binding requirements . |
| 18 | There is no evidence , to date , that making people belt-up turns them into worse drivers . |
| 19 | Turns them into shapes , and gives to airy nothing |
| 20 | As John Cook pointed out in the preceding chapter , it mistakenly assimilates the concepts of capacities like understanding , thinking , remembering , and the other psychological verbs to those of sensations like pain , and thus turns them into specific yet insubstantial and wholly mysterious inner states , available only to private introspection , which correlate in some way with their behavioural signs . |
| 21 | The frescoes , for example , show many elements that are borrowed from Minoan Crete , but handled in a way that turns them into distinctively Theran compositions . |
| 22 | When the time is right Shamans pick the special fungus and make the vile brew which sends the Fanatics crazy and turns them into uncontrolled whirling maniacs . |
| 23 | Modernization eventually takes away children 's ability to earn and turns them into a cost as they need education to earn as adults . |
| 24 | Turbobat is a very powerful multiple pass batch file compiler that takes DOS batch files and turns them into binary code that can execute up to four times faster than the original . |
| 25 | Doody notes that Leapor picks up Swift 's characters or anti-characters and turns them to her own purposes . |
| 26 | An interesting aspect of any ‘ counter-revolution ’ is that it takes the terms of the ‘ revolution ’ and turns them to its own purposes . |
| 27 | Similarly , higher spin particles look the same if one turns them through smaller fractions of a complete revolution . |
| 28 | In one direction only a little earthy bank separates me from the edge of the ocean , while in the other the valley goes back for miles and miles . |
| 29 | Starting early , I traverse the long ridge of hills that separates me from Isafjördur , arriving late in the afternoon . |
| 30 | Telling their own story from childhood to an interviewer is for most people an intimate experience which encourages them to be remarkably open about themselves . |