Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [indef pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ For every improvement to the guest-house , I make something for the local people , ’ Anne said . |
| 2 | Please let solicitors deal with everything , and also , please believe me when I say that I want nothing but a few mementos of my father . |
| 3 | But I want somebody in every one of those companies . |
| 4 | No I want another half because I want something on the other one . |
| 5 | Or , when the , no , when I see , I meet someone for the first time . |
| 6 | Unless I hear something from a Labour spokesman to suggest they have reasonable plans for single householders , I think many people will be deserting and voting Conservative . |
| 7 | Well I , I I , I do n't mind how it 's done but erm I hear nothing on the many people on , you know , who talk about erm giving aid erm a dread from this problem is this vast erm amount of the G M P and going on armaments and going on one way and another . |
| 8 | ‘ I know nothing about the domestic side of life — and I do n't intend to start getting involved with it now . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I have to confess that I find nothing in the current stock of recent coursebooks to compare in originality or methodological advance with the vastly popular Headway series … ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I have to confess that I find nothing in the current stock of recent coursebooks to compare in originality or methodological advance with the vastly popular Headway series … ’ — Coursebooks for the '90s , EFL Gazette |
| 11 | I think it 'll all go ahead and we 'll get the money but meanwhile before we knew about , we did do a lot of fund raising and we got some money in er I suppose something like a thousand pounds . |
| 12 | Apply slightly lighter highlighter on the remaining two-thirds of the eye — I prefer something with a little sparkle . |
| 13 | I 've nothing above a one again |
| 14 | Do n't get me wrong — I 've nothing against the leather-clad hordes , for they are a cheerful fraternity . |
| 15 | " I 've nothing against the poor nips , " he said crossly ; " only , not now , we ca n't afford them now . " |
| 16 | I have nothing but the highest admiration for the quality and devotion of the work they have put into the care of the plaintiff over the last six and a half years . |
| 17 | And not until I have someone from the American embassy present . ’ |
| 18 | I have none in the whole world to call my own . |
| 19 | Erm I see nothing in the current Bradford U D P which suggests that they are n't erm majoring on urban regeneration , that they 're doing they 're doing exactly that . |
| 20 | My point is that I see nothing in the Gracious Speech to enable me to counter the opinions expressed by our European partners who are still proud to know us but bemused that we have a Britain which in their eyes is no longer as great as it was . |
| 21 | So the process that you have to carry out , then is to find a way of transferring your literal translation once you 've worked out word for word what is being said , into terms which mean something to a modern reader or , listener . |
| 22 | Lasswell ( 1960 , p. 195 ) sums up this scepticism about the rule of law : ‘ The number of statutes which pass the legislature , or the number of decrees which are handed down by the executive , but which change nothing in the permanent politics of society , is a rough index of the role of magic in politics ’ . |
| 23 | As long as people want to buy cakes which suggest that an old lady wearing a mob-cap is baking them in a Victorian farmhouse , the food firms will continue with dotty deceptions which add nothing to the nutritional value of our food . |
| 24 | Malherbe may well have been responsible for a new approach apparent in vol.9 and in most of those from vol.1 onwards , which contain none of the serious distortions outlined above . |
| 25 | You will also need to decide if you want one with a reclining facility . |
| 26 | ‘ When I came such a strategy to the Wall Street Journal : ‘ It 's like a company choosing a franchise : you want one on a busy corner , not in the middle of nowhere . ’ |
| 27 | You want something like a little erm , like a moose you know , a moose carton |
| 28 | Because you say someone with a large family and they need a lot of money , you see someone with a large family |
| 29 | If you put someone on a second floor balcony , for instance , to deliver an address , it looks as if he is simply haranguing his listeners . |
| 30 | When you meet someone for the first time , that person can |