Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] and [vb -s] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But no , our hero goes and says it in parliament . |
| 2 | ( iii ) To ensure that the government machine responds and adapts itself to new policies and programmes as they emerge , within the broad framework of the main departmental fields of responsibility . |
| 3 | ‘ No , dear — it 's kind of you , but when you get to my age you like to sit quietly and think about the past — and I watch my telly and listen to carols on my old wireless and then the Home Help comes and puts me to bed . |
| 4 | As fast as they came , the assembly gathers and rushes us towards the door . |
| 5 | The Varga Plants , a wound from whose thorns replaces a man 's thoughts with an overwhelming urge to kill and turns him into one of themselves , grow naturally only on the planet whose laboratories have developed them : Skaro , home of the Daleks . |
| 6 | A little nervousness gets the adrenaline going and kick-starts us into action . |
| 7 | ‘ The shadow in which man walketh and disquieteth himself in vain' : see the Order for the Burial of the Dead in The Book of Common Prayer ( ‘ For man walketh in a vain shadow , and disquieteth himself in vain' ) . |
| 8 | It then borrows the capital required and invests it in the asset . |
| 9 | What are the dastardly deeds , thoughts and fantasies which your Negative Ego pokes and taunts you with ? |
| 10 | Modernization eventually takes away children 's ability to earn and turns them into a cost as they need education to earn as adults . |
| 11 | Isolated young mice squeak repeatedly at frequencies of 45 000 hertz to 88 000 hertz , until their mother comes and returns them to the nest . |