Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [verb] [pron] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to the Laws of Manu , a vānaprasthin must control his senses , keep his organs in subjection , abandon his belongings , commit his wife to his sons or allow her to accompany him , be chaste , patient , friendly , and compassionate towards all creatures . |
| 2 | a ) Heres that book you asked me to bring ( The fact that you asked me to bring it is not new. ) b ) Ive got to take the dog for a walk ( ‘ For a walk ’ is by far the most probable thing to follow ‘ I 've got to take the dog ’ ; if the sentence ended with ‘ to the vet ’ the tonic syllable would probably be ‘ vet ’ . ) |
| 3 | He 'd gone with one once , after a party , back to a flat with a friend of Dave 's , who 'd laughed at him and had eyes that made him feel he was being drawn into something he could n't stop , and when she shed her clothes and left them discarded on the floor he 'd stared , open-mouthed , aware of the noise inside his head , something to do with what he 'd drunk , he could still hear the music , and was aware too of the smell of some cologne that merged with hairspray and covered something that he did not want to know about , the dirt and dust of the room and the female odours that half-attracted and repelled him . |
| 4 | He looked at her with his blue eyes that made you feel you were in the far distance and he was bringing you into focus gradually , like a ball magnetised to drop into his outstretched hand , be clasped by his fingers . |
| 5 | Was it the Cages that prevented you helping her ? ’ |
| 6 | She thought of him as a big tree , with strong branches that enabled her to climb him , which she did when he was home . |
| 7 | That is getting away from the old system whereby the County Council held a vast store of advisers in Macclesfield House , stacked up , and schools that needed them requested them and off they went , but schools in fact that wanted perhaps a different sort of advice , was n't able to get it from Macclesfield House , and could n't buy it outside because it did n't have the money to do so . |
| 8 | It smashed and he picked up one the table legs and used it to hit her . ’ |
| 9 | Put such facts as we have before the Sheriff and the Merchant Venturers and let them sort it out . ’ |
| 10 | Penry grabbed her by the shoulders and turned her to face him . |
| 11 | His Mum took him by the shoulders and turned him to face her . |
| 12 | He took her shoulders and spun her to face him . |
| 13 | What are the characteristics of stressed syllables that enable us to identify them ? |
| 14 | On a sea of evening light Páll Helgason steers his boat towards the sun , poking it between stacks and through arches , sometimes into gaps that leave me thinking I can touch the rock walls on either side . |
| 15 | If abortion is a serious matter , so , too , are the life circumstances that lead us to choose it . |
| 16 | Namely he has expressed his wish to King Leopold of the Belgians and requested him to press us for a withdrawal . |
| 17 | He said the first day I went , I , I never sold anything except a couple of por a bit dubious , so he cooked half a dozen sausages , one bit of fish and did a few chips and said I bet we 'll be sitting here all day well every bugger come for fish and chips , had n't got none had they ! |
| 18 | Inside , liberal use of first-class photographs , imaginative illustrations and visual pages enhance the articles and invite you to read them . |
| 19 | ‘ The computers as usual , I suppose , but you 'd better ring my solicitors and ask them to cable you the cash . |
| 20 | Erm the bonus element of the Pearson scheme is highly leveraged we are very keen to achieve above-average performance for our shareholders and let me give you an example , if in nineteen ninety erm Pearsons as a company achieved say five percent growth in earnings per share erm the directors ' remuneration , and by the way that 's not a forecast so I want to make that absolutely clear , it 's just an illustration if earnings per share increase by five percent and you could say , er , therefore we would expect directors ' remuneration to be perhaps increased by five percent that would n't be the case at all our directors ' salaries would actually halve erm , Ill say that again , directors ' total take home pay would halve because the salary element would n't , would n't alter . |
| 21 | Yet now , ’ his look was amicable , ‘ you , Miss Kingsdale , with your haughty manner ’ her haughty manner ? ‘ wish me to at once revoke my plans and allow you to ask me endless work-orientated questions . ’ |
| 22 | Not poems that make you feel on the edge of space but poems that make you feel you contain space inside yourself . |
| 23 | Some , like the stonefish , are inconspicuous , while others flaunt their chemical power by sailing around in bright colours that dare you to touch them . |
| 24 | Anticipating his future power unit needs and helping him to achieve them is the key to tomorrow 's survival in OEM industries hard pressed by recession and overseas competition . |
| 25 | Betjeman appeared in a pair of eccentric bedroom slippers and said he hoped I did n't mind them as he had a blister . |
| 26 | On the first day Odd-Knut gave me a tobacco tin of worms and told me to keep them warm , and they have travelled the Arctic inside my second layer of clothing ever since , even sharing my sleeping bag at night-time . |
| 27 | The mother who lives only through her children will face an empty future , for she is losing touch with the source of her own life , identifying with her creations and expecting them to sustain her . |
| 28 | All my days and hope I finish it here . |
| 29 | his school sports and said I did it for the sake of the children ! |
| 30 | They stretched their ears across the room to hear the tut-tuts , mutterings , to decode the sighs and silences which surrounded them . |