Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , I feel it is better to dominate all dogs equally and make them come to a submissive position in front of the owner , preferably the down position . |
| 2 | Our main purpose in life is to make people aware of the problem , to make them think of their own vulnerability and responsibility and make them act in a safe and sensible way . |
| 3 | One longs to give a copy each to ten assorted bus company managers ( leavened with the occasional politician and academic ) and make them wait on a cold dark wet night in a vandalised bus shelter for an unpredictable R registered banger . |
| 4 | Soho , meanwhile , enthuse and make me feel like a miserable old fart . |
| 5 | You make me sound like a Victorian governess ! ’ |
| 6 | Joined as an M C. Erm , effectively I I mean I work in a Direct Marketing Department , all the junk mail for the un uneducated . |
| 7 | Well I mean I quote from the nineteenth of November letter from the Parish Council , The Parish Council fully support the environmental recommendations from the District Council . |
| 8 | We want them improved for the coming year and certainly by the first year of the council tax . |
| 9 | ‘ They want me to go to a mental hospital , Mum . ’ |
| 10 | They want me to join in the whole furore . |
| 11 | How can he have the nerve to stand there calm and composed and expect me to behave in the same way ? she thought angrily . |
| 12 | When the Minister next talks to the local authorities about this issue , will he point out that many of them no longer give rehousing priority to ex-service personnel , but expect them to go through the normal homeless families procedures ? |
| 13 | ‘ I expect them to finish in the top two . |
| 14 | I now realise I looked for the wrong things . |
| 15 | Remember that bit of bother I had in the Red Hart in Berkeley ? ’ he continued , ‘ the sailor went through the window . ’ |
| 16 | ( Marr was sporting a huge rockabilly quiff which looked like a French loaf sticking out of the top of his head . ) |
| 17 | Notice that the right shift truncates the result ; some computers provide a version of arithmetic right shift which adds to the right-hand bit position of the result the value of the last bit shifted out . |
| 18 | D' ya remember in the first when we had curly going everywhere . |
| 19 | By night we suggest you head for the old quarter of Sachsenhausen which is packed with delightful pubs and restaurants . |
| 20 | I suggest you talk to the ten leading political editors in England , and see where they stand . ’ |
| 21 | So what d' you think of the old place ? |
| 22 | Would it be worth actually having a , having a sort of a planning meeting , say you know for the first half hour of one of these meetings , the next one say that we have , you know , a wall planner , you know , a chart and |
| 23 | She had an idea , ‘ When you go back , say you bumped into an old friend of your Gran 's . |
| 24 | Ten thousand pounds will build you the highest column in the world , and will produce an astonishing effect ; fifty thousand pounds would not serve to erect an arch , and when it was erected you would have doubted which , it or the Royal Exchange , was the more magnificent object ; therefore I exhort you to keep to the columnar form . |
| 25 | I want you to conclude with a leading question . |
| 26 | I want you to concentrate on a specific area , so you want to retain control . |
| 27 | I called you over because I want you to look after the new lady . |
| 28 | In your own minds , now , I want you to think of a famous building or a famous site or perhaps a famous street or avenue yes a a statue would be fine , erm or something that 's famous , like an animal perhaps , or a park erm or a zoo , although that might be a bit difficult . |
| 29 | There are still no signs of multi-culturalism to be found which is disappointing and worrying — surely the publishers realise we live in a multi-racial society ? |
| 30 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |