Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the game is mental — being able to keep your head clear and retain a certain outlook on life should mean that bad times are neither so frequent nor so lengthy as they would be if you start examining your technique or doubting your ability . |
| 2 | Hire a bike or bring your own . |
| 3 | Little Oliver zooms round the track at 65mph in his £1,000 go-kart — before he has learned to ride a bike or tie his laces . |
| 4 | Nobody 'd let me wheel my bike or carry my bag . |
| 5 | The basic problem with these killed virus flu vaccines is that they do not provide either complete protection or retain their effectiveness for very long . |
| 6 | Ultimately , loans were granted to customers by means of issuing notes or crediting their accounts with deposits ( loans ) in excess of the gold stock held by the goldsmith . |
| 7 | If you use secret gestures , such as hiding your papers or holding them to you , people will assume you have something to hide : use open ones and they will not try to read your notes or see your papers . |
| 8 | People have to choose whether to pay back their debts or feed their children . |
| 9 | For instance , women may be forced to leave their job for domestic reasons or to follow their partner to a new job . |
| 10 | Heathcliff looked more like a gentleman than I had ever seen him , but his wife had not bothered to brush her hair or change her dress . |
| 11 | They did not seem very interested in business , though they ran up big drinks bills for us and would occasionally ruffle our hair or squeeze our balls with an experienced touch , weighing us up , as it were . |
| 12 | That was the whole point and the way , it was like , he could he could hit , he could , he could hit me or go like that to my hair or run his fingers through my face , rip all my clothes up , you know what I mean , not rip them off , rip them up ! |
| 13 | Cross-examined by Herbert Kerrigan , QC , Mr Taylor denied making up his story or leaving his former job because of ill-feeling with the accused . |
| 14 | No statute in terms prohibits offenders from telling their story or expressing their feelings . |
| 15 | In particular , grazing molluscs leave characteristic erosions from a leaf edge ; birds , particularly the wood-pigeon , feed on clover and often leave characteristic beak-marks ; weevils remove circles of tissue , often leaving the upper epidermis intact ; sheep ( causing damage probably indistinguishable from that caused by rabbits ) remove whole leaves , leaving torn petioles or leave their bite marks on the leaflets that remain . |
| 16 | Above all , each was determined not to allow the other to gain any strategic advantage or increase its general influence in the region . |
| 17 | There are those whose keenest pleasures in their job are to be found outside the class-room , in informal contacts with their pupils , where they may be able to exercise their own skills or pursue their own hobbies while helping others enjoy the same pleasures . |
| 18 | The main ones are : ( i ) where the plaintiff seeks to , or is forced to , found his claim on an illegal contract or to plead its illegality in order to support his claim . |
| 19 | People would yell or shout out , put excreta through the door hatch or throw their dinner out . |
| 20 | It yearns to feel ‘ special ’ to someone , to nourish its self-importance or relieve its sense of inferiority . |
| 21 | Soon he 'll be free again , back on the street , onstage with just his acoustic guitar or roaming his private kingdom at one with nature , able to find out how he really feels about things . |
| 22 | He 'll steal , beg , pawn or sell his family treasures , anything . |
| 23 | The outcomes may range from complete correction to the professional satisfaction of the engineer , to an adjustment to the areas of responsibility between the parties which may result , in extreme cases , in the engineer contracting out of further responsibility or abandoning his or her engagement . |
| 24 | Left with no choice but to accept the responsibility or to pursue its own independent inquiries , the airline instructed Windels , Marx , Davies & Ives to prepare its defence and to investigate the suggestions of government complicity that were already coming to light . |
| 25 | Fewer people grow their own vegetables or make their own soup . |
| 26 | Hardly a month goes by without an event having you uncorking the champagne or counting your remaining blessings . |
| 27 | reserve the seller 's title to the goods themselves ( i.e. until either the buyer has paid or else the goods are sold by the buyer or lose their identity in the buyer 's manufacturing or other process ) , and |
| 28 | At around one year , she 'll hold out her foot or raise her arms when you ask . |
| 29 | fidget with your hands , shift from foot to foot or find your voice quavering ? |
| 30 | Try to make it part of the contract that the supplier should n't cash the cheque or debit your credit card account until the goods are sent . |