Example sentences of "[adj] [vb base] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cynics , licking their lips in anticipation , were ready and willing to use what little influence they had to keep this Morrissey thing under wraps . |
| 2 | How could something that felt so right make you look like this , as if you had just committed the worst crime in the world ? |
| 3 | It wo n't be the greatest place you 've ever lived , I know , but at least it 's going to be dry and … ’ |
| 4 | Mum You know that fifty pee you owe me ? |
| 5 | Okay and if say it crescendoed in bar two you would go like that Say it diminuendoed in bar four you would do that . |
| 6 | Charles Henstock , whose belief in an after-life was absolute , had never been able to persuade his old friend to share his convictions , and he had once told Donald , after an amicable exchange of views on the subject , that he considered the doctor to be the finest unbeliever he had been privileged to meet . |
| 7 | Or as Mr Major said during an election television interview : ‘ Labour say they 've got a recovery package of £1 billion . |
| 8 | But things like this make one doubt , do n't you think ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I 've still got some influence you know , dear . |
| 10 | Unfortunately some users are taught that they need to create frames for everything and the problems that can arise from having one set of frames interact with another make you wonder how anybody ever manages to produce a correctly aligned publication . |
| 11 | Nineteen years later , in an angry letter from Italy about some review I 'd written which began : ‘ Jesus Gawd Aiken , you poor blithering ass ’ he concluded by saying : ‘ I 've never forgotten that you would n't go to the Blast dinner . ’ |
| 12 | Some build up a sense of foreboding that is either confirmed or denied , some make us laugh all the way through , some seem written only to outrage . |
| 13 | The sleazy sell which accompanies the three-page advert points to those who have been given large sums of money shortly after acquiring their cross . |
| 14 | Yeah , that 's a very old make you know , that one 's been going for donkey years , but it 's those colours , I mean there 's at least , well with the o |
| 15 | Some say we have already crossed it . |
| 16 | This is most usually expressed by means of a subordinate adverbial clause , with although , however , even so , etc : Although we won the war , some say we lost the peace . |
| 17 | Some say they left its soul behind . |
| 18 | Some say they formed a complex of sites for religious rituals . |
| 19 | ‘ Some say they brought back the wrong ashes , and that is n't Yeats there at all . |
| 20 | Urban motorways have proved no solution to Britain 's chronic traffic congestion — indeed some say they have made it worse . |
| 21 | Most of the airmen and women fly home in January but some say they have been here so long that this is their home , they 'll be staying in England . |
| 22 | Just as some people claim never to dream , and some say they dream every night , there are those who rarely remember having dreams in colour , and those who always do . |
| 23 | Some say they preferred Tom Jones before his nose job . |
| 24 | Today some say they print up as well if not better than photographs taken with modern technology . |
| 25 | When I ask the people of the estate what they want from this election some say they want Cheviot to rebuild it and others that it would be better grassed over . |
| 26 | She belongs to the South ; some say she personifies the best of it . |
| 27 | Some say she has learned her lesson well . |
| 28 | Some say she has long fair hair , others that she 's as dusky a beauty as you 'd find among the pieds-noirs ! |
| 29 | Some say it tells ‘ the entire story of architecture ’ , others ‘ the entire story of architectural mistakes ’ . |
| 30 | You know some say it had a trunk |