Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] [pron] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She only came to fetch wood for Mum or bring us our cocoa . |
| 2 | He had never made a secret of what he wanted from her , and pretending he enjoyed her company , pretending he wanted to laugh with her or show her his favourite places in Rome , was n't part of it . |
| 3 | And of course such a perception produces its own reaction , in the emphasis on common sense and experience , in people who boast of having attended the University of Life , or feel it their duty to sort out young graduates when they enter their first job , or even in anti-intellectual or irrationalist currents in higher education itself ( Shils 1984 ) . |
| 4 | or pride themselves your nipples are erect , |
| 5 | But his explanation for the lie that cost him his job failed to convince an industrial tribunal which rejected his claim for unfair dismissal . |
| 6 | Yates is still struggling to recover from a serious knee operation that cost him his place as County were relegated and missed out on a lucrative ticket to the Premier League . |
| 7 | McKibben had appeared on TV last week escorting the coffin of terror boss Jimmy Brown — and that cost him his life . |
| 8 | If we do n't express the things that worry us our body language will almost certainly give us away , and to the other person this could certainly look like standoffishness or coldness . |
| 9 | It 's jobs like these that earn me my pocket money — forty pence weekly which goes straight in my savings account . |
| 10 | I can do no better than give it my full recommendation . |
| 11 | By the time they are mature , hedgehogs can have several thousand of the modified hairs that give them their prickly appearance and an ideal form of defence against attackers . |
| 12 | At this sort of pace we will start to lose the landmarks that give us our bearings . |
| 13 | The coat is a yellowish grey with large , handsome grey blotches , the ‘ clouds ’ that give it its name . |
| 14 | His face bore an expression of holiness and rapture which his habitual place of worship never saw . |
| 15 | I thought I would catch the child and make him my friend before he was old enough to be frightened of my terrible face . |
| 16 | And make them your most accessible . |
| 17 | He commands them , ‘ Go , then , to all peoples everywhere and make them my disciples … ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Go , then , to all peoples everywhere and make them my disciples … ’ |
| 19 | Shall I do that , Lissa — shall I hunt out your secrets and make them my own ? ’ |
| 20 | Nothing wrong with her sister , go and make her your wife . |
| 21 | She had written to him while he was in prison but had received no reply , but then she had excused him in her own mind , telling herself he would be free soon , then he would come home to her and make her his bride . |
| 22 | Right , I 'll get off to shop and get her the stuff what she wants , and make her her dinner . |
| 23 | Moreover , they interpret a piece of music and make it their own , even if they have never encountered the given orchestra until a few hours before . |
| 24 | Each age and each individual has to make the imaginative effort to appropriate the religious tradition and make it their own , as Julian did . |
| 25 | This policy is most politick , for many leave the island daily in their rough-hewn barques for other parts and thus confirm our powers here : the world is open to them , they can wander abroad at liberty until they discover those skills of civility to settle a land and make it their own . |
| 26 | You want to be very careful er , Mr Chairman , how we put out erm , information , I mean , let's face it , you know , you start sort of raising a lot of hairs if you 're not careful and if , if , even if it 's totally irrelevant people will latch on to a particular com comment and make it their own . |
| 27 | Today , she was going to do some heavy-duty cleaning — stamp her seal on the place , and make it her own . |
| 28 | How many fifty-somethings would search out an almost incomprehensible hit single by a teenybop dance-pop group and make it his own ? |
| 29 | interior and make it my own ? |
| 30 | For those who do not know what I am on about , why not pick up a Birthday Scheme Leaflet and make it your resolution to support the Medical Work of the BMS in the New Year . |