Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] [indef pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I usually make her coffee , and if she runs out of fags or needs summat from the shops , I go for her . |
| 2 | Sometimes a piece of fruit or a tub of yogurt is eaten at the end of lunch but more often she finishes with a biscuit or has nothing as dessert . |
| 3 | ACT is now a separate computer maintenance company that was split off from Apricot before it was bought by Mitsubishi , the Japanese conglomerate that produces everything from the four-wheel Shogun to equally rugged Nikon cameras . |
| 4 | Below : Amblestone is a charming Victorian-style conservatory that offers plenty of space and light . |
| 5 | Larousse Gastronomique is considered the bible for chefs but now Larousse has produced a new , practical cookbook that offers lots of inspiration and advice for the enthusiastic amateur cook . |
| 6 | From end to end , the curve of mountain wall which faces you occupies a full 180 degrees , and measures all but nine miles along the crest ; but even more than the width it is the depth that awes one at Gavarnie , because the cirque is very deep , with an average drop from crest to valley floor of 5,500 feet . |
| 7 | Handling a long-wheelbase Land-Rover with its trailer over rough ground is an art that needs plenty of practice . |
| 8 | 3 burner coffee stand ( has any one a local hall that needs one for coffee mornings etc ) |
| 9 | Personality is an all-embracing term that covers everything about you ; your outward behaviour as well as all the underlying factors , such as beliefs ( see page 21 ) , attitudes ( see page 12 ) and feelings ( see page 66 ) . |
| 10 | Most sailing clubs will have a few catamarans clustered together in one end of the dinghy park , but if you are keen to race one it is best to choose a club that has plenty of water space and specialises in a large multihull fleet . |
| 11 | Each of these labels indicates an aspect of study that has something in common , and our use of ‘ information skills ’ includes some parts of all of them ‘ ( p 11 ) . |
| 12 | Hulme explained , ‘ I 'm of the species that has lots of testosterone pumping around its body . |
| 13 | ‘ This is a new market for Guinness and one that has lots of potential but , though the Vietnamese drink plenty of beer , a black beer is virtually unknown . |
| 14 | Erm but I mean there 's nothing in , in that that we get from national level that has anything at all appertaining to Northumberland in it or on it , has it ? |
| 15 | Starts with a wolf-howl and then descends into galactic camp that has none of Betty Boo 's appeal , but all of her ideas ( that 's both of them ) . |
| 16 | The latter declares *John was seen leave ungrammatical because the embedded clause seen leave is " unsupported " , i.e. constitutes " a subject — predicate sequence that exhibits none of the internal inflectional structures of a full sentence or clausal complementation " ( i.e. neither tense , nor infinitival to , nor progressive -ing ) , whereas John was seen to leave is said to be grammatical because here leave is " supported " ( by to ) , and can therefore serve as an argument for the verb see ( pp. 123 – 4 ) . |
| 17 | Love is not the impure self-seeking that chokes everything in its wake . |
| 18 | If we analyze lots of water samples taken at different depths at the same we can then plot a graph of concentration versus depth and get a profile that looks something like this . |
| 19 | Er we have a marketing group that goes around the country doing that and when they er sign the surgery up to do the er for us to do the product or pri print the product they leave a sheet that looks something like this . |
| 20 | But when you lift a corpse that looks anything but a corpse , it 's terrifying . |
| 21 | and it and it , you know , it 's about the only one that looks anything like it . |
| 22 | I was conscious of rich chaos , the sort of jumble that lures one into a junk-shop knowing that under the piles of objects and above one 's head there are riches to be mined . |
| 23 | so that says something about specialization of production possibly , that countries are now more highly specialized than they once were . |
| 24 | This device will rid the disk of all data , including viruses , so it is a worthwhile investment for any organisation that uses plenty of floppies . |
| 25 | I am hopeful that we will find a consistent model that describes everything in the universe . |
| 26 | Not only can responses be fixed in a way that reveals something of the foundations which underlie them but the method itself can also act as a catalyst for the kinds of looking that lead to increased perceptual awareness . |
| 27 | Frankie themselves were typical graduates of the 1970s post-punk provincial scene ( five lads from Liverpool ) in which Bowie boys became punks and skins , dyed their hair repeatedly , hung out in the gay clubs with the furtiveness that marks everyone on provincial streets in the small hours . |
| 28 | On a song like ‘ What Did Your Last Servant Die Of ? ’ he provides neither food for thought nor reveals anything about himself . |
| 29 | IT 'S DIFFICULT to know whether Joe Bear 's statement ‘ we 're out of tune but you 'll just have to put up with it ’ is an apology or the title of the first song , as Huggy Bear embark upon a set that includes lots of shouting , inept but enthusiastic attempts to play their instruments and generally deconstructs the rock myth with the viciousness of a tantrum in the nursery . |
| 30 | So everything in between has an unfulfilling lack of immediacy , and instead of being drawn more vividly into the drama ( which is presumably the principal justification for recording live ) we experience a remoteness that characterizes none of the studio recordings with which this version has to be compared . |