Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I bring them home to wash and I unravel them before they dry . |
| 2 | Then , establish the key area in which the person doing that job must achieve results , and review them regularly to make sure your employee always has the same view of the job as you do . |
| 3 | The view is widespread among the senior officers we talked to , and among ordinary policemen , that policewomen , as women , have instincts and capabilities which make them better suited to specific types of police work . |
| 4 | What began as an exotic flirtation with the Other , a pop foray into a perceived Heart of Darkness , soon turned into a full-blown dance initiative in those irony-clad years of 1980–81 , with everyone from Japan to ABC to Cabaret Voltaire to Spandau Ballet to Heaven 17 conspiring to venture a white funk whose snappiness was a jeer at the indies , a white funk that would saunter easily into the charts and every other public place and , with their manifestos , make them better places to be . |
| 5 | Just hold onto the idea that certain operators will possess mathematical properties which make them perfectly suited to the role of representing physical observables . |
| 6 | The low contrast between the ‘ on ’ and ‘ off ’ states of the crystal mixture and the precise viewing angle needed make them hard to read . |
| 7 | Ye banish 'd trees , ye make me deeply sigh — |
| 8 | You wanted to wake up with him right there in the room and to turn to him and quote the next line of the film right back at him , to whisper it to him , make me almost believe that we are a pair of young lovers without any shame , and I do n't mean that in some tragedy queen way , but in order to say of Boy that truly I do think that it is a beauty like his that makes it all worth while , and I do feel that if we are fighting for anything , and if I was asked in a questionnaire what it was I was fighting for ( and believe me I do feel like I am fighting , more and more I think that ) , then I would answer , beauty . |
| 9 | Similar considerations make me sometimes decline to examine students from foreign parts . |
| 10 | Pour some oil into a small dish ( do not pour oil onto your partner 's body , it can be quite a shock ) , oil your hands , then rub them together to warm the oil . |
| 11 | As it happened , I emerged a little late and I fear I rather startled the young gentleman , who immediately pulled his attaché case away from me and clutched it to his chest with both arms . |
| 12 | I 've nicked bus stop signs , fucking road signs and stuff , I just get stupid , that 's if I get that pissed , I mean I probably talking of , talking of fucking all most not knowing you 're right name sort of pissed . |
| 13 | I mean I honestly think she 's not going to pass even though she 's going to have another go . |
| 14 | I mean I already do enough ex enough exercise . |
| 15 | it comes to a point sometimes , I mean I even noticed then like when they 're wearing all your clothes right ? |
| 16 | Oh yeah , you 'd , some people would go for some very awkward colours , er green , which is a terrible colour , blue which is another awkward colour , I mean I even get people today asking for blue lamps for their bedrooms , erm I 'm sure they ca n't read in bed at that rate er , erm , it 's an awful colour to use erm and er I suppose |
| 17 | I mean I just know what they 're gon na build there , I do n't think a lot anybody knows as yet . |
| 18 | Only because so many people complain , I mean I just had to do something . |
| 19 | ‘ You mean I just thought of you and there you were ? ’ |
| 20 | I mean I just noticed it I read , sorry Karen walked into the studio totally uninvited through a red light . |
| 21 | It does please me but the thing sometimes is , you do n't get results , I mean I just said to him at half time ‘ come on we 've got to be a bit stronger , ’ you know I thought we were playing quite well , but I thought we were letting them dominate us a little bit . |
| 22 | I know I mean I know what I think in the back of my head but I mean I just prefer not to predict , I do n't want to say it does n't matter about thinking I know it 's a bit weird in you know . |
| 23 | Presum I mean I just lost four |
| 24 | you know , I , I could n't bring all the fish I mean I just put some on the table I could n't bring all the champion of champions |
| 25 | I mean I just find it annoying cos you get through to somebody who then passes you on to somebody else and then they 'll talk to you and say well the person you want to talk to is n't here at the moment so you 've had all this phone call and then you 've got to ring again . |
| 26 | Look , it 's their problem in n it , I mean I just wan na get over these bloody things . |
| 27 | We just , I mean I just started I 'd I was ironing or something and I turned it over and it so I |
| 28 | Absolutely , absolutely , I think you know , I I mean I just feel there should be a total ban on anywhere where where you ca n't get the information that you require , you know . |
| 29 | Look , Quite frankly , I mean I just do n't know why I 'm writing this column , OK ? |
| 30 | Well I , I , I have no comment I mean I just do n't underst I , I do n't know enough about it to , even to be |