Example sentences of "[vb base] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're out there riding as hard as we can and if that gives any of the supporters any sort of er consolation , I do n't know if it does or not , but it — we 're really giving our best all the time and er win , lose or draw you 'll always find us every time we 've got a doing our best and er although often some people might shout and scream and give us a hard time , er it 's not for , for lack of trying , I mean nobody wants to finish last and er me even more than most , so just get behind us and shout and scream and we 'll try our hardest . |
| 2 | Deny or threaten it , and you deny and threaten someone 's existence . |
| 3 | Like Matthew , we will keep creating realities which coax or provoke us into feeling anger — by being hurt , by suffering from injustice , by seeing a world full of hatred and cruelty . |
| 4 | This type of order is made ex parte , the court sitting in camera , for the object of the exercise is to enable the plaintiff to enter premises and obtain access to documents or objects without the defendant having an opportunity to remove , hide or destroy them . |
| 5 | If your child does something you would like her to continue doing — for example , talking to you , asking questions , pointing things out to you , smiling and generally communicating with you — and you take notice , smile , communicate or praise her , she will continue to do it . |
| 6 | ‘ It was one of those waves , ’ he recalled , ‘ that either make or break you . |
| 7 | make or break you is it ? |
| 8 | We endorse Republican legislation , the Pornography Victims Compensation Act , allowing victims of pornography to seek damages from those who make or sell it , especially since the Commission on Pornography , in 1986 , found a direct link between pornography and violent crimes committed against women and children … |
| 9 | Whether we covet , confine or curse it , the mink is only minding its own business . |
| 10 | Although it 's illegal to use these snares it is n't illegal to make , sell or buy them . |
| 11 | Now suffering , in the proper sense , is caused precisely by external factors affecting us , physical conditions or the actions of other human beings which afflict or constrain us . |
| 12 | Make sure you refrigerate or freeze them quickly . |
| 13 | Be careful with leftovers — refrigerate or freeze them quickly . |
| 14 | If this has no effect , try expressing some milk before the morning feed ; refrigerate or freeze it for use later . |
| 15 | When other people criticise or praise us we pay a great deal of attention to those descriptions and whether they are true or not , start to act them out . |
| 16 | The word history is a good example : feminists often respeak or write it as herstory . |
| 17 | ‘ Are you sick of all your food not turning into what you want or have you lost your appetite ? ’ introduced the presenter , ‘ Well , why do n't you try ‘ fat in five seconds ’ . |
| 18 | IT WAS a two-part induction process that dragged me into the brawling hostelry in the sky of NME Towers . |
| 19 | It is the cynicism in the design process that offends me ; the suggestion that there 's no point in designing anything special for the working classes because they do n't have any taste . |
| 20 | It will inevitably be a political process but it will be a more informed political judgement , the reformers claim , than the pure bargaining process that preceded it . |
| 21 | ‘ I expect that means you do more cases than most ? ’ |
| 22 | It represents a quantum leap that takes us way past our competitors . ’ |
| 23 | At that moment Lesley-Jane saw your face — she told me you ‘ looked over your shoulder at her ’ but I did n't at the time realise that meant you must have been facing away from the stage . |
| 24 | We realise that chucking them in at the deep end is not satisfactory . |
| 25 | It is easy to escape this issue by saying that the discourses of the two groups have little in common ; but discourse analysis should teach us that it is as likely to be our attitude to what they say that categorizes them . |
| 26 | Then it does n't matter so much what you say that stops it walking in front of the bus , it 's actually how you say it . |
| 27 | Everyone in the industry agrees that quality will be the key to success and of course they all say that means them . |
| 28 | ‘ What can happen in one 's middle-fifties one can be bugged by something they say that makes you react as if you are six . |
| 29 | It 's not what people say that gives 'em away , it 's what they do . ’ |
| 30 | Governors admit they knew of an association between the 2 men , but they say that gave them no cause for concern . |