Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pers pn] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Nothing irritates me more than righteous indignation , ’ he said lightly . |
| 2 | But instead of attempting to place any one of them in opposition to the others as the key feature , it integrates them all as being the expressions of the basic contradiction of capitalism , that is , the striving continually to expand production , and in particular the production of surplus-value , as opposed to the relatively restricted consuming power of the population . |
| 3 | So I 've got ta say , that in terms of credibility it 's , and the Regional Sec er , the General Secretary made the point about credibility within those sections , and within that , those elections , it 's for the branches to , to actually decide who represents them credibly or not and for this , for any attempt to change rule in this particular way . |
| 4 | Unemployment locks the underclass into place in three ways : it is more likely to hit those who are poor ; the poorest are likely to be unemployed longest ; and , in addition , instead of compensating the unemployed , the welfare state penalizes them more than any other group on welfare . |
| 5 | And there is the fact that he is a good painter , and I know he will be quite famous one day , and this influences me more than it should . |
| 6 | Observe the completely different effect produced by replacing the adjectives in ( 1 ) by the corresponding adverbs , as in : ( 28 ) Ellen shook the keys loosely muzak drives them madly And contrast the two sentences of ( 29 ) ( b ) : ( 29 ) ( a ) what did the new system do to the motors ? ( b ) the new system made the motors quieter the new system made the motors more quietly 5.4 Let us now return to the matter of the resultative nuance which can indeed be observed in all the examples we have given , reproducing the structural diagrams ( 21 ) and ( 22 ) to do so : ( 21 ) ( 22 ) If these diagrams represent the relations actually used in constructing such expressions , it follows that the entity of the noun phrase , as initially present to the mind of the speaker ( and to that of the listener in the final interpretative phase of comprehension ) lacks the property of the adjective since it is structurally separated from it ; however , since that property is expressed by an adjective , then ex hypothesi it will apply to the entity of the noun phrase when the construction is taken as a whole ; if not , then either the property would be expressed by an adverb , and apply to the verb , or the whole construction would be literally incoherent . |
| 7 | He adores them really and is certainly very proud of them ’ |
| 8 | He needs me more than I need him . |
| 9 | ‘ He needs me more than you do , ’ she said , as if that was an explanation . |
| 10 | ‘ For the moment she needs me more than you do , ’ he said at last . |
| 11 | Similar sequences , known as self-initiated insertion sequences , are common in the talk of monolinguals : " self-initiated " because the current speaker starts them rather than being prompted by another , and " insertion sequences " because they disrupt the " normal " flow of the conversation . |
| 12 | Nothing makes me more downcast than the ‘ uplifting ’ , nothing elevates me more than the de-jected . |
| 13 | We see an incredible number of young people , and it worries me immensely that these are people at sixteen who 've been chucked out of their homes , and they are being pushed down by bureaucracy , that they are being penalised for leaving home at sixteen when it is not their own fault , it is the fault of well it is the result of family breakdown that they are being pushed out . |
| 14 | ‘ That performance against Palace worries me more than anything I have seen so far this season . |
| 15 | I think the thing that worries me more than anything else about them , that a lot of 'em have aspirations erm greater than their finances . |
| 16 | ‘ It worries me greatly that Darlington has only one ambulance after 7pm at night . ’ |
| 17 | This will not necessarily stop the Not-OK feelings but it at least contains them so that they do n't damage the transaction . |
| 18 | The plating feeder holds them so that one yarn is always on the purl side and one on the knit side . |
| 19 | The principle which animates these planes — holds them together and establishes communication between them — can be visualized as the life force or vital force , the Prana of the Hindus , or the Ch'i energy of the Chinese , that elusive something which departs at death . |
| 20 | He visits them once or twice a year when he goes back to India . |
| 21 | She 's a kind girl , though , and at least she rings me now and again which is more than can be said for her brother . |
| 22 | The last I heard you were still in Gloucester with the Empress Matilda , so , whether fitzAlan loves you also or has yet to lose interest in your pretty face and form , he will come for you . |
| 23 | The Prince has gone to Brussels , and he wants you there as well . ’ |
| 24 | She needs you more than I do . ’ |
| 25 | The carer stands with her legs on either side of the patient 's knees , places her hands under the patient 's seat , pulls his body-weight forward and in one movement lifts his pelvis and pivots him so that he sits down onto the chair . |
| 26 | He needs him again and again when he becomes uncertain and discouraged , for by himself he can not help himself without belying the truth . |
| 27 | Now she wants him home so they can talk about their ‘ big wedding ’ . |
| 28 | She loves her home and has enough money to stay on , but finds it lonely . |
| 29 | She still visits her even though Mae-Britt does n't now recognise her . |
| 30 | She is a writer and loves it just as it is . |