Example sentences of "[vb -s] [conj] [vb -s] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are several mirrors in our house , as you would expect , but he never confronts or consults them . |
| 2 | In the case of products ( like salt , oil or coal ) which are won or abstracted , the person who wins or abstracts them is the producer . |
| 3 | For both Kung ( 1981 ) and Lyotard , art moves within the area between man 's capacity to conceive an idea and his ability to create an artefact that evokes or articulates it so that one of art 's more important roles is the symbolization of what does not yet exist . |
| 4 | The pain centre is observed by the mind which receives the sensory message , minimises or magnifies it , dresses it with memories , significance and emotion , and generates perception with all its quirky infuriating individuality . |
| 5 | Traditionally , the law has said that allowing someone who is terminally ill to die is lawful , but bringing about his or her death is unlawful , even if he or she consents or requests it . |
| 6 | Personal honour will affect us in so far as we can believe in the man or woman who defends or loses it . |
| 7 | She has from day one showed her disdain for me as one opposed to hypocrisy and her type of esoteric or pseudo intellectuality — being satisfied as I am with intelligence , integrity and interest ( ! ) — and has manifestly made it clear she overtly dislikes me because I wo n't be moulded or do what she wants or tells me — she suffers the matriarch/ bossy syndrome ( childhood nickname I am told was ) and does not like the fact I am utterly my own forthright person who spoils the incestuous sibling smythe-watson quartet which she ‘ ran ’ so self-interestedly for so long … |
| 8 | The offence is committed not just by a trader who supplies consumer goods that are not reasonably safe but also by a trader who agrees or offers to supply them or exposes or possesses them for supply . |
| 9 | Progressively the A examines both the P and C data , evaluates it according to experience and then accepts or rejects it . |
| 10 | Set against this picture and parallel to the theory that accompanies and supports it is the idea of the possibility of order as a creation of social instruments ordained for that very task , namely teachers , police , social workers , and perhaps , in the last resort , parents . |
| 11 | Locke 's claim that prior to experience the mind is ‘ white paper , void of all characters ’ , and that all its ideas , the materials of knowledge , come from that source , had been made earlier by Gassendi , but he defends and explains it at much greater length . |
| 12 | He often picks out distinct things which he notices and writes them down to make us ‘ see ’ for ourselves . |
| 13 | Although the mite rarely kills bees , it weakens and deforms them , reducing their ability to make honey . |
| 14 | it weakens and breaks it off . |
| 15 | These stories also serve to give to the part-time reserve police a self-respect which they feel is otherwise lacking from an organization which undervalues and marginalizes them . |
| 16 | The Howie Report receives details scrutiny from , who explores the different messages it contains and relates them to Scotland 's past and future . |
| 17 | develops and trains them for promotion |
| 18 | and finds a phone he rings and tells her . |
| 19 | Vronsky accepts and loves her , but in the end she ca n't believe even he respects her and convinces herself he does n't . |
| 20 | One of the monks , describing the presence , said he could ‘ perceive the fragrance of such a wonderful odour , as if all the flowers on earth were gathered together in one place ; I feel also a glow of heat within me — not at all painful , but most pleasing — and a certain unusual and unexplainable joy poured into my heart , which all of a sudden so refreshes and gladdens me I forget grief and weariness of every kind ’ . |
| 21 | From then on , she just buys what she wants and charges it to one or other of the parents ’ accounts . |
| 22 | He goes after what he wants and gets it . ’ |
| 23 | I can not keep you here when your mother wants and needs you . |
| 24 | In 1992 a future king renounces the wife he no longer loves but says he wo n't give up the throne . |
| 25 | It 's what the Godfathers might have in mind for when George goes that worries me . ’ |
| 26 | Please include information about your service of product , plus information on who uses or buys it , and give a detailed description of the product and how it is make ( you may sent pictures ) . |
| 27 | Q What is it your child does and says that makes you refer to his/her actions/words as a temper tantrum ? |
| 28 | He apologizes and hands me a note : Sir Thomas Fairfax is expecting me for dinner at Folly Farm . |
| 29 | Therefore he strove to understand nature , and had ‘ The habit of wishing to discover the good and the Beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me ’ , thereby becoming in touch with ‘ plastic and vast , one intellectual breeze , At once the soul of each , and God of All ’ . |
| 30 | James Macdonald 's searingly-acted production gives us Kathryn Pogson as Sandy , an elegant collection of angry bones who is even more frightening than Joe the husband who punches and kicks her , then tells her to take off her clothes . |