Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each knows the weaknesses in its own and in the other approaches and therefore debates between them tend to result in predictable discussions within a well-trodden terrain . |
| 2 | On the one hand , some clients may prefer a structured day with routine care , which everyone receives given at set times , very probably by a succession of nurses . |
| 3 | Everyone has heard of stressed executives who suffer peptic ulcers and ulcerative colitis . |
| 4 | I agree with Roulet that everyone has to fight for equal conditions , and then we are happy to share . |
| 5 | There are many clinical features in common among these treponematoses and some of them appear to go through similar stages and periods of latency . |
| 6 | Bonner said : ‘ Nothing has changed at Celtic . |
| 7 | But little by little , as I became absorbed into rural life , I came to enjoy my ‘ inconveniences ’ . |
| 8 | I made do with peripheral vision , which , after all , is the next best thing . |
| 9 | I mean compared with other |
| 10 | only insure our own league and so it , I mean insured for major contingencies and that |
| 11 | By ‘ symphonically conceived ’ I mean relying on large-scale musical argument rather than on imagery derived from what the Germans call ‘ applied music ’ , angewandte Musik ( for stage , film , circus , etc. ) and by extension , not dependent on overt reference to contemporary events . |
| 12 | Here are some of the weekly incomes and budgets of some of the people I met living on social security : One man and woman in their early twenties living in Coventry with one child , mostly unemployed since leaving school , have a total income of £5.25 child benefit . |
| 13 | Bradshaw was the only man I met to laugh at twenty-foot waves . |
| 14 | And er I got involved on national registration and er , on one occasion , we were working , we 'd got a deadline and we were working through the weekend , and my wife came to pick me up at what she thought was a reasonable time , at one o'clock on Saturday , found she was given a cup of tea and set to work , and we finished , going home about midnight . . |
| 15 | I was dead thin and not eating anything and then I got sacked for gross misconduct , y'know , for never going in and that . |
| 16 | I got changed in double quick time but she must have beaten me . |
| 17 | So instead of a slap on the wrist I got promoted to high-flying executive symptoms . |
| 18 | I expected to bump into young Darius or someone . |
| 19 | I expected to pay for twin-lens versatility with loss of picture quality , but this was n't the case at all . |
| 20 | For more delicate greenstuff and for the fruity veg I tend to turn to olive oil . |
| 21 | You can do too much of this if you are not careful and as I tend to paint with sharp stabby strokes it can be a fault with me to look rather bitty . |
| 22 | ‘ I tend to listen to odd things they do but not in any depth . |
| 23 | ‘ I tend to work with up-and-coming guitar bands because that 's the music I like listening to and that 's what I understand better . |
| 24 | I tried ducking under broken sections , but they just ducked right down after me . |
| 25 | I tried to think of specific areas … like number of wins — home record — goals etc . |
| 26 | I tried to think of nice things ; then , when I could n't think of any , I determined to concentrate on what was happening around me . |
| 27 | ‘ It was during the post-punk kind of period and I went through a series of bands , but I must admit I found working for other people really difficult . |
| 28 | In the absence of anything comparable among the Greeks , I hesitate to attribute to royal initiative a translation so clearly born within the precincts of the synagogue . |
| 29 | I want to deal in particular with the Iraqi waste controversy . |
| 30 | Act and that I want to talk to local authority associations about that , so we will be in consultation with them . |