Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Books can be dangerous because the reading and writing of them involves us in an exercise of intellectual freedom . |
| 2 | The point dogs catch him and one of them nips him on the leg — take that for being more popular with the boss . |
| 3 | Everyone pats themselves on the back and goes home . ’ |
| 4 | Everyone loves me for the very things that you want me to cover up ! |
| 5 | Someone points her to an unimportant stool in a far comer . |
| 6 | Therapist Julia Blackburn 's heart sinks when someone visits her at The Maidenhead Natural Therapy Clinic and says , ‘ I 've tried a grapefruit diet , a pineapple diet , a very low-calorie diet , and now I 've come to see whether hypnotherapy might work . ’ |
| 7 | I needs it for a wager on the Brasseywing . ’ |
| 8 | First , as we wish to encourage carers and strengthen families — even the extended family — if a person who is caring for someone loses them to a home , the person 's home should not have to go on the market to meet the cost of fees . |
| 9 | On the new LP it will say something like ‘ Free samples if someone uses it in a really creative way . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I very rarely go out at weekends but if someone sees you in a pub once they assume you must be a real nightclubber . |
| 11 | ‘ If someone approaches me with a song , it 's got ta hit me in the face . |
| 12 | And er I gets him down and I gets him into the stable , and I gets all the clothes off him and he gets into a bag , a bran bag , more bags and lay down and covered himself , and I hung his clothes round the boiler fire . |
| 13 | The standing back approach Someone phones you for a price for a project . |
| 14 | No you ca n't throw it you have to like jump on it like that and you go weee and it , and if , and if someone gets you on the hips you have to throw it to everybody . |
| 15 | If someone asks you for a tale , tell them you 're learning the story of the Dwarf and the Firewood . |
| 16 | It 's just that , nowadays in life , you make a mistake and someone bangs you on the head for it . |
| 17 | someone invites you to a party or to try something new/different |
| 18 | Does a man do murder because a mate of his riles him in a pub or because he 's got more money than he has ? ’ |
| 19 | Someone touches me on the arm . |
| 20 | There was a man who went off to Amsterdam to buy some diamonds , I helped his secretary book his ticket , first class , and his limousine , smooth as clockwork , and as he 's walking along a canal admiring the house fronts someone stabs him in the back , destroys a kidney , gangrene sets in , now he 's dead . |
| 21 | Also , I have found Mr Hauser has a Lear jet which flies him across the world plus a Sikorsky helicopter which I saw taking off from the grounds of Livingstone Manor . |
| 22 | Take this from a Spare Rib interview with Catherine Itzin , founding member of the Campaign Against Pornography And Censorship ( CPC ) , which prides itself on a definition of pornography which would leave ‘ erotica ’ untouched by any new law . |
| 23 | In Sweden , a country which prides itself in the freedom of thought and action which it allows its citizens , education from elementary school to college and university is defined and controlled through state boards . |
| 24 | ( Araceae ) , which offers nothing to the ants . |
| 25 | ( a ) The prohibition in paragraph ( 2 ) of this rule shall not apply to a business consisting of a management consultancy or a company secretarial service and which offers none of the services specified in that paragraph save the drafting of documents under sub-paragraph ( 2 ) ( j ) and the giving of legal advice , provided such drafting or advice is ancillary to the main purpose of the business . |
| 26 | The top is quickly reached from the grassy nick which separates it from the nearby Roaches . |
| 27 | I have time to discuss only one lexical myth : this is the signpost which points us in the direction of precision . |
| 28 | What Housman has given us is a poem quite poignantly suggestive of that sense of private and personal loss that runs through so many of his lyrics ; a poem which refers us to the places and voices of The Other Shropshire , where the Graces go , and lads lie untimely in the earth . |
| 29 | There 's even a flying snake , which flattens itself into an aerofoil and swims through the air like flying tagliatelle . |
| 30 | I mean we 've still got a barren at the back , somebody kicks you at the back on that barren and er in the skeleton that 's exactly like the barren in a monkey 's tail |