Example sentences of "[verb] [coord] [noun] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You get done for , pulled up for speeding or parking or something and you can pay your own fine . |
| 2 | Well , I do n't know who was the more insane , he for singing or Benjamin and myself for joining in . |
| 3 | The ‘ toughness ’ of plants is not necessarily a characteristic of either angiosperms or gymnosperms. as it seems that plants struggling to make themselves ever more unpalatable , grew ‘ tougher ’ as time passed . |
| 4 | If a canoe capsizes or sinks because it was manifestly badly built then no further explanations are required . |
| 5 | I would not have told you place or time if I did not know that every man of them is far into the mountains and out of your reach long before this . |
| 6 | Remember your moral crime : that you have now lied twice about why I had written to you in the first place ( Letters report , 5 December ) , and you have lied on purpose and you have done so with manifest contempt and disregard for any say or rights that I may have against your sick sense of ‘ editorship ’ . |
| 7 | She showed no inclination to argue further , but lay back in her chair , smiling at Robert , and I saw that it was not , as I had believed , understanding and acceptance that her smile revealed , not that their marriage was so secure it could sustain itself in the face of any disagreement , but that Lili could afford to be pleasant because she had no scruples . |
| 8 | She is interested in most sports , especially hurling and soccer and she has won several trophies for darts . |
| 9 | That 's without decorate and icings and what have you |
| 10 | It is used to establish and signal that one has identified initial relationships . |
| 11 | The thing is , it 's a vicious circle , it 's Catch 22 really , 'cos I used to have a good self-employed business , going painting and decorating and I used to have a good clientele and that and I found over the years that , when it became harder and harder to score and the prices rocketed and all that , it got out of hand , out of proportion , that I was spending more and more time off the job than I was on the job , looking round to get the stuff and I found I was unable to carry on working without the drug , because I just felt so bad and I could n't climb ladders and I thought I was a danger to myself and anybody else that I had working with me , y'know . |
| 12 | He knew , as well , that Tree Spirits cling tenaciously to their homes until those homes become untenable because of the Tree dying and drying and he thought that Miach 's spell must have been stronger than any of them had thought for it to draw the Spirits so filly and so firmly into the open . |
| 13 | The problem is that of Explaining and Understanding and it applies no less to transnational companies , world finance , and revolutionary groups . |
| 14 | On the way home , Frank was driving and Harry and I were in the back seat , and Harry put his arm round me . |
| 15 | Conversely , the Profitboss accepts that they have greater skills in packing , driving and cleaning than him . |
| 16 | Certainly to respond to the gentleman who was suggesting that there 's no difference between us as adults and children , certainly there is the child in all adults erm that does respond , perhaps , in a childish way at times , but I would suggest that as adults we hopefully have gotten to a place in ourselves which we are not so much at the mercy of our immediate wishes and wants and feelings that we are able to be more measured in the way that we handle ourselves and our feelings , and therefore in a position to help our children to develop that capacity within themselves as they are growing up erm and erm I 've forgotten the other point I was going to make just following on from what Elizabeth there in the studio was saying . |
| 17 | ‘ Germi knows exactly what he wants and cuts as he goes along . |
| 18 | The retailer may be cushioned from cut-throat competition from supermarkets but at the cost of their freedom to sell or price as they wish : like small subcontractors , being tied to a dominant parent company may be the cost of insuring against business failure . |
| 19 | I was especially fond of my maternal grandparents ' dog , Luath , an exquisitely patient collie with whom I would sit for hours , pretending or half-pretending that we could read one another 's thoughts . |
| 20 | They can choose to use felt or crayons if they have them , but we ca n't really tell them to buy them . ’ |
| 21 | Check the use-by date on the packet because some condoms break or tear because they are too old for use . |
| 22 | Low pay and high prices mean they have to walk further to find cheaper goods , which take longer to prepare , and men sometimes feel marginalised and turn to drink and violence when their women are too tired or busy to give them attention . |
| 23 | He could no longer explain to us what was going to happen next , but he gave us complete carte blanche to explore and question as we pleased , and suggested that we begin by taking a look at the burial-cliffs , about a mile away from the Rante , where the king 's body would be interred . |
| 24 | You never see a white guy rappin' and dancin' like I do . ’ |
| 25 | I ca n't remember at the policy and resources why it was decided by a majority because in in replying to this report on making our comments to this report , I first had consultations with officers to go through some of the items that we had done and issues that we had covered in this authority especially the members ' services sub committee and we knocked off the bare bones of er a report to the policy and resources committee and the policy . |
| 26 | Do n't worry if you 've not been told , it 's very new , and the managers actually over this week and last week have been before the Group Managers effectively having the last bits of training done and workshops before we really launch it to the field . |
| 27 | Familiarity can also encourage a mutual sense of trust which enhances the officer 's capacity to detect and control because it encourages self-reporting of deviance . |
| 28 | Frost also influences netting with both purse and long-nets since it becomes very much more difficult to peg the nets to the ground . |
| 29 | In upholstery you really do get what you pay for and you usually have to take the quality on trust since you can not see all the underpinnings of frames , filling and springs unless you are shown a sample cross section and have it all explained to you in the shop . |
| 30 | Repeat the process with the remaining butter , filling and pastry until it is all used up . |