Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [pers pn] [vb base] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A writer on the Cornish miners in the early eighteenth century complained that because of their " numerous holidays , holiday eves , feasts , account days ( once a month ) , Yeuwhiddens or one way or another they invent to loiter away their time , they do not work one half of their month for the owners and employers " . |
| 2 | ‘ Do you remember the Polanski movie Repulsion , where all you see of the city is a tiny little street outside Catherine Deneuve 's flat ? |
| 3 | Or all you care to ? ’ |
| 4 | The basis of lateral thinking is to be provocative with your ideas and to put them forward however bizarre or ridiculous they sound on first hearing . |
| 5 | Unless it is an easy switch-on or switch-off I tend to be lost . |
| 6 | For a second or two I stare at the words quite blankly . |
| 7 | Erm and you see people frequently charging across the middle or even to the right-hand side of them because they do n't believe that you know that that they have to you know er be observed and gone round and erm whatever . |
| 8 | But at another level , if we could show love , respect and acceptance for each other in the magnificent diversity that that we show as women , instead of patronising and attacking each other on the basis of our body shapes , that would be a great step forward ! |
| 9 | Bit of that that we do in year ten eleven can that be transferred down the line so that there 's a similar type of thing |
| 10 | I will take it from that that you play with it at this stage er of a recovery . |
| 11 | Thus Quine can make use of psychological facts to inform someone such as Stroud that all we look for in inquiry is accurate prediction and control of ‘ triggerings of our sensory receptors ’ , and can show no interest in further sceptical possibilities . |
| 12 | Now , here again , in the past , group selectionist thinking had tended to the view that all you need for sex if it 's for the benefit of the species is a regular male , a regular female , doing the regular thing and er everything will be alright . |
| 13 | I 'm going to prove to you today what I 've often told you before — that all you need in this life to succeed is real cast-iron determination . " |
| 14 | The relationships through which we work are no less real than those we engage in outside work , and it seems inevitable that they will raise the gamut of feelings , some of which , some men and women will be unable to resist acting out . |
| 15 | The one I saw this week at Hillier 's Arboretum , Ampfield , near Winchester , was already on the turn , with leaves orange and scarlet amidst clusters of large red haws , much bigger than those you find on wild hawthorns . |
| 16 | If there are more than four I go to the cupboard and nip cognacs till it 's all over for me , my dear ’ , or ‘ Last Sunday I had a fearful crise . |
| 17 | And they 've given her something low in glucose and that you know to kind of try and stabilize it a bit . |
| 18 | And the highest is somewhere around seven hundred and fifty I think for one deal . |
| 19 | If possible they sleep in cots near the computer . ’ |
| 20 | I can not possibly and conceivably , and no good other individual officer , actually handle all those and some them have to be delegated . |
| 21 | And this we come at not through consulting Joyce 's biography , but through attending to the forces at work in his writing . |
| 22 | You need an awful lot of persuading to get doctors to start to use a new medicine and a classic example was of the treatment of depression , where the pharmaceutical manufacturers started to produce tablets which were very effective in stopping depression , not just feeling a bit blue but actual serious clinical depression where the person 's sat in the corner and stared at the wall and did nothing — I mean really serious depression — doctors took a long time to realize that there was an effective treatment for that and to start to prescribe it , and in fact actually doctors in Britain are rather good in that we prescribe many more effective treatments for depression , we diagnose it more often , and this we believe in our office that this is one of the reasons why the suicide rate has gone down in Britain quite dramatically in the last few years , because depression , which is obviously one of the main causes of suicide , is being effectively treated . |
| 23 | The deaf and dumb are anxious to help each other and this they do through the pension fund and their Association , through efforts made to arouse public interest and to initiate steps for the formation of local societies and missions in neglected areas . |
| 24 | It has meant that I have sampled virtually every type of hotel/guest house accommodation imaginable and this I present as part of my qualification to address the subject in question . |
| 25 | How relentlessly grown-up and unsmiling they appear to us today . |
| 26 | Starting from the stable courtyard at 14.00 and 15.30 they last about 45–60 minutes and there is no extra charge . |
| 27 | Instead their minds are constricted by a million million common little assumptions , assumptions choking them like bindweed — and these they take for granted ! |
| 28 | It is important though to have corner blocks , and these I make in the time it takes for my tea to go cold . |
| 29 | How slim and white they seem in the moonlight . |
| 30 | And urgent you know on it immediately see . |