Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [pers pn] [is] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both Britomart and Radigund forgot their skill in battle ( whether they also forgot their feminine nature or revealed it is more difficult to determine ) . |
| 2 | We tell them to be quiet because we want them to look at television , or say it 's too wet to go out for a walk when they are wanting to wear their new wellies . |
| 3 | Once a patient is sedated or anaesthetized he is completely unable to care for himself and he is dependent upon the theatre team to ensure his safety . |
| 4 | When the principal exemplars of this class are dramatically eliminated the message is clear : middlemanship destroys from within , and the act of passing something on without truly changing or improving it is psychologically nullifying . |
| 5 | Fun tray Children soon learn how to undo buckles on car safety restraints , but tying or turning them is not the solution as they wo n't come undone quickly in an emergency . |
| 6 | ‘ When we 're writing or recording it 's always serious , and then if you went on the road for two months and you were serious you 'd spend your whole life being serious ! |
| 7 | If it is to be baled or carted it is most important that it is well and evenly dried . |
| 8 | Anyone got any objections to it , or think it 's not a good idea , do say . |
| 9 | But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it 's no go if your personality is n't worth translating . |
| 10 | The discomfort of uncertainty and change is high , so the drive to avoid or resolve it is high too . |
| 11 | It is further the case that a father who gets his 14-year-old daughter to perform an act of fellatio on him or to masturbate him is not criminally liable . |
| 12 | It 's when he is , and thinks he is n't : then there 's confusion . |
| 13 | ‘ My father paints , now chiefly icons , painting straight on to board and insists he is not a line-drawing man . |
| 14 | ‘ Tea and dance it is then , ’ she agreed . |
| 15 | and has it 's so important in the pathogenesis of the capsule that antibodies to it can be used er , ca , er can actually completely prevent the disease and we end up with a capsule vaccine based on the type B pulse . |
| 16 | Where a spoken sentence is long and complicated it is more likely to be PARATACTIC ; this means it is likely to be a string of sentences tied together with " and " , " or " , or " but " . |
| 17 | ‘ I am just hoping and praying he is not going to be used as a human shield . |
| 18 | And first for the Combers , we will bring them down From eight groats a score unto half a crown , If at all they murmur , and say t is too small , We bid them choose whether they will work at all ; We 'll make them believe that trading is bad ; We care not a pin , though they are ne'er so sad . |
| 19 | ‘ I dare anyone in the Fund to point to a country and say it is much better off economically today because of a Fund programme , ’ says Budhoo . |
| 20 | Would anyone like to argue with her and say it 's not that much you know an important character . |
| 21 | If it 's a small discharge and say it 's twice the limits , three times the limits , then it would be considered to be needing improvement . |
| 22 | I smile at the watching people and say she is always this way at bedtime . |
| 23 | And say he 's round about the fortyish age and we spoke to him last week and I said you got a job yet ? |
| 24 | It 's time for him to match his maturity with his golf and realise he 's not going to win every time . |
| 25 | ‘ Yes , sometimes you create this illusion for yourself , because you 've been with it a certain number of hours , but it can also go the other way : you might think something 's horrible and then come in the next day and realise it 's actually pretty good . |
| 26 | As a vet I am delighted this book is on the market and hope it is widely read . |
| 27 | Not all of them , of course , are directly important to your work , but the key figures need to be known and meeting them is sometimes not easy . |
| 28 | After a period of activity and shouting it is surprisingly easy to introduce a game like ‘ dead lions ’ ( p.39 ) and have all the children being as quiet as they can be . |
| 29 | But there is a more immediate aim for striker Ian Wright who is fighting a fitness battle to return in the live Sky TV game against the club which sold him to Highbury less than a year ago and show he is still the man England need . |
| 30 | By avoiding this situation and pretending it 's not happening means that we can actually be risking the lives of one our friends , one of our family . |