Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dey hav fe get it right or dey get verbal reaction . |
| 2 | I saw a Mummy examined that had been embalmed for 2,000 years ; the embalmer had taken out all the Viscera of the head , Thorax and Abdomen and cut all the flesh off the bones , and the cavities of the Thorax & Abdomen were filled up with Tar , Pitch & c and the form of the leg , Thigh & c were altogether made up of linen Rags dipp 'd in Tar , Pitch , & c so that I have an Opinion that they were allow 'd to carry the dead Body home by pretending to embalm it to preserve the Flesh & c , but you see they either buried or burnt the Flesh : this art always ‘ till lately appeared to me ridiculous as I know how soon putrefaction took place after Death ; since that time I have often thought it would be pleasing if we could fall upon a method of preserving dead Bodies & I thought that mankind in general would wish to have the Bodies of their Friends & c Preserved . |
| 3 | But they should know that anyway , or I made that point yesterday , so er th the point they quoted was that erm erm rang up the team and got told no you 've got ta put it on a fax , find it hard to believe that that was if that was the manager on the phone but it 's just important that the people on the team know who the senior managers are . |
| 4 | ‘ It was n't because I saw some guy and said , ‘ Hey , he gets a lot of girls , ’ or I saw some guy and said , ‘ Man , I want to be that guy , ’ because there 's no-one on earth I want to be . |
| 5 | In my business , either I cut my costs or I find new business . |
| 6 | What I 'm looking for is feedback from the clients which say , yeah , these reports are alright as far as they go but really I do n't want all that information or I want this information . |
| 7 | ‘ Or I have supreme confidence in myself that she will return to me , ’ he told her smoothly . |
| 8 | Or I have some vodka in the fridge . |
| 9 | ‘ Neither my brothers or sister or I have any children , ’ said Pakeezah when her mother had finished telling the story . |
| 10 | Wilkinson , who has cajoled and bullied to knock Cantona into shape , joked that the language barrier is still there because ‘ If I 'm saying nice things about him he seems to understand — if I suggest he works harder or I say nasty things , he finds that harder to comprehend . ’ |
| 11 | And weirdest of all , this is the exact same haunting sound — like , a lavish , moody synth swell with ghostly piano tones , Diane — that we hear whenever Sheriff Truman or I discover another lead . |
| 12 | And weirdest of all , this is the exact same haunting sound — like , a lavish , moody synth swell with ghostly piano tones , Diane — that we hear whenever Sheriff Truman or I discover another lead . |
| 13 | Simulation of geographical systems is not necessarily motivated by considerations of cost or avoidance of hazard , but more by the desire to experiment on systems that are either too slow-acting relative to the human life-span or which present ethical problems to the would-be experimenter . |
| 14 | Once , it was a pop cliche that the records which mattered most to you were the ones which marked your earliest sexual encounters or which signposted key events in your adolescence . |
| 15 | However the tests applied are sufficiently broad to catch material which encourages the use of dangerous drugs or which advocates criminal violence . |
| 16 | Electronics designers will need to follow some rules of thumb , many of which will be familiar , such as mains filtration , adopting a sensible grounding policy , minimising ground impedance , minimising cable lengths , screening cables which are carrying high frequency , large magnitude signals or which contain sensitive signals , and grouping cables to separate the sensitive from the interfering . |
| 17 | More difficult to assess is the toxic reaction of an odour , that is an effect ‘ which may influence survival or which produces unfavourable changes in the gross and microscopic appearance of organs or tissues or in the entire organism ’ . |
| 18 | The race was only open to vehicles which ran on unorthodox fuels , or which had internal combustion engines modified for greater energy efficiency . |
| 19 | There is close co-operation with other departments in the Faculty , so that research which involves international or European law , or other branches of law , or which has theoretical dimensions , may also be pursued . |
| 20 | Thorndyke inserted another statement further on in the passage which was either neutral with respect to possible inferences or which supported particular inferences . |
| 21 | Certain medical conditions , such as being HIV positive , or which need particular kinds of medication , may make breastfeeding inadvisable . |
| 22 | VARIABLES — Characteristics , attributes or qualities that can vary in magnitude among individual cases or which have different categories are referred to as variables in statistical analyses where , usually , their relationship ( for example , between education of mothers and the number of children ever born to them ) is studied . |
| 23 | It 's not because I had Christian parents , it 's not because I 'd some advantage over you , or you had some advantage over me , it is all of God 's graciousness , it is all of God 's giving ! |
| 24 | In a place like mine anybody who knows my patch you , you know old or you know certain parts of or you know certain parts of . |
| 25 | In a place like mine anybody who knows my patch you , you know old or you know certain parts of or you know certain parts of . |
| 26 | Or you know sludgy sort of colour like this |
| 27 | I think you 're honest it 's the people respect you more if you say I 'm sorry , I do n't know the answer , I 'll find out for you and then you say tell you what John , can you write that up on that issues form pad or you know another bit of flipchart paper , we 'll come back to that . |
| 28 | Or you get freezing cold and covered in mud . |
| 29 | It , it 's just a question of I suppose whether you do it or you get other people to do it or or what . |
| 30 | You get , or you get two cars of equal speed , along straight |