Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [vb -s] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Using a computer to help in your child 's education is fine , providing he or she understands what a keyboard is all about . |
| 2 | Your reader will then know that you are not presuming that she or he knows what the term means . |
| 3 | ‘ And no-one knows what the spell does ? ’ |
| 4 | But if you imagine when you were about this high and someone gives you a ball to kick and you you fall over and you , Right I 'm not trying that again . |
| 5 | If you 're working at erm how far is it from here to New York and someone gives you an answer like this like What is it ? |
| 6 | And it is just that : a point of view , a vision , put forward through a fine prose style , that gives the work of Frazer a position above that of other scholars of equal erudition and perhaps greater ingenuity , and which gives him an inevitable and growing influence over the contemporary mind . |
| 7 | It is in fact something called Mad Meg 's Cairn and nobody knows what the hell it 's doing there . |
| 8 | Erm the answer would be no , they 've got to be sold at sometime and nobody knows what the market is going to do . |
| 9 | See , she leans over this door and reads your palm and you pays her a bit of silver , sixpence say , or a shilling , and she pops it in this little drawer just beside her . |
| 10 | So it 's a resounding happy birthday all round , and who knows what the next twenty one years will hold . |
| 11 | David Walton , 40 , who received the aircraft today from Air Commodore David Hurrell , said : ‘ The likelihood of the aircraft taking to the sky again is fairly remote but it will be preserved in its current condition and who knows what the long term future holds . |
| 12 | And who gives them the right to fire off questions such as ‘ Would you like to make canned food more nutritious ? ’ . |
| 13 | So I see her on leaves , and she gives me every so often a new MCC tie ! ’ |
| 14 | Because I am 84 and live alone , she also pops in every morning and evening to ensure I am all right , and she gives me a bath once a week . |
| 15 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 16 | ‘ The wave is my lover and she gives me the ultimate orgasm . ’ |
| 17 | a Chinese girl she 's living in it , in a kind of a real dive of loft thing to do her art and she gives him the odd painting instead of paying rent . |
| 18 | She 's going she 's looking at you and you go , come here , you take a step further and she gives you a dirty look and then she waits until you 're that close and then she jumps ! |
| 19 | ‘ Arnold left her all the money in the world and she gives us the sort of barbecue we threw for our friends in Haywards Heath . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Rumoured Golf Links at Bolney ’ and one wonders what the next 80 years will bring . |
| 21 | The results are uneven and one wonders what the result would have been if Mr Smith had examined all the companies covered by the original report for a longer period . |
| 22 | Even the early varieties developed in the time of Browning and Tennyson were nothing like the splendours of today , and one wonders what the genius of their poetic expressions would have made of the ethereal glow in the half light of ‘ Super Star ’ ( see page 129 ) , the exquisite shape and deepest of all crimson-black red of ‘ Charles Mallerin ’ or a hundred and one other modern marvels . |
| 23 | And everybody reads them every day . |
| 24 | Future Image maintains that the extension to a wider base has won them at least half a dozen valuable new clients , and he thinks its the way forward for all agencies . |
| 25 | And he goes , he goes , he goes well , you know , and he tells her the story . |
| 26 | And he tells him the story and he goes and the man threw me out of the taxi . |
| 27 | He was once a social security Minister and he does himself no credit by forgetting that there are two sides to every argument . |
| 28 | Already the young men in Harare have been coming to Arthur , knowing his record in Mount Darwin and sensing a kindred spirit ; and he offers them a better way than stone-throwing and kidnapping tactics . |
| 29 | And he calls me an asshole all the time . ’ |
| 30 | My friend and colleague Sandy Frey has correctly recognised this as a fundamental process for the cube , and for other mathematical groups , and he calls it the Principle of Partial Inverses ; a piece moved by P is restored by P — 1 , provided nothing else has moved it in between . |