Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [pron] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think that 's an extremely good point actually , because of course , when one thinks about it and looks at it , there are many many things which are happening in today 's world which are disasters . |
| 2 | He thinks about you and prays for you all the time . |
| 3 | In the army they fire bullets and they have their big powerful bullets and the idea is that the bullet comes through her , travels across , goes through her and goes into him so there 's |
| 4 | Zoe goes for it and plucks up some courage while Leonard asserts himself and makes a decision . |
| 5 | Now , the common understanding of this is that , they 're Christians , these are those who are followers of Jesus , they 're the Christians , and Jesus comes and er , ee er , there 's the little , there 's the one who is wandering away , who 's a stray and Jesus goes after them and brings them back into the fold and so on . |
| 6 | Indeed , written language in itself entails higher levels of abstraction because ‘ while the spoken word stands for something , the written word stands for something that stands for something ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 7 | The story of Gilly Hopkins is very sad : Gilly has the opportunity to gain everything she 's always wanted — someone who cares about her and forgives her and is willing to provide her with a loving home , but Gilly throws all this away simply by writing a letter when she 's feeling very upset . |
| 8 | In an in-depth feature on the Italian scene next month both Botha and Campese — rumoured to be amongst the best paid of the legion of ‘ stranieri ’ in Italy — talk about what Italy holds for them and tackle head-on the issue of pay-for-play . |
| 9 | And Bill loves the wildlife , he 's a dedicated bird- watcher although he hardly looks like it when servicing the huge polarizers that turn coal into a fine powder for burning . |
| 10 | She gets some help from their son who lives with them and works night shifts and from a care attendant once a week for a three-hour session who makes lunch and supervises James ' toilet care . |
| 11 | Mrs Smith 's 82-year old mother lives with her and has severe senile dementia . |
| 12 | The self-reflexive text is thus also an intertext : it looks into itself and sees all the other texts of the past . |
| 13 | He flirts with her and flatters her . |
| 14 | May we nurture the good that lies within us and seek to overcome the seeds of violence and hate . |
| 15 | He bows before her and blows her a kiss . |
| 16 | If another living shaman eats a portion of shaman mushroom then it dissolves inside him and releases vast amounts of magic energy . |
| 17 | T : That Grease album has got some break beats on it that have been used on loads and loads of stuff . |
| 18 | Ye take what ye like as long as nobody else lives on it or uses it . ’ |
| 19 | He stands over me and says I 'm not doing it then he stands over me oh god it 's gone , it 's gone , it 's oh look pick them up , oh what 's he gon na do ? |
| 20 | Across the Pennines , in Derbyshire , the immense walled kitchen garden at Calke Abbey , where visitors to Calke could once sit in the now-ruined orangery that presides over it and admire the order and industry , is just an area of pasture . |
| 21 | When Mr Palmer arrived I did n't tell him I was caddying for Gary , and I do n't know whether he 'd forgotten or what , but when Gary says to me , ‘ OK , Tip , let's go , ’ Arnold looks at me and says , ‘ What are you doing , Tip ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ In fact , I would n't even call it a slap , because she does n't cry , she just looks at me and laughs . ’ |
| 23 | She just lo she always looks at me and laughs . |
| 24 | 12 She shifts her body and flips her wings to keep balance , then looks at me and makes a new sound , like peeEP ; very sharp . |
| 25 | Perry looks at me and looks away , his eyes darting everywhere . |
| 26 | When he looks at me and kisses my hand , I go all shivery — would you believe that ! ’ |
| 27 | But the point is all the old grudges churn round in her mind , and she looks at me and fancies all sorts of things . |
| 28 | another revolution I mean that the fight that none , none of these things have really come to a full success , yeah , so nobody looks at them and says well we need no more revolutions because they 'll all work . |
| 29 | I just get her arms I go like that with her arm , right , and she just lets you do it , she just looks at you and says you 're fucking mad and walks away . |
| 30 | She did not dispute that , merely standing before me , head bowed , yet sneaking side glances at me and round about . |