Example sentences of "[vb -s] [conj] [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can either look at people 's jobs because that 's the bulk of the money goes or you look at the charging policy or you look how the building 's run . |
| 2 | One of them made crochet toilet-seat covers that they sold at the shop . |
| 3 | I give all the children vitamin drops that I get from the clinic but I sometimes wonder whether they 're really necessary . |
| 4 | He is an intellectual man but since he has married , a woman who is quite the opposite of him , the reader often notices that he retreats to his library during the course of the book . |
| 5 | By 1989/90 the Exchequer met only 43.4 per cent , with a further 4 per cent coming from a central grant that reimbursed authorities for part of the rate rebates that they gave to poor households . |
| 6 | He accepts that it has to be traded off against the 25 per cent improvement in fuel consumption and longer engine life . |
| 7 | Duress that invalidates consent consists either of a credible threat to take substantial action against the agent or against a person or a cause that he values if he does not consent or in the taking of such actions against him or against persons or causes that he values with an offer to restore the situation if he does consent . |
| 8 | So far as overcoming your own tendencies to resist change , it is best to have some limbering up exercises that you inflict on yourself from time to time . |
| 9 | Schulz considers a number of explanations for the phenomenon she describes , and concludes that it arises from men 's prejudice against women and their fear of women 's ‘ natural ’ power or biological superiority . |
| 10 | There is a strong tradition in philosophy which holds that we start from knowledge of our own sensory states and build up from there . |
| 11 | Drafts that you made of the report and later improved or discarded should also be retained . |
| 12 | He looks like I feel on a very bad morning . |
| 13 | Yvonne 's wearing a little black number that to my untutored eye looks like it could have cost ten quid or a thousand ; Clare is rather more ostentatious in a short , sparkling , crimson creation that looks like it wants to be a ball-gown when it grows up . |
| 14 | Sometimes they were so drunk they fell asleep where they were and lay without pillows or covers until I returned from work , and then I would rage at them in Arabic , telling them that thanks to them my room was no better than the Italian 's pigsty at home ; we used to spit on the ground whenever we went near it , children and grownups alike , shouting exclamations of disgust , even though all we could see of it was the outer fence . |
| 15 | I turned our closed circuit cameras onto the flag-wavers and they appeared on the huge screens above the stage . |
| 16 | Tory also makes the other common complaint that the novelist knows less than anyone else what is in fact going on around him — he wants to make a satisfactory pattern , and hardly cares if it corresponds to anything outside his mind . |
| 17 | I suppose everyone has but I hear about her a lot . |
| 18 | West Dorset District Council , for instance , was refusing to house people evicted from winter-lets unless they qualified for housing prior to entering such accommodation , even though in this case they would presumably have sought council accommodation in the first place ( Larkin 1979 ) . |
| 19 | It had been all whispers and lies till they got to the shop . |
| 20 | It counts because it counts to them . |
| 21 | has before they go to heaven , account |
| 22 | That is what Britain needs as we move into what we all want , a really Happy New Year . |
| 23 | ‘ We do n't want to go for the sort of so called innovation that can alienate an audience , ’ he exclaims when we talk about the sometimes clichéd dynamics of their music . |
| 24 | What I ca n't understand is who she thanks when she wants to be thankful , for example when her son was born . |
| 25 | My day starts when I climb into my ‘ green machine ’ and switch on that ‘ phone . |
| 26 | Empirical evidence of the participants ' interpretation of next turns is not available , and conversation analysts instead fall back on circular arguments , claiming that the conversation develops as it does by " orientation " to the same organizational devices which have to be taken for granted in order to get this interpretation of the data ( p. 120 ) . |
| 27 | He blanches as he reminisces about past indiscretions . |
| 28 | He exaggerates when he speaks of a ‘ deafening silence , from historians on the land question , but he makes a strong case for placing the land issue near the centre of any sound historical analysis of the period . |
| 29 | If I can please er I think our comments on that er perhaps Mr Ray is being er using the grob global flays when he refers to employees . |
| 30 | The planet grows to fill the screen , the saucer glows as it passes into the atmosphere . |