Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Do you want me to sew this back on for you babe ? |
| 32 | Inside the studio we were brought back sharply to reality by a studio audience , all of whom shared two characteristics . |
| 33 | Exhausted and without much hope for the future , she gradually slipped into a permanent state of depression , which made life even more difficult for Josh , although neither of them realized this . |
| 34 | Preparing the ‘ patchwork pieces ’ from remnants was an ideal occupation for her continuing band of outworkers ; Laura considered it an essential part of her duty to keep feeding these women , many of whom lived such isolated lives in the hills that they might go for days without talking to anyone . |
| 35 | Cutbacks in the budget have done nothing to curb chronic overstaffing : any official above teaboy needs a full supporting cast . |
| 36 | There is nothing wrong with being interested in , say , television but that does not make them research social scientists . |
| 37 | Do n't go into the , this morning when she was doing activity she said ah , she said I I 've got them to spot ten similarities , ten differences , great ! |
| 38 | Perhaps you might even allow me to borrow one of your people as a guide around the city . |
| 39 | Restaurants do not provide a memorable gastronomic experience , but no-one goes hungry . |
| 40 | He would have them sell some peculiar stock , saying : " They 've given us this to get rid of , as we 're the top team . |
| 41 | The lower prices have had a dampening effect on innovative schemes to make better use of the natural resources consumed , and will do nothing to stimulate necessary investment by the generators on modernising their capacity . |
| 42 | An dey fear both of dem , |
| 43 | That set them off again , Harbury enthusiastically reciting the string of reasons why the police had questioned Tavett several times ; Oliver throwing in that Tavett might have known about it but Pascoe must have done it ; Zak saying it was political assassination and nothing to do with the staff of the paper ; Holly reminding him that Scotland Yard 's anti-terrorist branch had found nothing to support that ; and Rosie hushing the clamour because her telephone was ringing . |
| 44 | Bamber blames glamorised media portrayals of nurses for contributing to the problem in that they ‘ do nothing to support realistic expectations of working in a hospital , but only seem to strengthen the ‘ angel ’ stereotype ’ . |
| 45 | ‘ No , no , let me answer that , Peregrine . ’ |
| 46 | And they used to send orders is n't it It was nothing to see fifty items on an order . |
| 47 | After the second assessment , social workers were asked whether participation in the research had encouraged them to include other people more fully in decision-making . |
| 48 | Since the IPG approaches its information items in the widest possible context , liaison with researchers helps its writers pick up the concerns of other agencies and enables them to include other sources of information and views . |
| 49 | It also comes naturally to them to include any musical form with a sharp sense of its own absurdity ; ska , for instance ( there are touches of Madness here ) or a hyperactive brand of rhythm and blues ( they become almost a French Blues Brothers on Marcelle Ratafia ) . |
| 50 | Lobbying by pharmaceutical companies has already watered down a proposed directive which at first suggested forcing them to include detailed information on dosage and usage on advertisements . |
| 51 | It is always dangerously easy to write superficially about human relationships , particularly this one of the mother and daughter living together in old age , picturing them enjoying endless winter evenings by the fire , with never a cross word , and long summer afternoons in a garden of roses , sitting in deckchairs on a lawn that never needs mowing . |
| 52 | No , not everyone goes that way . |
| 53 | Everyone goes quiet . |
| 54 | We should approach the white public school middle class networks in the business world and let them deliver some money . |
| 55 | The remaining basement space was devoted to poster printing machines , and the furnace at the back , where the asbestos cards , each in the form of a page , were placed in moulds for molten lead to flow around them producing curved plates , one for each page . |
| 56 | Encrusting types spread onto the substrate , and it 's interesting to watch them producing root-like processes which then grip the rock or sand beneath . |
| 57 | Nell was sitting at a table with a fortyish couple who she later told me owned one of the horses in the box-car , a dark bay called Redi-Hot . |
| 58 | There is a revolution taking place today in the way that executives are obtaining information to help them make critical business decisions . |
| 59 | It 's much better to give them two and one and let them make four . |
| 60 | Top management is clearly very important to the organisation , and managers are realising that management information systems can help them make better decisions . |