Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The organizer can also say things like ‘ the tide turns ’ which means everyone changes direction ; ‘ the sea got rougher ’ which means everyone goes faster ; and ‘ the eels were hopping mad ’ which means all eels have to hop . |
| 2 | Everyone goes there . |
| 3 | Greenpeace have a meeting somewhere I 'm sure everyone goes there by car . |
| 4 | That 's the thing about pub rock — everyone goes home happy . |
| 5 | Everyone goes everywhere by car these days , and perhaps in a few hundred years from now our great-great-great grandchildren will be born with hardly any legs at all because they wo n't have any use for them . |
| 6 | Let's assume they 're all self sufficient , the world market essentially becomes a residual market , it 's not the market place where everyone goes any longer , it 's the market where just a few people will go . |
| 7 | While everyone agrees that far more could , and should , have been done to contain the AIDS epidemic , the key issue now is that positive steps can still be taken . |
| 8 | Going to camp is like going on Pack holiday but everyone sleeps outside in tents . |
| 9 | Septimus is trained out of his bad habits in the end , and everyone sleeps happily ever after . |
| 10 | Everyone sits quietly in the room and the leader draws an imaginary circle with a finger and says ‘ Here I have the wonderful magic circle and I sign it with a dot . |
| 11 | At a meeting with the ASEAN Foreign Ministers in Indonesia on July 27 Baker attempted to allay their fears , informing them that the US goals in Cambodia remained the same and that " our approach towards achieving them differs only very slightly " . |
| 12 | If they knew I was under that sort of pressure , they 'd stop giving me rides altogether . |
| 13 | Whether or not they are given delegated powers , sub-committees must have specific terms of reference and clearly defined tasks , so that everyone understands just what the sub-committees are to do and when it is to be done . |
| 14 | It is obviously important that everyone understands exactly how the law applies and your solicitor will be able to explain the situation . |
| 15 | Nothing goes right for Walter ; his father dies early , soon followed by his mother , a rigid , religious woman , who treats the boy harshly but teaches him good conduct , to write and to hold down a job in a sweet factory where he is patronised by his superiors and ridiculed by his fellow workers . |
| 16 | Nothing goes as fast as I want it ’ ) , there were problems with design . |
| 17 | Everyone laughs freely . |
| 18 | Everyone laughs gloomily , aware that such a thing would bankrupt somone for life . |
| 19 | No-one thinks so . |
| 20 | ‘ Decisions are best when everyone contributes rather than having them imposed from above . |
| 21 | I enjoy putting up a tent , I like campfires and food for me tastes so much better outside . |
| 22 | Looking for something that you do n't expect to find is a demoralizing task , and succeeding in finding nothing offers only a dreary satisfaction . |
| 23 | ‘ A sailing ship is at the mercy of the winds , and lacking them goes nowhere . |
| 24 | One of them goes abroad all the time and she comes back with some great stories ! |
| 25 | Although I 'd had me doubts before , I will admit . |
| 26 | I know that nothing lies behind ’ . |
| 27 | Nothing illustrates better the fluidity of viewpoints by which we can swing towards and away from egoism , and how little it has to do with morality . |
| 28 | Nothing illustrates more dramatically the extent to which Nizan 's work fired the imagination than the spectacle of Sartre himself publicly criticising traditional " institutionalised " intellectuals for their lack of imagination , publicly insulting Raymond Aron for his failure to take note of the significance of the May events , and extolling by implication Nizan the youthful iconoclast , an exemplary dissident intellectual in tune with the spirit of the times . |
| 29 | A community which feels that no-one cares naturally turns into itself for reassurance . |
| 30 | A community which feels that no-one cares naturally turns into itself for reassurance . |