Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The think I hate about him is he does n't even know you and he starts slagging you off . |
| 2 | I 'll tell you what I hate about him , right . |
| 3 | ‘ That 's one of the things I hate about you Keith . |
| 4 | At least if you buy an old guitar there 's bound to be something you just hate about it or something that just jumps out at you and says , ‘ You ca n't do this ! ’ |
| 5 | Eldorado just reflects the people who make the programmes , that 's what I hate about it . |
| 6 | You know what I hate about it ? |
| 7 | Hate for you , my creator , who had made me . |
| 8 | When choosing your magic try to anticipate your troops ’ shortcomings and compensate for them . |
| 9 | There is no easy way for the receiving equipment to recognise such distortions and compensate for them . |
| 10 | Or you compensate for it . |
| 11 | Manne fails to take into account ‘ what our restraints on insider trading actually gain for us , both economically and in terms of the quality of our society and our human relationships . ’ |
| 12 | An instant later she felt fitzAlan 's arm jerk and slacken about her . |
| 13 | The concept which has proved most fruitful in considering the nature and origins of contemporary capitalism in relation to the two Tyneside locales , is that provided by the contrast between organized and disorganized capitalism as discussed by Lash and Urry ( 1987 ) , who distinguish between them in terms of a 14-point schemata . |
| 14 | It can recognise classes , and distinguish between them , and generalize from its training set , just like a perceptron . |
| 15 | Northamptonshire 's Cliff Smart 's Angling Holidays are offering up to £500 in prize money for winners of certian angling festivals if you book through them . |
| 16 | While other poets busily peer about them , acknowledging the given world , Porter looks inwards at the figures described by his imagination . |
| 17 | But it is humbug for the Harlequins to make a great song and dance about it — and for Jamie Salmon to imply that the New Zealanders never kick anyone . |
| 18 | This theme has a curious persistence , but one does not need a song and dance about it . |
| 19 | ‘ I am not making a great song and dance about it , ’ she said in a softly dangerous voice and , with a hint of ostentation in her movements , stirred a saccharin tablet into a cup of black coffee . |
| 20 | ‘ He used his money to help others — but he never made a song and dance about it . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Well , after making such a song and dance about it , there 's very little to tell . |
| 22 | And they , you know , they 're no worse than children anywhere else in the country , and I do n't wish to make a big song and dance about it . |
| 23 | I actually think Black was fouled but as you say he makes a bit of a song and dance about it . |
| 24 | What we have done is we have erm been able to utilise some A C T capacity or generate some A C T capacity within one of the subsidiaries within the group um the reason for highlighting it highlighting it is not particularly to make a song and dance about it but is particularly to say that on the cash flow statement there is this in-flood and it is a one off in-flood we 're not going to be seeing that being brought forward every year , but basically what it is is we have profits in previous elements of the group which enabled us to generate A C T capacity enabled us to off set this A C T which we paid on dividends and bringing forward earlier than we would otherwise have done . |
| 25 | What sort of misguided speech was that ? were they dance about it or trim here , what they 're saying very simply and this is relevant to the people who are listening to us today , is that they are not prepared to restore the cuts made by the government which they have got elected . |
| 26 | Without making a song and dance about it your quiet air of self-assured confidence makes you a natural leader , so do n't be surprised to find yourself elected unofficial spokesperson for a group of trusting friends , workmates or neighbours . |
| 27 | And if had n't of got on the phone and sort of made a song and dance about it , and told one or two things , and said one or two things they come up with a bit more money , but again you have to lie through your teeth to get back what you 're really entitled to ! |
| 28 | Although there has been a great song and dance about his supposedly suspect temperament this season , I ca n't fault it . |
| 29 | Pamela , judge for me , tell me what you think I ought to do . |
| 30 | Three tracks are from previous albums — Desperate Move ( driving , excellent and written by JMT stablemate Steve Coleman ) , Body & Soul ( as with Round Midnight below , a standard given a singular and distinctive modern treatment ) and Rock this Calling ( a modern jazz blues ? ) — while four are previously unrecorded by her : the melancholy-then-strident Do n't look Back ( highlight for me of this album ) , the quixotic Soul Melange , the Monk/Williams ‘ standard ’ Round Midnight ( a refreshingly individual rendition ) and My Corner of the Sky ( a modern son , which reminded me of an uptempo Ella Fitzgerald scat rendition … but with a rock group ) ; all bar Round Midnight are Wilson compositions . |