Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Generally speaking , a dependent item is expected to bring to a construction semantic traits not already prefigured in the head ; if the dependent item contributes nothing new , the resulting combination is pleonastic . |
| 2 | Consider the noun phrase ? a male uncle : the trait ‘ male ’ is encapsulated in uncle ; male contributes nothing new , so the combination is pleonastic . |
| 3 | Because Britain offers them cheap labour . |
| 4 | Frost ai n't good for plants , it turns them black and kills them off if you ai n't careful , but I reckon grass must be OK . |
| 5 | There is a poison in potatoes that turns them green , which is very dangerous to pregnant women . |
| 6 | On the other hand A 's movement renders me passive , as its target . |
| 7 | The north wind stings me bloodless |
| 8 | This weather and all that and i it just drives me daft you know ? |
| 9 | She drives me batty . |
| 10 | She drives me batty . |
| 11 | I am in love with you , the feeling drives me , drives me crazy , tumbles me in a drum . |
| 12 | DRIVES ME CRAZY |
| 13 | On Sunday , all afternoon it 's flipping football and it drives me crazy ! |
| 14 | She is too afraid of her reaction : ‘ To this day , it drives me crazy listening to her various hypotheses , the way religion and superstition all merge with her own beliefs . |
| 15 | It drives me crazy . |
| 16 | Yeah , I 've got a , the smell drives me insane it 's too much ! |
| 17 | It drives me dotty . |
| 18 | I 've been on at my husband to get a fitted carpet in this room because this lino drives me mad . |
| 19 | It drives me mad . |
| 20 | I live in an area of high unemployment and it drives me mad when married mothers go back to work just to get out of the house . |
| 21 | Yeah but that drives me mad . |
| 22 | Oh he drives me mad sometimes ! |
| 23 | On one thing that really drives me mad about Carter . |
| 24 | And he so when it started he said sometimes my drives me mad . |
| 25 | Of Merovech he records nothing other than his supposed descent from Chlodio and that he was the father of Childeric . |
| 26 | Mario and Yoshi may please puzzle addicts , but offers nothing new and does n't push the NES 's capabilities in the slightest . |
| 27 | Looking at the legal aid scheme overall , it is clear that it offers nothing new in the system for the delivery of legal services . |
| 28 | In addition other purchasers , not wishing to miss a golden opportunity because they can not react quickly will attempt to insist that the seller grants them exclusive negotiating rights for a reasonable period of , for example , six weeks during which they should be able to agree a deal ; a so called lock out agreement . |
| 29 | This restricts the applicability of such rules since it renders them unavailable to any linguist interested in diachronic change or synchronic variation in a language . |
| 30 | The paramount mistake has been that the intelligence of the individual has been permitted to be clouded by childhood teaching to such an extent that he has been persuaded that the religious writings came from some other source which renders them inviolate . |