Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because Britain offers them cheap labour . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | There is a poison in potatoes that turns them green , which is very dangerous to pregnant women . |
| 4 | On the other hand A 's movement renders me passive , as its target . |
| 5 | The north wind stings me bloodless |
| 6 | This weather and all that and i it just drives me daft you know ? |
| 7 | She drives me batty . |
| 8 | She drives me batty . |
| 9 | I am in love with you , the feeling drives me , drives me crazy , tumbles me in a drum . |
| 10 | DRIVES ME CRAZY |
| 11 | On Sunday , all afternoon it 's flipping football and it drives me crazy ! |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It drives me crazy . |
| 14 | Yeah , I 've got a , the smell drives me insane it 's too much ! |
| 15 | It drives me dotty . |
| 16 | I 've been on at my husband to get a fitted carpet in this room because this lino drives me mad . |
| 17 | It drives me mad . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Yeah but that drives me mad . |
| 20 | Oh he drives me mad sometimes ! |
| 21 | On one thing that really drives me mad about Carter . |
| 22 | And he so when it started he said sometimes my drives me mad . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | This renders them sterile and has resulted in their virtual elimination from the Southampton and Solent coastal waters . |
| 27 | I am sorry to observe so little Care taken of the Education of our Youth designed for the Sea , even such as have a Prospect of commanding Ships either in the Government or Merchant Service : The element in which they live renders them rough and boisterous which makes a little Education more necessary to give them an early Byass . |
| 28 | Short squat whelks are also the ones most at risk from predators ( see p. 302 ) , their small size and rounded shape making them easily swallowed by gulls and eiders whilst their wide mouth renders them vulnerable to oystercatchers and crabs . |
| 29 | Indeed if there is any validity in the argument that the narrow background and insularity of judges renders them unfitted to make decisions with significant broad social consequences , there is some merit in a system which limits their ability to change the law and reserves such questions for full consideration by a democratically elected legislature . |
| 30 | It spoils them dear , you should n't throw them I can smell a smell |