Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were similar types : happy , uncomplicated , but with an undercurrent of seriousness that made them want to take different directions , see with their own eyes , not other people 's . |
| 2 | Mothers shaved the heads of their daughters and then made them undress to take cold baths in public on the Hill of Calvary . |
| 3 | Can I + can I make I wanted to make general point earlier . |
| 4 | I mean I 've written countless letters and nothing 's been done . |
| 5 | I mean I 've known little strikes there last about a couple of days and they all got over it . |
| 6 | Because I 'm not kidding you , see that , I mean I 've to buy big bags of it . |
| 7 | You know , and I mean we we work , you know , it 's like er I mean I have to pay full poll tax and all these type of things too , even though my husband 's on a sort of very er basic sort of wage , and I pay all these things you know . |
| 8 | All my investigators who want them have got personal alarms of their own . |
| 9 | The EPA wo n't till the soil with bugs until extensive field work shows whether the microorganisms will work outside the lab — a formidable task , explains David Watkins , manager of the agency 's microbiological degradation projects : ‘ How will you know you 've got complete degradation ? |
| 10 | Well she co and cor , do you know she 'd got beautiful nails ! |
| 11 | D' you want to drink ordinary tea or what ? |
| 12 | And you 're supposed to try and link it with bigger groups of children , so if you say you say you 've got primary skills |
| 13 | How come you 've got curly hair ? |
| 14 | Garden Notices We recommend introducing new guide-lines for the issuing of Garden Notices . |
| 15 | And maybe hope that we as , as people as women need to do is regain control of our lives so they , they belong to us , so it does n't matter if if boys say we 've got fat bottoms or not , yo you say my bottom 's alright an and you live with that . |
| 16 | Erm anonymous , my son joined the paras five years ago and he was bullied , and another anonymous person from Rugby , my two children were in the army and though they were n't bullied they did see horrific things happening to other lads . |
| 17 | When the researchers re-imaged the same area , they found they had created small groups of three atoms , arranged in a triangle , which appeared higher than their neighbours . |
| 18 | ‘ We keep meeting these people who travel down to Cornwall and say they 've surfed big breaks , but it 's all false . |
| 19 | They in turn say they 've had tremendous support from hospital staff and the people of Cheltenham . |
| 20 | But police here say they 've had growing problems in regulating the tide and have even ordered groups of refugees to return to the border post to allow time to clear bottlenecks further down the five hundred mile route to the Red Sea port of Aqaba . |
| 21 | But the Rays say they want to warn other parents . |
| 22 | The organisers of Telethon say they do consult disabled people about the event and feel such an opinion is a minority one . |
| 23 | They are young and middle-aged men , many with wives and children in Turkey , who say they have suffered repeated imprisonments , police beatings and torture because of their sympathies for communist and Kurdish independence groups . |
| 24 | Officials say they have identified new sources of timber that would not conflict with protecting the owl , but environmentalists are concerned that the government has called for a much smaller reduction in the timber " harvest " than the Thomas report . |
| 25 | POLICE say they have found strong evidence linking a series of fires in Gwynedd at the weekend with the Meibion Glyndwr arson campaign . |
| 26 | Newton Aycliffe police investigating an incident when a stolen car was smashed into a policeman 's house last week say they have had good response from their appeal for witnesses and are waiting for forensic test results . |
| 27 | Derrida has not been concerned to formulate a new philosophy of history ; nor has he attempted to specify new methodologies in the manner of Foucault . |
| 28 | D' ya know I 'd forgotten it 's got dirty beads on . |
| 29 | More than 1,600 names — the people whose personal wealth is pledged to meeting insurance claims — lost money when they found themselves having to meet huge bills for asbestosis and pollution claims after Mr Outhwaite agreed to take on the risks from other Lloyd 's syndicates in 1982 . |
| 30 | Eros love is the chemistry that causes us to want to make physical contact — it is the butterflies in the tummy , the excitement that rises when we see or hear that special one and we want to say ‘ you flip my switches ’ , or ‘ you float my boat ’ . |