Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [vb base] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joined as an M C. Erm , effectively I I mean I work in a Direct Marketing Department , all the junk mail for the un uneducated . |
| 2 | There are still no signs of multi-culturalism to be found which is disappointing and worrying — surely the publishers realise we live in a multi-racial society ? |
| 3 | Your glasses and keys you put through a small slot . |
| 4 | It had made her feel like a dutiful grown-up daughter , visiting a hypochondriac distant relative once a week . |
| 5 | There 's a band called Moby Dick and everyone hates them ‘ cost they sound like a fucked up version of Creedence . |
| 6 | The Russians have said they believe in a negotiated settlement to the civil war , but they are continuing to supply arms to President Mengistu , apparently to allow him to negotiate from a position of strength . |
| 7 | What sort of a racehorse d' you think you get for a hundred quid ? |
| 8 | If you change you mind about a particular colour that you have used in your pattern , you can replace it with another from your woolbox collection . |
| 9 | It was like the sort of bullying you see in a public school yard carried out by men who are supposed to be professional politicians to put pressure on the weaker ones and the new boys . |
| 10 | Both were winter occupations and helped keep you warm on a cold day . |
| 11 | When it comes to good quality bathing beaches the EC report shows we trail in a poor seventh behind Italy , France , Denmark , Germany , Spain and Holland . |
| 12 | Breed are the kind of band who will begin to write a tormented love song and watch it develop into a bloody massacre . |
| 13 | Please hear my plead From a fellow human being with just one need ; After working all week on little pay I look forward to Saturdays so can watch my team play . |
| 14 | I know I sound like a bloody know-all , but all I can say is , if that satisfies the police doctor , it does n't satisfy me . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Miss Greene — I know I sound like a deuced newspaper reporter … ’ |
| 16 | er I know I look like a real goody goody and everything I 'm not really ! |
| 17 | I know I live on a fierce and magical planet , which sheds or surrenders rain or even flings it off in whipstroke after whipstroke , which fires out bolts of electric gold into the firmament at 186,000 miles per second , which with a single shrug of its tectonic plates can erect a city in half an hour . |
| 18 | How close do you feel to Christians you know who belong to a different denomination ? |
| 19 | And it bloody saunting you know with a little down in front |
| 20 | So we can classify the six PH stretches we expect as a 1 and b 2 derived from internally symmetric modes and usually labelled ν s S , and a 1 , a 2 , b , and b 2 derived from internally antisymmetric modes and usually labelled ν a . |
| 21 | They heard her say in a bright voice : ‘ Good morning , James . |
| 22 | For instance , some British libraries take out institutional membership with Law notes , to give themselves access to a quick loan service for expensive textbooks in law . |
| 23 | If you are running a rally aimed at inspiring and motivating people , do n't start by having them arrive in a strange city to find the car park full , the nearest suitable alternative two miles away and no taxis available because it 's Sunday evening and pouring with rain . |
| 24 | We watched them get into a small carriage which took them off to their new residence . |
| 25 | A slight smile curled the edges of his wide mouth as he watched them disappear behind a large veteran hay wagon parked on the far side of the pub yard . |
| 26 | Fat Watt watched them go with a satisfied air . |
| 27 | Having himself come from a close family he did not at first regard his wife 's involvement with Chloe as unusual . |
| 28 | But once that 's been accepted you ca n't argue with the price and this jacket 's certain to keep you warm for a few years at least . |
| 29 | But I believe we live in a representative democracy , not one where we 're delegates of our constituents . |
| 30 | When the sun rises they shine with a brilliant light that makes it impossible to keep one 's eyes fixed upon it . |