Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [vb base] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Anyway , I really was going to take the spell off straight away , but of course you have to go hopping off and get caught and land us in this mess . ’
2 If you have to share , clean the used equipment immediately it was last used , separate the needle , barrel and plunger and clean them in hot tap water and washing up liquid , remove all traces of blood , rinse the works thoroughly with clean water and do the same with any spoons etc .
3 With the lines stretched out , have a friend apply tension on the ends to be prepared and scissor them to equal length .
4 Like having a husband die and leave you for another woman at the same time .
5 Section 143 requires local authorities to compile registers of land that might be contaminated and open them for public inspection .
6 This criticism depends on a view about what competence with a concept is , a view about what it is to know the meaning of a word , about what it is to know the rules for the application of that word , rules that take you from one instance to the next .
7 ‘ Is n't it enough to look at the work I 've produced and leave it at that ? ’
8 ‘ And then at 18 , or in my case at 17 , they take you away from everything you know and stick you in some broom cupboard of a bedsit .
9 Then you 'd have eighter , or sixteener , a thirty twoer until you 'd got sixty four marbles you know and chuck them in this hole and if odd or even come out .
10 List the names of people you know and group them under different headings .
11 You will be angry I know and accuse me of all manner of evil things but one thing you can not accuse me of Lily is not caring for your son upon whose life I swear I love him truly and want only what is best for him .
12 Professionals involved with child protection define and explain it in different and sometimes conflicting ways , and adopt quite different stances about the way it should be undertaken ( Stainton Rogers and Stainton Rogers , 1989 ) .
13 My famous dog Oggie , who has alternately made me hate and love him for 12 years , has passed his tendency for being naughty on to his children .
14 Indoors he can get through almost half a show with one guitar — but then I try and get him off that , so that we do n't have the problem of breaking strings . ’
15 And one , if you ever wanted to do a bit of homework , to actually really get into the mood for something like this , you want to take a , a single piece , a single little newsy thing , and just practise , try and write it for half a dozen different outlets .
16 When I very deliberately try and remember it like this I know I end up remembering it and describing it being like a bar scene in a musical , where everyone that the camera pans past is a very definite character , and they 're all so eager when the camera is on them , clapping and laughing and tapping their feet to the music so convincingly .
17 Again , we said this morning , try and keep it to one page .
18 Now , it 's going to be a bit scruffy this , and you just try and transcribe it onto that piece of paper so you 're going away with some idea .
19 Er I mean if I if I try and cover it with one of our professional salesmen ,
20 I want you to try and do that for as long as you can , the person 's who 's trying to take them off it you try and take them off that point as long as you can , the other person stick to your guns , okay ?
21 Unlike some foreign restaurants that try and transplant you to distant shores by piping out Zorba , Pavarotti or the Bombay sitar quartet , thankfully L'Alouette does n't bother .
22 he laughed and let it by untouched .
23 Yeah , well you then just go and change them for that one drawing !
24 and they get , they get in this country and then they go and exploit them in another country !
25 Go and see it by all means , but do n't expect too much .
26 I was up there three days campaigning , objecting to this that I 'm being charged and believe me for those three days I stood right in Queen Street , just outside the offices there , and at no , any time during , at any particular time of day , you could have come along to me , and there were still one thousand five hundred people standing there , rain , hail , sleet or blow .
27 As casualties occur you can remove any of the models fighting and replace them with any models from a rearward rank — so you can change the ratio of nets to clubs by , say removing a club and replacing it with a net .
28 A tower wagon was waiting at the Lower Church Street corner to remove the junction in the overhead wires as soon as the last trolleybus had passed and replace it with plain wires leading only in the Mitcham direction .
29 Come and tell me about this morning , ’ He looked round for Catherine to discover that with admirable good sense she had asked for the facilities of the house , and was being issued with soap and hand-towels by Miss Williams .
30 Come and join us at this year 's Art in Action , where you will not only learn from the demonstrations by many of the UK 's leading artists and tutors , but you will also be invited to enjoy hands-on experience of art materials on display and sale by leading manufacturers such as Winsor & Newton , Daler-Rowney , Pro Arte , Liquitex , Schwan Stabilo , Faber-Castell , Berol/Osmiroid , Rexel Cumberland and many others .
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