Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If in addition we have been brought up in the tradition that to show feeling is a vulgar and lower-class way of behaving , we will seek to drain it out of any situations in which we are involved . |
| 2 | Nobody has come to see me today about that and I think it is disgraceful that the surgery has been disrupted , ’ he said . |
| 3 | ‘ Richardson wants to drive you out of all your strips . |
| 4 | Well , it crossed my mind that actually a few of the headings here are actually duplicated by the Video Work in Progress meeting , so whether we want to cover them again in this meeting I do n't know , because we had a meeting yesterday which covered some of these things and their minutes are then available . |
| 5 | Erm , the facts are , and this is all in Trivers if you want to look up erm if you want to look it up in more detail , that males die more readily than females , from all causes that affect both sexes and some that even do n't and you 'd be astonished about , like for instance , you gather from John book on the myth of he heterosexual you 're not allowed to buy in this country , you have to import it from the U S. |
| 6 | I said now you can shut that up right away , cos I said you know it 's not I said er now if you want us to try to help you out on this you just tell us what you did . |
| 7 | He once locked two visiting American soldiers inside the cathedral one evening and promised to come to let them out in half an hour but forgot to come . |
| 8 | So I went there and cornered her in the canteen and tried to chat her up for half an hour . |
| 9 | or whatever , just let them know roughly what you 're doing , cos , all they get is a tape , it gives them an idea of what sort of things were happening at that time , any words they ca n't pick up if she 's cooking , maybe that 's something she was making or whatever , erm , in the please write the first names and details , why you know them , of all the people speaking on this side of the tape , in order in which they speak on the tape in the first , first instance , right , you know , so now Carla , my husband , myself , Lee and , you do n't need to repeat them again after that |
| 10 | Hell , Nick , I tried to get her out of that place , but she did n't care . |
| 11 | But Labour 's prospectus is simply not designed to haul us out of any recession . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've come to take you away from all this . ’ |
| 13 | He moved incredibly slowly , zombie-ish , as if he 'd been a patient in there since before the flood and they 'd finally decided to let him out for some fresh air . |
| 14 | He added : ‘ We have targeted this and we will look next at reducing waiting times to 18 months across the board and eventually hope to get it down to less than a year . ’ |
| 15 | In fact it is only because he is trying so hard to get it right that he can be said to get it wrong at all , and the gauche hero is above all the example of social over-anxiety , like Betjeman 's subaltern weak for love on a Hampshire tennis-court : his palms moist at the first handshake , one imagines , his over-careful manners a veneer masking racking uncertainties , and an over-developed sense of social duty enforcing its own inner punishment . |
| 16 | When demand and supply are in stable equilibrium , if any accident should move the scale of production from its equilibrium position , there will be instantly brought into play forces tending to push it back to that position ; just as , if a stone hanging by a string is displaced from its equilibrium position , the force of gravity will at once tend to bring it back to its equilibrium position . |
| 17 | So really just I I always have problems , I I always tend to play it down like that , I do n't know why . |
| 18 | And , apparently , they 're going to set him up in some kind of arranged marriage . ’ |
| 19 | Amphoterics are high foaming and extremely efficient detergents but their expense tends to rule them out for all but specialist applications . |
| 20 | See the thing is , what they 've said to me , because I 've been away now for nearly two years erm I 'd have to go back and do all the training again , which is a bit of a pain but its not too bad because I 've done it before sort of thing , she said to me oh yeah when you go I , I might come along and see if I like it , and we can do the training together she said , I manage to put her off that idea , manage to talk her out of that . |
| 21 | We 've had to set it up like that , because sometimes people working late would like to pick up calls , expecting a call , or pick up calls on a different handset , . |
| 22 | er and and and nice to know that we want to establish contact and you may be aware that we 've had this plan , and , and what we want it to achieve is so and so , and we 'd like to set it up in this way . |
| 23 | I mean , I have n't had to clean it out at all . |
| 24 | Helen had agreed to help us out on this day of days , and she and I rescued the trolley and staggered around , heaving Changez 's junk into the back of the big Rover . |
| 25 | and erm , they were absolutely chocker , they were really full and he said erm , I sa , he said he had n't had to fill them up at all in all the time that it 's been running , and no , I asked him if he had any enquiries and nobody stopped him and asked anything about it , and then he turned to the other lad who was beside him the sales assistant and he said no I 've had no enquiries at all , so that was it . |
| 26 | ‘ And as I said , there 's no way I 'm going to let you out of this bed until I have your answer in the affirmative . ’ |
| 27 | Yeah in the the number on the bottom is bigger but that just means you 've got to share it out between more people so do you get more or less if you share it between more people ? |
| 28 | She looked elegant , yet slightly intimidating , her long legs in over-the-knee black suede boots as she followed Ace down to where the helicopter was waiting to fly them away from all their guests and the ubiquitous Press . |
| 29 | ‘ I thought that bastard was going to run you through with that knife and take you away from me — ’ His voice broke and he dragged her closer , burying his face in her hair . |
| 30 | Who 's going to start me off on this one ? |