Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [pers pn] [vb base] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You think because you 've read a few crappy books you know it all . ’ |
| 2 | And some places that erm I know that in some places they have their own local way of speaking and then they speak a different way to other folk . |
| 3 | From this basis you produce your own bright ideas . |
| 4 | Funny way they get them all the way out to the other side ! |
| 5 | Burton 's amours were widely touted ‘ with this guy you bring your own mattress ’ , a well-used crack but at Burton , well aimed . |
| 6 | And this time I want us both to make an effort to keep things friendly and pleasant . |
| 7 | Boswell is the one who tells us the legend of the seahorse from the lakes who devoured a man 's daughter , and was eventually trapped by the lure of a sow on a spit ; from Boswell we learn that of the hundred-strong little army the Laird of Raasay mustered , eighty-six came back from Culloden ; Boswell chronicles the ash and plane trees , the limestone rocks , the caves and their stalactites , the black cattle , the plover , the pigeons and blackcock , the rainfall , nine months in a year , the juniper , the peat , the belief in the existence of a gold mine , and the women wawking or waulking the tweed , a tedious operation where the tweed is rubbed over and through water in order to shrink and thicken it ( in the outer Hebrides they add their own urine to the vat , although Bozzie missed that one ) , and the women sang a worksong to accompany the rhythmic labour , and did not succeed in drowning out Johnson 's deep voice as he asked them questions . |
| 8 | I happen to drive a very small car er a Fiat one , two , six and you ca n't get much smaller than that and I am much more aggressive when I 'm driving that for the simple reason I think its this sort of principle although I 'm nearly six foot in that I 'm a small person and the small person mentality comes out because I get cut up continuously , they do n't do that when I 'm driving my husband 's car which is a Volvo , er they will cut in front of me , I do n't think they , if they knew what my brakes were like they would n't do it . |
| 9 | Did that job I give you this morning . |
| 10 | Brian Jacksons wrote eloquently about the still frequently thwarted aspirations of young fathers today to be different from the invisible or authoritarian men they remember their own fathers as having been . |
| 11 | Over five thousand pound we pay you another fifteen percent . |
| 12 | We never asked for these technologies , and in the long run they give us fewer choices , not more . |
| 13 | Now er they 're all Hand I take it those twenty fives are they ? |
| 14 | Though some of these reasons are currently out of fashion in discussions of political authority I believe they all have their role to play , though some are more important in some societies than in others . |
| 15 | Being aggressive is just as bad as being submissive it really is because people swing to one side you know it some people are very good at being aggressive and are very good at diving in and getting their own way and just ju by being aggressive it 's naturally aggressive . |
| 16 | In nine months we get them all back again . |
| 17 | She , one day she tell me dat she saw a ghost — or somefing like a ghost , a person who come in the house — she tell me she pick up a brick and break i bones — de ting run like she no know what . |
| 18 | Enya , who is at No. 11 with the haunting Book Of Days , reveals : ‘ I had hair down to my waist until I was 18 , then one day I cut it all off . |
| 19 | They are scarcely adult , some men : they wish women to understand them , and to that end they tell them all their secrets ; and then , when they are properly understood , they hate their women for understanding them . |
| 20 | They have their own morality I think we all know that ! |
| 21 | I think that 's disgusting going abroad taking chi , a child that 's got chicken pox abroad and the other one she could be incubating the disease any way I bet you any mo money she comes down with it as well |
| 22 | Any time you have something such as the Rodney King incident on video tape for the entire nation to see , and the jurors somehow arrive at a verdict of not guilty , it is obvious that the system is not based on truth or justice at all . |
| 23 | And when he gets the other stuff they give you that big bloody beaker full of it ! |
| 24 | In modern organisms we see them all the time . |
| 25 | She claims she has been ‘ very lucky ’ , though concedes that ‘ to a certain extent you make your own luck ’ . |
| 26 | But first , something has to be said about consciousness and intentions , because in everyday life we interpret our own behaviour in these terms , and it seems natural to do the same for animals . |
| 27 | Maybe next time I bring her some oranges from the best side of the orchard — very sweet , and will do her lot of good . |