Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hate it when you walk past someone goes right in front of you and you sort of give it you do n't care if he 's ten feet tall you just look at him like this and you see this nasty greeny . |
| 2 | Such claims always have a point which goes well beyond instruction in English usage . |
| 3 | Some of these are unavoidable , others are said to result from the use of animal insulin , which differs slightly in structure from human insulin . |
| 4 | So always work out in your mind that nobody has right of way in those circumstances . |
| 5 | However Simmons 's ( 1979a ) approach is one which leads productively towards consideration of natural resources ( Simmons , 1974 ) and towards involvement in conservation ( Simmons , 1979b ) as reviewed in a later chapter ( p. 186 ) . |
| 6 | Nobody gets away with murder in this City . ’ |
| 7 | Like lampreys , cephalaspids show a single nostril joined with a single hypophysial opening which opens together on top of the head as a keyhole-shaped opening . |
| 8 | The system of social security which varies widely from country to country is another important influence when international comparisons are made . |
| 9 | If the client proposes an asking price which appears even after investigation to be unrealistic or unreasonable , it may be preferable to withdraw from the engagement . |
| 10 | His words brought to her eyes the same look that is in an eagle 's eyes as she flies again above moorland of the Western Isles and watches , far below , her own shadow flighting across the wild moorland wastes of Callanish . |
| 11 | Sylvestra le Touzel , his forbidding English wife , is in stark contrast to the Celtic sexiness of Lady Mortimer ( Jane Gurnett ) , who gabbles away in Welsh under the paternal gaze of Bernard Kaye 's Glendower , the crashing bore . |
| 12 | Who has right of way at that point ? |
| 13 | Who has right of way on a roundabout ? |
| 14 | Even when we 're talking about the person who has right of way on a roundabout . |
| 15 | Indeed , local government itself exists only by courtesy of Parliament and Parliament frequently alters its powers and functions . |
| 16 | She is indeed a transcendent figment of the creative literary imagination : According to Janette Richardson ( 1970 ) , Alison escapes any punishment in the tale because she acts purely in accordance with " nature " . |
| 17 | I guessed this was happening , because er she told me that she gets here at quarter past seven . |
| 18 | Well if she gets here at quarter past seven and three hours is quarter past ten , and she 's supposed to be at the Penny Farthing at nine o'clock , so you know , I , I do n't feel as though we are you know getting erm our money 's worth from her at the moment , erm also erm she told me in the beginning that this was only go on was going on for about six weeks , well it has now been going on for over eight weeks and she now says that erm she does n't know how longer it 's going on for and I think she is just erm stalling us . |
| 19 | The insert procedure itself varies somewhat from model to model , but the essence of it is to arrange for the over-recording to end at a pre-determined out point . |
| 20 | She seems very at home in her skin . |
| 21 | ( Warner Home Video , PG , £10.99 ) Whore Theresa Russell is Liz , the Los Angeles hooker who speaks straight to camera about her life and hard times in Ken ( no relation ) Russell 's low-budget sleaze vehicle . |
| 22 | For the time being , notice that on two occasions , Carol interrupts the flow of her own talk , trying to remember when a particular event took place — and on both occasions her self-interruption is in LE , interrupting a Creole sequence : Thus Carol 's talk in this conversation can be analysed as making use of two distinct codes , " Creole " and " English " , between which she moves systematically from time to time . |
| 23 | The Clairol model is the only spa to offer a choice of three speeds , the first of which causes your toe hairs to sway like daffodils in a light breeze ; the second bubbles gently like a pot of mung beans on simmer , and the third , to be used only when one feels particularly in need of a good rebirth , can cause orgasm in your achilles tendons . |
| 24 | By this time a new headquarter had been built in Vicarage Road , with a new engine and modern appliances , and set into the forecourt was proudly displayed in large letters " HALLING " , but with the outbreak of war this was blocked in with cement for security reasons , and as one walks across in front of the station today the same cement is still visible . |
| 25 | Defending a minuscule majority of 147 , he commutes assiduously by train between Westminster and the railway-rooted constituency . |
| 26 | This may fatten GE 's profits but it sits oddly with talk about a partnership with suppliers . |
| 27 | He looks forward with impatience to the time when he will be sent to Siberia ; his martyrdom ends with the beginning of his punishment " . |
| 28 | It stands today in need of rescue from commercial interests to whom its traditions mean nothing , and likewise from administrators who would subordinate all else in deference to the supposed interests of the England squad . |
| 29 | He says apart from drill in the sense of head-counts , turn your back to the blast area and sitting on the ground covering your eyes and so on — none whatsoever . |
| 30 | There are many things that make a man irritable when he arrives home from work in the evening and a sensible wife will usually notice the storm-signals and will leave him alone until he simmers down . |