Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Games always result in a win-lose outcome where someone comes out on top but at the other person 's expense . |
| 2 | MADRID — Howard Marks , the Briton accused by US police of being the ‘ Marco Polo ’ who led an international ring of hashish smugglers , yesterday took one step closer towards extradition to the US , where he faces up to 113 years in jail , Tim McGirk writes . |
| 3 | ladies and gentlemen I would like to move a very small amendment to do a the second a membership on on item four on where it says up to three represent the area etcetera erm now the which I am currently a member of includes three libraries erm which are and and there are in fact five County Councils involved in the area of those three libraries when in fact Bushey has its own Bushey and there was a but I would like to see |
| 4 | Well Mrs Toad is having a sale in her shop + + she has laid out her caish + cash register + + an' a number of pots of tea + + it 's gon na be a special sale because + + so she has th' + a sign up saying + prices are slashed + so she hopes lots of customers will be coming along + to visit her + + while she ‘ s waiting for customers + she goes about setting out the rest of + of the shop + + for things in the sale + + an ’ she brings on + large cans of tin + of tea + + for + she can only carry one at a time + so she walks on with one and puts it on the counter + + |
| 5 | ‘ It sounds as though you really do believe that everything comes down to monetary profit and loss . ’ |
| 6 | There appears to be a gimmick on the throttle causing it to idle at some 1200 rpm when cold , although it drops back to 600 rpm when hot . |
| 7 | Place this on the very top of the roof so that it bends over on each side . |
| 8 | A timer can be fitted to an immersion heater so that it comes on at specified times of the day . |
| 9 | Not now , not next year but in the next twenty years so there are a problem with schools , there are problems , I think , with changing leisure habits er people , the way that people take their leisure has changed over the last twenty years and not always have clubs , organizations and sailing schools taken account of that in , in their programme , especially with youngsters and I have to say I also believe there is apathy in some clubs and other organizations , not every club has an active youth sailing scheme and I believe that any club that does n't either must be extremely popular because of its er prices of beer or , or some other reason or it may not exist perhaps in twenty years ' time , so I think it 's an ext extremely important topic brought about by the maybe , without being melodramatic , some of the stuff that we 're reading in the papers about youngsters these days but looking at it from a purely selfish sailing point of view if we 're to get more youngsters into the sport even if we 're to hold our ground we 've got to make a big effort over , over this year and , and it 's important make sure that it runs on for future years . |
| 10 | Oh I think so , yeah you would n't purchase the land that it stands on for that now |
| 11 | The desire for natural religion reflected an awareness that religious faith has to do with the inner life of human beings , that it connects up with profound needs , drives and searchings at the core of our existence . |
| 12 | From the fact that it leads on to all sorts of other questions , we can reasonably infer that many of the justifications given in the literature are indeed question-begging . |
| 13 | The long sentences in Swift 's ironic essay in support of cannibalism are explicable as a stylistic expression of the persona he adopts in order to intensify the impact of his outrageous proposal : in Corbett 's words , we seem to be " listening to a man who is so filled with his subject , so careful about qualifying his statements and computations , so infatuated with the sound of his own words , that he rambles on at inordinate length " The greater the range and size of the corpus which acts as a relative norm , the more valid the statement of relative frequency . |
| 14 | Er , it strikes me with the , with the comedy , he 's trying to be so funny that he shoots off at all these angles and not having |
| 15 | It says much for Ackerley — and Parker — that he emerges out of much camp narcissism as a figure of genuine humility . |
| 16 | Let the baby suck regularly — even if nothing comes out at first — and the milk should start coming through again . |
| 17 | ‘ And I goes in to this guy , and he goes like that , ‘ Hello , sit down . ’ |
| 18 | 4 to 5 is relatively easy and if someone starts off at 5 they do n't need any persuading at all ( attempts to persuade them may irritate them so much that they start to move to the left ! ) . |
| 19 | But I suppose you get insight er twenty per cent was she ca n't outrun him I think this bit she gets killed and she turns up in Little England , this come on . |
| 20 | could n't tell you but er these cars turned up erm , there were n't no hearse and off they went and er course when I went up the garden to get some washing in Claire came up and er anyway she said er about Mr and I said well I assume it was him , I saw Mrs and she starts on about this dog barking out in the garden again ! |
| 21 | One of them goes abroad all the time and she comes back with some great stories ! |
| 22 | Your Mum 's a , and they fuck her and they slap her and she comes back for more . |
| 23 | You 're meant either to run a mile , or else collapse back happily : oh yes , if she turns out like that , I can more than handle it . |
| 24 | This can be reduced a little if she goes in with all she needs for the first few days : a clean dressing-gown , slippers , a change of night clothes and bedjacket and all the toilet articles and other small items she is likely to want . |
| 25 | I wonder if she carries on like that in London ? ’ |
| 26 | If she carries on like that with her kids and all they 're going to be like her . |
| 27 | If she comes out by that hole her only route must be through the cage , in which she is then recaptured . |
| 28 | It may well fall off , but if it does fall off and everything gets back to normal it 'll grow back again . |
| 29 | And if we do get a period of rapid inflation , because if one looks back at seventy four seventy five , with inflation running at over twenty percent a year , stock market out of control , erm and er and er building society rates very poor , erm you know seventy four begins to look a bit like ninety four to me . |
| 30 | He walks through there and he gets up on that shed at the bottom of the garden next door but one . |