Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] [pron] [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because she [ the new maths teacher ] did n't know me , she did n't have any confidence in me … but because she did n't have any confidence in me , I did n't have any confidence in myself , and that is the thing that really makes me regret changing schools … at my first school all the teachers knew me and had confidence in me . |
| 2 | ‘ Up ’ ( and I think we 're talking more than the one level of ambiguity in that solitary two-letter word ) is a record that actually makes you feel happy , in that all of it is uplifting ( oi ! spiritually , not trouserly ) , you can dance to some of it and sing along to the rest , the words are rude and witty and always smart , and Richard Fairbrass is a fantastic pop singer , all post-Bowie and Ferry and languid , a sort of brightly-coloured Neil Tennant . |
| 3 | And the first one is , Is the policy required and if so does it give sufficient guidance . |
| 4 | Anyway er I went out and I shut the gates and just let them know that you know , they 'd sort of I wa I was checking |
| 5 | Begin with very light strokes and gradually let them become firmer . |
| 6 | ‘ He taught me how to tie a package with very little twine and very little paper and still make it look nice , ’ Walton later recalled . |
| 7 | In Symphony you have to fill in two settings forms — but there is a Group facility which allows you to specify all the series to be charted in a single operation and similarly lets you assign all the legends in a single step . |
| 8 | Leaders make others feel that what they are doing matters and hence makes them feel good about their work . |
| 9 | This speeds up calculations , reduces memory requirements and often lets you use narrower columns , so you can fit more on-screen . |
| 10 | Maggie smiled and he bent his dark head and kissed her , holding her hand and simply letting her fall asleep . |
| 11 | ‘ Old people bringing something out of the attic they 've never cared for , and then seeing it fetch thousands of pounds at auction . |
| 12 | Just looks like just looks like toffee and they just roll it like that and then do it like that . |
| 13 | Fabia opened her mouth to make some kind of sophisticated reply , but her heart was racing so much — nobody had even paid her such an extravagant compliment before , and yet made it sound true and sincere , and not extravagant at all — that she could think of nothing to say . |
| 14 | Giving yourself a home facial now and again makes you feel fresher . |
| 15 | However , she never practised , and neither did she publish more than an ( authoritative ) article on labour law for the Encyclopaedia Britannica . |
| 16 | And so , through playing his stuff so many times , hearing him play it on record and on bootlegs and actually hearing him sing live — once — it 's got to the point where it 's hard to say whether this is my natural voice or if it 's something I learned . |
| 17 | Teachers readily admit at the present time that in most cases they have had little or no training in assessment procedures , and therefore feel they lack both the skills and the confidence to take on a more responsible role in certification . |
| 18 | The unkind things your husband says to you not only make you feel bad but also make him feel better . |
| 19 | I mean that can be both pleasurable , but also make somebody feel uncomfortable . |
| 20 | I am writing a lot in my diary in mid and late May , but nowhere do I make any direct mention of the 13th . |
| 21 | So erm as well did you have any ? |