Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] [pron] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had never made a secret of what he wanted from her , and pretending he enjoyed her company , pretending he wanted to laugh with her or show her his favourite places in Rome , was n't part of it . |
| 2 | I think they , if they , I mean as long as they know we are going to tell them or give them something each month they ought , ought to begin to look out for it . |
| 3 | I can do no better than give it my full recommendation . |
| 4 | By the time they are mature , hedgehogs can have several thousand of the modified hairs that give them their prickly appearance and an ideal form of defence against attackers . |
| 5 | His face bore an expression of holiness and rapture which his habitual place of worship never saw . |
| 6 | When we have all the passengers , then we will refuel the plane and send you your other brother . ’ |
| 7 | They told us at school to ask a policeman if we got lost , and show him our yellow card with our name and address on it . |
| 8 | When it is pointed out that a number of Labour programmes have been markedly radical , as in 1945 and 1983 , then it is claimed that the leaders have failed to be behind them and give them their solid backing and support . |
| 9 | And give them your full attention , too ! ’ |
| 10 | We go to a chemist and say : get out your textbooks and your calculating machine ; sharpen your pencil and your wits ; fill your head with formulae , and your flasks with methane and ammonia and hydrogen and carbon dioxide and all the other gases that a primeval nonliving planet can be expected to have ; cook them all up together ; pass strokes of lightning through your simulated atmospheres , and strokes of inspiration through your brain ; bring all your clever chemist 's methods to bear , and give us your best chemist 's estimate of the probability that a typical planet will spontaneously generate a self-replicating molecule . |
| 11 | If you do and they complete a report and give you their best advice you can still say no thank you I 'm going to put it in the building society . |
| 12 | ‘ We have to adopt a really attacking policy and give it our best shot , ’ declared Roxburgh , who has recalled creative players in Celtic 's Paul McStay and John Collins along with Rangers skipper Richard Gough . |
| 13 | Hopefully he can recover and regain his test place and give it his best shot . |
| 14 | Well , now go on and tell me me good side . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ No-o-o ’ , I lie , and tell him her latest telephone pearl , which goes : ME : ‘ Any news ? ’ |
| 16 | We just clear them on to the runway and tell them what other traffic we expect . |
| 17 | ‘ With Chet or any other people I play with , I just steal a lick or two and use it my own way . |
| 18 | All that was necessary was for the porter to replace it on the wrong nail before going to Compline , and leave her its ineffective twin . |
| 19 | ‘ We wait , Jack , we just wait and see what their next move is . |
| 20 | I mean we 've got to offer it to her and see what her ultimate decision is . |
| 21 | But tell me who those men were , walking out . |
| 22 | But have it your own way . ’ |