Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Social workers can manipulate their ‘ system ’ in favour of some clients because their agency grants them licence to deploy such commitments . |
| 2 | and she goes I 've had enough questions for one day , I said it plenty of times she said oh shut up you wee wally |
| 3 | Garden Notices We recommend introducing new guide-lines for the issuing of Garden Notices . |
| 4 | Derrida has not been concerned to formulate a new philosophy of history ; nor has he attempted to specify new methodologies in the manner of Foucault . |
| 5 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 6 | she says so I thought if I buy you one she says you give me them two , I says whoa hang on a minute , I says I 've got two windows |
| 7 | I 'm with you yeah , see Sam 's got some learning , when he comes to spellings to me , again I would , I would print yeah , he only scrawled that down last night , he says I 've got some spellings on sports mum , I said do you know any of 'em ? , he said no , I said when 's you test ? , he says Friday , well I got ta book on all sports and then I read it because sports and you think hockey 's one of them , oh yeah , racket , which is spelt wrong I 've had to , I think it 's got a U in , but again I mean sometimes , I mean I 'm a good speller , I do n't know about you , but I look at them sometimes and I have to go and get the dictionary have to check em |
| 8 | he says , he says I 've put ten pounds ' worth of petrol in the car every week and there 's not one of them says there 's a couple of pound towards the petrol or nowt |
| 9 | My doctor says I 've to avoid smoky environments |
| 10 | ‘ Guido says I have to do six hours every day . |
| 11 | Mary Cummins , president of the suspended board that opposes Rainbow , says she refuses to demean legitimate minorites , such as blacks or Asians , by lumping them with homosexuals . |
| 12 | The NHS is one of the main election issues for Lynne , who says she has seen many changes in the service over the last ten years . |
| 13 | His wife , Anna , says she 's had four letters from him since his arrest before Christmas , but she has no knowledge of any appeal . |
| 14 | If he says you 've got six children and you work at the local factory , you do , yes ? |
| 15 | In order to understand how this happens we need to understand two ideas that are central to cognition theory . |
| 16 | He says we need to get private cars out of the city centre and make it into a place which is safe for pedestrians and cyclists , not polluted and where the buildings are n't being torn apart by traffic . |
| 17 | He says we did have several concerns and we suggested some stringent conditions . |
| 18 | A spokesman for thamesdown Borough Council admitted there is a backlog in housing benefit claims , but says they 've introduced new measures to clear it . |
| 19 | She says they 've got good facilites and can cater for children up to 16 . |
| 20 | Well Mark says they 've got twenty songs prepared like . |
| 21 | She says they 've got these guys and it 's all right now , I can come out . |
| 22 | Now Mr Harper says he plans to join other traders in the town by investing in steel shutters to prevent a recurrence . |
| 23 | Robson says he intends to assess young players in the B internationals against Italy ( the night before the main match ) and Yugoslavia . |
| 24 | Mr Walden says he 's received numerous letters since the Iraqi invasion two months ago , and felt it important to take the opportunity to talk with the people he represents . |
| 25 | Chris , who runs the Oxford School of Learning , says he 's had some students who 've passed the exam in a week . |
| 26 | He says he 's got four children . |
| 27 | Yeah well Pam says he 's got three days holiday . |
| 28 | He prides himself on a forthright nature and says he has asked more questions than any other MP in the House . |
| 29 | Now in his late 40s Mr Rees says he has seen many changes in attitude to transsexuals in the 20 years since he first asked for treatment . |
| 30 | The worst expensive flop Peter Barnes , Allan Clarke says he needed to buy eight players and was only allowed four , one of which cost a lot , well Allan , you bought the WRONG ONE ! 30,000 |