Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [adv] [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 've forgotten to buy a card and the shops are all closed , simply cut out some funny or pretty pictures from magazines , paste them onto a piece of card and then write your own personalised message inside . |
| 2 | Erm , what you need to do is , if you can , save up all the changes , for one batch and then do them all together . |
| 3 | Counselling the ill is more difficult than counselling the well , not least because of their reduced ability to think clearly , to make judgements , to arrive at sound decisions , to determine on a course of action and generally to fight their own battles . |
| 4 | Only two feet above the glassy water a dozen dug-out canoes are lashed to the side and more join us all the time . |
| 5 | for about thirty thousand or something like that and then go back to work and just pay your own mortgage off |
| 6 | The most usual way for a musician to do business in Jamaica was through a producer , who would pay the musician a nominal sum for his work and then make his own deals with record companies : a system which traditionally guaranteed disproportionately generous returns for the producer , and next to nothing for the musician . |
| 7 | ‘ He was asked about every act and even made his own suggestions and they were all carefully noted , ’ says a source close to the prince 's office . |
| 8 | And sewed on the sewing machine and then painted them all with raw linseed oil but raw linseed oil took a long while to dry but they soft . |
| 9 | ‘ My uncle is the most successful person I know because he started at the bottom and now has his own business . ’ |
| 10 | My wife Jeannie , however , makes jewellery and has made some lovely bits and pieces from my gold ( mind you , she is a perfectly capable panner and often finds her own ! ) . |
| 11 | It may take a long time discussing the parents ' child-rearing philosophy and even discussing their own childhood experiences of discipline to unearth the cause of these deep-seated feelings . |
| 12 | In such cases a written agreement can strengthen your case and perhaps save you some money . |
| 13 | Draw a rough sketch and then translate them all in a permanent fashion to the wall . |
| 14 | He had returned his father 's shirt and now wore his own vest , washed in the tin bath and dried over the kitchen pipes . |
| 15 | Doing as she had bid herself , she walked into the cottage and then spoilt it all by slamming the door . |
| 16 | Record a good speaker on the radio , play back a sentence and then record your own utterance of the same sentence . |
| 17 | Tony bought him a whisky and then bought him another . |
| 18 | The great appeal of methylation as a means of shutting genes off is that it has a known mechanism for perpetuating itself during cell division and thus ensuring its own inheritance . |
| 19 | The less fortunate among them , like Nicholson and Robert Towne , Charles Eastman , the writers , and Monte Hellman , the director , got together in a play group and literally built their own theatre , stealing timber from building sites for their scenery ; they ripped a toilet from a petrol station and lighting and electronics were similarly acquired . |
| 20 | He conducted a visitation every five years , when he went there and interviewed each individual member of the community and finally gave them all a charge . |
| 21 | Each of these is asked to be part of the community and yet to develop her own specialization . |
| 22 | He came up to my room and obligingly handed me some for my wife , myself and friends . |
| 23 | He raised his hands above his head and then stretched them both out at the unfortunate First Spiritualist . |
| 24 | Tranmere , keen to salvage some Merseyside pride and also consolidate their own mid-table position , took full advantage of their opponents ' fatigue to claim the points with two exceptional goals . |
| 25 | Her photographs capture the girls viewing each other and already checking their own image . |
| 26 | Allow me to present the evidence and then reach your own verdict . |
| 27 | Alexander very quickly established an excellent reputation as an actor and reciter and soon formed his own theatre company which specialized in one man Shakespearean recitals . |
| 28 | And I would , I would , I would erm give the minimum and preferably use your own references . |
| 29 | Stirling should have made sure of victory and further ease their own relegation worries after taking a 25th minute lead through Willie Watters . |
| 30 | Sir Monty Finniston is a former chairman of the British Steel Corporation and now runs his own company , H.M. |