Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [pers pn] [vb base] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You think because you 've read a few crappy books you know it all . ’ |
| 2 | Funny way they get them all the way out to the other side ! |
| 3 | Boswell is the one who tells us the legend of the seahorse from the lakes who devoured a man 's daughter , and was eventually trapped by the lure of a sow on a spit ; from Boswell we learn that of the hundred-strong little army the Laird of Raasay mustered , eighty-six came back from Culloden ; Boswell chronicles the ash and plane trees , the limestone rocks , the caves and their stalactites , the black cattle , the plover , the pigeons and blackcock , the rainfall , nine months in a year , the juniper , the peat , the belief in the existence of a gold mine , and the women wawking or waulking the tweed , a tedious operation where the tweed is rubbed over and through water in order to shrink and thicken it ( in the outer Hebrides they add their own urine to the vat , although Bozzie missed that one ) , and the women sang a worksong to accompany the rhythmic labour , and did not succeed in drowning out Johnson 's deep voice as he asked them questions . |
| 4 | I happen to drive a very small car er a Fiat one , two , six and you ca n't get much smaller than that and I am much more aggressive when I 'm driving that for the simple reason I think its this sort of principle although I 'm nearly six foot in that I 'm a small person and the small person mentality comes out because I get cut up continuously , they do n't do that when I 'm driving my husband 's car which is a Volvo , er they will cut in front of me , I do n't think they , if they knew what my brakes were like they would n't do it . |
| 5 | Brian Jacksons wrote eloquently about the still frequently thwarted aspirations of young fathers today to be different from the invisible or authoritarian men they remember their own fathers as having been . |
| 6 | We never asked for these technologies , and in the long run they give us fewer choices , not more . |
| 7 | Though some of these reasons are currently out of fashion in discussions of political authority I believe they all have their role to play , though some are more important in some societies than in others . |
| 8 | And when he gets the other stuff they give you that big bloody beaker full of it ! |
| 9 | In modern organisms we see them all the time . |
| 10 | She claims she has been ‘ very lucky ’ , though concedes that ‘ to a certain extent you make your own luck ’ . |
| 11 | But first , something has to be said about consciousness and intentions , because in everyday life we interpret our own behaviour in these terms , and it seems natural to do the same for animals . |