Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [adv] [pos pn] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she quotes approvingly our television critic , Richard Last , a month or so back : ‘ Melvyn Bragg 's controversial A Time to Dance ( BBC1 ) ended on a believably tender note , suggesting that it was his producer or director , rather than the author , who miscalculated the grossness of earlier episodes . ’ |
| 2 | It contrasts the blood-thirsty dynasty of Michael Corleone as he builds up his gambling empire from a base in Nevada in the '50s with the story of how his father Vito ( Robert De Niro , playing Brando 's original role ) left Sicily to become the protector of poor Italians in a New York neighbourhood at the start of the century . |
| 3 | Cost otherwise otherwise it 's er it messes up your commission thing . |
| 4 | He hangs up his camelhair coat in the anteroom that connects his office with Shirley 's and passes into the former . |
| 5 | Even if he gets round your leg guard and starts kicking you , keep going . |
| 6 | I look at the false leg for a bit while he pulls up his trouser leg . |
| 7 | The same thing happens when he picks up his tenor sax , licks the end of the mouthpiece and proceeds to honk and howl like a man possessed … |
| 8 | He picks up his pocket calculator . |
| 9 | It defines how our quality system relates to us and our activities . |
| 10 | Fojcik 's response to the hounds is especially remarkable for as Degas did with race horses , he conveys both their animal beauty and their potential energy as lean mean racing machines . |
| 11 | When he switches on his TV set , the show is going out live . |
| 12 | He switches on his desk lamp , casting a pool of light on the documents . |
| 13 | When you have one wheel stuck in bent tramlines while the other is banging through mud-filled , cobble-strewn potholes the size of small mineshafts , it sharpens up your steering technique no end . |