Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [to-vb] [adv prt] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BETTY BOO and Boy George make a very Hattractive pair … even if one of them needs to cover up a lack of locks more than the other . |
| 2 | Despite all the contrary opinions expressed in the play , the underlying message was that it is the mother 's right to choose whether she wants to bring up a child who is mentally handicapped , and that other people simply do not understand how the mother feels . |
| 3 | She she has to make out a form , with erm what was happening at the time and everything . |
| 4 | Maybe she needs to grow up a bit more |
| 5 | When she first begins to talk , she uses two different types of speech : egocentric speech , a kind of monologue , when she chatters on without bothering to know whom she is speaking to or even whether they are listening ; and socialized speech , a sign of growing maturity and decentring , when she tries to carry on a conversation , reacting to what the other person says . |
| 6 | In sampling and inspecting water quality he is his own agent to decide where and when he goes to pick up a sample . |
| 7 | He 's just a bit , he needs to calm down a bit cos he 's not got , he 's got quite a nice face . |
| 8 | Part of his stock-in-trade when he wants to take over an organization . |
| 9 | He wants to hammer out a way of relating its rather unexciting research sponsorship to the need to foster collaborative research on new ideas in European industry . |
| 10 | On Monday though he intends to start up a petition asking for his greens to be reinstated . |
| 11 | It votes to set up a force , but keeps it too small and sends it off with orders not to shoot . |
| 12 | it tends to float down a bit . |
| 13 | The drain-all , strip-out approach to land has been adopted by insurance firms investing in agriculture precisely because it requires no more thought than it takes to fill in a form for the subsidy . |
| 14 | And what 's inspiring about a treatise on who can own brown rice stores and how many people it takes to make up a windmill construction co-operative ? |
| 15 | It aims to set up a network of high quality and affordable playcare provision meeting the district 's needs , community resources officer Jan Farrow said . |
| 16 | He hopes to set up a steering group to develop ideas . |
| 17 | It aims to make more information about Gerson available , fund research projects , and eventually it hopes to set up a centre for people who want to try it , in combination with psychological counselling , according to Renee Henry . |
| 18 | He threatens to take out an injunction ; but Michael persuades him that , before making up his mind , he should at least come back and watch a rehearsal . |
| 19 | The next stage is for the UN secretary-general on May 18th to say how he proposes to set up a commission that will , in the 45 days after that , develop a plan for inspecting and destroying these weapons . |