Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] and [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I says I do n't , I says when am I gon na be able to go to town I says and afford fifteen quid for another bloody rail ? |
| 2 | 23 She 'd be right-handed if she had hands ; she 's right-footed or right-sided. 24 She approaches and does most things from the right side . |
| 3 | As the Gypsey Race meanders through the estate it encourages and supports much wildlife and some quite rare birds . |
| 4 | With the substantial reality of an ether existing in space as accepted by Quantum Physics , in line with the ancient Vedic teachings , we can now look at the movement of this energy and how it integrates and forms this material world we know according to modern twentieth-century understanding as well as past views . |
| 5 | And out he goes and gets this woman and in she comes with a chart with a woman 's name the job number , that done it week by week or fortnight , whatever it does . |
| 6 | The university experience , however , is more than merely attending lectures and seminars ; it allows and encourages each student to make contacts and gain experience which will be useful in later life ; it teaches participants to think logically , to approach problems with an open and enquiring mind , to form lasting friendships and to organize , perhaps for the first time , their own financial , academic and social affairs . |
| 7 | The group can be asked to respond to what one individual has just said ; or it can focus discussion on one individual at a time ; or the counsellor can ensure that the group discusses general or shared problems , or that it links and compares different problems faced by individuals within the group . |
| 8 | So he withdraws and avoids all contact with the manager . |
| 9 | The most obvious achievement of this book is that it locates and republishes many poets whose neglect was far deeper than that of Mary Leapor . |
| 10 | Apart , then , from those for whom the virtue of representative democracy is precisely that it restricts and restrains popular power , and even , as in Britain , involves the vesting of sovereignty in the representative institutions rather than in the people themselves the chief argument in defence of representative democracy has been an essentially pragmatic one : that it is the best that can be devised in the context of large societies where the citizens are too many and too scattered to be gathered together in one place . |
| 11 | An opening at the Met Despite resistance by its more conservative elements , the Metropolitan Police has begun a process of reform that should lead to improvements in the way it operates and encourage better relations with the public . |
| 12 | The fisherman has high levels of mercury because he catches and eats large fish that lie in undisturbed pools and lagoons where methyl mercury settles , but so far he has no conclusive symptoms . |
| 13 | Correct punctuation is neither an irrelevant luxury nor a pedantic affectation : it conveys and alters exact meaning . |
| 14 | Indeed if a BBC nationwide survey in 1987 is to be heeded , the CAB can be confident that the public is aware of the service it provides and makes good use of it . |
| 15 | It is an ideology that calls itself pluralism when it imposes monoculture ; that speaks of choice as it snuffs out the biodiversity of the earth ; that cries democracy when it eclipses and denies all alternatives . |