Example sentences of "[det] [vb -s] [pers pn] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , the very fact that an explanation should have been created at all tells us quite a lot about the way that the human mind works . |
| 2 | We have to put a shelf mark on the books so that we can shelve the book , but that tells us quite a lot about the subject , and if you start putting those three things together the librarian , as manager of his library , can start to put all this information together — in fact , the computer digests it for him — to give him an overview of how effective his operation is , when he should be buying extra copies , when perhaps he should be thinking of not buying quite so much , or being a little more selective . |
| 3 | We have to put a shelf mark on the book so that we can shelve the book , but that tells us quite a lot about the subject . |
| 4 | Get some petrol , go home and have a cup of tea , that gives us about an hour |
| 5 | That makes it probably the world 's largest resettlement scheme . |