Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The SNP , if it maintains its principles , need change nothing to collect the electoral windfall left by Labour 's rush to the right . |
| 2 | Trust me to choose the one man that would make it impossible . |
| 3 | ‘ I mean , they get these ideas and these bees in their bonnets and try and make everyone think the same way , and they change all the rules and upset everything , and Freud got it wrong in one way and Marx got it wrong in another . ’ |
| 4 | So use the opportunity , get a return , make them take a good look at you and then you know you 're alright and can go on for another couple of years and make them look at you again . |
| 5 | People tend to assume that parents of mentally handicapped children and those who work with them are gifted with abnormal powers of patience and understanding , or suffused with some form of religious or social awareness that make them adopt a sacrificial purpose in life . |
| 6 | Then my father swung me up out of the sledge high above his head and down again , trying to distract me , to make light of what had happened and make me see the funny side of it . |
| 7 | I would agree that a hypnotist could not , for example , make me attack an innocent person . |
| 8 | PC-ometer We take the three ratings — CPU , DISK and VIDEO and combine them to get an overall performance mark . |
| 9 | I recall that during my last six months service I had the magnificent sum of £6/5/ ( £6.25 now ) to spend on myself . |
| 10 | I do n't mean I could do it myself , not straight away , I just mean I get a great sense of comradeship with these people . |
| 11 | I mean I know an awful lot of people outside Harlow who who come here but Harlow people could be said to be apathetic or not being marketed rightly . |
| 12 | Joe and I mean I come a long way and they said he told them I wan na pop in Friday morning before we go He was surprised He said well I were n't surprised , I said but er you know I want a name yeah well , he just said well I ca n't he ca n't fault me on anything . |
| 13 | I mean I knew the first day I drove in the dark was the first night we had the car and it was most odd experience |
| 14 | It is quite a lot to read I mean I read a short story last week . |
| 15 | That 's in the oh a lot of people did , oh yes , lot of people spent the money but I was one of the fortunate ones I had a little bit left because I mean I was , er I was very lucky myself , I mean I had a decent job at that time from time I left school and when I was on the dredging plant , I mean you take er in nineteen twenty five when er a schoolboy left school , his money was about ten shillings a week as an errand boy but I was one of the fortunate being a cabin boy on the dredger , I was getting thirty five shillings a week which was a lot of money and then after a few months they , I , they wanted another deck hand , so of course I went on there on four pound a week and then I was well off . |
| 16 | Oh yeah , I mean I had a horrible time with him for some time and it just , just |
| 17 | I mean I had the same problem when I was secretary . |
| 18 | You see it 's it 's high whereas I mean I bought a high bed , but even my bed 's not as high as that . |
| 19 | They want them to obtain a good position and be independent , preferably in the city . |
| 20 | We do n't encourage them to give up their other sports , we just want them to have the same chance in tennis . ’ |
| 21 | You want me to live a middle-class life . " |
| 22 | You want me to throw the bloody thing , do you ? |
| 23 | And forgive me asking an indelicate question but how are you off for money — on the whole trip ? |
| 24 | Given the shortage of good creative talent , this is not that unusual , and if you find that your agency is using freelances , your immediate reaction should not be to fire them on the spot : give them credit for both knowing their own limitations and for buying good work from outside , always assuming that it is good ; but press them to get a permanent team working on your account soon — it is not in your interest to lose continuity of creative work on your account . ) |
| 25 | I want nothing to stop The New Hope from making its maiden flight three months from now . ’ |
| 26 | I have to pick it up , she said oh that 's good , as I say I had a brilliant interview when the other members of staff come Steve and erm , I forget what the girl 's name was , but she 's already had a |
| 27 | Erm I say I enclose a short story for your consideration . |
| 28 | In fact it is just as misleading to ignore the packaging and expect someone to assess the new situation without any help . |
| 29 | I excused myself and went to bed I think but she repeated it so solemnly you see not as , say somebody saying a joking sort of way . |
| 30 | The ultimate innovation is the production of a brand new product or process which revolutionises an existing market or creates a new one . |