Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [art] [adj] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 I do n't think education comes into it , Chairman , because they change them every other year anyway ,
2 Beyond this there is little agreement , and the women 's weekly magazines , for example , have argued strongly in recent years that their particular editorial qualities and high coverage of a female audience make them a superior medium even to TV for many products in , particularly , food and toiletry fields .
3 I would be grateful if you could look into the matter and send me the duplicate Agreement as soon as possible , as I have your copy of the tape ( VM on IBM at 1600 bpi ) ready to despatch to you on return of the documents .
4 ‘ And if you pick one of these creatures up and place it a little distance away on the surface of the water , all its fellows will see is that it vanished , and reappeared elsewhere .
5 I definitely could n't afford that , so I took it back to the Oxford Used Car Centre and erm what happened , the mechanical breakdown service — now this is where I thought they were very good — they reimbursed me all the money that I 'd paid out on those repairs plus they did the repairs and put me a new gearbox in and the car 's running perfectly .
6 Put it the other way round , what incentives have the police or the white working class got not to be racist ?
7 I think that I put it the other way round last time .
8 Right , so when you measure that , okay , you best put it the right way up so you can see what you 're doing , and we 'll turn it back in a minute .
9 Put it the right way up then Kathleen ?
10 I give them a hot mash too , as well as letting them scratch about here , we cook up all the scraps in the kitchen .
11 Privately Captain Simcox hoped the IRA would be a match for the Tans — well , perhaps that was expecting too much — but it would be something if they could put some manners on them and give them a bloody nose now and again .
12 I 'm , hope not , I put that back , one , now give me a certain country where .
13 Give me a little song right here in the microphone .
14 Mm , mm , I do n't know , I think one of me tablets , me , for me heart , they give me a different tablet like , it was a same like Heinz Beans or Cross and Blackwell Beans
15 Maybe give you a wee lesson so it 'll save me going on a course so you could bring in all could n't you ?
16 Oh god I 've give you a bloody handful now so that was stupid .
17 Er Loot at Lunchtime tomorrow ten to one quarter to oneish just after Action Line , give you the qualifying question then .
18 give her a wee drop later Jean cos she 'd a good walk this morning you know and er now those Bramleys up there , okay ?
19 No she bought a second lo a second twenty lot of twenty and I give her the first lot back probably .
20 In the sort of conflict situation in which Benjamin Spock ( 1946 ) would suggest ‘ distracting him to something interesting but harmless ’ or ‘ give him a graceful way out ’ ( from a temper tantrum ) , or where Susan Isaacs in 1932 tells the mother ‘ not to be too ready to treat any momentary defiance as an immediate occasion for a pitched battle of wills ’ , the Evangelicals and their followers were , on the contrary , eager to seize upon such an opportunity , since their battle was with the devil himself , and the child 's spiritual salvation at stake ; distraction was the last thing they would have advised , for it was their urgent intention to rouse in the young child a vivid appreciation of his own shortcomings , as being the quickest and most effective means of subjugating his will to higher authority .
21 Expansion , give him a little straw out of which he can make the bricks , have a couple of good stories and so on .
22 Give it a good shake though
23 Well you give it a good bash then .
24 It is a long way from the post-punk Big Black noise of old that first did the rounds of Ireland , which they confirm themselves the following day when , nursing Alps-sized hangovers , the threesome spill out stories of their past as we head through New York to the photo-shoot in the Bronx .
25 Tell me the true story then , and stop being so horrid . ’
26 ‘ I know it a damn sight better than you do ! ’
27 That one , that one , page two , get it the right way up , that one , like that , that 's it .
28 ‘ Now we have young players who know what the Irish set up is all about .
29 You know what the next level up is after megabyte .
30 Find me a new job then .
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