Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and say like say it takes absolutely ages to clean the dishes and pots you know , but like you say it was erm chili con carne , erm tuna and celery pie , what else was there on ? |
| 2 | If I speak loudly does it flash even more ? |
| 3 | It seems to have been Charles ' policy to broaden the education and leadership of his sons , and at the same time not to allow them to become too entrenched in their own subkingdoms . |
| 4 | Children used to leave out hay for the kings ' horses and wake up to find it had mysteriously been replaced by presents . |
| 5 | I know how to make it do all kinds of things — including a few that are not in the manufacturer 's manual — but I have not the first idea as to how it actually works . |
| 6 | This task is , in my view , something for all of us , and can not be left to doctors or parents to determine , unless we decide formally to authorize them to do so by law . |
| 7 | You go along thinking you know exactly what everything is , and then you stop and look at it and it does n't make any sense and you think maybe it only made any sense in the first place because everyone was pretending it did . |
| 8 | If you 've ever decided , in a flash of inspiration to change the furniture round in a particular room , you 'll know that this is one of the jobs you end up wishing you 'd never started . |
| 9 | I can honestly say now I do not feel I have subsequently ever lost a race I would have won had I been allowed to use the whip . ’ |
| 10 | I do not think we get much further by supposing that Jesus gave two insufflations of his Holy Spirit , one in John 's upper room , and one at Luke 's Pentecost . |
| 11 | If you have come with a particular ache or pain , do not expect it to disappear straight away . |
| 12 | I do not want him to return now . |
| 13 | I ca n't say that we 'll approve every one , but obviously we know that if you introduce a general charge there will be people for whom you do not want it to affect unfairly . |
| 14 | I do not want you to call here . |
| 15 | He insisted : ‘ As far as we are concerned we have had no approach from anyone about Davies and we do not wish him to move elsewhere . ’ |
| 16 | But Commander Roy Penrose , who organised yesterday 's raids , said : ‘ We do not believe they had as much explosives as they claimed . |
| 17 | I welcome the Bill , but I do not believe it goes far enough . |
| 18 | When you tip the seed from the packet it is hard to believe that from almost every one a plant will arise , so do not let them fall too thickly into the soil . |
| 19 | If you feel this way do not let it go very long without confessing it . |
| 20 | You can not pretend to people who , like you , have been pretending for as long as they can remember : they do not let you get away with it . |
| 21 | In short , numbers and labels do not allow us to discriminate even between stable performers and those not infrequently found ( see Stevens , 1970 , p. 125 ) ‘ in whose papers near-brilliance alternates with near nonsense . |
| 22 | Do not allow it to become too hot or the mixture will cook and not expand properly . |
| 23 | Keep the content of each effect simple — do not allow it to contain too many different elements at once . |
| 24 | But write a simple part for it and do not keep it going long without rests . |
| 25 | And if we do n't go we 've only lost a pound ticket . |
| 26 | I do n't think we know enough at this point to make a judgment . ’ |
| 27 | I honestly do n't think we know enough , well , anyway I 'm not qualified , erm . |
| 28 | ‘ I do n't think we 'd better do that , however . ’ |
| 29 | You 've got my name do n't think we go away that you ca n't ring me up again . |
| 30 | I wish I thought better about the opportunities 1992 has to offer , but realistically I do n't think we 've even begun to limber up for the competition . ’ |