Example sentences of "[vb base] [conj] [pron] [vb base] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 I CAN understand your apprehensions and I suggest that you talk to a Relate marriage guidance counsellor about your problem .
2 But even those who discard books forget that they exist in a real world and that the booksellers sell to real customers .
3 Say if you start in a A flat minor , that opens out the E chord for you , and so forth .
4 Sting and build as they do from a habit
5 ‘ You mean that you hunt with a dog ? ’ guessed Van Cheele .
6 I hardly imagine that I look like an habitual criminal , anyway . ’
7 Courts may be important less for what they do than for what they are : their existence makes social workers pause before they apply for an order .
8 This finding has led to the suggestion that the hepatocyte pallisade may represent a lineage system within which cells mature as they pass from a peri-bile ductular position ot mature perivenular hepatocytes .
9 Jones and Posnett ( 1990 ) examined the relationship between the level of covenant giving and the tax price ( that is , the tax relief you gain if you give through a covenant ) .
10 I mean if you belong to a church you do something to make it look tidy do n't you ?
11 I mean if you live in a posh area , er , the student 's going to take a pride in what he 's done , because you know you can give him it every day of his life , and he , he wants to do something , but he wants to do it himself .
12 In nature they will be able to feel the stripes of their background , and ensure that they settle in a camouflaged posture .
13 You know that we belong to a century when men are only valued for what is in them .
14 Sir right , you know if you go for a blood transfusion and you 're a smoker , how do you know that when you have the transfusion you wo n't get the ten percent of the blood that 's not working properly ?
15 So if I have associated the right word — say , the word blue — with the right impression — the impression I get when I look at a cornflower — there is no fear of my language not mirroring reality as there is if I talk about fate or fortune , these not being words for simple ideas impressed on my mind by external objects .
16 Another accident we had with an a wardrobe two of my lads had which was a funny one in retrospect but I some when you carry a wardrobe , funnily enough , the easiest way often if you 've got a tight corner , you know as you go round a corner in a staircase you 'll come from a landing and often turn right or turn left to go down , if you put it at an angle like that then you wo n't get it round the corner without catching the bannister .
17 started as a receptionist , works now on film business and keeps fit through gymnastics ; 's is the first voice fibre customers hear when they ring with a query .
18 You mean because they live in a different county .
19 You only go into the flats if you 're visiting someone or if you live there , so there 's no , there 's none of that hustle and bustle that you get on a , on a regular street .
20 Suppose that we look at a particular new mutant gene , out of the 2Nmf that arose .
21 As an example of the iterative solution method , suppose that we start with a trial value for rm of r 1 = 12 per cent and plug this into the right-hand side of the above equation .
22 Suppose that I point at a chair and say ‘ By ‘ chair ’ I mean that ’ , nothing in what I have done creates the desired meaning for the word ‘ chair ’ unless I can further characterise what it is about the object I am pointing to that I am taking as relevant ; for example , I might say ‘ that sort of furniture ’ , and this would improve matters , but I have to have the concept of furniture first .
23 With his own modest roots he dismisses the attacks on a class-based judiciary : ‘ The youngsters believe that we come from a narrow background — it 's all nonsense — they get it from that man Griffith . ’
24 They take at face value cases such as this one involving the policewomen , and they really believe that they live in a society that has lost all its civilised values .
25 First , I believe that I speak for a number of my hon. Friends when I say that we want the Bill to reach the statute book , come what may , in view of the approaching general election , and I hope that it will be given a fair wind .
26 Bona fide NVOCC 's , on the other hand , feel that they operate at a competitive disadvantage with regard to unscrupulous NVOCC 's which seem able to disregard the 1984 Shipping Act with impunity .
27 Well ca n't you just talk cos it 's not long , just a couple of minutes just talk before you revise for a little while ?
28 It 's about the menace you feel when you go to a football match . ’
29 Salvadorean women often remark that they live in a " matriarchal society " , by which they mean they must support their children single-handed .
30 I remind that we put in a housing investment bid for a hundred and twelve million pounds and were given the right to buy thirteen million .
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