Example sentences of "[vb base] [conj] [vb base] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | If you have to share , clean the used equipment immediately it was last used , separate the needle , barrel and plunger and clean them in hot tap water and washing up liquid , remove all traces of blood , rinse the works thoroughly with clean water and do the same with any spoons etc . |
2 | Like having a husband die and leave you for another woman at the same time . |
3 | ‘ And then at 18 , or in my case at 17 , they take you away from everything you know and stick you in some broom cupboard of a bedsit . |
4 | Then you 'd have eighter , or sixteener , a thirty twoer until you 'd got sixty four marbles you know and chuck them in this hole and if odd or even come out . |
5 | List the names of people you know and group them under different headings . |
6 | You will be angry I know and accuse me of all manner of evil things but one thing you can not accuse me of Lily is not caring for your son upon whose life I swear I love him truly and want only what is best for him . |
7 | Professionals involved with child protection define and explain it in different and sometimes conflicting ways , and adopt quite different stances about the way it should be undertaken ( Stainton Rogers and Stainton Rogers , 1989 ) . |
8 | Indoors he can get through almost half a show with one guitar — but then I try and get him off that , so that we do n't have the problem of breaking strings . ’ |
9 | And one , if you ever wanted to do a bit of homework , to actually really get into the mood for something like this , you want to take a , a single piece , a single little newsy thing , and just practise , try and write it for half a dozen different outlets . |
10 | When I very deliberately try and remember it like this I know I end up remembering it and describing it being like a bar scene in a musical , where everyone that the camera pans past is a very definite character , and they 're all so eager when the camera is on them , clapping and laughing and tapping their feet to the music so convincingly . |
11 | Again , we said this morning , try and keep it to one page . |
12 | Now , it 's going to be a bit scruffy this , and you just try and transcribe it onto that piece of paper so you 're going away with some idea . |
13 | Er I mean if I if I try and cover it with one of our professional salesmen , |
14 | I want you to try and do that for as long as you can , the person 's who 's trying to take them off it you try and take them off that point as long as you can , the other person stick to your guns , okay ? |
15 | Unlike some foreign restaurants that try and transplant you to distant shores by piping out Zorba , Pavarotti or the Bombay sitar quartet , thankfully L'Alouette does n't bother . |
16 | Yeah , well you then just go and change them for that one drawing ! |
17 | and they get , they get in this country and then they go and exploit them in another country ! |
18 | Go and see it by all means , but do n't expect too much . |
19 | Come and tell me about this morning , ’ He looked round for Catherine to discover that with admirable good sense she had asked for the facilities of the house , and was being issued with soap and hand-towels by Miss Williams . |
20 | Come and join us at this year 's Art in Action , where you will not only learn from the demonstrations by many of the UK 's leading artists and tutors , but you will also be invited to enjoy hands-on experience of art materials on display and sale by leading manufacturers such as Winsor & Newton , Daler-Rowney , Pro Arte , Liquitex , Schwan Stabilo , Faber-Castell , Berol/Osmiroid , Rexel Cumberland and many others . |
21 | If you are a practising artist who wants to know more , then come and join us from 522 January , Mondays to Fridays , 10am-5pm . |
22 | The strategy adopted was to begin with the best analysed corpus available when we started work ( Alvar Ellegard 's 128,000 word analysed subset of the Brown Corpus of American English ) , convert it into a format that could be used in practice , and improve and extend it in various ways . |