Example sentences of "[vb base] [subord] [pron] [be] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Spokesman for Jet John Maples say although there 's no immediate threat to jobs he 's pleased that Michael Heseltine and John Patten have spoken up in Culham 's favour . |
2 | I expect when he was a little boy he 'd rather have had a Bible for his birthday than anything else in the world , even a bicycle . |
3 | SAS the sentences which show the meanings and therefore reveal if it is a positive or negative statement . |
4 | When it is safe , give a right turn signal and as soon as you can do so take safely , take up position just left of the middle of the road or in the space marked by right turned vehicles , if you can leave room for other vehicles to pass on the left , wait until there is a safe gap between you and any oncoming vehicle , looking , look out of sight for motor cyclists and pedestrians , then make a turn , but do not cut the corner as people like pedestrians crossing the road in which you are turning . |
5 | It does not , however , show if there is a significant bias toward the right field for the verbal tasks or if , for example , verbal tasks are just more right in the left visual field . |
6 | I do n't know , I mean if I was a rich peasant I would be |
7 | That that 's not much but if it 's if it 's I mean if it 's not padded out with waffle and drivel cos you I mean if it 's a good ti concise answer that 'll probably get a good mark . |
8 | her husband getting killed is the end of the world and there 's , there 's nothing else sort of thing and they just it 's very sad really , I mean if you 're a young person you can quickly pull yourself together and realize that |
9 | Do n't you remember look if there were a hundred minutes in an hour that would be two point one two , but there 's not a hundred minutes in an hour are there ? |
10 | Where did young people used to gather and when , meet when you were a young lad ? |
11 | I 'll tell you about it later , when I know if it 's a good one . ’ |
12 | ‘ People on the receiving end of a hoax bomb call never know if it is the real thing . ’ |
13 | because I think to myself well you know if there are no disabled people about , and more often than not there are not why should n't anybody use them ? |
14 | I think that N Y T E C would have said something by now if none , you know if there was a disproportionate |
15 | Er er er you know if there was a bad storm somebody would oh you better stay here today too again and he might be there three or four days . |
16 | Well either ill or else they 've gone you know cos it 's a nice day out do n't know . |
17 | I said , I know because they 're The Sensational Alex Harvey Band . |
18 | anymore , you know because it 's the nice ceremony and because it 's it 's a do . |
19 | and you know because it is a huge thing is n't it ? |
20 | I start counting from Wednesday which I know because it was the first day of term . |
21 | That 's what you get when you 're an old bastard . |
22 | I have the feeling , too , that the great object of the recording engineers here has been to present the full sound-range from the faintest pianissimo to the most thunderous triple- forte , and to ensure also that we hear as it were the furthest tip of the singers ' sibilants and the deepest reverberation of the bass drum . |
23 | I feel like it 's a second career . |
24 | Well , I guess if you 're a pornographic person , then pornographic things happen to you . |
25 | Saying how I feel when it 's a good feeling |
26 | I doubt if he is a hard enough case to brazen it out for long in confinement . |
27 | It 's the same when I ask if he is a romantic . |
28 | Sprinkle one and a half teaspoons of dried yeast over the surface , stir once and leave until there is a good head of froth , usually after about 10–15 minutes . |
29 | This depicted W H Smith as being accident prone — ‘ every time [ analysts ] meet the company there is another piece of bad news ’ — and weakly led : ‘ Brokers are also beginning to mutter about the effectiveness of the management led by opera buff and P G Wodehouse fan , chairman Sir Simon Hornby : they wonder if he is the right man to tackle the deep-seated problems at Do It All . ’ |
30 | I wonder if it 's the opposite and they 're a sort of post-acting civilization , maybe the first one on the earth . |