Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 'll mean seeing so much less of him , and God knows I seem to see little enough already , but being an only boy I 've felt I must pack him off to boarding-school to get some men in his life and break the apron-strings . |
| 2 | for er we should see them away at Old Trafford , I ca n't see any problem there can you ? |
| 3 | It embodies the decision impugned and apart from the definitions I must set it out in full . |
| 4 | Instead of becoming frustrated with the futility in solving the problem , the celebration of success combined with the reflection on limitations nourishes people to choose the next action that may bring them closer to real community change . |
| 5 | And you might say well I 'll not take their advice I 'll invest it directly with Global and you 'll find that cos Global 'll keep it for themselves . |
| 6 | Neither spoke and Julia understood that David 's mother was on the very brink of breaking down ; any little thing might tip her over into outright despair . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll show ya round with great pleasure , ’ said the affable manager , ‘ but I ca n't think of a worse theatre than this for your show . ’ |
| 8 | Some men certainly lost their estates , although they might recover them later as political fortunes changed , but there is no real reason to believe that the estates themselves were normally impoverished by the fighting . |
| 9 | If that is what is intended , the objector would say , then constructivism is nothing more than a kind of behaviourism ( another attempt to replace the mental by the behavioural ) ; or perhaps we might lump it together with Marxist attempts to ‘ resolve ’ the mind-body problem in terms of ‘ praxis ’ . |
| 10 | We 'll let him in for free ! |
| 11 | Now if you 're if somebody becomes a persistent discounter first of all they 'll they 'll question it back at head office . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'll put it down to pre-wedding madness , and hope that it does n't strike again . ’ |
| 13 | I mean if you like , I mean , I 'll pick you up at normal time , then we 'll just |
| 14 | A forty watt bulb and we 'll reimburse you out of petty cash . ’ |
| 15 | We may see it even in political fundamentalism — where the teachings of a reformer are still seen as the crystal clear teachings which are the pure source of revelation , and from which deviation is heresy . |
| 16 | " I could show you how to prime it any time you like . " |
| 17 | This was the first time in her life that she 'd been in the company of a man who could bring her out in nervous flushes , make her heartbeat race and her stomach turn all watery , just by watching her … |
| 18 | And there were you could see them all over British Railways . |
| 19 | And of course he could use it up in subsequent years , he could move some of this into a P E P . |
| 20 | So we 'd jump up an get one of these rabbit skins and then we 'd take it back to wholesale fruiter in Street , and get fourpence for it . |
| 21 | Around that time , we heard about a network , which could link us up to other cocoa workers around the world . |
| 22 | He got his way in most things , had despotically guided Stephen 's life , had chosen Lyn for him , before that had picked him out of this school , pushed him into that , as soon as he could removed him altogether from academic threat . |
| 23 | But diamond , like other hard precious stones , is quite brittle so that , even if one could get it cheaply in large pieces it would not be a very useful structural substance . |
| 24 | And in the morning , yeah , you have to wake up earlier they 'd bring the hosepipe and they 'd wake you up with cold water and you 'd have to have a cold shower and everything And sometimes they , they put , they 'd used I got , I got done the worse and , like , I just woke up cos I felt cold . |
| 25 | The book begins , with the description of father and son at the latter 's birth ; the following paragraph is so formal in its rhetorical design , balancing each element of Mr Dombey 's description against a similar element of the description of Paul , that we may set it out in tabular form ( reading the columns from left to right ) : This is a brief glimpse of one kind of language which recurs at intervals throughout the book , especially at symbolic and ceremonial points in the fortunes of the Dombey family : births , funerals , and marriages . |
| 26 | With abused children the immediate and undisputed need is for protection but , in achieving this , we may cut them off from cherished family and community links , an isolation that may prove damaging . |
| 27 | I sometimes used to help him out with double dates , but they always ended with both girls squabbling over yours truly and Stuart sulking in the corner and displaying all the charisma of a limpet . |
| 28 | Next time we shall make it right to left Tory and left to right Labour . |
| 29 | The bus would catch me up about halfway . ’ |
| 30 | What other men might say or think was nothing to him ; his detachment would carry him far above earthly matters . |