Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the vicar thinks it does he is mistaken . |
| 2 | So he fought with him and and took his stick from him and gave him a whack on the head and he dropped , and the story goes he says we 'll go home now lads . |
| 3 | Hewlett-Packard Co 's Canadian Panacom Division thinks it 's got some hot new X-terminal software for Sun , IBM and SCO Open Desktop platforms that will let you run applications from the local client rather than the host . |
| 4 | The use of titles encourages you to see individuals as set firmly into their social slots . |
| 5 | This course equips you to skipper by day with some confidence , but you need previous experience ; you should have sailed 5 days on a yacht , with 4 hours night sailing and 100 miles logged . |
| 6 | The social contract involves our sacrificing a portion of our personal liberty to achieve this end , but not out of some innate desire for the common good , since ‘ If it were possible , every one of us would prefer that the compacts binding others do not bind us ’ . |
| 7 | Home-made wills do not always mean what the writer thinks they do . |
| 8 | The very simplicity of the chart encourages you to ask questions such as : |
| 9 | Mercifully , the Windows shell offers you tick boxes instead of command line switches to make life a little easier . |
| 10 | ALEX Ferguson thinks he has problems juggling Manchester United 's ‘ foreign legion ’ for Europe . |
| 11 | My parents are very accepting ; my mum encourages me to dress for comfort rather than fashion . |
| 12 | Mum encourages me to like my face without make-up . |
| 13 | Many Fine Art graduates take up professional practice as artists , and this course encourages them to consider their role as artists in the community by providing opportunities for short-term placements outside the Faculty . |
| 14 | My Mum goes what have you been phoning Billy for ? |
| 15 | ‘ Your sister thinks you did . ’ |
| 16 | Soon after this we learn that Doyle thinks he has sold his rights by serving the system as a teacher for ‘ a large wheen of pennies ’ : ‘ He was an article that was corrupt … corruptio optimi pessima … ’ . |
| 17 | Babur thinks he looks like a film star , the sort who gets typecast as a rugged mountain trapper . |
| 18 | ‘ Buck thinks he has it in the bag , but there 's a long way to go yet . ’ |
| 19 | Mr Sulzberger thinks he has the answer . |
| 20 | But for value for money , New York 's Empire State Building has them beaten at 6.7ft a penny |
| 21 | I know Cora-Beth wants us to get engaged and now Madeleine 's turned me down , she 'll expect me to propose . |
| 22 | It will be clear that my not being a Christian has nothing to do with any feminist stance which I may espouse . |
| 23 | How many teeth has he got ? |
| 24 | For leaping creatures who can recognize the potential for action in a pile of bricks , support has something to do with above . |
| 25 | What colour hair has he got ? |
| 26 | The key point in the New Zealand Rail story has nothing to do with privatisation . |
| 27 | [ T ] his government 's challenge to freedom has nothing to do with totalitarian despotism . |
| 28 | The decision has nothing to do with the merits of the case which Her Majesty 's Government will defend in due course . |
| 29 | What decision has he reached about funding social workers involved in the Orkney inquiry ? |
| 30 | In recent years Levinas has himself articulated more explicitly his account of the relation of the ethical to the political . |