Example sentences of "[verb] [coord] [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So whether it means add or take away or subtract or negative we can sort of forget about it and just look at the signs so if get if we get take away plus three , that will be the same as take away plus three , yeah ? |
| 2 | Instead of battering , might he have decided to try and sweet-talk her into submission ? |
| 3 | I think you 'll find there 's quite a selection there and they 're , sort out what you want and that you know and er , ooh there 's lot of the old ones and every thing and |
| 4 | I puke again , but it 's just like my tummy s being squeezed and all I do is make this coughing noise and nothing comes out . |
| 5 | Culpeper said that " the oil is very warm and comforting to the joints that are stiff , to mollify and supple them . " |
| 6 | By all means let advertisers bring in history to help to sell their wares , but why is it that they so often mangle and corrupt it in the process ? |
| 7 | She said , ‘ It is n't that , ’ but the words were muffled and all he caught was her tone of voice , thick with distress and remorse . |
| 8 | Cheeks smeared by tears and mascara , she was helping him to stand and all he could think was How can she still have mascara after where she 's been ? |
| 9 | Little by little everything that was most English about her had been eroded and all she had left of it was her honesty , her natural courtesy and a slight reserve she could not entirely eliminate . |
| 10 | Almost immediately the safety glass shattered and all they could see were white chips . |
| 11 | My friends all seem to be organised but all I seem to do is scream at the children and be in a muddle . |
| 12 | How do you know but that you may be the next child that may die ? … |
| 13 | and is that , I always feel threatened or paranoid I just want to make a point on on paragraph seven the rule in which to review the is that my understanding that review will be about the role and of the rule in which the . |
| 14 | If it is injured or sick it may sit quietly in an unusually visible position during daylight hours . |
| 15 | Most of the child 's talk about himself , his toys , the things that he has seen or those he can do , arises spontaneously from his play . |
| 16 | They all smoke and all them fags in |
| 17 | She writes the words : arresting images ( lives that go in circles ‘ like a pigeon on a tyre ’ ) , moments of disturbing lucidity amid inscrutable dream-imagery ( ‘ give me what I want/ And all I can think about is losing it ’ ; ‘ why ca n't you do to my insights/What you do to my insides ? ’ ; |
| 18 | He would n't want to be disturbed and all he had to do to get out was draw the bloody bolt . ’ |
| 19 | everybody 's like a giggly virgin on their first date when you phone them up and ha ha ha I 'll need to get permission and have you spoken to and you know and we may need to talk and all I want you to do is come along for |
| 20 | To assess directly the differences between situations which were recalled and those which were not recalled each subject 's mean accident estimate and risk rating was calculated separately for situations which they recalled and those they did not . |
| 21 | Well I was working in the quarry , and er it 's last March turned round and said he wanted a new implemented with a new miracle saw that he had bought and he did n't really give us much warning about what he was gon na do but all he said was that er he was gon na scrap our old bonus contract and implement a new one no matter what , and from various figures that were bandied about we all realized we were gon na back quite a lot worse off because of it . |
| 22 | To have closed such a gap the niggled gentleman must have swiped the juice from his companions ' lips the moment we passed and kick-started them into a sprint . |
| 23 | It was all I hate and all I fear . |
| 24 | I can not believe that I 've cut up the dress he used to love me to wear and all I get for thanks is cheek . |
| 25 | At Monaco , his drive-shaft failed and all he had to show for the race was his twenty-two laps in the lead . |
| 26 | If it had been grey and raining and chilly he might have taken one look at Wyvis Hall and turned tail and fled to Crete or Delos or somewhere . |
| 27 | Pulling out a small pen torch he illuminated Chrissie 's small car , its green paintwork dulled with dust and the fact that she had n't cleaned or waxed it for months . |
| 28 | ‘ We believe that a bypass is what 's needed and all we are asking for is a feasibility study to be carried out , ’ Mr Melia said . |
| 29 | Finally the contemplative grows to recognise that in his life of love for God the being of God is extended in time : " he is gifte for to knowen and lufen him " ( Scale 2 , 34.111r. – 264 ) . |
| 30 | The newspaper on the table is problematic for me because it was problematic for my mother , a symbol of all she 'd hoped to escape and all she 'd landed herself in . |