Example sentences of "[adj] [vb -s] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah but that drives me mad . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've 'eard some things in my life but that beats 'em all . ’ |
| 3 | That causes me deep disappointment . |
| 4 | That places it FOURTH in the premier league of top-earning ‘ industries ’ . |
| 5 | Better ( > ) slow gentle motion ; this soothes them both generally and their specific complaints — pains , headaches etc . |
| 6 | This renders them sterile and has resulted in their virtual elimination from the Southampton and Solent coastal waters . |
| 7 | Branagh , too , talks like a winner , and Henry V offers him better than any other play in the repertoire what might be called a yuppie dynamic , a mythology of success and self-definition rather than of struggle . |
| 8 | This places them intermediate between categories 2 and 3 . |
| 9 | This allows him some respite at least and his home life is less subject to instant upheaval . |
| 10 | I 've no idea about the mood , I 've no idea what people will think of er maybe large numbers Well one journalist said to me in Blackpool and perhaps this says it all , he said , Michael , you 're the only really popular person here this week . |
| 11 | The critics never review my work , but this concerns me little as they have no power and little influence . |
| 12 | While this gets them both young and older females there is a price to pay , since big harems are the least stable and most easily taken over by other males . |
| 13 | The Ethiopian is more powerful — you can sleep on the Yemeni , but Ethiopian keeps you awake all night ! . ’ |
| 14 | This depicts them both in a cartoon car with Roger Rabbit . |
| 15 | This keeps him happy until it is time to go to the nursery by which time she has cleared up the mess . |
| 16 | More Sunday afternoon than Saturday night , this takes you all the way to Soho and leaves you there . |
| 17 | Third , the floating charge holder will be able to take steps to enforce the charge and , as will be seen , this accords him considerable control over the company 's affairs . |
| 18 | The Evangelicals have become a powerful influence in the land and this lays them open to the wooing of politicians . |
| 19 | This lays it open to Walter Benjamin 's critique even more than the classic realist novel , for it is still further removed from his concept of storytelling . |
| 20 | Er this tells us that domestic political considerations are very important in deciding whether to use er violence or whether to threaten it or , or , or whatever erm so there is er er a domestic political dimension to this which is well worth examining if you wish to understand the limits that actually exist on politicians ' powers . |
| 21 | This tells us two things : there is a conception of what amounts to trust wording ; but there is a willingness to depart from it in certain circumstances . |
| 22 | But perhaps this tells us more about Western society than about human nature . |
| 23 | So they seek to maximize their ‘ utility ’ in other ways — Niskanen argues that they do this by maximizing budgets , because this gives them extra power , prestige and status . |
| 24 | This gives me strong blacks . |
| 25 | This gives me strong blacks . |
| 26 | lets hope this gives him some confidence . |
| 27 | All this gives it some importance in bringing the workforce to acceptance of the new work disciplines of the industrial revolution . |
| 28 | This gives you better control — and it stops you having to keep putting your hands into the tank . |
| 29 | Firstly , this gives you greater flexibility in distributing the data around the devices and directories on your system , and secondly , it is useful administratively — for instance , if one project finds that LIFESPAN is giving them data corruption alarms , you will need only to validate their particular Storage Directory , rather than the whole database . |
| 30 | This gives us one combination which must be on the LM curve : it is plotted as point C in graph ( d ) . |