Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To George Sand , however , he seems ‘ gentle as a lamb ’ ( 1866 ) — which he denies ( 1869 ) — and the pair of them chatter away like magpies ( 1866 ) ; ten years later , at her funeral , he weeps like a calf ( 1876 ) . |
| 2 | It will be mainly concerned with pensions , education and health care , because there are well-developed private and occupational services in all three areas and because state services in them make up about three-quarters of state welfare spending . |
| 3 | You 've probably seen some of these that are brushed , they get a very heavy brushing on them make almost into coats . |
| 4 | When Connor came back with a pint pot in either hand , he found his wife in the arms of the young Welshman , and stood smiling , watching them dance together to a song that had become all the rage in the last few years : |
| 5 | Lush 's large audience , most of whom chatter blithely through the sensitive acoustic numbers , seem to agree . |
| 6 | Lush 's large audience , most of whom chatter blithely through the sensitive acoustic numbers , seem to agree . |
| 7 | Children whose parents set firm limits for them grow up with more self-esteem and confidence than those who are allowed to get away with behaving in any way they like . |
| 8 | All of them fit in with kitchen cabinetry and are suitable for sealed system central heating . |
| 9 | I make myself aware of a three-dimensional object by synthesizing what I perceive from here with what I imagine from there , of a continuing event by synthesizing what I perceive now with what I remember from past and anticipate from future viewpoints ; and in either case ‘ Be aware ’ obliges me to let myself be moved from the different viewpoints , as a causally necessary condition of becoming aware from them . |
| 10 | As time went by and my experience sharpened , I back away from the window , taking in more and more of the store fronts , their signs , and external lights . |
| 11 | As time went by and my experience sharpened , I back away from the window , taking in more and more of the store fronts , their signs , and external lights . |
| 12 | So I back away from them . |
| 13 | I change out of my pyjamas into them to write |
| 14 | " I change there for Bisbee . |
| 15 | Even if it is only for one moment that a spasm in your face draws my attention to the intensity of your pain , a glimpse from which I flinch back into insensibility , it is during that moment that a choice between my conflicting pulls to help and to ignore will be made in fullest awareness . |
| 16 | I mean to move on silently escaping , but I crash straight into a trolley , pushed by a bloke looking like one of the heavyweights in a James Bond film , so I leap away at speed as he snarls after me and knock over a pile of bean tins . |
| 17 | I cash in on my sex appeal I take all the credit I give you the |
| 18 | I have no commercial gallery and I sell only through commissions and the Royal Academy ; moreover having always had a teaching job , I have no real need to sell . |
| 19 | See now what his power is , for the day when I sate down before Juballa I had no more than four loaves of bread , and now by God 's mercy I have won Valencia . |
| 20 | Right , I 'll put my make up on . |
| 21 | Right , I 'll put my make up on |
| 22 | I repeat again in 1992 our major aim as a business is to improve the service we sell so well ; that we provide to our customers . |
| 23 | ‘ And should any other prince or captain , Christian or infidel , of whatever law or sect or condition he may be , pretend to any right to these lands and seas , I am ready and prepared to deny him and to defend them in the names of the Kings of Castile present and future , whose is this empire and the dominion of these Indies , islands and mainland , northern and southern , with their seas , in the arctic pole as in the antarctic , on both sides of the equinoctial line , within and without the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn — so that each thing and part of it belong and appertain most completely to Their Highnesses and to their successors , as I declare more at length by writ setting forth all that may be said or can be said and alleged in behalf of their royal patrimony , now and for all time so long as the world shall last until the final universal judgement of all mortals . ' |
| 24 | I mean eventually of course if somebody is dissatisfied , and they do n't believe that they 're getting er what they want , then they may well end up speaking to me , or writing to me , but er it 's the first place to start is with the individual service . |
| 25 | But one aspect that I find very worrying is the extraordinary level of negativity in the media and I mean particularly in the newspapers . ’ |
| 26 | So , I mean apart from arthritis life 's quite good ! |
| 27 | I mean apart from costs |
| 28 | This morning you were your usual bright self , but now I suspect that something has really upset you — I mean apart from Doreen 's bitchiness . ’ |
| 29 | I mean apart from a monstrous attack on our own officers who ca n't answer for themselves in this place . |
| 30 | I mean apart from that , yeah I mean you 're marvellous |