Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Books can be dangerous because the reading and writing of them involves us in an exercise of intellectual freedom .
2 The point dogs catch him and one of them nips him on the leg — take that for being more popular with the boss .
3 Everyone loves me for the very things that you want me to cover up !
4 Well , just , but no-one writes 'em like Sebadoh , unless you 're talking of the surfeit of spirit that infused Alex Chilton 's wildest torch-songs , the challenging of expectations Sonic Youth practise or the studied waywardness of The Fall .
5 Someone points her to an unimportant stool in a far comer .
6 ‘ Although someone supervises me at all times , I handle all my cases myself .
7 Therapist Julia Blackburn 's heart sinks when someone visits her at The Maidenhead Natural Therapy Clinic and says , ‘ I 've tried a grapefruit diet , a pineapple diet , a very low-calorie diet , and now I 've come to see whether hypnotherapy might work . ’
8 I needs it for a wager on the Brasseywing . ’
9 First , as we wish to encourage carers and strengthen families — even the extended family — if a person who is caring for someone loses them to a home , the person 's home should not have to go on the market to meet the cost of fees .
10 On the new LP it will say something like ‘ Free samples if someone uses it in a really creative way . ’
11 ‘ I very rarely go out at weekends but if someone sees you in a pub once they assume you must be a real nightclubber .
12 ‘ If someone approaches me with a song , it 's got ta hit me in the face .
13 And er I gets him down and I gets him into the stable , and I gets all the clothes off him and he gets into a bag , a bran bag , more bags and lay down and covered himself , and I hung his clothes round the boiler fire .
14 someone accuses you of embarrassing/boring/upsetting them ( ‘ Now see what you 've made me do . ’ ) .
15 The standing back approach Someone phones you for a price for a project .
16 No you ca n't throw it you have to like jump on it like that and you go weee and it , and if , and if someone gets you on the hips you have to throw it to everybody .
17 But what am I to do when someone asks me for everything I know on Lake Malawi Cichlids ( as happens fairly often ) .
18 If someone asks you for a tale , tell them you 're learning the story of the Dwarf and the Firewood .
19 There is no need to worry if someone asks you to ‘ pull down the elephant 's trunk ’ — why ?
20 It 's just that , nowadays in life , you make a mistake and someone bangs you on the head for it .
21 Last girl to leave turns it off at night , then I puts it on next morning .
22 Someone gives you with something to integrate and they say I started off I differentiated something
23 someone invites you to a party or to try something new/different
24 Does a man do murder because a mate of his riles him in a pub or because he 's got more money than he has ? ’
25 Someone touches me on the arm .
26 The Labour Department can cajole companies to break the ceiling themselves before someone does it for them .
27 The distinction has to be noted ( because traditionally thinking in criminal law seems to regard it as important ) between a request by the patient that treatment be discontinued which is complied with and a request by the patient that someone stabs him to death which is complied with .
28 There was a man who went off to Amsterdam to buy some diamonds , I helped his secretary book his ticket , first class , and his limousine , smooth as clockwork , and as he 's walking along a canal admiring the house fronts someone stabs him in the back , destroys a kidney , gangrene sets in , now he 's dead .
29 Even Rampant Rottweilers are preferable to an XR2 with a double row of headlights blazing as it roars up behind you and a sticker in the back window which taunts you with ‘ Blondes Have More Fun ’ as it races past into the distance .
30 Even more extraordinary is the paucity of such information in the captions to the colour figures , which renders them of little use to the hobbyist .
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