Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [vb base] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ARE Soaps just right or do you think we need more fun ? |
| 2 | The employers acknowledged that management should accept responsibility for doing everything possible to keep prices stable or reduce them . |
| 3 | Let us go , says the second proposition , and find somebody else , some wise man who will be able to answer the unanswerable , who can tell us which are the sheep who can properly raise their prices , and which the goats who ought to keep their prices stable or lower them ; and then , when he tells us , we will all go and scream blue murder at the goats and make them thoroughly ashamed and sorry for themselves . |
| 4 | Do you think that 's , do you think that 's what what you 've experienced there , do you think that 's untypical or do you think that 's a fairly good example of of of life in that part of Westerhailes ? |
| 5 | Respect for their seniors was near the top of the list … however high or humble they might be . |
| 6 | So be it when I shall grow old or let me die . |
| 7 | Your skin is like creamy blossom and your eyes are so clear and grey they can see into the soul . |
| 8 | ‘ It was only intended as a short-term measure , ’ Schaffer objected , ‘ to keep the valley clear and give us the best possible chance for a manhunt . ’ |
| 9 | People come up to them daily and thank them for helping with ‘ the best thing that 's happened to the valley in decades . ’ |
| 10 | In the legal context , we need to feel that the prohibitions of laws , in the way they are defined and in the way they are applied , are justifiable and influence us all equally ( or , again , if they do not , that they discriminate on acceptable grounds ) . |
| 11 | If you forget , the helicopter will resume flying crabwise and give you a fairly gentle reminder . |
| 12 | Failing that , make Punch a monthly instead of a weekly and charge us more . |
| 13 | We felt more strongly than ever that while differences of race , nationality , culture and religion are interesting and mean we can learn much from one another , they should never be manipulated to lead to conflict on a personal or international level . |
| 14 | ‘ I wanted to look pale and interesting and bowl him over with my sparkling wit ! ’ |
| 15 | But this kind of stimulus neighbourhood he engineers point of view is actually extremely interesting and give you a hell of a lot of job satisfaction because you are getting the youngsters really involved in what it 's all about . |
| 16 | The secret is to keep it varied , keep it interesting and enjoy it . |
| 17 | I generally work from dark to light and bring it out from the dark . |
| 18 | I generally work from dark to light and bring it out from the dark . |
| 19 | James and the Nazarean hierarchy send their own missionaries in his wake , to undo his preaching and compromise him with his own converts — for Paul , by now , is preaching something very different from what the Nazareans themselves , under Jesus 's brother , have sanctioned . |
| 20 | When will you realise that so-called ‘ funny-man ’ Vic Reeves is n't actually funny and see him for what he is — a talentless , dumb Northerner . |
| 21 | If he 's got a job there , and he 's done it well or he 's done it badly , tell him he 's done it badly , tell them where they 've gone wrong and tell them what they should do to put it right . |
| 22 | Self-doubt probably still lurks somewhere so I write down very quickly all the things which went wrong and get them out of the way by incorporating my ideas on them into my plans for the next investigative session right away . |
| 23 | I ca n't tell you who to love , or how to love : those school courses would be how-not-not-to as much as how-to classes ( it 's like creative writing — you ca n't teach them how to write or what to write , only usefully point out where they 're going wrong and save them time ) . |
| 24 | Chairman I think I have to offer an apology to members and Mr in particular and the town of Bungay with a rather erm over which sentence expressing the press release , I mean we are continually trying to issue news items , press releases , progress reports and anything we 're doing and usually the press are very good and quoted for a basis , sometimes they get it wrong and mangle it up with some bits of disaster , on this occasion that is not the case , the , the actual press report did determine the phraseology used in my in lease them so I have to accept the responsibility for the phrase to act of your recommended this morning so it down sake , could abandon ideas which they can buy it , of course those crazy ideas used in and out of the court is what matters . |
| 25 | Miss Taylor said : ‘ Mr Patten wants to pile children high and teach them cheap but they are not like soap powder . ’ |
| 26 | Stack them high and sell them cheap . |
| 27 | TODAY 'S subtly-lit supermarkets , where loganberries nestle against kiwi-fruit , are a world away from Jack Cohen 's ‘ pile it high and sell it cheap ’ Tesco 's . |
| 28 | It has opened a dozen shops with an intriguing new concept — pile it high and sell it cheap — and plans a chain of 200 . |
| 29 | They seem to equate marketing with the ‘ stack it high and sell it cheap ’ philosophy of the discount supermarket . |
| 30 | Many of those taking part in the poll also believed DIY stores still ‘ stack it high and sell it cheap ’ . |