Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [vb base] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mm the water in my other pond is crystal clear , see straight down to the bottom , and another thing I want this hedge quite high cos keep the sun off my pond , if you let the sun on the pond it 'll just go green |
| 2 | It is obviously easier to make an appointment with an individual than organize a group , although once a format programme has been decided , handouts printed , and a venue organized , most of the other organizational tasks can be carried out by clerical and secretarial staff . |
| 3 | I think there 's a lot of the co , er , the smaller companies feel that way , but the bigger companies have tried the smaller ones , and I think we , we 're not likely to lose the bigger ones as easy as lose the small ones . |
| 4 | Eventually the two values in column one become effectively equal as do the two values in column two . |
| 5 | ‘ So we all go up in the lift , and the two bucks as good as carry the mother 's boy into the room ; he 's almost completely gone , and they sit him on the bed and they pour some of the champagne down him and then they come out . |
| 6 | Better , he felt , to appear over-talkative than give the impression of a man of mystery . |
| 7 | The latter are especially interesting since they constitute the outer ring of the EEC and also because they have considerably higher standards of living than do the EEC Member States . |
| 8 | You 've got a hundred — a hundred degrees in the day time and you 've got freezing conditions at night and literally just , people are lying , lying on the floor shaking at night time , erm they 're beginning to lose children , they have n't had an er epidemic of disease yet , you know they 're definitely going to get one , er and then the other big problem is er to coordinate a massive air lift , and it 's going to have to be an air lift , you know as , as big as say the Berlin air lift . |
| 9 | yeah , erm I would take a guess that there will be because we still have ambitions to shed a load of space so it would be advisable to re-fit to release further space we have another twenty six smaller stores that we have n't done at all yet other than put a so yes we 'll have an on-going re-fit programme I ca n't give you the exact details because erm how many it 's gon na be but there will be certainly an on-going re-fit programme . |
| 10 | In fact , if it had n't been for Granpa I would n't even have been made to attend the local elementary school in Jubilee Street , and ‘ attend ’ was the right word , because I did n't do a lot once I 'd got there , other than bang the lid of my little desk and occasionally pull the pigtails of ‘ Posh Porky ’ , the girl who sat in front of me . |
| 11 | Although just what she had done with all her unencumbered time since he 'd moved the rest of them to Almsmead , other than take an excessive interest in the mill-school he 'd had to build to keep on the right side of that damned , interfering Factory Act , he was uncertain . |
| 12 | There was nothing she could do about it , other than keep a low profile and stay well out of his way . |
| 13 | erm , other than clairify the erm , all solutions were made available to members of the panel as an appendix to the reports to the Policy Panel er , but that they wo n't to all members efficiency but were made available |
| 14 | In the cold light of day Celtic 's win will have been seen to do nothing other than reduce the gap between them and Rangers in the Premier Division from 12 to ten points , which is hardly the signal for predicting immediate transformation within the club bereft of a trophy since 1989 . |
| 15 | Beating Rangers for the first time in a year ( the first time for two years at home ) did nothing other than give a long suffering Celtic support one night of remission . |
| 16 | Whatever one feels about his captaincy at Old Trafford , nobody could possibly do other than admire a man who went on to bat for more than five hours , immediately after suffering a truly horrific hammering in the field . |
| 17 | They would rather play dead than face the pain of thinking about their wives and family and the ordinary small activities of family life which they did n't sufficiently value when they had freedom . |