Example sentences of "[indef pn] [vb -s] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This baffled the doctors still further and they concluded that ‘ Social attitudes are decidedly curious on the other side of the Atlantic : prohibition is a state institution but people drink their fill behind closed shutters ; everyone prides himself on his virtue but women wear pessaries against conception . ’ |
| 2 | Everyone pats themselves on the back and goes home . ’ |
| 3 | In fact when you enter a large mental hospital you do enter a special kind of world , a village with streets and sign posts , and usually , for in such places , everyone has plenty of time on their hands , no shortage of people willing to direct you to where you want to go . |
| 4 | Almost everyone has something against Saddam . |
| 5 | This means that everyone has something in common with the rest of the group and it leads to a more relaxed and productive social activity . |
| 6 | Everyone loves me for the very things that you want me to cover up ! |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Someone points her to an unimportant stool in a far comer . |
| 9 | ‘ Although someone supervises me at all times , I handle all my cases myself . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | On the new LP it will say something like ‘ Free samples if someone uses it in a really creative way . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I very rarely go out at weekends but if someone sees you in a pub once they assume you must be a real nightclubber . |
| 14 | ‘ If someone approaches me with a song , it 's got ta hit me in the face . |
| 15 | someone accuses you of embarrassing/boring/upsetting them ( ‘ Now see what you 've made me do . ’ ) . |
| 16 | The standing back approach Someone phones you for a price for a project . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | There 's an obvious thing really that erm if someone dictates something to you and you have to repeat that word for word what would you normally do by |
| 19 | But what am I to do when someone asks me for everything I know on Lake Malawi Cichlids ( as happens fairly often ) . |
| 20 | If someone asks you for a tale , tell them you 're learning the story of the Dwarf and the Firewood . |
| 21 | There is no need to worry if someone asks you to ‘ pull down the elephant 's trunk ’ — why ? |
| 22 | It 's just that , nowadays in life , you make a mistake and someone bangs you on the head for it . |
| 23 | Someone gives you with something to integrate and they say I started off I differentiated something |
| 24 | Then panellists start wandering off without making excuses and someone tops everything by asking ‘ Crispin of Chainsaw ’ how he gets his guitar sound : ‘ Like , do you kick in your amp or do you use distortion pedals ? ’ |
| 25 | someone invites you to a party or to try something new/different |
| 26 | Someone touches me on the arm . |
| 27 | The Labour Department can cajole companies to break the ceiling themselves before someone does it for them . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | But no-one says anything about what to do , or whether to do anything at all , when you simply do n't miss it . ’ |