Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was so rattled I glanced round to make sure this was n't a signal for an army of bunnies like this Dobermann of a beast to come up from behind and tear me to shreds . |
| 2 | These acts , whether in Northern Ireland or on the mainland , in London or outside , bring nothing but feelings of utter revulsion to every British citizen , except the handful of warped minds who commit such atrocities . |
| 3 | ‘ We could take them home and sell them as pets . |
| 4 | Steve says the small scale dealers buy 50 tablets from bigger dealers , and sell them on weekends before clubs open , or once they 're inside . |
| 5 | Lending institutions now sell more and more of their mortgages to Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac , which in turn package them into securities and sell them to investors . |
| 6 | We would would go out with catapults and shoot chickens — pow — and sell them to restaurants . |
| 7 | They trust me with bunches of keys and let me phone my sister . |
| 8 | I mean nothing like burns into the pot you know what I mean ? |
| 9 | eat nothing between meals |
| 10 | I think that they only intend them for linings . |
| 11 | Er and she said I 'll ring you ag I said oh dear someone now coming to the door , she said , never mind I 'll ring you on Saturday , so I said alright and er and she lives at Wyndham , Norfolk , my husband 's niece and erm , you see , and then there 's the other one and she said , auntie you 're always so cheerful , I said , well I try to be cheerful because like everybody else I get a little depressed sometimes because , you see , I have no sisters and brothers , I have three elderly cousins who live away and who I , who I see , one was here a fortnight ago er er er my cousin and his wife er , you see , it will be on a Wednesday , a fortnight today , no Thursday , yes , you see , a fortnight ago and they said , we 'll come again an we 've always bought you a bunch of daffodils so we shall come again when the daffodils are and er and they bring me over bits and pieces because er she was a cook and they bring me something nice to eat |
| 12 | Tanjung said : ‘ Witnesses claim that police are taking the arrested demonstrators to the central Timisoara square , where they beat them up and stab them with bayonets , before shoving them into lorries and driving them away no one knows where . ’ |
| 13 | Is it not possible that we apprehend them as feelings of hotness and coldness because the feelings are usually of one sort when our bodies are hot , and of another sort when our bodies are cold ? |
| 14 | Because another one was er we come down the houses in here , empty houses and in , in the summer they used to grow flowers , Marguerites , and we used to go in the backyard , we were n't supposed to , er and cut these flowers and make them into bunches and , and sell them for tuppence and thruppence a bunch . |
| 15 | What you 've got to do now is make them into salesmen , forgive me again for using the phrase salesmen , I appreciate that all of you are not men . |
| 16 | They used to use , make them into flashers and hooks for hedge cutting and |
| 17 | All the iron men make them for keepsakes . |
| 18 | Then I wind them into balls and put them in the oven to dry , and that 's how I come to have all those woollen articles to sell . ’ |
| 19 | In this case it is clearer , because of the greater number of possibilities , that the substitutes for table which normalise the sentence ( lit , buffet , journal , balcon , etc. ) have no common semantic properties which distinguish them from items ( such as chaise , bibliothèque , revue , assiette ) which do not remove the oddness : |
| 20 | Beyond this it 's a handbook of fake advice , both social ( LIGHT : Always say Fiat lux ! when lighting a candle ) and aesthetic ( RAILWAY STATIONS : Always go into ecstasies about them ; cite them as models of architecture ) . |
| 21 | Now push them in girls ! shove at the bottom . |
| 22 | Thus one has a staircase with rounded steps , but to disguise the edges it is necessary to fill the hollow ends of the pipes with concrete or soil and suitably hide them with plants . |
| 23 | Introduce them to dishes free of the four zeros , offer alternatives to tea or coffee , and see how many of them accept . |
| 24 | She had the state collect painting , carpets , silver , jewellery and ceramics , and display them in museums created especially by her . |
| 25 | We regret the things we failed to do , we reproach ourselves for things we did do and feel relief that we have moved on . |
| 26 | If we confine ourselves to explanations couched in the vocabulary of physics or neurochemistry , then we are going to lose , or fail to formulate , a vitally important set of generalizations about human behaviour , and science will never be able to explain or predict behaviour in a satisfactory way . |
| 27 | You know , maybe we pick someone from groups who 've been doing a lot of good work lately , perhaps or something or you know some something like that , just er so they 're not left out the frame |
| 28 | As adults , however , many of us cripple ourselves with fears of making mistakes , of making a wrong decision , of failing , of feeling embarrassed , of repeating the past . |
| 29 | Now , the cheats amongst us ( like me ) will discover that you can import graphics into the Cel editor , and will quickly come to the conclusion that very lifelike images can be formed by using a scanner to scan individual frames from a film , and then pick out the bits they want and place them on cels to form a small animated sequence . |
| 30 | Wait until some of the seeds are about to drop from their pods or seed cases , collect them carefully , place them on sheets of paper in trays , and leave in a warm sunny place until the seeds spill out . |