Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I " fackins I commend thee for that ! |
| 2 | Not er like they bring them in these cardboard boxes you know , wooden boxes . |
| 3 | ‘ But , Terry , surely we hide nothing from each other ? ’ |
| 4 | I take it you book me into that hotel . |
| 5 | reckon they sell them like that ? |
| 6 | I mean nothing to either of them . |
| 7 | We were at great pains to explain that we were novices and aware that diving in Barbados was unlike diving in the UK and were told that ‘ courses taken on holiday mean nothing at all ’ and that we should be prepared to snorkel around a pool for six months should he deem it necessary , and that even if we did dive to any standard we would be taken on a dive ( presumably in a pool ) , and ‘ ripped down ’ until we eventually failed a test . |
| 8 | Erm , it has actually worked , erm , in that it seems that there 's a very fair chance that er , in spite of the very discouraging things that were said by some of the people on my right when I moved this , erm , there is a very good chance now for a reasonable er , settlement in South Africa , which I think should erm , make everyone in this chamber very happy , and it is that , undoubtedly the case that economic pressure had a great deal to do with that . |
| 9 | ‘ And you hate me for all that , of course , ’ Luke accepted neutrally . |
| 10 | Yeah , well you then just go and change them for that one drawing ! |
| 11 | Now , are we sticking with the allocation that we had in the past , peoples responsibility , or when we change them in this sort of way are we mucking them about ? 'Cos I like to know what I am responsible for and what I 'm not . |
| 12 | Whatever else such a strategy may achieve , it certainly does not manage to produce a situation in which children are politically indistinguishable from adults and it rests on premises which , unless they can be defended , gain nothing for any defence to the charge of arbitrariness . |
| 13 | Lay me on another half a gram ’ … and they 'd go , ‘ Alright ’ … in the end , you 'd owe them a coupla grams and you 'd have to go shoplifting in Chester or something 'cos you could n't go round town in case they were there … . |
| 14 | Many of these features are unique to these mountains , and make them of much more than mere climbing interest . |
| 15 | No black on wings and no long trailing legs distinguish them from all other large white birds in flight . |
| 16 | Several features of O. abyssicola and O. granulifera distinguish them from most species of Ophiacantha : the high often indented disk , the arm spines of O. granulifera forming a fan on most proximal arm segments , large conspicuous disk plates and the very wide ventral arm plates are all reminiscent of the Ophioplinthacinae . |
| 17 | The nationalist movements and the new nations which made their appearance after the Second World War thus displayed features which distinguish them in some ways from the earlier movements which led to the formation of nation states in Western Europe , because they arose in a very different international context — in a highly developed capitalist world economy , in the aftermath of a division of the world among powerful imperialist nations , and in the midst of political transformations resulting from the growth of the socialist movement . |
| 18 | In 89 , a poem of infidelity ( ‘ Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault ’ ) , the Poet abases himself , vowing to perform all kinds of penance in order to win the Friend back , including never mentioning his name again in case he ‘ haply of our old acquaintance tell ’ : it is over , in the past . |
| 19 | Beside him , the Substitute burst into delighted laughter and said , ‘ Maestrangelo , introduce me to this man ! ’ |
| 20 | Males have brightly striped fringes and flash them at each other when displaying during combat . |
| 21 | Cash is overwhelmingly in sterling erm , can I just look up and remind my erm , refresh me on that . |
| 22 | They do n't refuse male customers , they simply sub contract them to another firm . |
| 23 | A truly usable recognition system would have to learn from whole word recognition techniques and combine them in some fashion with existing segmentation techniques ( Ho et al , 1991 ; Hull et al , 1991 ) . |
| 24 | and push them through that loop , it looks |
| 25 | And it 's to you , the readers , that we beg one week 's indulgence as we uncurl our lips , pat ourselves on that back and take you , in the next 46 pages , on a runaway rollercoaster ride through the stuff and nonsense , faces and fads , ecstatic highs and miserable lows that have littered 40 years of doing battle with the monster that is popular culture . |
| 26 | In 1466 a Bohemian visitor to England commented : … the peasants dig ditches round their fields and meadows and so fence them in that no one can pass on foot or on horseback except by the main roads ' ( 25 , p.53 ) . |
| 27 | By all means prosecute them for that . |
| 28 | Before you oil your hands , place them on either side of your partner 's head . |
| 29 | Then take two cuts of the cards off the bottom of the pack and place them at each end before placing the rest in the middle . |
| 30 | No I want them like that . |