Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pers pn] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He intimidates me the first time I ever talked to him was in the pub |
| 2 | It 's fucking madness , I 'll ge I mean it kills me the next day , it 's madness , I do n't know why I do it . |
| 3 | onto the rail and offers you the last fruit , |
| 4 | so that when he sees you the next time , he 'll double check that . |
| 5 | The barman hands her a second drink , a Tennents . |
| 6 | 1.7 Example ( 26 ) shows us the second and less common relation contributing to the unfolding of syntactic structures , which we shall call equation , adopting the obvious symbol to represent it : ( 26 ) Fitzpatrick , our neighbour , used to plant potatoes the subject exemplifies the basic pattern [ E = E ] , ( as does the underlined portion of ( 22 ) ) ; in more exact terms , what we have in this subject phrase is : As we have just remarked , equational phrases are rarer than phrases involving qualification ; and , among them , there is a very large disproportion in favour of equation between E and E , rather than between P and P. Nevertheless , the latter can be found ; two examples would be : ( 28 ) what I need is a cup of strong , dark coffee for a fast , convenient trip to the city , take the Skytram This is clearly not to say that strong and dark , or fast and convenient , are equivalent at the type level ; only that on some particular occasion of use , as here , they may be regarded by speaker , or copywriter , as equivalent . |
| 7 | GUIL throws him a second coin . ) |
| 8 | He misses it the first time , but I 've written it exactly like he played it , because it does n't really sound too bad ! |
| 9 | Individualism of this variety strives to put individuals in their social context , but nevertheless gives them the last laugh . |
| 10 | The Undo command gives you a second chance when you delete a block of text in error by allowing you to replace it in the document exactly where it came from . |
| 11 | It throws into combat the best players from all corners of the country and , unlike the old final trial game , it gives you a second chance if you play badly first time out . |
| 12 | D. Hey , 1981 ) Mackworth occasionally appears as ‘ Judge Mackworth ’ , erroneously gives him a third wife . |
| 13 | Plotting OU 1 against OY 1 on graph ( iv ) gives us a second point on the unemployment-income curve ( point B ) . |
| 14 | This gives us a second combination of interest and income ( 10% and £40m. ) which must also be on the IS curve . |
| 15 | But chapter 23 gives us the last piece of true storytelling in which Abraham is centre stage throughout . |
| 16 | The first person to find the thimble hides it the next time . |
| 17 | This makes them the first chain of salons in the U.K. specialising in both Afro and European hairdressing . |
| 18 | Well , they sa they 've works them the next day , and then Christmas Day we call it setting day , they 're all done up int they ? |
| 19 | The posting , which places her in command of some 12,000 soldiers across four counties , makes her the first woman brigadier to be appointed to a command role . |
| 20 | Geoff makes it a first |
| 21 | Hitachi Data Systems claims that its 7490E Cartridge Tape Subsystem , now shipping , makes it the first IBMulator to deliver 36-track , bi-directional tape units with improved control units that provide higher performance and direct Escon channel attachment . |
| 22 | Scotts Valley , California-based Microport Inc 's implementation of Unix System V.4 now supports Corollary Inc 's multiprocessor and XM multiprocessor hardware designs , saying it makes it the first independent software vendor to provide a shrink-wrapped multiprocessing version of the operating system . |
| 23 | IBM Corp 's Distributed Relational Database Architecture is starting to pick up acolytes , and Informix Software Inc , Menlo Park has announced Informix-Gateway with DRDA , claiming that this makes it the first major Unix database vendor fully to support the IBM architecture . |
| 24 | IBM Corp 's Distributed Relational Database Architecture is starting to pick up acolytes , and Informix Software Inc , Menlo Park has announced Informix-Gateway with DRDA , claiming that this makes it the first major Unix database vendor fully to support the IBM architecture . |
| 25 | This makes it the first manufacturer to produce a sub-£200 24-pin printer , the company claims . |