Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he clips them in and he goes all over the cars . |
| 2 | ‘ Nothing irritates me more than righteous indignation , ’ he said lightly . |
| 3 | Er alt , turns them on and off , yes it did , it does it then |
| 4 | What turns them on and off ? |
| 5 | It 's all hard and cold , but Marie laughs and turns me round so she can see it from all sides . |
| 6 | The idea just turns me off and my husband ca n't understand this . |
| 7 | But instead of attempting to place any one of them in opposition to the others as the key feature , it integrates them all as being the expressions of the basic contradiction of capitalism , that is , the striving continually to expand production , and in particular the production of surplus-value , as opposed to the relatively restricted consuming power of the population . |
| 8 | So I 've got ta say , that in terms of credibility it 's , and the Regional Sec er , the General Secretary made the point about credibility within those sections , and within that , those elections , it 's for the branches to , to actually decide who represents them credibly or not and for this , for any attempt to change rule in this particular way . |
| 9 | Unemployment locks the underclass into place in three ways : it is more likely to hit those who are poor ; the poorest are likely to be unemployed longest ; and , in addition , instead of compensating the unemployed , the welfare state penalizes them more than any other group on welfare . |
| 10 | And there is the fact that he is a good painter , and I know he will be quite famous one day , and this influences me more than it should . |
| 11 | Observe the completely different effect produced by replacing the adjectives in ( 1 ) by the corresponding adverbs , as in : ( 28 ) Ellen shook the keys loosely muzak drives them madly And contrast the two sentences of ( 29 ) ( b ) : ( 29 ) ( a ) what did the new system do to the motors ? ( b ) the new system made the motors quieter the new system made the motors more quietly 5.4 Let us now return to the matter of the resultative nuance which can indeed be observed in all the examples we have given , reproducing the structural diagrams ( 21 ) and ( 22 ) to do so : ( 21 ) ( 22 ) If these diagrams represent the relations actually used in constructing such expressions , it follows that the entity of the noun phrase , as initially present to the mind of the speaker ( and to that of the listener in the final interpretative phase of comprehension ) lacks the property of the adjective since it is structurally separated from it ; however , since that property is expressed by an adjective , then ex hypothesi it will apply to the entity of the noun phrase when the construction is taken as a whole ; if not , then either the property would be expressed by an adverb , and apply to the verb , or the whole construction would be literally incoherent . |
| 12 | The adult asks for facts , thinks them through and makes decisions in a level-headed way . |
| 13 | The owner , a posh woman with a hairstyle like an upright honeycomb , looks me up and down and only drawls , ‘ It 's very expensive . ’ |
| 14 | He looks me up and down rather ruefully . |
| 15 | She looks me up and down and says , ‘ I 'm Mr Newbegin 's wife . ’ |
| 16 | He adores them really and is certainly very proud of them ’ |
| 17 | He needs me more than I need him . |
| 18 | ‘ He needs me more than you do , ’ she said , as if that was an explanation . |
| 19 | ‘ For the moment she needs me more than you do , ’ he said at last . |
| 20 | Similar sequences , known as self-initiated insertion sequences , are common in the talk of monolinguals : " self-initiated " because the current speaker starts them rather than being prompted by another , and " insertion sequences " because they disrupt the " normal " flow of the conversation . |
| 21 | Well before both , my alert mind has me up and about my mother 's business . |
| 22 | Nothing makes me more downcast than the ‘ uplifting ’ , nothing elevates me more than the de-jected . |
| 23 | We see an incredible number of young people , and it worries me immensely that these are people at sixteen who 've been chucked out of their homes , and they are being pushed down by bureaucracy , that they are being penalised for leaving home at sixteen when it is not their own fault , it is the fault of well it is the result of family breakdown that they are being pushed out . |
| 24 | ‘ That performance against Palace worries me more than anything I have seen so far this season . |
| 25 | I think the thing that worries me more than anything else about them , that a lot of 'em have aspirations erm greater than their finances . |
| 26 | ‘ It worries me greatly that Darlington has only one ambulance after 7pm at night . ’ |
| 27 | This will not necessarily stop the Not-OK feelings but it at least contains them so that they do n't damage the transaction . |
| 28 | announcement every time there 's a delivery and the brother who 's giving the announcements on a Tuesday or a Thursday , whenever they meet , he , he says that we have new magazines tonight brothers and he may hold them up and said you know , that they 're this and that and lovely , beautiful magazines Jehovah doing so well now through his organization and he 's presenting us with , with erm marvellous erm appealing literature , he holds them up and says we 're , we 're , we 're able to get your magazines tonight and er we would like you to get them straight out at me , and they 're still there two or three weeks later , your magazines , this is a way we can stay spiritually awake , is by going and getting them straight away , not for the benefit of the brothers , poor old brother who is on the job and he 's wondering why , are they gon na come and fetch my magazines or not , but because we need to devour that spiritual feeling , we need to keep up to date with everything that Jehovah 's providing us with . |
| 29 | The plating feeder holds them so that one yarn is always on the purl side and one on the knit side . |
| 30 | The principle which animates these planes — holds them together and establishes communication between them — can be visualized as the life force or vital force , the Prana of the Hindus , or the Ch'i energy of the Chinese , that elusive something which departs at death . |