Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because Britain offers them cheap labour . |
| 2 | She is too afraid of her reaction : ‘ To this day , it drives me crazy listening to her various hypotheses , the way religion and superstition all merge with her own beliefs . |
| 3 | In addition other purchasers , not wishing to miss a golden opportunity because they can not react quickly will attempt to insist that the seller grants them exclusive negotiating rights for a reasonable period of , for example , six weeks during which they should be able to agree a deal ; a so called lock out agreement . |
| 4 | He fingers my red rose brooch . |
| 5 | If it 's not one who supplies my regular retailer I wo n't buy the fish . |
| 6 | He 's a friend , he understands my special needs . |
| 7 | ‘ Would you really , a man of your enormous wealth , sue someone like me for a sum that to you is little more than pocket-money , but to me represents my very livelihood ? |
| 8 | The woman Rebecca , my father 's childless and rejected wife , haunts my early years . |
| 9 | What upsets and angers my hon. Friends is that the Department of Energy is praying in aid the proposed European Community directive on working time as a justification for that change . |
| 10 | It destroys my digestive system . |
| 11 | It has also pledged the pair to establishing NT-on-Alpha as ‘ a premier RISC-based systems platform ’ and has them promising machines ‘ that could fundamentally change the face of computing ’ as we know it . |
| 12 | That causes me deep disappointment . |
| 13 | That disparity causes me great concern . |
| 14 | The fact that I do not have envelopes causes me physical pain . |
| 15 | As we have just seen , sometimes horses can not cope with a situation that causes them great anxiety , and an attack of colic is the result . |
| 16 | Students should be advised to keep a " Difficulties Diary " in which they note those items , both phonological and grammatical , which causes them particular difficulty . |
| 17 | I am now trying , in vain , to uuencode the files so that I can send them to anyone who wants them thro' mail . |
| 18 | She needs my naughty lullabies to soothe her spirit . ’ |
| 19 | John wants my total involvement . |
| 20 | I reckon he wants my working-class experience to give his puerile political ideas some authenticity . ’ |
| 21 | Now it wants my red spoon but the Monster 's passion is as boundless as it is evil . |
| 22 | That er concludes my little contribution to the evening 's entertainment . |
| 23 | Unfortunately , this article only reinforces my previous observations . |
| 24 | I picked up the stack of mail from the coffee-table and dealt myself one off the bottom : the envelope that contains my monthly bank statement , with its familiar brown matt and the wax seal like a blob of blood . |
| 25 | It contains my favourite things — a lot of junk really ! |
| 26 | In this sense of the term , my mental life contains my knowing things , and remembering things , and seeing things . |
| 27 | The Board has my warm support in its task of gathering together all Catholic women 's organisations and listening to their varied voices . |
| 28 | wife of the vicar in Goldsmith 's The Vicar of Wakefield ; ‘ my warm heart ’ quoted from her ‘ Miss Carolina Skeggs … has my warm heart ’ ( chap . |
| 29 | Wherever she may be now , on this earth or not , she has my eternal gratitude . |
| 30 | Has my wee china been a good boy ? |