Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frost ai n't good for plants , it turns them black and kills them off if you ai n't careful , but I reckon grass must be OK . |
| 2 | I live in an area of high unemployment and it drives me mad when married mothers go back to work just to get out of the house . |
| 3 | Of Merovech he records nothing other than his supposed descent from Chlodio and that he was the father of Childeric . |
| 4 | Mario and Yoshi may please puzzle addicts , but offers nothing new and does n't push the NES 's capabilities in the slightest . |
| 5 | This renders them sterile and has resulted in their virtual elimination from the Southampton and Solent coastal waters . |
| 6 | I am sorry to observe so little Care taken of the Education of our Youth designed for the Sea , even such as have a Prospect of commanding Ships either in the Government or Merchant Service : The element in which they live renders them rough and boisterous which makes a little Education more necessary to give them an early Byass . |
| 7 | So they get thrown when faced with a canvas which represents nothing other than form or shape or colour and they get thrown because they have n't the vocabulary , it seems to them , to respond to it , and they feel the need to respond verbally . |
| 8 | And it worries me still that we , we ai n't shifting him enough er |
| 9 | The Scotch Whisky Industry recognises that there are people whose drinking causes them medical or social harm . |
| 10 | He wants them small and blonde but also to know their mullet from a mallet . |
| 11 | Because many prefabs have now been bulldozed English Heritage wants them listed and protected from redevelopment . |
| 12 | She needs someone solid and dependable , with their feet on the ground , someone strong enough to take her instability , her neurotic insecurity — ’ |
| 13 | So Yarwell Tunnel has its mysterious and macabre secrets , sharing with some these facets and leaving an indelible memory in the mind . |
| 14 | If one thinks dialectically , so Hegel believed , it was possible , for the it was possible , he had done it , it 's set out in the Encyclopedia , his Encyclopedia , to see the whole system of reality as one articulated , logical system in which everything has its orderly and appointed place . |
| 15 | Emma Johnson was eager to point out that while the concerto has its inward and reflective side , it also offers scope in a purely virtuosic sense as well . |
| 16 | If your lord has her safe and sound , he is entitled to the prayers of all the brothers of Shrewsbury , and of half Wales into the bargain . ’ |
| 17 | Then she dresses her lovely as well . |
| 18 | You may not see a great deal of your creative team — many agencies take the quite reasonable view that the creative people should be busy making advertisements , not chatting up clients , and in one or two like Collett Dickinson & Pearce , the creative department holds itself superior and aloof and deals with clients only through its emissaries , the account executives . |
| 19 | ‘ Your old friend Newbegin wants you dead and out of the way . ’ |
| 20 | His vigour , nowadays , contains something savage and tasteless . |
| 21 | Following the Oxford Dictionary , which is here a more lucid guide than my more abstruse colleagues , we can say that a symbol signifies something other than or complementary to itself ; it can therefore be used to represent , express , or image things which are external to it but to which it is linked in an appropriate fashion . |
| 22 | It is a curious blend of delicacy and crudity and has something rough and barbarian about it . |
| 23 | Whatever our working situation , whether we view ourselves as being in a position of unique privilege or even perhaps severe disadvantage , Paul has something fundamental and life-changing to say to us in terms of principle and practical application . |
| 24 | Guttering is usually supplied in 2m lengths , so each length needs one joint and one ( or two ) support brackets . |
| 25 | King Lear stems from the gaudy fictions of Geoffrey of Monmouth , laughed at in Farmer Giles , and yet it contains one ancient and resonant line in the mad scene of ‘ poor Tom ’ : |
| 26 | I looks rather good and each shelf holds one full-size or two half-size trays . |
| 27 | The delicate flavour of the English new season lamb needs something light and fruity , says Ashworth , recommending a red burgundy 1986 Aloxe-Corton . |
| 28 | Despite the shortcomings compared to CD-I , at the time of writing CDTV has one major and unanswerable advantage . |
| 29 | Mind you , I do have a relative who has one tried and tested way of getting rid of his junk mail . |
| 30 | And no sooner has he drunk than he is cured . |