Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's all right , honey , I do n't really talk like that , I do it to irritate Matt , though it usually does n't because he 's so thick-skinned and thinks everyone else talks like that anyway , so I guess I do it for my own private amusement . |
| 2 | a ghastly bogye , which doth them greatly affear . |
| 3 | I could be wrong , and if Kelly plays I sincerely hope he has a good game for if he does n't he may not recover from it , as he will always be known for ‘ screwing it when the Republic needed a win in Windsor ’ . |
| 4 | The other sizeable group of offences reported on is where the case involves someone well known ( e.g. Bronski pop man fined for sex offence or more frequently there is either fame by association ( e.g. GAY-SEX SHAME OF ESTHER 'S ‘ BROTHER' , where the inverted commas in the headline indicate the rather more tenuous link with television star Esther Rantzen than the headline immediately suggests ) , or the actor who was said to make £12,000 a year from impersonating Prince Charles , or someone who sounds from the headline to be well known ( e.g. CASTRATE ME SAYS GAY OPERA SINGER : He preyed on children . |
| 5 | He goes I now hate you . |
| 6 | Everyone wants everyone else to succeed . |
| 7 | The courts will generally be reluctant to find that a natural event breaks the chain of causation as the plaintiff has no-one else to sue if the defendant is exonerated . |
| 8 | Yeah and it causes me more washing up which I 've only just finished . |
| 9 | As for the zener diode D , that is described as being in series with the base of Tr3 which has me completely baffled . |
| 10 | I said , ‘ Lilya , I can not ask Semenov , because the KGB has me completely surrounded , and no-one can fight against them . |
| 11 | Allen 's colleague Jeremy Bailey has produced a computer program that colour-codes the view at each wavelength and then adds them together to produce these multicolour views . |
| 12 | Against this background of craters and devastated buildings people sit in the sun at cafes open again for a town which has nothing else to do but drink coffee and wait for the future . |
| 13 | The cuckoo is what is known as a brood parasite — it lays its egg in the nest of a different , host , species of bird and then has nothing further to do with it . |
| 14 | ‘ Robbie has already beaten them in championship fights and owns a Lonsdale belt outright so he has nothing further to prove . |
| 15 | This has nothing directly to do with the overt sex drives of American footballers , or the claim of the early Hollywood starlet Clara Bow that she once ‘ entertained ’ the whole of the University of Southern California football team in rapid succession . |
| 16 | The action has nothing specifically to do with the technical content of the programmes but relates to wider difficulties between the Council of Ministers , the Commission and the European Parliament . |
| 17 | But that is only a reason for saying that the value is not really there in the world if we presuppose a scientistic view of reality for which it is of itself necessarily ‘ motivationally inert ’ and cognizable in a manner which has nothing essentially to do with being attracted or repelled by it . |
| 18 | But Ruggia has someone else to count on this season . |
| 19 | No one else has got , has someone else got responsibility for client contact record sheet ? |
| 20 | But Kirillov has himself pointedly ruled out life after death : ‘ the laws of nature did not spare even Him ’ — Jesus , that is . |
| 21 | Conrad 's novel is about a fire-prone seaside South American republic , with foreign investors and their concessions : its silver has its lightly rendered counterpart in Naipaul 's bauxite . |
| 22 | According to Langford , ‘ The traveller who visits [ Birmingham ] once in six months supposes himself well acquainted with her , but he may chance to find a street of houses in the autumn , where he saw his horse at grass in the spring . ’ |
| 23 | At the moment we have a tour which has somebody else playing Lady but we 've got Judi Dench now so that 's that 's that . |
| 24 | ‘ Has somebody else died ? ’ |
| 25 | Do n't be a Chocolate Teapot , melting away when the heat 's turned up at school ; stand up for God and know that he loves you enough to help you through each day , however hot it gets . |
| 26 | When hiring tools from HSS Hire Shops you only pay for the actual time the equipment is in use ; in addition you have the HAE assurance that the tools you select are regularly maintained , and are in a safe condition . |
| 27 | ‘ The truth is , it tears you apart to think of me being with Marianne night after night , making love to her , holding her in my arms the way I once held you . ’ |
| 28 | Has she already talked to you ? ’ |
| 29 | ( Case in point : has she even noticed the metamorphosis I 've achieved in her flat ? |
| 30 | She 's sh she 's a bitch , she 's a oh has she still got that horse ? |