Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each knows the weaknesses in its own and in the other approaches and therefore debates between them tend to result in predictable discussions within a well-trodden terrain . |
| 2 | On the one hand , some clients may prefer a structured day with routine care , which everyone receives given at set times , very probably by a succession of nurses . |
| 3 | Then everyone starts to believe in this group . |
| 4 | Everyone has heard of stressed executives who suffer peptic ulcers and ulcerative colitis . |
| 5 | It 's what everyone has to do at some time — it 's called taking responsibility for yourself . |
| 6 | I suppose everyone has to keep to some sort of rule . |
| 7 | I agree with Roulet that everyone has to fight for equal conditions , and then we are happy to share . |
| 8 | I do n't know , maybe the time was better for making music than it is now , there was less touring , not this hysterical feeling that everyone needs to jump from one place to another , or the lure of too many good orchestras — maybe it 's true that there are now more good orchestras than good conductors . |
| 9 | There are many clinical features in common among these treponematoses and some of them appear to go through similar stages and periods of latency . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't know ’ , the Dowager Countess leaned close to Lucille , ‘ why some of them bother to dress at all ! |
| 11 | There are unlikely to be any Scottish Conservative Back Benchers either , not only because there are so few of them but because none of them has participated in this debate , apart from a brief intervention by the hon. and learned member for Perth and Kinross ( Sir N. Fairbairn ) that could hardly have been described as serious participation . |
| 12 | Although opinion polls still show the centre-right 's candidate , Mr Fernando Collor , leading by five million votes , the difference between them has dropped from 13 to six points in one week . |
| 13 | I think for outsiders it looks like nothing has moved at all , but when you 're involved in the strike in fact things have been moving quite fast in very many important ways throughout the ten months . |
| 14 | Bonner said : ‘ Nothing has changed at Celtic . |
| 15 | When I move on to three eight one , three eight two there 's a lot of things been said about these benefits this morning which does n't leave much left for me but looking at the situation of the way this Tory government has in the last thirteen years , certainly since nineteen eighty two crucified the benefits paid genuinely to people is in itself a crime upon society and it reminds me of the the words of the song it 's the rich that get the gravy and it 's the poor that get the blame and nothing , but nothing has changed since those words were written many many years ago . |
| 16 | But little by little , as I became absorbed into rural life , I came to enjoy my ‘ inconveniences ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ Your reflections , ’ Hope cried out to the apparently enraptured merchant , ‘ set off my own — as do all the most acute thoughts , scattering from the hand like seeds , each of which can take on a life of its own , and I confess that I became absorbed in those great matters of morality and commerce raised by your eloquent conversation . ’ |
| 18 | I slid down until I became entangled in some bracken . |
| 19 | Do I want to teach after all ? ’ and this is because of what the others say to you , the more experienced teachers . |
| 20 | Do I want to go to this wonderful balloon festival ? |
| 21 | I made do with peripheral vision , which , after all , is the next best thing . |
| 22 | I did n't fancy his biscuits , so I made do with some toast . |
| 23 | we 're not a society yet , so I mean thinking about that , we have tried to become a society before . |
| 24 | And if we have n't got a full slate well I mean looking at that list we 're doing quite well . |
| 25 | I mean compared with other |
| 26 | I mean went to this kind of thing , it was |
| 27 | Yeah but I , I think that 's the importance basically I mean reading through this it 's very easy to sort of in , in a way you know go , go to this point of view because it was written at the time , but I mean we , we still now that it was a very sort of say left wing point of view |
| 28 | revolution has already happened , I mean according to this the , the landlord 's political power 's been smashed |
| 29 | It 's difficult to say well I mean suppose with all of these , the the light the sunlight is going |
| 30 | But I said it 's always the way when you think it 's a good examiner she or she , she gives you bad results and when it 's a bad , think oh an awful examiner I mean look at that one where you got that really tough examiner and you and Jenny was the only two that got honours . |