Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their job is to make sure that no-one flies beyond their own limits and those of the aircraft . |
| 2 | What I 'm trying to say is , everyone joins for their own different reasons , you ca n't generalise that . |
| 3 | Although this bed is neatly made in the evenings , it is found disturbed again every morning , as if someone sleeps in it each night . |
| 4 | ‘ What puzzles me , , someone remarks of her new kittens at the close of Under the Net , ‘ is why those two should be pure Siamese and the other ones quite different , instead of their all being half tabby and half Siamese . ’ |
| 5 | and I says to him that 's one thing you never get at that , that one at Top Shop |
| 6 | I says to her that 's what I want , you know I want mine doing like that |
| 7 | 'Cos I says to her one day , well why do n't you ask yer , your relation , if he 'll er , if he 'll give yer a job . |
| 8 | So imagine how you would feel if someone breaks into your new home and destroys or steals the very things you are proud of , the things you have worked hard to buy . |
| 9 | For that sweet odour which doth in it live . |
| 10 | Instead , the initial implementation will appear as an Ethernet switch called the DragonSwitch , which fits into its existing Access/One hubs . |
| 11 | According to the causal direction hypothesis , Emerson 's task is disembedded in that it requires children to consider causal connectives in a way which differs from their usual communicative function . |
| 12 | The book ends with a conclusion which points to his aforementioned radical solution . |
| 13 | This might have involved a change in the preamble to the Macedonian constitution , which refers to something expansionist-sounding that was said in 1944 ; but that would have been it . |
| 14 | On the other is the atmosphere in schools , with its contempt of anything Indian or Pakistani , which impresses on them that western dress is superior to anything Asian . |
| 15 | Mair ( 1990 : 155 ) adds a further observation : The most pointed example of the temporal reorientation forced by the presence of an infinitival complement clause is provided by the verb thank , which turns into its own antonym when followed by an infinitive , changing its meaning from " express gratitude for a benefit received " to " ask " — as in I 'll thank you to be quiet . |
| 16 | If you reach this stage , you will probably feel guilty about it , which adds to your own discomfort . |
| 17 | It would appear from the judgment of Vinelott J. that this opinion is one which corresponds with his own . |
| 18 | In other words it chooses to move up the Phillips curve from point A to a point such as point B which corresponds to its new perception of the ‘ optimal ’ unemployment inflation pair . |
| 19 | They stand in water , which corresponds to their boggy native habitats , and are given additional light overnight to supplement the illumination from fluorescent strips ; such are the practicalities of plant-of-prey nurture . |
| 20 | Back in the thirteenth century , Marco Polo described Bukhara as the finest city in all Persia and Tabriz as the most splendid city in the province ( of Iraq ) , neither of which corresponds to our contemporary understanding . |
| 21 | In the case of the catering students that dividend is a measurably better understanding of how one hotel works , and where it is effective , a thorough assignment which counts towards their final grade , and the possibility of a future job-offer . |
| 22 | ‘ We had one customer who looked at the book , which has in it some really nasty colour pictures of legs and arms half eaten by sharks , ’ said Ainslie Thin . ’ |
| 23 | Mak says the Chinese population is often thought of as a ‘ silent community ’ which looks after its own . |
| 24 | The price achieved is a timely illustration of the challenge which lies before our new Secretary of State for National Heritage . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ What did 'e get , son ? ’ 'e says with 'is dying breath . |
| 26 | In addition to the serious and much publicised problem of badger baiting and digging , much of which occurs in my own county , and sett stopping , there is the appalling road-kill statistic of some 47,500 badgers a year . |
| 27 | Customers of DEC 's Berkeley System Distribution-based Ultrix Unix , which features on its doomed Mips Technologies Inc hardware line will be migrated up to Alpha and OSF/1 1.2 . |
| 28 | The proteins move in the electric current at a speed which depends on their electric charge and molecular weights , and within a few hours they have become distributed along the length of the gel — the procedure is called gel electrophoresis . |
| 29 | He himself says in his 2nd Edition of the Perambulation of Kent , which he revised whilst living here , " At this place of the Bishop in Halling I am drawing on the last scene of my life , where God has given me Liberorum Ouadrigam , all the fruit that I ever had " . |
| 30 | Rare species like the roseate tern , which breeds on our rocky islands , are severely threatened in their wintering areas . |