Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [adv prt] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Right so if someone holds up this piece and you hold up this piece to your mum and you say what sort of fraction is this ?
2 The iceberg is the result of a rapid rise in vehicle theft by young persons which goes back some time .
3 Washington Square ; Greenwich Village , the part of New York which stays up all night and starts waking up around midday .
4 But the division of labour within the enterprise is not a juggernaut which crushes out all trace of ‘ skill ’ or peculiarity in the wage-labour of each and every branch of production , and neither can the ‘ capitalist ’ attain the Taylorist ideal of total control over labour .
5 Now she 's about to make our hearts stop in A Kiss Before Dying , which comes out this week and co-stars Matt Dillon .
6 Which brings up another argument .
7 Yeah well she she sleeps she goes down some time between eight thirty and eleven .
8 She never could have done in Europe what she did in New York ; I can not think of an artist who points up this issue more clearly and I can not understand why she of all people was left out of the show .
9 However , the index itself takes up less space .
10 mm , any body who picks up that frame dad on its own , is gon na think bloody hell that 's
11 ‘ No , he 's naturally suspicious and resourceful , besides which we 've no-one else who carries out such work now . ’
12 But who carries out this type of abuse ?
13 They are confident that , highly skilled and dedicated and absolutely tireless , the surgeon will treat each operation — no matter how many operations he or she carries out that day … that week … that year — as unique and fascinating , that he or she will be in top form — for them .
14 Even now , cycling idly along the lanes in the lee of the downs , it is possible to speculate about such things in a whimsical sort of way ; a rare tranquility which pervades everything brings about that state of mind .
15 often , it takes months of phone calls before you have completed your ‘ hit list ’ , and I would suggest that whoever takes on this job should have a very carefree and optimistic attitude .
16 The difference between the two kinds of training is not as great as would appear at first sight because it turns out that task training has in common with skill training an emphasis on the perceptual side of human functioning .
17 ‘ Well , ’ says Howard , ‘ it turns out that Mishkin does n't actually have any money himself .
18 Thus it turns out that chapter 6 is concerned with the elaborate preparations for the ark 's return , and with its re-entry into Israelite territory .
19 I mean , the side bits look nice heavier cos it 's it gives you that it goes up that way .
20 it goes up that way .
21 But if it goes down that route , it will face some criticism from its members .
22 There is also ‘ value-rational ’ ( wertrational ) action , where the goal is so dominant for the actor that it drives out all calculation or concern for consequences .
23 A man is what he thinks about all day long .
24 he lives out all year and has a total sunblock applied to protect the sensitive areas .
25 He holds up each man 's hand .
26 this lad was , now he was , coming in the bar , he sat just as you come in the door and then he moved to that long thing where we sit , well I go at the bar and Jackie was sat there Jackie , I said time to be social , no I cos I laugh , I were laughing me head off me and he 's jabbering away move like that , his arms moving you know , then he sets off to sing , well , la , la and Johnny said shut up I know Johnny put his glass of beer on the next table to ours and sets off to see Mickey , then he stands up this lad sit down you , must have thought for his beer , I think he was like , I says to Jack I says er you want to put his trousers is all undone , you know sat and his trousers what and his jumper , so our Johnny went he said get that covered up and , but he pulled it down like that , and now he took 'em out he walked through the door and his trousers were falling down but
27 He stands down this summer looking tired and weary after 20 years in office running a metropolis of ten million people which has a world-wide reputation for its crime , its gangs , its murders , its drugs , its violence , its riots , its burning streets .
28 And he finishes off this poem with a description of what he 's now writing .
29 Cos when he wakes up this morning bright as a lark .
30 It hangs over any thickness of wardrobe rail and fastens with Velcro .
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