Example sentences of "[verb] [indef pn] [coord] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | exercise that you do in terms of assertion in terms of helping build people 's assertion is what we call a broken record exercise , okay where one person wants something and the other person is trying to change their minds , okay , you get it in conversation when people do n't take you seriously and you 've asked for something and they do n't take you serious they try and avoid the point , they try and change the subject . |
| 2 | We may see one and the same ( rigid ) object moving , perhaps involving a change in its appearance due to rotation . |
| 3 | but mind you we had much worse a problem that day because we had two sets of sniffer dogs who did n't like something and the first lot that were in and did n't like something that we 'd |
| 4 | There are good reasons for distinguishing it both from the level of the meanings of expressions , as will become apparent later in the text ( see in particular Chapter 6 ) , and from whatever more general non-linguistic level of mental activity has to take responsibility for human perception of external phenomena ; a sufficient reason is that speakers of the language are well aware that they can seek to identify one and the same entity or property by using the meanings of various different expressions : Examples like ( 22 ) are familiarly put forward as showing the distinction between meaning and reference ; they may serve that purpose but that is quite a different matter . |
| 5 | In assuming that it may be rational to be a sceptic about value alone , we had stopped at an uncomfortable halfway house between philosophy and common sense , between the pure thinker who doubts everything and the plain man who questions neither what he sees nor what he likes or dislikes . |
| 6 | I bet it 's called something and the Old Wine , and Old Wine Shop , it 'll be like a something Mahatma Gandhi 's |
| 7 | They were far enough from the city for the sounds of insurrection to be too faint to disturb anyone but the few scrawny goats which wandered listlessly around their enclosures . |
| 8 | There is literally no social arena — from the strongest material relationship to the most subtle moral one — in which the possessing classes and a self-conscious proletariat could take one and the same position and figure as an undifferentiated whole . |
| 9 | one day I 'd cook something and the next day another girl would . |
| 10 | Now the way it 's sorted out in this competition is that er it 's points first , if two teams are level on points then it 's the number of goals scored , then it 's goal difference and if they 're all level after that then it 's drawing lots and the top team in the group have a home game in round two and the team that finishes runners up are away in round two . |
| 11 | The Katt reckons OS/2 and Pink are fated to become one and the same thing . |
| 12 | A NEW American semiconductor could overcome one or the biggest hurdles posed by the ever-diminishing size of integrated circuits . |
| 13 | In these early days there were various mottos : the first was to keep their eye off numbers , the second was to have fun , the third was not to recruit anyone and the fourth was not to defend themselves . |