Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pers pn] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He felt as he always did on the moor , and especially on this spot and on Big Allen , peaceful , without care , without self almost , at one with nature and the past , and as if nothing that happened down there could hurt or vex him any more . |
| 2 | Are you going to sell your customer 's foreign currency forward , take out a currency loan or cover it some other way ? |
| 3 | ‘ And there 'd be nothing easier than popping a cheque in the post to them , or sending them some cast-off woollies , or ladling some soup into them , or offering them advice . |
| 4 | ‘ We would gladly accept family planning , ’ said women at a village meeting in Java , ‘ provided that it does n't interfere with our work , or do us any permanent harm , or be against our religion . |
| 5 | Perhaps nobody tells the union , or have they one deaf ear ? |
| 6 | Or or have it all ready |
| 7 | This was a truly superb feeling and we received some good compliments , that made it all worthwhile . |
| 8 | More than 400 plants using the technology were licensed and again it was ICI-developed catalysts that made it all possible . |
| 9 | Owls ' eyesight is good in dim light but not so good in total darkness ; it is their acute hearing and the accuracy with which they can pinpoint sounds that make them such successful hunters . |
| 10 | We can learn to develop our personal power through identifying the resistance we have to using certain types of behaviour and learning skills that make us more adaptable . |
| 11 | Nor has it any more to do with Peter 's reforms than might perhaps justify an editorial footnote . |
| 12 | Jackson , who earned a total of £40,000 , said : ‘ I was pedestrian away from the blocks and that cost me vital hundredths of a second . |
| 13 | Er we believe that cost us many many millions of pounds , secondly , there was the worst recession that the airline industry has had , thirdly , has been er a you know we 're a growing company , we 're investing . |
| 14 | Erm , can I say that it 's only last year that we organised that video for secured car parks , and employed a blooming outside presenter to do it , and that cost us twelve thousand quid , and that were at Derby and they made an excellent bloody video of it did n't they ? |
| 15 | Oliver would n't understand that it was nicer of Dad to make him a toy than to buy him some dull old thing from a shop . |
| 16 | Plants that give us both outstanding flowers and foliage are usually the first choice . |
| 17 | I 've heard you selling the guy that showed you these two manifestos one by the Tories and one by the Labour and the one that stuck in my mind it 's that the Labour Party will have a minimum wage to comply with the rest of Europe . |
| 18 | What kind of man are you , to steal from the hand that fed you all these years ? ’ |
| 19 | Wandering in the road , although giving you good all-round vision , puts you at the mercy , even late at night , of the local juggernaut or aspiring Grand Prix racer . |
| 20 | Rather than giving her any other jobs . |
| 21 | I got pregnant because you spent all my life filling my head with romantic ideas rather than giving me any practical advice . |
| 22 | What I want you to do , I do n't want to delay you because of your erm trains and I 'd will have hate to be the ones that keep you any later , you have an |
| 23 | Denyer decided to put together a mix of landscapes and portraits , images that gave him particular visual pleasure . |
| 24 | These advanced primates had large brains and eyes at the front of the face that gave them stereoscopic forward vision . |
| 25 | Maybe she had finished with sexual intercourse for ever , maybe it was this possibility that gave her this peculiar conviction of strength , this sense of invulnerability , of certainty , of power . |
| 26 | To get that appointment that gave you that one sale . |
| 27 | Because what you do , you go great , I 've made a sale , and that earned me two hundred and eighty pound . |
| 28 | You tell me where there 's a union 'll get me a job that pays me any more to go off at half-past three — ’ |
| 29 | Er so that gives you another five or ten years before the dry rot sets in . |
| 30 | The only people we know who do it are Cosmetics to Go , the mail order firm that brings you such exuberant delights as Filboid Studge Asparagus Mask and Goop Liquid Eyeliner . |