Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ideas about not ‘ burdening others ’ with personal problems , that discussing them denotes some kind of ‘ personal weakness ’ , are common within the older generations , especially when the prospective counsellee has a strong sense of personal dignity and pride . |
| 2 | Not all worlds are the same , and life upon them has strange effects upon the body . ’ |
| 3 | Each of them has many adherents in the discipline , and at first sight it looks as if the approaches are in direct competition . |
| 4 | Needless to say , with such a busy schedule none of them has any time for girlfriends . |
| 5 | The force between them has some correspondence with Newton 's finding that the gravitational force is inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them . |
| 6 | The distinction you need to practise could also be between two sounds where both or one of them causes real difficulty in pronunciation as well as being contrastive . |
| 7 | Simply handling them causes 1 dose to be absorbed through the skin , counting them ( or similarly continuously handling them ) causes 1 dose per Turn to be absorbed . |
| 8 | Department I produces all means of production and Department II produces all means of consumption . |
| 9 | I produces all means of production and Dept . |
| 10 | I produces all means of consumption and Dept . |
| 11 | Gets up in the morning I sees this pair of red shoes , I thought oh you stupid cow . |
| 12 | Serum pepsinogen I shows little response to eating . |
| 13 | All the walls I gives three coats of brilliant white stone paint , easier to say than to do . |
| 14 | ‘ If 'e puts another farm above this , then 'e 's better away . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Anyway , what 'appened was , 'e puts this record on the fing an' winds up the 'andle , an' guess what ? ’ |
| 16 | The two most powerful prose meditations attributed to Rolle , on the other hand , enact a painful penitential sense of the gap between the sour sterility which is a concomitant of what St Paul calls " the body of this death " ( Romans 7:24 ) and the joy and creativity of God , though comparison between them reveals different levels of engagement with the same theme . |
| 17 | She commutes 30 miles from the outskirts of Kidderminster , crossing slow , steep byways over the Malvern Hills to Bishop 's Frome on the Hereford-Worcester border . |
| 18 | Even now she goes pale thinking about it . |
| 19 | She displays more sympathy for this anti-Semitic Moses , for this religious man who is against Jews and against the Soviet system , than she does for Jews who are not religious . |
| 20 | If the sociologist is present at the moment of speech-production , whether as observer or interviewer , then he or she plays some part in the creation of the dialogue . |
| 21 | She reclaims these methods for woman-centred psychology . |
| 22 | She haunts this Base like a ghost . ’ |
| 23 | That is extremely confusing for her , cause she has on her computer , she has various versions named in two , unless she destroys previous versions of M2 when she does this one Well she should she should overtype the correct one Which is n't what we did with M1 |
| 24 | As you can imagine , she receives many requests of this nature , and it is simply not possible for her to respond positively to them all . ’ |
| 25 | Breakfast cereals are mostly sugar-coated ; when she occasionally has a wholegrain cereal ( like Weetabix ) she adds two teaspoons of sugar . |
| 26 | She takes two teaspoons of sugar in each of her hot drinks ; she adds two teaspoons of sugar to her breakfast cereal ( or has sugar-coated cereal or muesli with sugar ) . |
| 27 | She writes long sentences without verbs , as if the rocky terrain inevitably makes action difficult . |
| 28 | as if she wants some money off you as well |
| 29 | And you I think , oh you want more time on fractions , Kelly might think , well she does n't she wants more time on doing the degrees . |
| 30 | She wants three copies of that . |