Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm I mean nothing to do with this one . |
| 2 | If you present someone with a set of stripes on a TV screen and make them move at right angles to their long axis , that is the direction in which the person will see them move . |
| 3 | But unless you can grasp the private contractors and make them cooperate within this or encourage them to do so , there 's absolutely no way you can have a so-called seamless journey . |
| 4 | And if you think a pike has teeth , well these fish make them look like toothless gummies ! |
| 5 | More recently , industrial contaminants such as polychlorinated biphenyls ( PCBs ) have accumulated in the liver and kidneys of pilot whales in quantities which make them unfit for human consumption . |
| 6 | Well no when we started when the strike started in the mill , I told then , you know y I do n't know what you are going to do with us , I said , but the way you are carrying on now you are going to bring trouble into this quarry , cos these lads are n't going to give in to you at all that quick , what you 're trying to do , make them work for thirty pound a week less , so you better think it over now , I said , before it gets any worse . |
| 7 | Although their names make them sound like large predators , they are actually tiny insect larvae . |
| 8 | Looking at the present state of the Top 40 singles chart , the recent appearance of a song entitled Dolphins Make Me Cry by Welsh songwriter/guitarist Martyn Joseph was especially surprising . |
| 9 | ‘ You make me sound like some kind of tease — it was never that way — ’ |
| 10 | ‘ You make me sound like some kind of natural disaster . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You make me sound like some crazed nymphomaniac . |
| 12 | I , I mean I went like this into dinner okay , and I suppose everyone was like what 's she doing in a skirt or whatever cos they were all like looking and then like half way when I was eating I could feel them all staring at me and laughing and Jim and that lot were laughing and I could see Charlie |
| 13 | I think so , there 's got to be one person I mean I thought about this long and hard and there 's just no way , it can not be done by committee it would not work cos then |
| 14 | Yeah I want everyone to do like five or ten minutes next week on what they 're gon na write . |
| 15 | I want them split down that road |
| 16 | I 've got to go and tell the teacher this morning Alex needs to stay till twenty past three cos they only want them to stay till half two . |
| 17 | ‘ YOU WANT me to talk about Irish history , you want me to go back that far , do you ? ’ asks Neil Jordan , not wanting to believe it . |
| 18 | ‘ Are you sure you want me to talk about this . |
| 19 | ‘ You want me to pay for this information ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ And you expect me to agree to all that ? |
| 21 | ‘ I suppose you expect me to pay for that drink , do you ? ’ |
| 22 | Just when you expect them to lash into some wicked rockabilly they come out with the Radio 4 theme music soundalike of ‘ Mala Femmina ’ . |
| 23 | Just when you expect them to lash into some wicked rockabilly they come out with the Radio 4 theme music soundalike of ‘ Mala Femmina ’ . |
| 24 | The true reason was that I want nothing to do with that country while it remains as it is , and if it had n't been for Jean-Paul I 'd have ceased all our operations out there years ago . ’ |
| 25 | To reduce this ambiguity , it is necessary to eliminate the incorrect letter candidates in each position , or at least rank them according to some measure of their plausibility . |
| 26 | So you got two choices : either you send someone to look for these clowns , or you say , ‘ Oh well , I do n't know , something must have happened , and I 'll forget all about it . |
| 27 | Well as I say I went for this interview and she phoned me last Sunday did n't she ? |
| 28 | It is puzzling when people say I write like this one and that one and all such different kinds of writers and so many of them , and it makes me feel I am nothing in myself . ’ |
| 29 | And when I say I asked for more polenta , you will know that we were dealing with an intake situation of Road to Damascus proportions . |
| 30 | Say I agree with that . |