Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [indef pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | So if you collide neutrons and protons , bang them one off the other , you can produce these mesons . |
2 | And that officer , luv , I said he was a legate from the Balearics not leg him one in the bollocks but it 's a mistake anybody could have made . |
3 | Then , with a smile that set all the butterflies off again , ‘ It 's my intention to take you to where the food is really good , and also show you something of the city by night . ’ |
4 | The thing is , if they always give you and you , your , nine times out of ten what they do is like , is either , they either put a can over there or a beer or something , they put it over the end of the , the weapon pull the trigger and that , even with a flash that can go like that , and then they show you one with the , the erm flashes right which have more powerful than the and they 've actually got same again same charge as a life grenade in , but it just plain cardboard so , obviously no trap , but if you lay on them ooh er , you get or something you do n't throw what they do now is they put one they light one , put the helmet over the top of it and make it lit , it runs like buggery and it 'll go a hundred , a hundred and fifty foot up in the air and inside it looks like its been and where its been in the thing it 'll be like er , six seventy foot off the ground , I mean I laid on one once and I , landed about two foot too my left so I 've rolled over , rolled , rolled , and rolled , as I 've rolled I 've rolled over on my back and I 've had all loads of over , like the , I had a roll there its like the er |
5 | Practical matters also reared their head when 15 teams were given three hours and a selection of Meccano , paper cups , cotton reels and other bits and pieces to make a machine that would take a bag of coins all in one go , and dispense them one at a time for sorting . |
6 | You owe me something for the humiliation which you are about to put on me . ’ |
7 | They give you one at a time . |
8 | The logic of this though is never give anybody anything in the way of information ! |
9 | He could hop up behind her and pop her one with the blackjack , no discussion , no fuss , just an instant human sack that he could throw over his shoulder and rush to the car . |
10 | Better yet , give him something like a façade , with doors and windows behind which there operates a mystery which the reader-accomplice will have to look for … |
11 | The one thing about advertising er Patrick is that we tell them everything on the phone . |
12 | In advertising you tell them everything on the phone |
13 | ‘ But you must show me the books , tell me everything about the business . ’ |
14 | Tell me something of the hours you used to work at that time . |
15 | Tell me something in the last eight years that I 've said . |
16 | ‘ Tell me something in the last eight years that I 've said . |
17 | Finally , there are simple conventions that need explaining : not all pupils will know that the two words printed at the head of a page tell you something about the alphabetic range of the words on that page . |
18 | ‘ IF anyone thinks the bald figures tell you anything about the quality or hard work of the consultant , then they are living in cloud cuckoo land ’ — Karl Fortes Mayer , 51 , a general surgeon at Walsall Manor Hospital in the West Midlands , commenting on publication of his patient waiting times . |
19 | Simple random sampling can be achieved even when no frame is available but where the population members present themselves one at a time as potential sample members . |
20 | So Libet 's experiments tell us something interesting about the information processing going on in the subject 's brain but they tell us nothing about the temporal relationship between physical events — either inside or outside the brain — and conscious experiences . |
21 | Second , the new schemes of metazoan phylogeny tell us nothing about the actual anatomical and functional transitions between related phyla . |
22 | However , these quantitative data tell us nothing about the quality or importance of the relationship . |
23 | In the second place , the correlations that are produced are merely statements about associations , and tell us nothing about the direction of cause and effect . |
24 | Statements ( 5 ) , ( 6 ) and ( 7 ) , unlike statements ( 1 ) , ( 2 ) , ( 3 ) and ( 4 ) , tell us nothing about the world . |
25 | Erm does the fact of erm using the aircraft to er provide a platform for these systems , er tell us something about a change in view about the role or operating concept of the aircraft ? |
26 | Does n't Mrs Dennison 's natural repugnance tell us something about the morality of the act ? ’ |
27 | Letters to the editor , including agony columns , tell us something about the concerns people have , or at least which of their concerns are considered by editors and agony aunties to be suitable for publication . |
28 | The remains of sheilings tell us something about the pattern of agriculture and the temporary removal of the people in summer to tend their cattle in the hills . |
29 | The remains of sheilings tell us something about the pattern of agriculture and the temporary removal of the people in summer to tend their cattle in the hills . |
30 | This system was to be the predecessor of the various experiments under the Tudors to exercise special control in the North , measures which not only reflect the problems of governing a region remote from the centre of public power but also tell us something about the tensions between a local aristocracy and the Crown . |