Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [prep] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All you have to do is send the invoices you want factored to your factor and , provided they approve the accounts they will send you a cheque for around 80 per cent of their value by return mail . |
| 2 | Forget rolled on his back on the court in the seconds before Noah and other members of the team joined him . |
| 3 | ‘ I feel I shall die of misery … when I die I want written on my tombstone : ‘ Here Lies a Child Who Perished Miserably From Homesickness ’ . ' |
| 4 | However , they have also found themselves caught between what district health authority purchasers with a population based public health focus want and what general practitioners want based on their patients ' needs . |
| 5 | He finds that although the globular bodies of the histone molecules no longer contact the DNA of heavily transcribed genes , their charged tails still do , leading him to suggest that they remain tethered by their tails while the polymerase passes so that they can rapidly ‘ snap back ’ into their former structure . |
| 6 | Only I would wish to tell my sister as soon as possible and put paid to her nonsense . |
| 7 | As he rode into the tent , he was careful to keep his face away from her , and remain wrapped in his cloak . |
| 8 | It 's a pretty bizarre film , but it 's not dark or mean spirited in its intentions . |
| 9 | ‘ My parents seem fascinated by our relationship , they 're very nosy and curious but I would never talk to them about sex . |
| 10 | They may behave differently towards parents who seem repelled by their efforts , and in learning to control may also learn to withhold . |
| 11 | In view of my deficiencies , I avoided the NV and stuck to the library ; but little I read remained in my mind . |
| 12 | Even now , and though the events of June triggered a brief period of reappraisal , the British still seem besotted by their vision of China as a billion-strong market for their goods and services — and either unaware , or unimpressed , that their exports to Hong Kong itself are currently worth three times as much as those to its northern neighbour . |
| 13 | The homosexual ‘ knows intimately in himself the generality that he finds in the other ’ : ‘ in the homosexual act I remain locked within my body , narcissistically contemplating in the other an excitement that is the mirror of my own ’ ( pp. 307 , 310 ) . |
| 14 | Today , most sit isolated from their environment , yet once each related closely to is surrounding countryside . |
| 15 | It whirls you round and round , and you get pressed into your seats , and you scream and scream , and pretend to be frightened and you hope you 're sitting next to a boy … ’ |
| 16 | There 's a power cut ; the lights go out and we light candles and gas lamps and end up — a hard core of seven of us ; Andy , me , Howie , another two local lads and a couple of the traveller boys — down in the snooker room where there 's a beat-up looking table and a leak in the ceiling that turns the whole of the stained , green-baize surface into a millimetre-shallow marsh , water dripping from each pocket and dribbling down the bulky legs to the sopping carpet , and we play snooker by the light of the hissing gas lamps , having to hit the white ball really hard even for delicate shots because of the extra rolling resistance the water causes , and the balls make a zizzing , ripping noise as they race across the table and sometimes you can see spray curving up behind them and I 'm feeling really drunk and a bit stoned from a couple of strong Js smoked out in the garden earlier with the travellers but I think this dimly lit water-hazard snooker is just hilarious and I 'm laughing maniacally at it all and I put an arm round Andy 's neck at one point and say , You know I love you , old buddy , and is n't friendship and love what 's it 's really all about ? and why ca n't people just see that and just be nice to each other ? except there are just so many complete bastards in the world , but Andy just shakes his head and I try to kiss him and he gently fends me off and steadies me against one wall and props me up with a snooker cue against my chest and I think this is really funny for some reason and laugh so much I fall over and have distinct problems getting up again and get carried to my room by Andy and one of the travellers and dumped on the bed and fall instantly asleep . |
| 17 | If the adventurers free the man , they only get attacked for their pains ; he is actually a Doppelganger . |
| 18 | You will seen in my reply to Mrs Butterworth of Ambleside that I mention the fact that the Catholic Voice is often short of material for publication . |
| 19 | Pretty soon , if you consider that the only gags he feels at home with are the ones that get stuffed in his mouth in the interest of his , er , research . |
| 20 | The key point about the mucus-shedding process is that the aquarium must have a good , turbulent water circulation to help the leather corals get rid of their wastes . |
| 21 | You get rid of them shells . |
| 22 | Roger : You can get it out of your system … get rid of your frustrations about your parents and that . |
| 23 | Right , get rid of your welly . |
| 24 | Get rid of your partner — he 's dragging you down . |
| 25 | Get rid of my cough cos it |
| 26 | I usually get rid of my men after 2 ½ years . |
| 27 | It must be noted , however , that Brooke-Rose 's own conception of metaphor is not tied fast to rigorous distinctions between the parts of speech , and that grammatical categories often get blurred in her discussions . |
| 28 | Okay we started off and we was talking about the fact that when we perceive things they start off in origin as energy signals in the environment and we detect those changes in the energy and somewhere in the process they get converted into our experiences of perception . |
| 29 | You know , you get charged for your meter ? |
| 30 | I know cut with your skates . |