Example sentences of "[vb base] [pers pn] [prep] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not er like they bring them in these cardboard boxes you know , wooden boxes . |
| 2 | ‘ And you hate me for all that , of course , ’ Luke accepted neutrally . |
| 3 | Lay me on another half a gram ’ … and they 'd go , ‘ Alright ’ … in the end , you 'd owe them a coupla grams and you 'd have to go shoplifting in Chester or something 'cos you could n't go round town in case they were there … . |
| 4 | Many of these features are unique to these mountains , and make them of much more than mere climbing interest . |
| 5 | No black on wings and no long trailing legs distinguish them from all other large white birds in flight . |
| 6 | Quarter figs , top them with some cinnamon-spiced ricotta and drizzle with clear honey . |
| 7 | Please help me to know that transforming power of your Holy Spirit to overcome these difficulties , and please forgive me for all that has been wrong and selfish in what I have said , thought and done . |
| 8 | Cook them for another ten minutes . |
| 9 | While Marx rejects needs as the units in terms of which economic phenomena should be analysed , he could in principle simply replace them by some other property of individuals , and found a theory on this trait instead . |
| 10 | Quite suddenly , love for her , for gentle , golden Anne , flooded me , and I jumped out of bed , pushing back the net , wanting to run to her and tell her everything , wanting to confess and have her forgive me and kiss me with those soft , childish , soothing kisses . |
| 11 | Aelian reports that ‘ the Brahmins honour them above all other birds . |
| 12 | You can remove poor Flora from that sink of a school and send her to some nice nuns . ’ |
| 13 | How in the world could a worthless louse like Guy Sterne melt her into this uncomfortable aching longing ? |
| 14 | ‘ He swears that the Brigadier and the Brigade Major use his establishment and supply him with this vital information . |
| 15 | Go on , dazzle 'em with this bright patchwork T-shirt , teamed with loose-fitting , bright pink cotton voile shorts . |
| 16 | Irrespective of their original function , these historical documents now provide us with many fascinating insights into the way we were . |
| 17 | However , whilst the image of the ‘ head and tail ’ coin is pertinent to our understanding of the rituals , the rabbis ' words provide us with little more than an appreciation of how Jewish society ( or a part thereof ) at the time perceived and explained the religious state of affairs . |
| 18 | The oceans provide us with much more than pleasure for the diver and beautiful photographs for the photographer ; they also give us invaluable knowledge . |
| 19 | On the northern coalfield the rejection of badly filled corves on the grounds that they had been deliberately underfilled — " they will sometimes be so roguish as to set these big coals hollow at the Corfe bottom , and cover them with some small coals at the top of the Corves , and make it look like a full Corfe " — was a long-running grievance which led to a strike at one mine in 1751 . |
| 20 | He bestrode me like some stalwart saint of old , defending my prone body with buckler and flaming sword . |
| 21 | Scrub but do not peel the potatoes and cut them in half lengthwise . |
| 22 | If you need to teach people or compel them in some other way to repress their natural demand for acknowledgement as rational , competent , authoritative human beings then you have no answer to the charge of some malefaction between bad faith and dreadful wickedness . |
| 23 | Indeed we no longer hang men for anything , or kill them by any other method . |
| 24 | D' you want to look at whether you put them in any particular order ? |
| 25 | So I 'm cutting them all off , put them in some fresh water again . |
| 26 | Then they decided perhaps I did n't have to stay in that one after all , so put me into another single cell , which was equally disgusting . |
| 27 | The guards and police took me completely outside the town and put me into some weird hotel that looked like a Holiday Inn , but it was in the middle of the woods . |
| 28 | He is the kind of person you want to beat because you hold them in such high regard . ’ |
| 29 | You see , they 've got a card of the fella that did the thingy so , when they put him onto this other fella he says , er , yeah , his name were Mr so and so . |
| 30 | Bliss combined this with 5 000 litres of waste oil , and spread it on several commercial horse arenas to control dust . |