Example sentences of "[vb base] [pers pn] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Take it away and bring me about a quarter of it . ’ |
| 2 | Every hermeneutic approach takes them as the alpha of understanding but not all make them also the omega . |
| 3 | In previous years I have n't had a class on the and I thought I had one this year as an experiment and er , pardon me just a second hello yes , that was a little annoying to say the least , cos those students have come in specially for that , yeah , yeah yeah yeah yeah right Oh dear right certainly not well , would it be easier to show them in my office , that 's seven , seven , seven ? |
| 4 | But the prison system — not particularly capital punishment — but the penal system as it is , and the whole apparatus of judgement , people deciding on other people 's fates … that does irritate , and upset me quite a lot . ’ |
| 5 | He glanced at his watch , became distracted : ‘ Forgive me just a moment — kitchen duties . |
| 6 | ‘ I want you upstairs a moment , ’ she said . |
| 7 | And I do n't want to change you , I want you exactly the way you are . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ We see companies rethinking how they can manage product design , how they can help people communicate between different groups in a company , how they can eliminate printed information and let people see information electronically and browse it exactly the way they want , or how they can keep track of their customers in a better way . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Good job you do , ’ she went on , ‘ because I cook it once a week to give the tins a good clean out . ’ |
| 10 | See twice the size , it wants twice say the it 's nine inch and you want it twice the size the canvas wants to be eighteen inch does n't it ? |
| 11 | Grandmother used to say that if it had been possible to take their personalities and shake them together a bit it would have been better for both of them . |
| 12 | Probably cost him twice the amount ! |
| 13 | the next meeting in March , with very good reason , it clashes with a conference that needs to attend so we 're proposing , with your agreement , that we put it forward a week to the seventeenth of March , is that a problem for anybody ? |
| 14 | Cut us short every time we tried to speak ( me too ) . |
| 15 | I BRING you today a hand from a recent teams match where the number of tricks made in the same final contract was eleven in one room , but only six in the other . |
| 16 | It is fighters which save them therefore the message is that they 're not really rescued at all because the world is in the same situation as the island . |
| 17 | I told Patterson to follow normal procedure and he got one of the girls in the postroom to ring Airborne and say there was a package for delivery a.s.a.p. and give them just the district , EC 1 , where it was going . |
| 18 | They give them about an hour there before the curtain goes up . |
| 19 | Bicycle riders are exposed and vulnerable , and when they are involved in accidents their machines give them virtually no protection . |
| 20 | Bicycle riders are exposed and vulnerable , and when they are involved in accidents , their machines give them virtually no protection . |
| 21 | Bicycle riders are exposed and vulnerable , and when they are involved in accidents their machines give them virtually no protection . |
| 22 | Or , imagine that the lights go out as Harry has just begun saying : ( 2 ) Listen , I 'm not disagreeing with you but with you , and not about this but about this Or , Suppose we find a bottle in the sea , and inside it a message which reads : ( 3 ) Meet me here a week from now with a stick about this big We do not know who to meet , where or when to meet him or her , or how big a stick to bring . |
| 23 | For example , in Levinson 's ( 1983 ) well-known deictic utterance , Meet me here a week from now with a stick about this big , there are certain words , such as me , here , now and this , which have part of their meaning which is context-sensitive . |
| 24 | If you give me just a second … a second or two … just … ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I know that I owe you both an explanation and an apology , ’ she said slowly . |
| 26 | Some sportsmen connect you viscerally with them when they perform , often those who , like Christie , are not infallible , are not always perfectly behaved , but who give you both a run for your money and a sense that what they 're doing is dramatic and important . |
| 27 | OUR super EXCLUSIVE Wallchart features 14 of the terrible tearaways and the dramatic full-colour pictures give you just a hint of what it must be like to meet them in the ring . |
| 28 | Nell , watching them go , sighed and said , ‘ She did n't kiss Xanthe goodnight , you know , or give her even a hug to comfort her . |
| 29 | The law classifies breaches of contract into two categories , first , breaches of a less serious nature which entitle the innocent party only to damages and secondly , more serious breaches which give him also the option to regard the contract as repudiated . |
| 30 | ‘ I watch her almost every day on Neighbours . |