Example sentences of "[coord] [vb -s] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I usually make her coffee , and if she runs out of fags or needs summat from the shops , I go for her . |
| 2 | or tramps him off the kerb and into shit . |
| 3 | A throw forward occurs when a player carrying the ball throws or passes it in the direction of his opponents ' dead-ball line ’ . |
| 4 | In this sense one is neutral only if one can affect the fortunes of the parties and if one helps or hinders them to an equal degree and one does so because one believes that there are reasons for so acting which essentially depend on the fact that the action has an equal effect on the fortunes of the parties . |
| 5 | If the last counter-offer came from the buyer , then the seller will signify acceptance ( depending on the type of goods and the nature of the transaction concerned ) when he ei ther appropriates goods to the contract , puts their manufacture in hand , or delivers them to the buyer . |
| 6 | In addition , protestant — loyalist politics has always been a zero-sum activity : one either has a monopoly of power or concedes it to the opposition . |
| 7 | The chances are that the felon who takes your car , raids your house , or robs you in the street will be no older than 15 , the national peak age for Britain 's criminal underclass . |
| 8 | The suffering which inevitably follows shall be deemed to be of no consequence , because physical evolution itself disregards suffering , or regards it as an essential part of the process . |
| 9 | The suffering which inevitably follows shall be deemed to be of no consequence , because physical evolution itself disregards suffering , or regards it as an essential part of the process . |
| 10 | Scotland is extremely lucky in this context , with its record on beef , whisky and salmon — not to mention oatcakes and haggis — which sets it apart or differentiates it from the rest of the market place . |
| 11 | The end result will be no different whether the shareholder takes up his or her rights or sells them in the market ; the end value of the holding will remain unchanged . |
| 12 | In other circumstances all that needs to be done if the transaction is a domestic one , whereby , say , a shareholder transfers his holding as a gift to a member of his family or sells it to an acquaintance , is for the transferor to hand over to the transferee a signed share transfer together with the share certificate which the transferee will lodge with the company and the register will then be amended by adding the transferee and noting that the transferor has ceased to be a member or shareholder in respect of the shares . |
| 13 | It is an open question whether this higher-level information dictates the lower-level interpretation ( as in HARPY , HWIM and Hearsay-II ) or enhances it through some sort of feedback mechanism ( as in TRACE ) , or selects it from a pool of candidates . |
| 14 | Failure to achieve this goal at the outset may result in a patient who depends on others for insulin injections , misses injections or does them with a very poor technique . |
| 15 | AS another week begins , every working mum today has an extra worry on her mind as she drops off her children at the childminder 's or leaves them with a nanny . |
| 16 | There will be some conflict over who owns or earns what between the 26th and 28th but , as June gets under way , your chances of clinching a deal or celebrating a major coup are extremely high . |
| 17 | She is sharply aware of changing social patterns , but neither resents them , like the portraits on the wall , nor approves them with an automatic word like ‘ progress ’ . |
| 18 | So takes it up and knits it on the back . |
| 19 | ( Some pocket calculators will do this ; otherwise one obtains a random integer of 5 or 6 digits from a random number table and precedes it with a decimal point . ) |
| 20 | First , the testator takes a blank piece of paper and signs it at the bottom . |
| 21 | ‘ Third Term ’ ( Deltic ) Re-released as a 12-inch , with the added bonus of a stunning acoustic version of ‘ The Newshound ’ ( an acute portrayal of the scum that litter the daily tabloids ) — and rightly so , because quite frankly this puts 90 per cent of single released this year into the shade and kicks them in the teeth to boot . |
| 22 | ‘ Third Term ’ ( Deltic ) Re-released as a 12-inch , with the added bonus of a stunning acoustic version of ‘ The Newshound ’ ( an acute portrayal of the scum that litter the daily tabloids ) — and rightly so , because quite frankly this puts 90 per cent of single released this year into the shade and kicks them in the teeth to boot . |
| 23 | He has studied the details of their forms and physiognomy and renders them in a manner both truthful and original . |
| 24 | He wrenches his cigarette from his mouth , glares at me and grinds it into the ashtray , disconcerted by the firecracker element . |
| 25 | A trigger operates the accelerator and produces anything from a gentle breeze to a 140mph gust . |
| 26 | She feels full of it and moulds it into a glowing ball deep within . |
| 27 | It 's more a case of conceptual comedy that takes a topical theme like the travellers and tackles it in a right-on way , trying to draw the humour from it . |
| 28 | Bitflik scans a directory for all BMP files and displays them like a slideshow , one after the other pausing briefly between each one . |
| 29 | In the different sense of the priest ‘ representing ’ the people to God in worship the role is more that of an intermediary or go-between — a role more akin to that of a Member of Parliament who understands the needs of his constituents and represents them to the Government in Parliament . |
| 30 | Frodo the Ring bearer does not really want to carry the Ring and offers it to the elf-queen Galadriel . |