Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [pron] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We live in a house of treasure but some disease of the eyes has blinded us so that we search always for vulgar and expensive toys . |
| 2 | Mr Harvey does want to know about it if she goes into Lexington — that 's our nearest town — but then someone has to drive her there and back , so she 's never without an escort . |
| 3 | ‘ There will come a time , Creggan , when you will learn that the fretting here in these Cages when you think the world has passed you by has taught you more than all the flights , and kills , and territories you may have made or seen . |
| 4 | The Secretary of State has given nothing today but bland generalities , and the situation will continue as it is until there is a change of Government policy . |
| 5 | The atmosphere has to find it somewhere so it goes after the molecules locked in the glazes and that 's when the real magic happens . ’ |
| 6 | Whether he has addressed it convincingly and appropriately is another matter . |
| 7 | The picture is described as having been formed out of a series of anxious revisions which incorporate all that has preceded them so that there are glimpses of ‘ buried entities ’ to enliven gaps and edges . |
| 8 | What 's happened it 's the world again to use J B Phillips translation this time the Romans twelve two , that , that the world the precious around us has pushed us here and is as dented at there and it squeezed us out of the mould , the purpose the pattern that God had for us , into its own mould , a warped mould , a distorted picture , that has what has happened . |
| 9 | The analogy is that you are a robot walking up a hill , and your designer has built you so that you can only step north , south , east or west . |
| 10 | No one has done it before and no idiot is going to try it again . |
| 11 | Other musicians may have enjoyed greater financial reward playing this music , but nobody has done it better or with greater flexibility . |
| 12 | The theologians ' determination to rest their faith on something more secure than history has made them more than willing , in many circumstances , to accept that the historical evidence of Jesus ' life is as patchy as the most sceptical secular historian says it is . |
| 13 | I have nothing but admiration for those hardy woodturners who have put the clock back a few hundred years and are making furniture with their pole lathes , but it has made me more than ever aware that the wood lathe has changed very little over the years . |
| 14 | The army has made it endlessly and publicly clear that it does not want to get involved . |
| 15 | God has made us so that our affections are very much the spring of all our actions . |
| 16 | The brewery was founded in 1853 , started to make wheat beers in the 1890s , and has produced nothing else since it came into its present ownership , the Brombach family , in 1935 . |
| 17 | I have no doubt that the hon. Gentleman accepts them — although it is true that he has surprised me more than once in the past by failing to agree with the most obvious proposition . |
| 18 | He began using heroin at the age of 18 and has used it more or less regularly for five years . |
| 19 | Governments , it seems , have yet to learn a fact that most smokers readily acknowledge : the tobacco industry has got them precisely where it wants them . |
| 20 | For both categories of readers , as for anyone interested in questions of value , ethics and social responsibility in science , here is a bold book by a scientist who has equipped himself theologically and philosophically . |
| 21 | The Prison Governors Association has told me clearly that it opposes the Bill on the grounds that the measures that it contains are ’ too draconian ’ — I use its exact words . |
| 22 | He does n't answer because his press officer has told me beforehand that he does n't intend to talk in any detail about it . |
| 23 | ‘ Like , we know The Wedding Present and Dave Gedge has told me before that he 's jealous of us cos we can go off on tangents and do our own thing without losing an audience . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Like , we know The Wedding Present and Dave Gedge has told me before that he 's jealous of us cos we can go off on tangents and do our own thing without losing an audience . ’ |
| 25 | But I am mindful in the midst of my own troubles ma'am that you are not in good health for Miss Blagden has told me so and I am sorry to hear it and to think of you unable to leave your room and I am sorry too that the Rome winter does not prove as gentle as you had hoped . |
| 26 | Kellett-Bowman ) , who wanted to retain the poll tax — I do not think that anyone has told her yet that the Conservatives propose to do away with it . |
| 27 | The Minister has told us today that he does not want to let us know what his proposals will be when he goes into negotiations . |
| 28 | It has to do something else as well . |
| 29 | When the train has borne us away and we settle into our corner , have we feelings of remorse or satisfaction ? |
| 30 | David Lodge has adapted himself cleverly and economically , introducing the kind of tricks that actors can make work for you ; like the way in which Vic the businessman uses choice lines from Robyn the lecturer in subsequent conversations . |