Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , he rubs me up the wrong way . |
| 2 | At least , this human being loyally follows me around the place , keeps tabs on me and rings me up the whole time . |
| 3 | So it covers it up a little bit , but it looks like he 's gone bald . |
| 4 | Nigel says its just the complete thrill of trying to be the best in the world … |
| 5 | Rainbow spins it round a few times , and whistles . |
| 6 | you see , if you put a line it costs you about a hundred a thirty quid now I think , but according to what they tell me , once a line has been in for a year if you put a line in , you 've got to pay the first year , its got ta be in for a year , if you have it taken out before the year , you 'll still be due for the rental on it |
| 7 | Perry leads us up the unlit stairwell , the smell of urine sharp in our nostrils . |
| 8 | Erm , it 's a city , this takes me back a few months , since the Southern Ryedale local plan enquiry , the character , special character of a city , is derives from a number of elements , there 's the green wedges which centre on the strays which penetrate into the heart of the built up area , there is the encircling belt of open countryside which links those areas together , there are the numerous settlements within the greenbelt and their relationship to one another , and to the city of York . |
| 9 | He kidnaps her in the hope that she will accept and return his affections and when he ties her up the sexual and emotional metaphors of the title abound . |
| 10 | It 's a great way for producing long banners or waste paper but And if you wan na actually reverse this process alt M takes it back the other way . |
| 11 | The other , on the face of it , gives less cause for revelling , since it takes us back a mere 70 years and is effectively an anniversary of an anniversary . |
| 12 | Then he asks them why the Irish were allowed to starve then and Africans now . |
| 13 | Your PP tells you where the first five are , always starting with the object This might be as follows : |
| 14 | It 's time to get Britain working again — Labour 's general election manifesto — tells you how a new Labour government will modernise industry , transform the NHS , raise education standards and make families better off . |
| 15 | So it 's normally thought that within the utilitarian tradition , voters are required to vote their interests and then the democratic procedure tells us where the general happiness lies roughly speaking . |
| 16 | Only if one turns it round a complete revolution ( 360 degrees ) does the particle look the same . |
| 17 | ‘ You Americans always go for the corny ones , ’ he says , but he plays it just the same , and he delivers a good strong solo at that . |
| 18 | In the contrasting situation , when there is no convention but only agreement in conviction , everyone follows the same rule but principally because he thinks it independently the best rule to follow . |
| 19 | Doc Reid dishes me out a few vitamin pills when I 'm feeling lousy . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I head for the nearest jewellery store , ’ she said lightly , ‘ which gives me all the more incentive to get this door open . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Which gives them immediately a greater share of the market , ’ Rohan put in drily . |
| 22 | This cycle repeats itself approximately every 90 minutes . |
| 23 | Before , it gives you quite a few clues to what you may be asked and will help you to present yourself properly and to prepare your answers . |
| 24 | It gives one quite a strong idea of what it 's going to be like to be a corpse . ’ |
| 25 | The lifestyles in The Swimming Pool Library do not represent the entirety of the gay scene , but by locating the gay male scene so firmly within the traditional English class structure , Hollinghurst reminds us why the gay scene alone is not enough . |
| 26 | Diffuse X-ray diffraction , by contrast , gives us only the local arrangement about the average atom . |
| 27 | If each of them lasts as long as Earth , that gives us about a billion billion billion planet-years to play with . |
| 28 | Once seen , it gives us back a legitimate access to a great wealth of traditional human experience on the matter , which must of course be critically used , but which certainly does not leave us utterly puzzled , as we might be in starting to observe a strange species . |
| 29 | No talk of the tittle tattle of erm the citizens charter that gets watered down one day and becomes something else the other day and you might get a free train ticket out of it some time . |
| 30 | Unless you 've been calling my bluff since day one , you should be able to see off any mere mortal who rubs us up the wrong way . ’ |