Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well it 's not a yes yes for the garden because I would n't have room for it but it 's certainly a yes yes in my shelter delt because the birds love the berries and it really encourages them to use that shelter delt but it is n't as , as easy to grow , it 's , one tends to think of the nature plant as a tough plant but I 've been trying to establish about thirty of these in the shelter delt and I 've found they object to any form of total weedkiller round the root , so all the , the weedkillers that you would use for the first couple of years maybe to , to keep the , the weeds from growing round the stems , they tend to get chlorotic and die . |
| 2 | ‘ Profit-centre ’ managers in their turn submit to the iron law of quarterly or annual return-on-investment ( ROI ) calculation , which hardly encourages them to become far-sighted captains of industry . |
| 3 | So the third man goes I want ten years ' supply of cigarettes . |
| 4 | At Liverpool the Principal wrote , also at the end of 1967 , that within the new polytechnic ‘ there will be complete autonomy in respect of the academic work of the Faculty of Art and nothing that has been said causes me to have any misgivings on this score . |
| 5 | The experience of watching my late husband 's 16-year fight against the degenerative effects of Parkinson 's disease ( one of those conditions which might one day benefit from embryo research ) causes me to write this letter in the hope that all who take part in the debates will recognise and confound these tactics of the anti-abortion pressure groups , quite rightly described by the British Pregnancy Advisory Service as ‘ an attempt to hijack government legislation ’ . |
| 6 | Adam wants me to collect some things that he forgot , and take them to the hospital . ’ |
| 7 | My wife wants me to do these things . |
| 8 | I 'm often asked if I get sick of making presentations and signing autographs but I always answer by saying that the time to worry is when no-one wants me to do these things . |
| 9 | Perhaps if you perhaps if you hang on a minute , erm well Jacqueline want wants me to answer one question for her . |
| 10 | My husband wants me to have anal sex , but I find it revolting and painful . |
| 11 | It causes them to suffer temporary lapses of memory and to have difficulty in concentrating for a short period of two to three hours . |
| 12 | But the gas also causes them to grow extra arms and legs ( at a rate for the average adult male Vascar of one limb every two months , slightly longer for women and children ) . ’ |
| 13 | Not only has she caused enormous damage to the already fragile monarchy but she 's humiliated the man she 's still married to . |
| 14 | Has she appointed more members in the interval , or is she proposing to talk to herself ? |
| 15 | We sometimes ask about a person : ‘ Why has she chosen that course of action ? |
| 16 | Has she got dark bricks or light bricks ? |
| 17 | Has she got that Watson ? |
| 18 | " Has she got golden hair and blue eyes ? " |
| 19 | Has she got any apples ? |
| 20 | Yeah , but has she got any kids ? |
| 21 | Has she got any brothers and sisters ? |
| 22 | Yeah I 'm afraid so , I think it 's compounded by the fact that your , what your dad says sums it up beautifully about your mum , I was talking to him about , you know , what does she , what she 's got in her life other than what she ever had other than a home , working and so on , has she got any hobbies at home or does she do anything is there anything that takes her mind off things |
| 23 | Not only has she attracted more publicity than any other naval vessel since the Mary Rose , but she was n't even entirely British . |
| 24 | ‘ Has she talked off-shore investments yet ? ’ |
| 25 | Nor has she slit any throats , gouged out any eyes or cut off any fingers or genitals , which is what is routinely done , pour encourager les autres , to opponents of the huge Guatemalan army . |
| 26 | Next time he rings you withhold this type of reward . |
| 27 | How you start your day could even depend on how Dickens causes you to feel that morning in that particular part of the book . |
| 28 | He wants that , yo , he wants you to put some water in that for a test , some of your water in that |
| 29 | Tim wants you to see some people he knows who do investment advice — then you 'd get more out of those shares . |
| 30 | ‘ Here 's the money for the boots and my brother Dai wants you to repair some shoes . |