Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pers pn] [adv prt] [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 | Perry leads us up the unlit stairwell , the smell of urine sharp in our nostrils . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Only if one turns it round a complete revolution ( 360 degrees ) does the particle look the same . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |