| You could forgive him for a snit here, a tantrum there, an errant expletive in front of an impressionable young fan once in a blue moon. |
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| The astuteness and rapier-like quality of his writing doesn't need smarmy expletive witticisms to back it up. |
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| I bent down to inhale, but he blew the powder into the air, muttered an expletive and stumbled out. |
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| Finally, both the antecedent of PRO and PRO itself have to be an argument and cannot be an expletive. |
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| He ran over uttering an unrepeatable expletive on the way as he recognised my predicament, which by this time was serious. |
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| As Hastings's kick sailed wide, the normally restrained England winger Rory Underwood let slip a four-letter expletive in surprise. |
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| There is some evidence that the possibility of dropping expletive subjects is linked to agreement. |
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| A modern sledge is simply a expletive laden insult, designed to cause mental disintegration. |
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| Teenage speech in Greenock includes the F-word as verb, adjective, adverb, or expletive in almost every sentence. |
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| The text which sparked this query to the List was an analysis of expletive infixing. |
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| The expletive sign-off might suggest that Burke dashed off her missive in a moment of madness but, in fact, she took an extremely considered approach. |
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| His laugh is an expletive, a sharp burst of humourless sound. |
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| Reducing it to an expletive degrades the word, erases the idea, impoverishes language and makes us ever so slightly more stupid than we were before. |
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| With his Afghanistan remark, Mr Abbott has at least managed to end the taboo on using a certain expletive in Australian broadsheets' headlines. |
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| Many a householder has no doubt issued a lavatorial expletive on discovering termite damage to his house. |
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| Mr. Daley used an expletive to show that Mr. Gore puts no credence in that view. |
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| The Scriv. overset his cucurbit of corn mash with a jaundiced expletive. |
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| Referentially deficient subjects are of many types, the most common of which includes inanimate subjects, expletive subjects, and subjects of the passive construction. |
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| A dummy pronoun, also called an expletive pronoun or pleonastic pronoun, is a pronoun used for syntax without explicit meaning. |
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| In fact, for many conservatives, it seems to be an expletive. |
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| When Labour HQ called its Manchester leader, Richard Leese, and asked him to bad-mouth Osborne's speech, he is said to have told them to get lost, with an expletive. |
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| Dynasty is a political expletive in a country wary of inherited privilege. |
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| The Washington Post Style section thought that this excremental expletive was worth a whole 1200-word story by Peter Baker. |
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| Back in the olden days when I came out with an undeleted expletive people immediately knew my dander was up. |
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| No one entered more fully than Shakespeare into the character of this species of poetry, which admits of no expletive imagery, no merely ornamental line. |
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| Because you sold him out just to have a martyr, you expletive deleted. |
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| Expletive null subjects, for example, can occur freely in the past, present, and future tenses. |
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| This real life parody of Viz Comic characters The Real Ale Expletive Deletives unfolded as Yours Truly twitched impatiently behind them at the bar. |
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