Sentence examples for ring a ling from inspiring English sources
The bombardment of messages, and yes I have heard my first Christmas song, "Silver Bells" ("ring a ling"), the messages tell us to -- charge and want, bigger and flatter is better, buy and eat.
'Alright, let 's give Mr Safran a ring-a-ling,' Jim says.
Every shing a ling a ling..
Every shing a ling a ling...
And when the subject shifts to a Stimulus, an overt causative construction is used, with a causative marker 讓 rang, 令 ling, 使 shi, or 叫 jiao, in the pattern [Stim-CAU-Exp-DEG-V].
The causative construction is overtly marked with a causative morpheme, 讓 rang, 令 ling, 使 shi, or 叫 jiao 15, which serves to signal the causal relation whereby a Stimulus-causer "causes" an Experiencer-causee to be in an emotional state, expressed by an Experiencer-subject EP.
It is found that besides the typical unmarked transitive pattern, the verbs can both occur in a causative pattern overly marked by one of the causative markers (讓 rang, 令 ling, 使 shi, or 叫 jiao)11: (13) The Transitive-Causative alternation: a. Transitive pattern: Experiencer as Actor 我羨慕/忌妒他 wo__xianmu/ jidu __ta 1p.sg__envy/jealous__3p.sg I envy him.
Otherwise we are going to over-cook our goose, and nobody will be dreaming of a white Christmas because it won't be cold enough for snow, and therefore no sleigh-bells ringing or jing jing jing-a-ling too.
