Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Great War and those more recent conflicts were put together and ‘ paid-for ’ on behalf of politicians who could not make up their minds or bring the problems to the debating-table ; who preferred the shouting and smearing , the innuendo and hate for their opponents ' parties , to the welfare and the good of their people . |
| 2 | Fear for my family and hate for my monster were with me day and night . |
| 3 | But they are ideally cast as Captain von Trapp and Max Detweiler respectively , and their imposing stage personalities more than compensate for their limitations as singers . |
| 4 | Nonetheless , her gift is to write about her characters as if they are known to her : her stories unfold through their eyes , with no apparent authorial manipulation . |
| 5 | Acrobats , clowns and musicians jostle for your attention . |
| 6 | As evening approaches , other exciting opportunities jostle for your attention . |
| 7 | We only discriminate between our mediated experiences by a conscious effort , finding ourselves watching comedy , beauty contests and international disasters from the same chair . |
| 8 | This love for their land is refreshing — they consistently enthuse about their country rather than being swift to bad-mouth it — and it is also reflected in their desire to protect large areas from exploitation . |
| 9 | One , is there not a way in which your good tool could be perverted , and two , since this tool must inevitably be given into the hands of the people you despise for their aggressiveness and bad inheritance and rearing , how do you expect them to use it ? |
| 10 | Leibniz was quite right , of course , to reject the view that a sufficient criterion of numerical identity of things can be defined in terms of the conditions under which we distinguish between their respective positions in space , but he himself had no better explanation to offer . |
| 11 | But I mean i is n't he right in saying look this is , this is the erm figures he uses are seventy percent of the population that , that they are , if you like , our friends an and if you 're gon na have a revolution successfully you 've got ta make , distinguish between your friends and your enemies and the poor peasants are your real friends . |
| 12 | I mean between your two machines . |
| 13 | 1 Next time you admit a patient use the information you gain about his home circumstances and your knowledge about the operation he is to undergo to try and decide what care he might need when he leaves hospital . |
| 14 | Mm , push for your training , push to be spoken |
| 15 | Consciousness you raise through your sexuality allows you to enter that non-reality and use it . |
| 16 | She would be sure to make such a song and dance about her aching feet that she would get right to the head of the queue for the room-key — well , apart from Mrs Roscoe , naturally ! ’ |
| 17 | Modern Boy , you see , also printed fiction and the Krooms stalk through my head to this day . |
| 18 | And then Frusamide for your water tablet and that 's to start on Thursday and then review at end of pack . |
| 19 | Sometimes his work is immediate and comic : ‘ Elephants trumpet for his creed , he travels quicker than wildebeest . |
| 20 | ( 1983 ) have so clearly shown , many of those who perform such roles want support , and a measure of relief , but they do not wish to abdicate what they perceive as their responsibility . |
| 21 | She felt sure that one of those burning houses was her own and fear for her mother drove her on . |
| 22 | Berenice has high blood-pressure ; she has to remain in hospital because of stress , or she will miscarry , and if that happens I fear for her mental health . ’ |
| 23 | WHILE the people of Hong Kong , stripped of any useful British nationality by successive immigration laws , fear for their future after the massacre at Peking in June , many Macao citizens , just 40 miles away across the Pearl River delta , rest secure in the knowledge that Portugal will offer them a guaranteed home of last resort after it returns their territory to China in 1999 . |
| 24 | In front of the celluloid swordfight three hundred souls fear for their lives . |
| 25 | I watch chalky earth plains give way to natural forest and fear for their future . |
| 26 | They fear for their own livelihoods if it is closed . |
| 27 | The family on benefit who fear for their future . |
| 28 | Farmworkers fear for their future if the Board now under government review is scrapped . |
| 29 | Many still fear for their lives , but have been told they can stay here until it 's safe to return . |
| 30 | ‘ If we do n't join the European Community in full , I fear for our future , ’ says Mark Radcliffe . |