Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was an even larger turnout on May 14 when funeral marches for Kang were held in the capital and elsewhere . |
| 2 | In a confused and confusing holiday price structure , it may be useful to translate these figures into pictures , do a Jack Horner on the holiday pie and pluck out some typical plums , pinpoint what the 1990 market offers for £250 per head . |
| 3 | Among sheets from different periods of his career , she offers for sale the series of six ‘ Cold Mountain ’ etchings ( 1991 ) inspired , as were the recent paintings , by Chinese calligraphy and Tang Dynasty poetry . |
| 4 | The amount which each farmer or other seller offers for sale at any price is governed by his own need for money in hand , and by his calculation of the present and future conditions of the market with which he is connected . |
| 5 | At the weekend the Stall offers for sale the usual selection of Catholic newspapers and Catholic Truth Society publications , rosary beads and medals , prayer cards and candles . |
| 6 | Recent contracts have included the Forth Port privatisation ; the Scottish Television and Grampian TV franchises ; the Kenwood and Country Casuals offers for sale ; and the Evode and RHM defence documents . |
| 7 | The capitalist buys the labour power which the worker offers for hire . |
| 8 | A big attraction of the West Country for many second home owners is the opportunity it offers for waterside living . |
| 9 | THOUSANDS of students could have their studies disrupted following the decision by the largest lecturers ' union last night to reject the latest pay offers for staff in further and higher education colleges and polytechnics . |
| 10 | In this regard , evidence of alternative third party offers for Target should be sought , as well as formal valuations . |
| 11 | What makes the new round of work potentially so profitable is the scope it offers for experiment . |
| 12 | An intellectual ripper , which veers between poetry and pretentiousness . |
| 13 | The tide flows strongly in favour of the populist , the valueless public library … the Library service has lost its soul and , desperately seeking some justification for its existence , veers between pop-marketing in imitation of the big chains — the McDonald 's and Burger Kings of the printed word — and trying to be a sub-branch of information processing . |
| 14 | She showed up in her Rolls in the car park of the supermarket , and , although there was a lot of nodding and smiling and remarks about coincidences , it was pretty clear that her presence had been arranged for someone 's benefit . |
| 15 | On Dec. 12 the Punjab provincial government denied reports that it had recommended that remarks about Pakistan published in a book by a UK journalist should be punished by death . |
| 16 | I take good care to emphasise that the sensation as we stall and recover is not a symptom and that it can occur in normal flight and in some cases when the aircraft flies through turbulence . |
| 17 | This emerges in all its terrifying inexplicability in the fact that the incarnation involves for Jesus humiliation , rejection , and the cross , with the awful cry , ‘ My God , my God , why have you forsaken me ? ’ |
| 18 | The anthropologist who goes about things in this hard way ought not to fall into the error of supposing that kinship is " a thing in itself " . |
| 19 | And John mentioned the sleazy way that this Tory government goes about things . |
| 20 | The departmental application server fits between Sun 's 500-user Sparcserver 10 and the high-end 3,000-user SparcCenter 2000 . |
| 21 | The departmental application server fits between Sun 's 500-user Sparcserver 10 and the high-end 3,000-user SparcCenter 2000 . |
| 22 | Child sleeps through joyride chase drama |
| 23 | One of the men in the physiology department of the university here is taking them tomorrow as he is to stay with for a week , who is due home c. 13th and then the judge in whose house I so often stay in London IS coming for a long weekend c. 19th and then I have two or three B&B bods for Festival , giving up our bedroom ( UGH ) . |
| 24 | ‘ You know what the Church thinks about marriage and divorce . |
| 25 | He concluded : ‘ The bottom line is — who cares what Bono [ Hewson ] thinks about Japan or The Bomb or Sellafield or the price of biscuits ? |
| 26 | So it was then a question of just sitting down with a blank sheet of paper and starting to draw , because a Designer thinks about structures and design only by doing it , by drawing what 's in his mind . |
| 27 | He thinks about girls he might meet , and the evolution of the brassière . |
| 28 | And who cares what he thinks about Pete Tong 's Essential Selection ( R1 ) ? |
| 29 | You know what Richard thinks about Suez , but he does n't really listen to me — how do you think that makes me feel ? ’ |
| 30 | All four books reveal a steady concern with imitation and interpretation , and to read them together is to be clearer about what it is that the writer intends us to think that he thinks about things . |