Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 " . |
| 3 | And John mentioned the sleazy way that this Tory government goes about things . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He thinks about girls he might meet , and the evolution of the brassière . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He thinks about things , Masklin does . |
| 8 | She says bluntly what she thinks about landowners , the Royal Family , social injustice and access to the hills . |
| 9 | Even in his latest film , the hilarious Housesitter which opened in Britain last Friday , it is the bubbly Goldie Hawn , his co-star , who plays for laughs rather than Steve . |
| 10 | He plays for Rovers now . |
| 11 | McPherson plays for Hearts against Dundee at Tynecastle in the only match in the Premier Division . |
| 12 | McPherson plays for Hearts against Dundee at Tynecastle in the only match in the Premier Division . |
| 13 | She was a well-known author in her day , writing fiction , biographies , translations , and even plays for children . |
| 14 | Local Amenities : Pony rides for children ( in the Holts ' paddock ) golf , angling ( fly , course , sea ) , horse-riding . |
| 15 | Fiona Richmond , who used to perform sexual test drives for men for one of Paul Raymond 's raunchy magazines , shared a bath with the Palace players . |
| 16 | Resuming the A.87 at the Killilan junction , the road now turns between banks ablaze with gorse and enters the populated environs of Dornie , bypassing the separate community of Ardelve and reaching the village over a long road bridge . |
| 17 | Social organisation also differs between cultures . |
| 18 | What differs between projects is the complexity and scope of work required at each step . |
| 19 | What changes , or what differs between countries , is why they happen and how they take place . |
| 20 | This composition ‘ fingerprint ’ is consistently found for flint from the same mine but differs between mines . |
| 21 | These are largely based on the idea that the correlation of changes in spot and futures prices with interest rates differs between commodities , and so the importance of marking to the market will also differ . |
| 22 | Again , the precise relation between the rate of dancing and the distance to the food differs between races . |
| 23 | Second , the pattern of disability differs between institutions and private households . |
| 24 | In practice the effective interest rate on bankers ' acceptances and SCP is similar , though not the same , and the interest differential differs between maturities . |
| 25 | As the route to this goal is neither obvious nor agreed and differs between places and eras continuous debate is essential and occasional heresy welcome . |
| 26 | The pressure on trees differs between regions . |
| 27 | In the UK , the proportion of people infected with HIV differs between regions and between different groups of people . |
| 28 | Although the length of the film in seconds differs between exemplars , the six films of any particular junction show exactly the same distance travelled by the car between two fixed points . |
| 29 | Almost certainly these were table wines for local use or intended as supplies for ships — not madeira wine as we know it today . |
| 30 | It is posited here that rational childbearing practices , including patterns as to age of mother at birth of child , the amount of time that elapses between births and the total number of births , would have a salutary effect upon the health and well being of the family and its individual members , particularly mothers and young children . |