Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You used to have to rub all your clothes and on this rub board or get a little brush and and scrub the s collar and your cuffs and then in the salt water and get all them in and then you used to have to ponch them with a ponch or a dolly peg , what used to go round like that you see . |
| 2 | Practical theories and theoretized practice meet somewhere in the middle , and it may be more fruitful to see them as a continuum than as a dichotomy . |
| 3 | The Jungle Book was not mentioned again by any of them , as if they were n't ready to see me as an actor but preferred me in my old role as a useless boy . |
| 4 | Modernization eventually takes away children 's ability to earn and turns them into a cost as they need education to earn as adults . |
| 5 | Misperceptions of elderly people — from seeing them as a burden and expecting them to be docile , to assuming that older people can not be aggressive or violent — play a part in how physical abuse is perceived . |
| 6 | No well we used to kill them with a stick but of course they used to lay the rabbits out at that time to see how many they caught cos that was a little bit of perks for the farm labourers they used to buy a rabbit for sixpence , then they go up to ninepence for a rabbit . |
| 7 | But when I think about how I feel for you , it turns me into a Hercules and I feel I can conquer the world . ’ |
| 8 | Gloria wiped the tongs clean with a scrap of paper , twirling them in a circle until they had cooled slightly , then she coiled a strand of Ruth 's hair round the tongs and when it was tightly curled , fixed it in place with two hairpins . |
| 9 | Asked by police what had happened , Mr Graham said : ‘ He attacked me with a hammer and I stabbed him . ’ |
| 10 | I mean I could choose not to do an album , but when they asked me to an album that was exciting to say yes . |
| 11 | He asked me for a light and I offered him one of my Gauloises . |
| 12 | ‘ That girl of yours asked me for a statement and I gave her one-more than she bargained for , and I made her take it all down . ’ |
| 13 | Gather together favourite recipes , make them into a booklet and sell for funds . |
| 14 | ( She kept the combings and sold them to a wig-maker when there was a suitable quantity , because the texture of her hair and its being pure white made it especially suitable for his work . ) |
| 15 | To solve a problem the student must recall the relevant concepts and rules and combine them in a way that satisfies the principles of good practice . |
| 16 | Three children , aged between four and seven , scream as uniformed East Berlin police drag them and their mother off and push them into a lorry as they stand outside the US embassy in East Berlin , hoping desperately to get inside . |
| 17 | When planting species of this group , it is better to plant them in a cluster or bunch . |
| 18 | The map user can select features of interest from the digital map and display them in a way that is suited to his or her requirements . |
| 19 | But if I met , but then that 's slightly different because if I met someone in a nightclub or something like that then I would be quite wary . |
| 20 | It looked as if we had painted ourselves into a corner and I was on the verge of giving up and going home when Jake trundled up with his totter 's cart and his little skewbald pony . |
| 21 | The reason is that the folding of the ears brings them forward and this places them in a posture that is not part of the usual ear-lowering signal . |
| 22 | And , if so , would he recognise them as a warning that Doreen was not the right woman for him ? |
| 23 | ... Also , managers often became enamoured with specific planning concepts , employing them with a fervor that inhibited sensitivity to special considerations and that diverted attention from other important issues … . |
| 24 | John trained frantically hard with press-ups to increase his strength and , as Pamela Chrimes described it , ‘ used me as a dumbbell until he could cope ’ . |
| 25 | I believed her on both counts , especially when she visited me for a weekend and gave me a bottle of ‘ Denim ’ aftershave which she had shoplifted from a Chemist in mid Wales . |
| 26 | Foreignness for me provided a difference that moved me in a way that sexual difference never did ’ ( ‘ Home and Abroad ’ , 44 , my emphasis ) . |
| 27 | We unharness the dogs and attach them to a chain that Odd-Knut fastens between two trees . |
| 28 | When transferring animals between cages it may be found easier to coax them into a bottle than to handle them . |
| 29 | Women make their own minds up about what they want to do , I find , so I left it ; but about a year ago she invited me to a party and indicated that whoever it had been was no longer around . |
| 30 | We caught them with a net and we used to sell them as cage-birds . ’ |