Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then we would visualise an alarm clock with carrots for fingers and imagine that when the alarm goes off it switches on the television set . |
| 2 | It occurred to her to wonder where the money came from to support the style . |
| 3 | Great-Uncle Isaac at Dummah Hill , where Father was living and working , was kin to the brothers so an arrangement was made for him to take over the land . |
| 4 | every year I 'm looking for it to move forward a little bit . |
| 5 | A neighbouring school may decide to cut back on special needs provision or transport to the swimming baths or some other expensive provision and an influx of recruits from that school may be looking to you to pick up the bills . |
| 6 | He was terrifying , towering over her seeming twice the size in his fury , but she would not run . |
| 7 | The word seemed to him to describe perfectly the smelly , often damp cakes of earth they were forced to burn since coal supplies had been so reduced by the constant cancellation of goods trains . |
| 8 | Would you give them a hundred thousand pounds worth of life cover for a shorter period , looking at them making up the difference perhaps later when they could afford it , or would you give them initially a reduced amount of life cover , say eighty thousand , for the eighteen years ? |
| 9 | For example , the psychological dilemmas of women 's two roles discussed in the late 1950s by Myrdal and Klein are said by them to affect only the minority of educated middle-class women . |
| 10 | I was n't really listening , just waiting for her to pick up the phone . ’ |
| 11 | She had been waiting for him to bring up the subject and was not surprised when he did so that very evening , although not , as she had anticipated , because of the eminently satisfactory report from her gynaecologist but for another reason altogether . |
| 12 | I was waiting for it to show up an confront us . |
| 13 | Next thing Pa was lunging past me to switch off the machine . |
| 14 | Then our industry experienced Training Officers will work with you to develop exactly the on the job training they need . |
| 15 | It had never even occurred to her to wonder why the land where the cottage had stood was still empty . |
| 16 | I 'm waiting on him picking up the machine . |
| 17 | Then he stepped towards her to stand just a couple of feet away . |
| 18 | Although the second method sounds like it gives twice the cover , it is far from twice as expensive . |
| 19 | Jeff Richer had choreographed the salacious routine , which began with me oozing down a cat-walk in a long black velvet evening coat and sliding it off my shoulders as I turn to camera revealing the lace gown . |
| 20 | Critics are calling on them to throw out the idea . |
| 21 | At one point the mistress of disguise demonstrated to her co-accused how the ginger wig she had been wearing when they were stopped by police , fell off as she adjusted her hat . |
| 22 | Explain to your secretary what you are doing as you fill up the waste bins . |
| 23 | However , Melanie has recently been bitten on the arm through diving between them to break up a fight . |
| 24 | He offered to forgo part of his salary as long as some employment would be found for him to make up the difference . |
| 25 | ( The work of Hoggart 1957 and others on popular culture seems to me to constitute largely a variant of the first tradition , though with some Marxist influence in some cases . ) |
| 26 | Its origin , and its method of financing , almost inevitably led to it becoming effectively a horse infirmary . |
| 27 | It had fallen to him to inherit not a heaven-born dynasty in an earthly paradise , but the staggering debt of correctly bringing it to an end . |
| 28 | One of the other things , of course , we 've got to always bear in mind when we und , try to understand the parables of Jesus is that you can not , and Jesus never meant for us , to find us u our , you know a parallel for every single little detail , the for for the colour of this , or the colour of that , or th the shape of something else , he did n't expect us and did n't mean for us to find out a pa a a parallel , a meaning for every single detail because otherwise you 're gon na be contradicting yourself again and again but what we must see is , what is the main basic truth that Jesus is teaching here ? |
| 29 | I looked through it to see why the music had stopped . |
| 30 | He reached past her to pick up the papers , a faint smile curling his chiselled lips as he scanned the typewritten sheets . |