Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would like to thank you all at this time on behalf of the Association and the sport we represent for all your efforts you make for us in an unpaid capacity and time given voluntary to all . |
| 2 | That last taut exchange with Roman seemed to have whipped up some invisible energy that would n't let her relax , prickling through her like an electric storm . |
| 3 | I was due to attend a meeting with several other women whom I knew and felt in sympathy with , and when I arrived there , the weight of my unhappiness just rolled off me like an unwanted burden . |
| 4 | The Ranters were a group of extreme religious libertarians who believed that God dwelt inside them as an inner light . |
| 5 | This weighed on him like an inactive dreadnought suit of combat armour , imprisoning him ; and he sought his enhanced clarity , as it were , to restore power to that suit . |
| 6 | Unless the tenant here was a statutorily protected tenant , as the premises were not let to her on an excluded tenancy she is entitled to the benefit of that protection . |
| 7 | Some cases , the easy ones , were solved by it like an intellectual puzzle . |
| 8 | The first ever personalised beauty programme written for you by experts , with cosmetics specially selected for you from an exclusive new range . |
| 9 | Is that the case and , if so , what can we do about it at an early stage ? |
| 10 | Is that the case and , if so , what can we do about it at an early stage ? |
| 11 | And , of course , people who do help by sponsoring these items could even choose to have a rare creature named after them in an unusual form of immortality . |
| 12 | Even those who do not share his political opinions readily pay their tribute to the range of his intellect and the graciousness of his character ; more remarkable still , even those whose intellectual qualities are the equal of his , but whose moral qualities have degenerated in contact with the sordid atmosphere of politics , never speak of him with an affected amusement as a religious bigot or a narrow-minded moralist ; in the remarks of these latter politicians I often detect a tone of rather wistful regret , as if they were conscious in themselves of a loss for which the world they have gained has by no means compensated . |
| 13 | And looking behind us in an emotional sense can be of great preventive value . |
| 14 | ‘ Yes , people can identify with him as an ordinary , decent bloke . ’ |
| 15 | Landowners within the forest regarded the restraints imposed upon them as an arbitrary intrusion upon the rights of property which was contrary to natural law and justice . |
| 16 | Clara 's one solace had been the cold , tight dignity of her case , and this had been stolen from her , robbed from her by an elderly woman 's few words of casual humanity . |
| 17 | Furthermore , he had always related to her on an intellectual level , unlike the majority of men she knew who saw her as just another pretty face ( to try a line on ) , and although she and Whitlock never mixed socially , only ever meeting up at work , she had come to regard him as one of her few real friends . |
| 18 | Moreover , ‘ They were all madly highly-sexed like the Starkadders ’ , she told an interviewer earlier in the decade , ‘ and I think a lot of the laughing at that kind of thing in Cold Comfort Farm comes from a ‘ distaste ’ … if you have it thrust on you from an early age , with divorces left , right and centre and people chasing each other round tables … well . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ We 're not going to pay skilled workers $18 an hour to clean phone booth ’ , he says to me in an aggressive tone of voice . |
| 20 | My Pop came to me with an old Army pistol in his hand , knelt beside me and said , ‘ If you want me to kill him , I will . |
| 21 | ‘ The Commission appointed to investigate the disaster came to us after an earlier attempt to prove the cause of the crash had failed , ’ explains senior project manager Steve Jackman . |
| 22 | He first tried to talk to me in an English pub . |
| 23 | To show this was not true , I began to talk to her in an animated way , and she was attentive , encouraging me with questions . |
| 24 | Behind they heard the death screams of the abandoned mules , and their steeds accelerated even more whilst the grey ghosts of Murtach 's wolves darted beside them at an impossible speed . |
| 25 | The hours spent beneath the apple tree assumed a distorted quality as though she were looking at them through an unfocused lens . |
| 26 | He was looking at her with an icy contempt . |
| 27 | Now having said that and looking at it with an open mind I think it was certainly a very useful day . |
| 28 | I think one is largely on judging people in the hands of the media , looking at it from an ordinary party member I think it 's the air he gives , whether it 's an air of confidence competence and perhaps and air of confidence , the way he handles himself in the House of Commons , the things that he actually says , because within that time you 're not able , in fact , to have achieved much erm parliamentary wise , one very much has to judge a person by what he has . |
| 29 | Palmer 's views were shared by the other Northern Residents who , early in his career as Lieutenant-Governor , were organized by him into an effective pressure group known as the Conference of Residents . |
| 30 | But in the last twelve months the fury of the entire national had been aroused against him by an aged , exiled cleric for whom he had only contempt . |