Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can congratulate them on getting into the problem so quickly , discuss the flaw , come to a mutual agreement about definitions or regulations , or dictate further instructions as needed . |
| 2 | Return to any parts that cause residual difficulties and repeat them before moving to the second objective . |
| 3 | ‘ If your friends ’ mothers despise me for working in a supermarket , then they are to be pitied . |
| 4 | . And they were n't the Victorian prizes , that I won , I we got them for getting through an exam , because you could write or something , and er tt well , they were quite good books , and it was one way of getting a book . |
| 5 | These analytic shortfalls happen because , although associative initiatives address the ambiguities of subjective meanings , they often end up resolving them by referring to a concept of a unified subject . |
| 6 | I will not bore you with going through a lot of slides showing those comparisons , but in a short paper erm you must take my word for it that the two groups were comparable . |
| 7 | MAS will , however , advise and assist you in preparing for the initial meeting . |
| 8 | Andy remembers Paul Heaton ringing him to pester him into listening to The Housemartins ' demo , telling him , ‘ You 've got ta sign us , we 're brilliant . ’ |
| 9 | Detective Sergeant Mick Ornellus , of Clacton CID , said the two men either offered or already had carried out a number of jobs for her and tricked her into parting with the money . |
| 10 | Keeping him from snapping at the heels of Normandy is bad enough . ’ |
| 11 | The service section also involved her in caring for the elderly and paediatrics . |
| 12 | He cited a Daily Mail article , rather curiously signed Editor , which had attacked him for presiding over the disappearance of ‘ an immense fortune ’ left hint by his father , and had concluded : ‘ It is difficult to see how the leader of a party who has lost his own fortune can hope to restore those of anyone else , or his country . |
| 13 | Oh , he had told lies and they had trapped him by asking for the names of other English agents in Paris . |
| 14 | He had arranged to meet her after racing in the White Lion at Feltham . |
| 15 | It has it in writing from the LTA that it would not favour any tender from Tretorn for its Category A tournaments . |
| 16 | The duty , which was to have been phased out over a nine-month period to March 1991 , was dismissed as ineffective because shoppers would be able to circumvent it by buying in the West after July 1 . |
| 17 | I managed to absorb it without falling off the chair . |
| 18 | There was also speculation that the delay was caused by Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley because she wanted to launch it after returning from a trip abroad . |
| 19 | The Smiths seduce us into aspiring to the same heroic pitch of failure and exile . |
| 20 | Well we 've asked him to meet us with regard to the footpaths , so we could use it for that at the same time , |
| 21 | Opposition Members should study them before going into the Committee . |
| 22 | ‘ He did n't try to talk me into acting as a romantic go-between . ’ |
| 23 | Check that the fascia boards are worth repairing : if they have started to rot , you will have to replace them before starting on the guttering . |
| 24 | Also , bear in mind that the components removed from circuit boards are likely to have very short leadouts that might prevent them from fitting into the component layouts of your projects . |
| 25 | there are two , there are two ways you could look at it , either , either you could say , you could say yes or , in , in one sentence if you have any barrs on membership at all you are preventing competition , but that would be er a highly unreal statement to make , erm , and what you 're , what you 're saying is that if you look at it that way , the prevention restriction or distortion of competition must be some er malign or bad prevention restriction or distortion and er there 's nothing bad about having objective criteria which would indeed erm prevent erm these people from competing cos they ca n't get into this , into the sugar market , er it will prevent them from competing in the sugar market , but that 's not the sort of prevention article eighty five is talking about . |
| 26 | The single median fins down the mid-line of their backs or undersides prevented them from spinning in the water and gave them a degree of stability , but none had paired lateral fins . |
| 27 | To this extent , Soviet foreign traders , who came late to the Latin American markets , may be disadvantaged in their competition with capitalist suppliers either because their own authorities prevent them from participating in the bidding for a project or because they can not mobilise the Soviet bureaucracy in time to meet deadlines . |
| 28 | Government concern is to develop what the Foreign Office called a mechanism to turn people round more quickly and prevent them from arriving at a destination where they were unwanted . |
| 29 | Great Pulteney Street alone is 1,100 feet long and 100 feet wide , though the thin pilasters and applied pediments of Bathwick 's terraces prevent them from ranking alongside the Royal Crescent and the King 's Circus as works of European significance . |
| 30 | The 137 governments participating agreed a statement which committed them to working towards a legally-binding climate convention , which should be ready for signature at the Brazil conference on environment and development in 1992 . |