Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] a [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Russian Sputnik had been launched two years before , and produced in the United States a feverish alarm lest their Communist competitors should outstrip them in a world increasingly penetrated by science and technology . |
| 2 | He has studied the details of their forms and physiognomy and renders them in a manner both truthful and original . |
| 3 | The gypsies themselves are puzzled by the apparant determination of the council to evict them from a site well away from public view . |
| 4 | At last , a functioning airlock admitted them into a section where a breathable atmosphere survived , and warmth . |
| 5 | One of the lads asked me at a dance how I had earned my living before I had got married . |
| 6 | We got about six sentences too deep in our conversation for her to institute personal questions about my background , without appearing offensive ( she had to treat me as a person now and not a peon ) , even for Asians who delight in asking pertinent questions as to age , income , etc. , unthinkable for more backward Europeans . |
| 7 | The result was that all New York fares could now be reduced , bringing them to a level only slightly above that of Virgin 's competing New York fare , and fares on the Boston route were adjusted to match the New York level . |
| 8 | And Northumberland had chosen , rather than pursue them with a force then quite inadequate , to gather his and his sons ' levies and wait for the marauders to return . |
| 9 | This is a relative newcomer to the hobby , so new that nobody has slotted them into a genus yet . |
| 10 | You 've been clever enough to catch me in a honeytrap partly of my own making ! |
| 11 | ‘ They tried to pull me into a scrum once and they invited me into the showers with them ’ — GAIL PARKER ( a lady referee ) on problems encountered when trying to control men . |
| 12 | ‘ But I did n't even recognise you for a minute there , and I did n't like the feeling . |
| 13 | If someone was looking for The Bar in those days — because there was no name written up or sign for it , no lights at all , and not even a number on the door , Madame liked to keep it that way even when she did n't have to any more — I mean when she opened up we may all have been in a sort of hiding , and not many people knew about The Bar and our life there , but it was n't that way later , and now you know we can have lights and advertising and you see boys queueing up outside every night , very public , and I like to see that — but in those days , in those days if somebody arranged to meet you for a date there , and it was their first time and they were n't sure how to find us , you 'd joke with them , and you 'd say well first there is a wedding , and then there 's a death , and there 's the news , and then there 's us ; meaning , first there 's the shop with the flowers , the real ones , and next door to that is the undertaker 's with the fake flowers in the window , china , all dusty ; and then the newsagent 's and magazine shop , and then right next door to that is The Bar . |
| 14 | You can trust him with a lady anywhere . ’ |
| 15 | He had actually succeeded in drifting forward and downward again , when the voice drew him to a stop once more . |
| 16 | I feel I know her like a sister now — she 's younger than I am — but she never told me about the twins . |
| 17 | He looked up from the desk , caught her at a moment when , against her will , tears had filled her eyes . |
| 18 | His abolition of the subject carries with it the demise of the individual as the locus of knowledge and agency , and places him in a position where , as we saw , there can be no question of compromise with individualism . |
| 19 | I never seen her with a hat on in my life before , but Grandma wore a a bonnet , when she came into town . |
| 20 | Its 30 000 facets provide it with a picture rather like a grainy photograph . |
| 21 | ‘ Seems reasonable , ’ said Dod , like he 'd seen Richard Widmark say it in a film once , really chill . |
| 22 | Panic ‘ The Government built it in a day out of panic — it was not properly thought out , ’ she raged after the hearing at Isleworth Crown Court , Middlesex . |
| 23 | Raising victim consciousness could also be achieved by incorporating it as a function explicitly pursued by controlling and regulating agencies . |
| 24 | Make sure the macaroni is well drained and place it in a bowl along with the celery , onion , parsley , green and red peppers , salts and pepper . |
| 25 | Their views are readily recognizable in a world where the fuss about the Turin Shroud has reminded us of a time when high hopes and claims of miracle were commonly attached to pieces of the true cross or heads of John the Baptist , where much Christian literature promises believers great success in life if only they have enough faith in God , and where men and women of political power still try to have God and his Church on their side , and to use their authority to enhance their own . |
| 26 | ‘ There are people who are prepared to take advantage , selling trees under false pretences , valuing them at a lot more than they are worth . |
| 27 | Er could you refer me to a place where I have erm er |
| 28 | sort of well a couple of nights deejaying will do me for a start really . |
| 29 | Course , I was looking out the window and I know he took I picked it out and it I looked again , there 's another one in there , course she 's only getting out the bath put them in a bowl like I was ! |
| 30 | And we used to catch them alive , take them out , put them in a bag together again , and off home again do you see . |