Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between demonstrates how a multiplicity of different discursive systems intertwine to form the substrata of an individual mind which plays them off against each other , combines them and uses them to generate the repertory of stories that determine how she ‘ reads ’ the world in which she lives . |
| 2 | Funded by the European Community , the World Association of Nuclear Operators is co-ordinating an international effort to improve operating procedures at Kozloduy and bring them up to international safety standards . |
| 3 | If not I 've only got to put them up in the attic and bring them down in three month 's time . |
| 4 | The laity had a pale reflection of this programme in the parish mission , designed to convert the laity or at least bring them back to regular church practices . |
| 5 | A cash book should be maintained for each bank account to record every item of income and expenditure , analyse these into appropriate costs and back them up with supporting documentation . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't want the feckin' Gardai pullin' me up for drunken drivin' . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Paste me again with that stick of yours and you 're a dead Scotsman , Patel . ’ |
| 8 | And they did n't really want them back at that time . |
| 9 | It is beginning to be recognised that proficiency in more than one language often carries with it the need to be what one might term ‘ crosslingual ’ , that is , able to generate connections across languages rather than only using them independently of each other . |
| 10 | The law protected farmers living near subsistence level who needed something to carry them over from one harvest to the next , especially if the harvest had been bad . |
| 11 | They did n't move either until they got one of the old horsemen : he got them away without any trouble . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Simon 's filled me in in glorious detail . ’ |
| 13 | So , as villagers sadly began to dig up bluebell and primrose roots from the soon-to-be-flooded little woods of their pleasant countryside and to plant them elsewhere on safer ground , the Anglian Water Board asked Dame Sylvia Crowe , the landscape architect , to take on the challenge of turning the proposed 3,000-acre inland sea , with its 27-mile perimeter , into an ‘ environmental asset ’ . |
| 14 | But when someone tried to test the security of the spare wheel attached to the side of the body by pulling at it roughly and then , intrigued by the pair of leather driving-gauntlets resting on the front seat , fitted them on and passed them around for general examination he decided it was time to leave . |
| 15 | He passed them on to another colleague who led us finally to our places which were kept for us in the Grand Salon . |
| 16 | This means that using a program like WINFAX , you can combine document and data from a variety of Windows applications — a letter from word processing , a graphic from your paint program , a design from DTP , a graph from the spreadsheet etc and send them off in one FAX . |
| 17 | Although all my aids had to work in unison , I had to really concentrate on being able to work them independently of each other . |
| 18 | Well I says to Lindsey , said if you ever want me out of that hospital Lindsey you 'd better start and be good . |
| 19 | People do seem to find some goals more attractive than others and will pursue them sometimes with frenetic activity . |
| 20 | Molly moved them carefully to one end of the bar before she hung up Hugh 's clothes and her summer dresses . |
| 21 | Ryle 's point is that , since the terms ‘ mind ’ and ‘ body ’ are not of the same category , it is illegitimate to relate them logically in this way . |
| 22 | She looked right at O and Boy when she said this and it was as if she was trying to scare them in particular , even as if she was trying to frighten them away from each other , as if she was saying , to them , and to all of us , this is what you have to go through , right ? |
| 23 | None of these writers produced research evidence to back up their claims , basing them exclusively on clinical practice and theoretical projections . |
| 24 | However , we shall not discuss them further in this book . |
| 25 | I always reply , ‘ It 's the Sixties for you now , dear , so you get out there and make a wally of yourself ’ — and he has never let me down in that respect , I am glad to say . |
| 26 | I am in the process of compiling a book on old fashioned remedies for horse ailments and am writing to ask if any of your readers have experience of any , and would they be kind enough to pass them on for possible publication . |
| 27 | Water lay in the ruts and in some places marshy muddy patches had developed where water-grasses grew and the track had spread to pass them now on this side , now on that . |
| 28 | Tigers have attacked the dummies and torn them apart without any sign of being discouraged by the sharp jolt they have received . |
| 29 | Once , when the shock of alarm thrilled through her with more than usual intensity , she began to sing , softly , to keep her spirits up , and several phrases had passed her lips before she realized that the song came from her childhood — that she had not sung those words for almost twenty years , had forgotten them even until this moment when , with startling clarity , her memory travelled back in time . |
| 30 | Jenny holds me up with one arm and shouts at him . |