Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [det] [vb base] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She herself felt like a fair-minded vegetarian at a bullfight , filled with both alarm for the bull and reluctant admiration for the matador , who seems , on the face of it , to be at a disadvantage . |
| 2 | The primacy of the individual 's ‘ right to work ’ has been upheld as sacrosanct , to be defended at all cost against the ‘ tyranny of the mass picket ’ . |
| 3 | You have attempted to both reply to a task mail message and forward it to another user . |
| 4 | When both of the fish are ready to spawn , the ritual described earlier recommences with both fish in the spawning embrace slowly sinking . |
| 5 | Women who adhere to this go for the tailored suit and no-nonsense haircut routine . |
| 6 | In Britain most people who are in full-time contracted employment receive full pay for six months , followed by half pay for a further six months , if they have a serious illness or accident which prevents them from working . |
| 7 | If the Social Democrats do after all cooperate with the Greens , and the Greens hold the balance of power , can they use it ? |
| 8 | To pack and process them he needed staff , so our terms stipulated a minimum of two months ' summer work , the understanding being that when contracts came up for renewal , priority would be given to those who had put in most time on the slime-line . |
| 9 | Stemp appeared before a disciplinary committee in Birmingham today — and was cleared of all blame for the incident . |
| 10 | And traditionally , I find , British parents tend to erm say on the one hand we 'll let the school get on and do their professional job — I find it quite depressing they do n't ask for more say in the organisation , but they do demand , quite rightly , the right to criticise when things go wrong . |