Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A course may change radically without changing its title ; conversely , re-titling a course may simply be an exercise in re-packaging it for external consumption . |
| 2 | He was seeking advice with regard to the Council 's refusal to rehouse him in suitable ground floor accommodation . |
| 3 | But , as Alison Lurie observed in the Language of Clothes ( Bloomsbury , £11.99 ) , ‘ The entire history of female fashion in this century can be viewed as a series of more or less successful campaigns to force , flatter or bribe women back into uncomfortable or awkward styles in order to handicap them in professional competition with men . ’ |
| 4 | Once they are in place , you can have the shingle delivered — it can be dumped directly on to a drive site from the road , but you 'll need to barrow it to remote garden paths , so set planks on the lawn if you have to run across it . |
| 5 | When they gave quite unacceptable displays of dissent , such as Holding kicking down the stumps or Croft deliberately barging into an umpire who had no-balled him , Lloyd did nothing to discipline them in public view . |