Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pron] [prep] a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was able to appreciate the problems they might be having dealing with English spoken in a variety of accents and dialects after learning it in a purely academic setting . |
| 2 | To be fair to myself , ’ she added with a faint smile , ‘ if you will insist on looking like the original swinging teenager it 's small wonder that the thought of trusting you with a really ill man put the fear of God up me . ’ |
| 3 | It is all too easy to make the mistake of treating it as a purely physical problem that can be overcome by renewal , as was discovered by costly experience in the USA during the 1960s and in Britain a decade later . |
| 4 | ‘ I was thinking of putting her to a very nice stallion I 've seen in the district , ’ she said . |
| 5 | bloody blue moon and you may not be worth putting on your and calling every six weeks Mandy , but , it might be worth asking it in a more open way . |
| 6 | It is through changing them in a more fundamental way that the drugs cause addiction . |
| 7 | I 'm gon na paint him in a really bright colour and then put the |
| 8 | Similarly the text is written so as to bring out comic connotations of the word fut , the passé simple of the verb " to be " by writing it with a characteristically Anglo-Norman spelling as " " fout " " , recalling foutre . |
| 9 | Even the Secret Committee had a reason for allowing the Rescript to be promulgated : by committing itself to a relatively modest programme of reform , the government seemed to be discouraging radicals from pressing their case . |
| 10 | For Great Britain , the Department of Trade and Industry persuaded Luke Rittner , former Secretary General of the Arts Council , to act as its cultural adviser , but wasted the invitation by equipping him with a totally inadequate budget . |
| 11 | It is relatively brief , as can be seen by comparing it with a more recent competitor for the same market , H. W. Janson 's A History of Art , which is more than twice the length and has more illustrations ( 928 in 1962 ) . |
| 12 | Example The topic " Islamic elements in Byron 's poetry " could be given greater interest and significance by placing it in a more general discussion of " foreignness " in British Romantic texts . |
| 13 | There , the missing gene will be added to the marrow by infecting it with a genetically altered virus . |