Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pron] [noun pl] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a lot of humorous reminiscing by the veterans about previous pilgrimages , about blisters , about the student who was cautioned for cooling his feet in a public reservoir , about the crippling last mile of the pilgrimage which , apparently ( who says we 're not living in the Middle Ages ? ) , we walk barefoot . |
| 2 | The male has highly absorbent belly feathers which enable him to store water after immersing his underparts in a water hole . |
| 3 | FOUR car salesmen are claiming sexual discrimination after losing their jobs in a takeover by a company that boasted of its success in using saleswomen . |
| 4 | After playing their parts in a fruitless search of the Butcher Building , Dee and Kelley were now dining out at the Drowning Handbag , an up-market eatery in the best part of town . |
| 5 | Agnes now went into the back room and , after washing her hands in a bowl of water that stood on a bench , she dried them , then smoothed her hair back and adjusted the bow at the neck of her dress . |
| 6 | Does he accept that there has been a cut in the TEC 's budgets and that many are expressing concern about meeting his guarantees as a result ? |
| 7 | The animal research establishment would do well to get its own house in order instead of parading its failures before a public that still wants to believe in salvation through medical science . |
| 8 | She made a little rite of soaking her feet in a corn cure called ‘ Reudel ’ , and as she lowered her feet into the bowl of steaming water there was again that little look , that narrowing of the eyes and pursing of the lips , which said so much with so little disturbance of her features . |
| 9 | Together with Lombard North Central Bank we hope to demonstrate the importance that we both place on lady motorists and of meeting their expectations from a motor dealership . |
| 10 | The matron of Sick Bay , a formidable lady by the name of Mrs de Courcey-Meade , painted my wound ( unwashed ) with gentian violet , and I had to suffer the embarrassment of meeting my colleagues with a tattered and fluorescent leg . |
| 11 | In some such cases specific protection , in the form of import controls , subsidies or state purchasing , may be justified on socialist grounds , for instance if the industry is a struggling ‘ infant ’ with good future prospects ( ‘ good ’ , that is , in respect of the efficient satisfaction of social need ) , or even a struggling ‘ geriatric ’ which stands a good chance of reviving its fortunes through a thorough re-investment programme . |
| 12 | Already his mouth was watering at the prospect of sinking his teeth into a thick slice of bread liberally spread with best butter and sprinkled with sugar from one of the big sacks standing in the corner . |
| 13 | If he does this then a sociological perspective has been brought to bear on the first idea and the researcher is ready to go on to the next step , which will be one of limiting his ideas to a feasible scheme of work . |
| 14 | At a conference of the Foreign Ministers of the EEC states in Rome the following month Carrington made a general proposal for the conclusion of an international treaty guaranteeing Afghanistan 's status as a ‘ neutral ’ state , which in his view would provide the Soviet Union the possibility of withdrawing its troops on a legal basis in light of the United Nations ' resolution on this issue . |
| 15 | He had wide-set brown eyes and a way of gritting his teeth in a half smile , as if against the energy which coursed through him . |
| 16 | The World Bank presidency has a habit of surrounding its occupants with a warm , well-meaning aura . |
| 17 | CATHOLIC school head Bernadette Ardern today accused her church bosses of turning their backs on a Liverpool community . |
| 18 | She had had the tiresome habit of subjecting her speech-writers to a sixth-form question and answer session along the lines of , ‘ Tell me Chris , what do you mean by ‘ liberty ’ ? ’ and it was not until the welcome arrival of a cheerful Denis at two-thirty in the morning that she could be persuaded to go to bed . |
| 19 | The major legal recruiting agencies will all have people on their books who wish to move either firm or area and who may be able to offer you the immediate facility of calling yourselves specialists in a particular field . |
| 20 | PASSIONATE songs and groovy diversions and a voice that cracks and soars and makes you aware of the rich possibilities of your lot , instead of burying your feelings in a horrible , orthodox genre . |
| 21 | When her mother is convalescing , the novelty of spending her days in a dressing-room appeals to Jane Austen : ‘ I always feel so much more elegant in it than in the parlour . |
| 22 | Under section 29 of the Employment Protection ( Consolidation ) Act 1978 , an employer must permit an employee who is a councillor to take time off during working hours for the purpose of performing his duties as a councillor . |
| 23 | An important canvas of the autumn or early winter of 1906 , Two Nudes , now in the Museum of Modern Art , New York , could equally well be seen as two studies of a single figure viewed from diametrically opposed positions , an indication that Picasso was not only attempting to produce images of almost unprecedented weight and girth , but that he was also becoming impatient or dissatisfied with the idea of viewing his subjects from a single , stationary point of view . |
| 24 | Erm , What 's an advantage of having your inputs in a separate area , for the purpose of view testing ? |
| 25 | Few organisations have yet tapped the power of knowing their customers through a marketing database . |
| 26 | The obvious alternative method of determining which aspects of a stimulus are remembered is to use a modified recall paradigm and this approach is adopted in Chapter 8 . |
| 27 | He has not yet written off the possibility of putting his ideas on a ‘ four-eyes basis ’ — a meeting of just two people — to Thatcher and Bush . |
| 28 | And of course at the end of this series we have a listeners ' forum , and you will have an opportunity of putting your questions to a panel of speakers from the university and from outside the university . |
| 29 | Moreover should you persuade them to attend a local rally or the Crystal Palace Reunion they will immediately reap the benefit of obtaining their tickets at a reduced rate . |
| 30 | Even without statutory warrant , it would make sense for privilege to attach to whatever a Member does as an incident of discharging his functions as a Member in relation to the proceedings of the House itself ( as opposed to in his external role as a political figure , or in relation to constituents , members of the public and non-parliamentary bodies ) . |