Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pers pn] [adj] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thanks to improved fragrance technology , perfumers are now able to offer us subtly differing strengths of the same scent for different moments during the day : eau de parfum ( freshest of all ) eau de toilette , parfum de toilette , esprit de parfum , parfum — or even , for some famous names , parfum extra , ideal for knocking 'em dead at several paces . |
| 2 | I had never imagined the usefulness of teaching him English for this particular trade . |
| 3 | Yet he is required to hand over his children 's future to the ‘ non-ideological ’ market forces he thinks are largely responsible for getting us all into this mess in the first place . |
| 4 | Discrimination between individuals consists in making it easier for some than for others to realize their ideals of the good . |
| 5 | Furthermore , this is probably one of those cases where social psychoanalysis can succeed in telling us more about this primitive superego-structure than can the clinical analysis of modern individuals unaided by cultural insights . |
| 6 | And I I really do n't think they have any business without consulting you and me , as the peoples that they represent , because I 'm I 'm a voter in North Yorkshire too , so I do n't think they have any business actually doing this without consulting us first of all . |
| 7 | But Moira says no it 's paperbacks only , insisted on lending us some of those Virgo Books and Woman 's Press and that , you know ‘ I Stand Here Ironing ’ and so on , could n't be bothered to try and make sense of them . |
| 8 | I can thank the lovely lady from the nightclub for putting me wise to that one ! ’ |
| 9 | You do n't wan na give him any of that , throw it all over him yeah , this is what your going to wear today , yep er oh I did n't bring any socks did I ? |
| 10 | If you wan na give them half of that . |
| 11 | and I was gon na give you some of this wine that time , and I was on the way out |
| 12 | He said that a man who 's gon na build a , build something , let's put it in a modern setting , the man who 's gon na , a man and woman , a couple are gon na put an extension on their house , they do n't just go down and buy a few dozen bricks , er , and a bag cement and start , they work out how much it 's gon na cost them first of all . |
| 13 | I 'm gon na get him one of those machines that gives condoms when you put a pound in yeah . |
| 14 | Management as a process appears to be understood as being about taking decisions which will be more likely to be unpopular than those taken by lower ranks , i.e. , middle managers , whose task it is to mediate higher decisions by making them palatable in some way . |