Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Regarding work with the children and the new families , my plea for a more sophisticated approach in assessing the needs of children and finding the appropriate routes to permanent placement for each child leads me to the conclusion that the nature of the social work service to each child and family must vary according to their needs and their wishes .
2 The high prices of industrial consumer goods deterred the peasants from buying , and the low prices offered by the state for agricultural produce deterred them from selling or even sowing .
3 If only I had as much spare time as you evidently do , then I would happily reciprocate by wandering about this house reminding you of tasks you have perfectly well in hand . ’
4 For further details contact her at .
5 At Athlone I waited in a large modern station for another train to take me to Ballinasloe .
6 From there we went in a funny little train with open trucks which fascinated Tim , until we got to a railway junction where we had to wait on the station for some hours for another train to take us to Calcutta .
7 Pennethorne regarded Hunt 's appointment as another move to deprive him of work which was rightfully his .
8 For this ailment call him on 0891 400 650 .
9 For this ailment call him on 0891 400 650
10 The sharp hiss of an angry breath drawn through clenched teeth stopped him in his tracks .
11 In the winter that followed we all had a house together and Giorgio came to stay , and the winter after that Anna took me to Switzerland while Constanza travelled with someone in Spain .
12 After that dogs bit me on the feet .
13 Tragedy of twin too weak to survive alone Three-year-old girl dies after 15-hour surgery to separate her from Siamese sister
14 We may think we are an uncaring society but in this matter of looking after our own , we are most emphatically not : for every hundred old people only one is in a home and then often after enormous efforts to help them at home have failed .
15 A HOSPITAL has sounded a safety alert over the packaging of oils used in ‘ alternative ’ medicine after two youngsters drank them from bottles .
16 Anthony 's mother , Stella , 44 , threw bricks at the dog which was only dragged off the screaming youth after two neighbours attacked it with an iron bar .
17 Consult the table on the back page for easy reference to assist you in your choice of the correct Child Car Safety Seat .
18 A fast trip through central London whisked them past the main tourist attractions and out to the suburbs to the International Training College where they were to stay .
19 And it was a record that came to be seen and recognised by the local electorate , in particular the newly enfranchised women , not least through the efforts of Labour candidates to exploit it to political advantage .
20 Even crystal beads , whose actual source is unknown , but whose type of geographic distribution places them with this group , has a similar fall-off with a peak at Sleaford .
21 The growing nationalism of his schemes needed only the more autarchic economic plan and the authoritarian nature of political control to turn it into fully-fledged fascism .
22 If the medium of issue is magnetic then the indefinite maintenance of bit-perfect records commits us to an active program of periodic renewal and integrity checking , or a one-off transfer to a more permanent medium .
23 Processes of each neuron put it into contact by synaptic junctions with other nerve cells ( Chiarodo et al. , 1970 ) or with sensory structures or effector organs .
24 It took a team of eight men to lift it onto its end and ease it , millimetre by millimetre , through the seemingly ever-narrowing crack called the doorway .
25 She did n't have time to more than glance at it before two pairs of strong hands lifted her from the stools , and placed her unceremoniously on a table top .
26 It can not have helped him , but the restored democracy had treated the leaders of that attempt to destroy it with , if anything , excessive leniency .
27 At corner Inn the ostlers were the only visible representatives , and the doors were still closed ; but at the village a number of the natives were astir , and came to a little stone pier where a boat 's crew were exchanging for the coin of the realm the sparkling treasure netted in the night season , and many of the lodgers would have the freshest of fresh herrings waiting them for breakfast .
28 The ground was largely excavated by hand , and shovelled into small tipping trucks , which were then hauled on rails by horses.4 ; Excavated material from the lower level was raised to form the top of the planes and a stretch of embanked canal to connect them with the summit pound .
29 If used frequently , or if used in conjunction with the soliloquy , this mode of direct presentation brings us into closer contact with that person , so that we in part share his or her hopes and fears , become more closely involved with their desire to control the world .
30 But just as he had used her agoraphobia as a defence against having to know about his need to find her safely where he had left her , so too did her lack of sexual response defend him from knowing about his need to keep her under his control .
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