Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] [verb] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slater was silent for a second , gazing disdainfully at Graham 's snapping fingers , then he said tiredly , " Graham , either concentrate on searching for the title of the book you 're talking about or devote your full energies to practising calling for a waiter ; I 'm not convinced you possess the RAM for doing both at the same time . " |
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| 3 | She ends by considering how teachers can create a classroom climate in which children can make use of and extend their own ideas . |
| 4 | In the final instance the golfer could simply refuse to work with his agent , who would then be faced with the problem of whether to sue his erstwhile client — a very expensive , long-winded and unsatisfactory process . |
| 5 | THE question of whether to use our own labour or contractors ' is a tricky one . |
| 6 | Pragmatists maintain that such checks are not merely tricky but also always leave the same option of whether to accept their apparent results . |
| 7 | I 'll have you to a widow in recompense that you should give me thanks for and make you seven years younger , and a rich one . |
| 8 | In his third camp , Eichstatt , in spite of the crowded and stressful conditions , he managed with the help of the Red Cross and some accountant brother-officers to study for and sit his final accountancy examinations while actively preparing for his escape . |
| 9 | His genealogical lists suggest a need to search for and establish his own identity . |
| 10 | The plaintiffs ' next contention has been described as the proprietary argument to the effect that Mr. and Mrs. Tully are constructive trustees for the plaintiffs of the moneys claimed in the action , that a court of equity will not hesitate to protect and preserve a trust fund in interlocutory proceedings on the principle that , if the trust fund disappears , it will turn out that equity has been invoked to no purpose and that a claim for privilege can not be successfully raised against an order which permits a plaintiff to search for and to seize his own property , including property which is in the possession of the defendant . |
| 11 | He imagined for a moment that he was still in short pants , until she turned to him and added , ‘ What I mean is , I would have still recognised you , ’ and as if to soften her first statement she added further , ‘ Of course , you 've grown much taller . |
| 12 | The Prince smiled , as if to soften his sartorial orders , then gestured at one of his Dutch aides . |
| 13 | Hearing what sounded like a muttered exclamation of fury at her elbow , Melissa looked around and saw Dora turn on her heel and march off into the orchard , where she stopped under an apple tree and stared up into the branches as if inspecting its heavy crop of fruit . |
| 14 | ‘ Anything but , ’ he replied , as if remembering her dainty appetite when she had dined at his home . |
| 15 | He used his hands flirtatiously , slowly , not flapping or pointing but caressing and floating , as if wiping his flat hand inches from the surface of a painting . |
| 16 | Even the sun , as if to mark my sudden sense of relief at being out of Czechoslovakia , chose to put in an appearance . |
| 17 | as if to demonstrate his terrible seriousness , he orders the people to set out the next day ‘ … for the wilderness by the way to the Reed Sea ’ . |
| 18 | Gothic he stated was not the national style its exponents claimed , but a foreign importation and as if to counter his own question to Scott , he recited a long list of classical public buildings in Britain and Ireland . |
| 19 | He paused for a moment as if to give his next words emphasis . |
| 20 | He repeated the word as if giving it due consideration . |
| 21 | He looked away , as if studying his own thoughts . |
| 22 | ‘ It would seem that he wanted to conceal his past , ’ he said , as if grudging her that information . |
| 23 | Of course we must be cautious about taking on difficult tasks as if to prove our social virility . |
| 24 | His eyes strayed to the rosy-cheeked children who were chattering happily and , to Meredith 's delight , he began to talk as if questioning his own feelings . |
| 25 | He gave a decided nod as if to approve his own argument . |
| 26 | The place was hardly cordoned by guards , as if to emphasize its innocuous character . |
| 27 | He reserves the right to fiddle with and recycle his own text , should he wish to . ’ |
| 28 | He had never been in hospital before and consulted his General Practitioner infrequently . |
| 29 | I put the coin in and dial my own number . |
| 30 | Perhaps Romania is , like its Otopeni airport , undergoing slow rejuvenation from the outside in and shedding its old skin . |