Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] and [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told enough boring stories about them and ended each office day with : ‘ I must go or my children will be afraid I 've got lost . ’ |
| 2 | Banks thus compete against each other for them and negotiate individual terms with the firm to suit the firm 's particular requirements . |
| 3 | As Shneidman makes it clear : ‘ While different components of the educational process aim at the development of different qualities and values , it is impossible to draw a clear distinction between them and to separate physical education from other segments of communist upbringing ’ ( 1979 , p.6 ) . |
| 4 | One elderly Palestinian in Beirut wanted to draw a map of his olive grove for me and spent ten minutes sketching and re-sketching the roads south of Jaffa . |
| 5 | ‘ However , these animals are here and we must look after them and make full use of them to bring the attention of people in Northern Ireland to the plight of thousands of other , much less fortunate , chimpanzees . ’ |
| 6 | She won two academy awards , had two Broadway theatres named after her and wrote two novels and an autobiography . |
| 7 | This brings in the other theme of how money can corrupt which is obviously shown by the ways in which Pip 's attitude changes towards those around him by becoming condescending towards them and showing little respect and compassion . |
| 8 | When I opened one of them and saw English words I could feel the tears pricking at the back of my eyes . |
| 9 | and you 've a number inside the car as well on the bottom of the car on the floor so er some of them no , they do n't so some of them take the mickey of them and putting different plates on of a written off car from a scrap yard so you can have like a brand new Sierra smashed up in a scrap yard and you buy it for like a thousand pound and you this Sierra with a brand new Sierra , so you change all the plates over and do all this on the car and then you got a bloody Sierra worth about nine or ten thousand pound |
| 10 | Stake out plenty of territory , always a high-status activity , by spreading your papers in front of you and using expansive body language ( especially if you are physically small , or female ) . |
| 11 | He raised his eyes , morosely , as Morse took Dixon 's seat opposite him and pulled another chair alongside for a very blonde young WPC , who amongst other accomplishments was the only person in St Aldate 's HQ with a Pitman shorthand qualification for 130 w.p.m . |
| 12 | Beyond the twin pillars of fire eating their way towards him and throwing billowing curtains of smoke across the road Owen could fitfully see the gathered villagers clinging to each other in terror . |
| 13 | He came towards her and put both hands on her shoulders . |
| 14 | This was a small mercy for those who fell foul of her and faced ruined careers or worse . |
| 15 | He saw 2 cars in front of him and said one car , which was driven by Anthony Gallagher , had indicated left but pulled out in front of him . |
| 16 | Yet when his campaign train reached McCarthy 's state of Wisconsin , where he planned to speak in defence of his old chief , he thought better of it and let that guy from the gutter stay on the train . |
| 17 | ‘ There has clearly been change in South Africa let's take advantage of it and get more work for the town 's companies and more jobs , ’ he said . |
| 18 | ‘ There has clearly been change in South Africa let's take advantage of it and get more work for the town 's companies and more jobs , ’ he said . |
| 19 | ‘ There has clearly been change in South Africa let's take advantage of it and get more work for the town 's companies and more jobs , ’ he added Coun. John Williams , the Labour group leader , said Coun. Richmond 's invitation was premature : ‘ He is being too hasty . |
| 20 | I love aspects of it and hate other aspects of it . |
| 21 | So when you remove a young child 's hand from an electric plug you tap the back of it and accompany this action with a firm NO . |
| 22 | Why do n't you get rid of it and give that customer a twenty four hour delivery service |
| 23 | The Bank of England stepped in , took over the running of it and provided sufficient loans to cover the demands of its creditors . |
| 24 | Steve says he gets great satisfaction out of it and making one par in a round of 18 makes it worthwhile . |
| 25 | Saw how he grasped every last detail of it and held that knowledge tight in his memory . |
| 26 | The mania for forming industry consortia is getting so out of hand that a group of leading manufacturers , software developers and vendors are coming together to make some sense of it and eliminate duplicated effort by creating a single consortium to which everyone will be invited to belong : there is no confirmation of suggestions that the idea was the first initiative from new IBM Corp chief Louis Gerstner , who accedes to the top job today , but we hear that the army of companies is still bogged down arguing about what to call the thing — the best they 've dreamed up so far is the Consortium for Object-oriented Methods and Programming for the Unix Terminal and Enterprise-wide Recasting of Interactive Networked Database Undertakings with Software Transitioning and Revision for Y'all , but they ca n't find a snappy acronym to fit the words . |
| 27 | Alexandra Palace and Park , the latest company willing to take up the baton , has been administering a relaunch for the premises through the offices of Bizat , a genial exhibitions and catering specialist , who had been at the place only 11 weeks , in 1980 , when afire near the great organ gutted much of it and necessitated major reconstruction . |
| 28 | Also , you may find that in taking this concrete approach , you are making your nouns work harder for you and using fewer adjectives . |
| 29 | The union will fight your case through the courts if someone tries to rip you off , it will check over contracts for you and offer cheap instrument insurance ( see the Musicians ' Union article for details ) . |
| 30 | An interruption came from one of the schoolboys who had walked up behind them and had some question he wanted to ask Matthew . |