Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [verb] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It brought a tragic end to a love story that began when they met as they walked their dogs after each had lost a marriage partner to cancer . |
| 2 | None of this has produced a rise in fertility . |
| 3 | One of these involved plying a woman with drink until she fell reeling to the floor , where glass after glass of liquor was poured over her until she became ‘ merely a confusion of filth ’ . |
| 4 | Some of these have developed a taste for human flesh , perhaps as a result of feeding on bodies washed down by the Ganges during the ever more frequent floods . |
| 5 | Many of these have involved a comparison of rates of return on equity in owner- and management-controlled companies . |
| 6 | The main prey of predatory birds are the hundreds of different rodent species and the vast majority of these have evolved a protection system based on a quick scamper down a tunnel . |
| 7 | Every one of those surveyed had a class , though some were released from part of their teaching duties to undertake other activities . |
| 8 | Further , it is the current practice of AIB , at any rate , to provide more detailed factual information to representatives of those seeking to establish a claim on condition that the same information is made available to all other parties to the action including , of course , the potential defendants . |
| 9 | I was one of those asked to provide an opinion or two for the Murray investigations , and must give them credit for thoroughness of their enquiries and for most of the conclusions they reached . |
| 10 | Some of those have got an origin I think Thursday is it 's , it 's got a thought is n't it , yeah ? |
| 11 | But yesterday it was seen in Chaura and in Chhuma , running through the outskirts of the villages : and the day before , a dog like that had chased a sheep in Pere , and clutched it by the neck , shaking it from one side to the other until it died of shock . |
| 12 | For many , life remained at a self-sufficient level in which food was produced with little need to create a surplus . |
| 13 | Ricky had recently received a small legacy and with this had bought an Opel car with a convertible roof . |
| 14 | The ½in dowels are inserted into this framing to create a grill to keep the mice out of what makes an inviting nesting box . |
| 15 | Hands up those wanting to lift a twenty-kilogram dog into a 25-centimetre hole a that height . |
| 16 | This is a result of the very much larger number of accesses required to find spare space for an addition , in comparison with those required to locate a record already in the file . |
| 17 | This makes an ideal base for those wishing to combine a stay in the Tuscan countryside with a visit to Renaissance Florence . |
| 18 | This talented designer from the south of Italy often appeared to be designing for those wishing to make an entrance at the Cannes film festival rather than turn heads at Maxim 's . |
| 19 | Broken in half match stick a shell and a stone |
| 20 | It seems to me that the time , effort , initiative , and determination required to complete this course are equivalent to that needed to complete a research project . |
| 21 | In one day 's march thirty-eight mills had had their plugs drawn in Dewsbury , the masters standing amazed in their empty sheds while the workers streamed out to join what to some had become a Crusade , to others a Pilgrimage ; an opportunity for revenge ; an exciting chance for a holiday . |
| 22 | But now a paper in The Lancet ( 341 , 889 ; 1993 appears to some to have thrown a spanner in the works : certainly it has caused a furore of misinterpretation by newspapers and others . |
| 23 | Although its giant neighbour , Ben Alder , can be viewed from the A9 at the top of Loch Ericht , and the peak further west along its ridge , Aonach Beag , can be seen briefly from the A86 if you 're not fishing about for an extra strong mint in the glove compartment , Carn Dearg reveals itself only to those prepared to sweat a bit . |
| 24 | Cuckney does not believe that the qualities needed to be an effective chairman of a financial institution such as 3i ( Investors in Industry ) are that different to those required to oversee a manufacturing company . |
| 25 | The case for using a Central Authority as a transmitting agency rests on the argument that the familiarity of its officers with the system of the Convention and with the practice of other countries would ensure that requests which it prepared or approved for transmission were in order and so would be handled expeditiously and without any need to refer a request back for clarification . |
| 26 | Add to that all the lost 50p 's , 20p 's , 10p 's and so on , and they add up to enough to make buying a metal detector for the sole purpose of finding spendable cash a very profitable investment . |
| 27 | ‘ What I meant was do you wish to pull in somewhere till this has eased a bit ? ’ |
| 28 | Many legal executives and paralegals with no formal qualifications at all have acquired a wealth of experience in personal injury work over the years . |
| 29 | Most of our archers were massing in the gatehouse , shooting at those trying to force an entry . |