Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In conversation with the boys they learnt of Minton 's homosexuality and though this ruled him out as a potential husband it did not diminish their desire to be in his company . |
| 2 | And , at this stage , it would be quite wrong to rule her out as a suspect . |
| 3 | This leads us on to a third important point about the relation of the Holy Spirit to Jesus . |
| 4 | But say the figure had been erm fo he 's travelling at forty eight point three miles an hour , and you want to know how far he 's gone after twenty seven minutes or something , it 's a bit more awkward then so it 'd be easier to look it up on a graph . |
| 5 | You are more likely to have a rug accepted by an auctioneer if you are prepared to put it up without a reserve ( a figure agreed between you and the auctioneer below which they will not sell the rug ) , but this is extremely risky as it could then be sold for far less than it is worth . |
| 6 | This differentiates it both from a descriptive grammar and from a primer . |
| 7 | A left-hook hurt Ekubia in the sixth round , and then another put him down for a count of nine . |
| 8 | Some regard it purely as a means of conveying information , while others regard it as a means of building and maintaining relationships . |
| 9 | It is acceptable to ask them over for a meal they are not expected to be able to manage without a caring woman . |
| 10 | Press response If there does not seem to be any response to your press release , do not be afraid to follow it up with a telephone call . |
| 11 | This brings us back to a central theme of Sport and the British : the extraordinary degree to which it has been promoted privately without politicians , employers , or trade unionists taking a significant part except as enthusiastic individual sportsmen . |
| 12 | This brings us back to a relativist position . |
| 13 | If it 's to be helpful if if Mr is saying on behalf of the Parish Council that by showing it in this way on the key diagram , he feels is prejudicing or the Parish Council 's position is prejudiced at some future date , then it 's to be helpful to that that the County Council is saying it is prepared to show it simply as a an arrow and similarly for consistency it would seem to make sense to show the western in the same fashion . |
| 14 | That woke you up with a bang . |
| 15 | Where several holes were to be tired it was possible to set them off in a desired order by lighting in appropriate sequence . |
| 16 | But Mr Endara is probably relieved to see him off to a US prison . |
| 17 | Wife number six fanned him gently with a feather |
| 18 | The fall of 17 per cent in company liquidations for the third quarter of 1991 brings us down to a figure which is still 44 per cent higher than the same period ; it does not yet represent a net recovery . |
| 19 | You 're supposed to curl it up in a , in a erm in a brush when you blow dry it you know . |
| 20 | It was heavy for him , he was glad to set it down for a while . |
| 21 | ‘ He 's more likely to set you up as a courier on an over-sixties package holiday to Majorca . ’ |
| 22 | These styles are still sufficiently popular to survive , although any attempted ‘ re-fit ’ would be likely to sweep them away as a matter of principle . |
| 23 | His second to Party Politics in the Grand National marked him down as a stayer , but he is by no means a slouch over shorter trips . |
| 24 | A useful test of how effective your section headings are is that it should be possible to string them together into a paraphrase of what the essay says . |
| 25 | But you must have been sufficiently curious to check it out on a map . |
| 26 | However , it would be far better to follow it up with a more specific question , ‘ Have you ever worked with that age group before ? ’ |
| 27 | French striptease seems to stem from … a mystifying device which consists in inoculating the public with a touch of evil , the better to plunge it afterwards into a permanently immune Moral Good . |
| 28 | It might be possible to book them just for a day . |
| 29 | Anyway , he left what should have been my share to Matthew on condition that I was able to lease it back at a nominal rental . |
| 30 | Lieberson in a powerful and detailed critique of experimental thinking in social research , after all one of the cornerstones of variable analysis , argues that although most data in social research are non-experimental in origin , they are " treated as if they were truly experimental data … sliced , chopped , beaten , molded , baked , and finally artificially coloured until the researcher is able to serve us proudly with a plateful of mock experiment " . |