Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [to-vb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I will grow my hair out to its natural colour until it falls long and lank about my shoulders , allow my skin to fade to a startling winter white . |
| 2 | My attempts to look like a normal human being again were evidently not too successful — at one point in my journey , I came on a man crouching over a small brook from which he was trying to drink . |
| 3 | Then there was the question of what sorts of costume were appropriate on such a journey , and whether or not it was worth my while to invest in a new set of clothes . |
| 4 | It 's not my way to leave behind a wrecked side |
| 5 | For example , the Oracle might say , ‘ I could see in the stars that the Feast would take in the foolish , I told my master to prepare for a great revenge ’ , and then have the Oracle tell the adventurers the story of the Poison Feast from the Drachenfels novel in full , if the players have n't read that book . |
| 6 | Clare watched her listening , taking note , modifying her language and behaviour as carefully as an animal adapts its camouflage to fit into a new environment . |
| 7 | Those now providing voluntary humanitarian relief are merely doing of their own free will and on a small scale what we hope citizens of the rich nations will as soon as possible compel their states to do on a massive scale . ’ |
| 8 | After becoming estranged from Kim Dae Jung following their inability to agree upon a single candidate to oppose Roh Tae Woo in the 1987 presidential contest , in 1990 he led his opposition party into an amalgamation with Roh 's ruling party to form the DLP . |
| 9 | After all , I ca n't see a girl like you giving up her freedom to live in a squalid little room above a shop — and , believe me , without help Peter certainly ca n't afford anything else . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ A hussy from the city who peroxided her hair to look like a good Aryan . ’ |
| 11 | Betty was here out of the kindness of her heart to minister to a wounded human being . |
| 12 | The considerable locational advantages possessed by West Ham which gave rise to its extraordinary growth were to become fetters on the ability of its industry to adapt to a transformed economic environment in the twentieth century . |
| 13 | On coming to power in Tbilisi , the new military council expressed its readiness to search for a negotiated solution to the problems in South Ossetia and , as a gesture of goodwill , on Jan. 7 released the Ossetian leader Torez Kolumbegov who had been held since January 1991 [ see pp. 37971 ; 38014 ] . |
| 14 | It has announced its intention to tender for a further 12.5pc stake . |
| 15 | And traditional handbag makers are injecting more fun and fashion into their designs to appeal to a wider audience , while maintaining the quality which makes them so distinctive . |
| 16 | Many other animals that harbour secret chemical defences also show themselves fearlessly to the world and some of them also perform special displays that indicate their readiness to engage in a chemical encounter . |
| 17 | The companies wrote to the Clerk to the Commissioners on 31 January 1991 , stating their intention to apply for a 90-day extension at the next meeting , explaining why they would not be able to comply with the precepts in the 50-day time limit . |
| 18 | She could hardly bear to be contradicted , and no good mother , in my mother 's view , would send her child to stay with a daft person . |
| 19 | Following the implementation of the new Financial Services Act , licensed dealers dragged their nets to pull in a few of the old-style hard sell merchants . |
| 20 | British businessmen feel they have only just restored their right to manage after a hard-won showdown with organised labour . |
| 21 | Due to their failure to cope with a multi-million deficit , the journals Arkhitektura , Dekorativnoye iskusstvo and Tvorchestvo have stopped coming out . |
| 22 | First , low profits ( and their failure to rise during a rapid upswing ) led to and combined with poor business confidence . |
| 23 | He had turned her body to fire with a few practised touches out there and now he expected her to forget all that had happened , stand beside him and discuss the garden as if nothing in the world had just occurred . |
| 24 | The industry said it would be preferable to leave it for up to a hundred years to allow its radioactivity to decay to a manageable level . |
| 25 | The Defence Secretary , Malcolm Rifkind , says he is backing calls by the United States for its allies to agree on a joint strategy to end the war in Bosnia . |
| 26 | ‘ It is n't carved in stone that we have to fight about this , ’ she protested , wanting their meeting to end on a genial note , but mainly wanting it to end . |
| 27 | Regressive rock 's sin is its lack of conceit , its cultivation of EMPTYHEADEDNESS and naïveté , its refusal to stretch beyond a shallow delving into the slight pangs of mundane love and small sadness . |
| 28 | One of the only ways around this problem is for suppliers in industrial goods markets to encourage their customers to buy on a consistent and long term basis , under contract . |
| 29 | Given the Labour Party 's lack of political action on the Spanish issue it is hardly surprising that the Labour Spain Committee renewed its efforts to call for a national conference , which it organized in October 1938 . |
| 30 | Many employers allow their staff to work on a flexi-time basis which , while providing staff with an obvious perk , can be an administrative nightmare for management . |