Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This might help them to see his lack of social responsiveness as a symptom of his illness and something for which they should make allowances rather than as an unfriendly act or a personal slight on their company . |
| 2 | All behaviouristic theories of cognition are viciously third-personal , where that expression signifies , first , that they can not be applied to the first-person perspective and , second that our ability to apply them to the third person really rests on our bringing to bear first-person knowledge : as with rats in mazes , where my plain and unreduced apprehension of the rat 's environment enables me to see its grasp of that environment in terms of its behaviour within it . |
| 3 | Younger sons did not at this time seek to maintain their gentility by going into the church or the army or by living off an annuity that allowed them to pass their time in respectable ease . |
| 4 | It was in the interests of the Great Powers that they could not be held bound by a treaty to which they had not formally become a party while , as will be seen , a number of the exceptions to the classic rule enabled them to impose their will upon weaker entities . |
| 5 | In so far as they encourage greater police intervention on picket lines or at demonstrations , and enable them to impose their authority on many aspects of community life , the 1984 and 1986 Acts have profound implications for the possibility of disorder . |
| 6 | Whatever the reality on Capitol Hill , Ceauşescu undoubtedly believed the pro-Israeli gestures would win Romania influence in Washington and would perhaps lead them to accept his differentiation of Romanian foreign policy from the Kremlin 's at face-value . |
| 7 | ‘ I attempt Tube but am driven out again by gang of pubescent boys who want me to write my name on various bits of their exposed torsos . |
| 8 | If you can get them to absorb your material at all , that counts as an achievement . |
| 9 | For this faction , the term ‘ just war ’ has secular as well as religious appeal , an ambiguity which permits them to communicate their cause in direct fashion to left-wing British and right-wing American groups at one and the same time . |
| 10 | And as I made my way past those bedrooms , I had seen through a doorway Miss Kenton 's figure , silhouetted against a window , turn and call softly : ‘ Mr Stevens , if you have a moment . ’ |
| 11 | I made my way through all the guard checkpoints and got to the Hotel Intourist in the middle of town at about 11 o'clock when David and Geoffrey were just siting down to lunch . |
| 12 | I made my way to this celebrated establishment , and was very surprised to find an open salon ; we in Britain were at that time still cowering modestly in cubicles . |
| 13 | I made my displeasure on that score quite clear to the ecclesiarch 's agent . |
| 14 | Well in the fifties , forty years of age was hugely old , I mean my dad at forty when I remember back was like a really old man at forty in those days . |
| 15 | Course they got away with income tax out of that because they were n't , they were n't much erm to do with income tax that time , I mean my tax at that time of the year was about , at that time was about four pound a year when I was erm , when I was working and you only paid income tax once a year . |
| 16 | The only thing I worry about is if I lose my mother at this time of life , before I 'm due for a pension — what 's going to happen to me ? |
| 17 | I expanded my exploration to still lifes with lamps or lanterns in them . |
| 18 | I expanded my exploration to still lifes with lamps or lanterns in them . |
| 19 | When we reached Dieppe I emptied my kit into another bad and popped Emily into my rucksack . |
| 20 | And he he got he got my hand for five seconds and then I I got I got his hand for ten something like that . |
| 21 | I grasped her hair with both hands , binding her head against my loins while I came in her mouth , loudly and at some length . |
| 22 | I tried his office at four o'clock and then his house at five , without success . |
| 23 | The impression you gave that I provided your reporter with new information following the meeting is totally false . |
| 24 | Have I blamed Thy governance at all ? |
| 25 | I changed my scale to this one . |
| 26 | I maintained my height over this , diving the extra off , rounded out and touched down at about 250 metres into the field . |
| 27 | I CAUGHT my boy of 14 sniffing aerosols a year ago and he promised he would never do it again . |
| 28 | I phoned your office on 6 April and left a message asking you or your colleagues to let me know the position but I have not heard to date . |
| 29 | As all delay is fatal in war , I place my office without further parley at your disposal . |
| 30 | I incurred his displeasure on one occasion , there was a young lady sat on the form in front , we had those , where you sat in pairs , on the iron sort of things . |