Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [vb base] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I find it almost amusing to listen to several of my contemporaries tell me about that ill-fated occasion and how they found a means of getting over the Alps . |
| 2 | I could n't get rid of my disability , became more staunch in my socialist politics , got rid of my accent and was thankful when my parents put themselves into enormous debt and bought a tip of a house in Croydon . |
| 3 | I do n't feel black and I do n't think my friends regard me as such . |
| 4 | Their activities have nothing at all to do with sport and everything to do with telephone-number betting . |
| 5 | Their shells provide them with valuable protection but like all armoured species they are at certain disadvantages — they are nearly always less mobile , less flexible , and suffer the consequences . |
| 6 | Evidence for this comes from the fact that the ambivalent expression does not seem to be confined to a limited range of situations , in which individuals find themselves on public display , especially to an audience from a higher social class or more advanced educational attainment . |
| 7 | Similarly , if social representation theorists stress anchoring one-sidedly , they will find themselves describing the ways in which individuals anchor themselves to social knowledge : the thinking individual will be perceived as someone who unthinkingly seeks to avoid novelty by automatically categorizing fresh information in terms of familiar schemata . |
| 8 | People who show their dogs expose them to many new forms of stimuli . |
| 9 | Her commercials include one for Turkish jeans . |
| 10 | Their actions distinguish them from one another . |
| 11 | Their seniors bestow it with increasing effectiveness as their seniority increases . |
| 12 | From the welter of information available , perhaps the most significant point to emerge from user studies is that few , if any , of their findings lend themselves to general applicability . |
| 13 | A woman whose values lead her to all that is genuine . |
| 14 | well ca n't we parents do something about this ? , |
| 15 | ‘ A lover of nature , he was no lover of solitude , and like many whose occupations condemn them to long silences he seized eagerly on all opportunities of conversation . ’ |
| 16 | He argues that his work is not Edwardian in projection , that his pictures borrow something from other eras , but have a buoyant vitality that is of their own time . |
| 17 | As Timberlake and his colleagues put it in this brief but incisive review , greens ‘ suggest that this thing called the environment is a sacred garden set aside from human activities . ’ |
| 18 | What plans have you for future expeditions ? |
| 19 | is what buttons do what on that water actually |
| 20 | Conflict theorists emphasise that most areas of our lives involve us in institutionalised power relationships , and most of us are subordinate most of the time . |
| 21 | When trials come we must trust what he has revealed about himself in the Bible rather than what our senses tell us at that particular point in time . |
| 22 | If your customers pay you in two months your average monthly debtors outstanding will be £100,000 or 16.7 per cent of your annual turnover . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , we can look back on the year with pride and feel confident that our achievements stand us in good stead for 1992 . |