Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [prep] the [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I mean for the other people it 's just , it 's just rejection in n it , you 're not good enough |
| 2 | I pout at the pouting mackerel |
| 3 | I say to the British people : after all they have done , they simply do n't deserve to be re-elected . ’ |
| 4 | I smile at the watching people and say she is always this way at bedtime . |
| 5 | But colleagues , I , I , I turn to the regrettable series of events that Tom has er already described because a virulent form of spring fever seems to have infected the Labour Party . |
| 6 | As life speeds up like this I move among the urban people , in the urban setting , the city 's metal and mortar , its sharper interactions , with more grit and bite in the gears . |
| 7 | Though this is good news for American and Japanese firms , who share a paltry 11% slice of the luxury market , it is disastrous for European companies which account for the remaining 89% of sales ( see chart on next page ) , but which sell nearly half of all their fancy products in America or Japan . |
| 8 | It will deflect attention from the language itself : acting as an authentic user , the learner denies himself access to the necessary data for learning . |
| 9 | Observations of European wild cats , which belong to the same species as the domestic cat , reveal that , far from being kitten-killers , the males sometimes actively participate in rearing the young . |
| 10 | Harsher penalties in particular could help foster a tough , ‘ macho ’ criminal self-image in the young men who predominate in the criminal statistics . |
| 11 | It also covers a number of those workers who appear in the self-employed statistics . |
| 12 | But if you listen to the nice people in the village , you 'll get a much more objective , balanced and healthy view . |
| 13 | As we increase our confidence , right , so if we are ninety five percent confident we are now looking at the five percent significance level T rat er the critical value rate rises to two point zero point two and if you want to be even more confident , to be ninety nine percent confident about our inference , you look at the one percent level , right , and that has a T ratio of two point seven five . |
| 14 | You go along , and you look at the other people , and the shops , and the traffic , and you never look up , not really up . |
| 15 | So you stick with the local people , do you ? ’ |
| 16 | But unlike those Marxists who conceive of the mass media as no more than relay systems working on behalf of the dominant classes , some have forcefully argued that systems of maintenance and reproduction do not necessarily operate smoothly ; there are contradictions , there is social and political dissent and there is political struggle . |
| 17 | However , if we look at the remaining 20% of sessions we find that they fall into two classes . |
| 18 | We have seen significant changes world wide and that means that we should reappraise the amount of money that we devote to the diplomatic corps and to our aid budget . |
| 19 | If we start from the raw data values X 1 we can either proceed up the ladder of powers by squaring or cubing each number or down the ladder by taking square roots or reciprocals . |
| 20 | At weekends it makes for a good day 's outing to take the family for a picnic , after which they can gather as many strawberries as they want at the various fruit farms dotted around . |
| 21 | And this has actually been categorized into two tables and by , they claim that you can define different types of tourists according to , firstly , the way in which they interact with the local people . |
| 22 | One of the troubles about Hollywood , everybody 's so busy being exclusive and hiding their homes behind mountains of greenstuff , they forget about the unfortunate people who have to locate the said homes sometimes . |
| 23 | The number of people to whom he is a friend , if not because he has met them but because they know of the good works that he has done not only in Britain but throughout the world , must run into many hundreds of thousands . |
| 24 | According to this view , interbreeding is at the same time the criterion of whether two forms belong to the same species ( e.g. the dark and pale forms of the arctic skua interbreed freely , so they belong to the same species ) , and also the reason why organisms in nature do fall into discrete categories , with few intermediates . |
| 25 | With their bizarre appearance and seemingly mysterious but treacherous way of life , the dodders have certainly latched on to human imagination as successfully as they do to the innumerable species of plants they parasitise , spawning fables , myths and fascinating names such as love vine , immortal vine , vine in the sky , beggar vine , strangleweed , devil 's gut , scald and so on . |
| 26 | They 're afraid of , ashamed of themselves and they do to the old people . |
| 27 | The UGC Earth Science Review found that many research students learn as much from each other as they do from the academic staff . |
| 28 | And Labour MPs immediately demanded he apologise to the British people as well . |