Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the fact that trespass is actionable per se , there is some authority to the effect that trespass to goods requires proof of some damage or asportation but the general view of textbook writers is to the contrary and there must be many instances where , if mere touching of objects like waxworks or exhibits in a gallery or museum be not trespass , their possessor would be without remedy . |
| 2 | I never tire of watching this strange beast that lurches like a turkey and sways its neck like a swan . |
| 3 | Is that that one that lives in a caravan or did live in one ? |
| 4 | If a variable measured in the course of an experiment settles down with time , to a constant , or a maintained oscillation , it seems reasonable to assume that it is approaching some stable , maintained course that corresponds to an equilibrium or periodic solution |
| 5 | It 's no good trying to remember every word that starts with a C cos there are lots of them . |
| 6 | ‘ You see how easy it is , McAllister , ’ he whispered suddenly , and he kissed the top of her head , ‘ when it is love that lies between a man and a woman , and not hate and fear . ’ |
| 7 | I use a very small one that looks like a pencil or pen . |
| 8 | Now er over the last few days we 've been er talking quite a lot about er that statue you know the one that 's down by er down by Marks and Spencers that 's the best way to describe where it is the leaf stand the er the one that looks like a tulip and water dribbles down the side of it . |
| 9 | Its my own personal opinion that the only true love and er I have to honestly say I 've never heard love here defined as I would as the totally unconditional love that happens between a woman and a child , probably from the moment of birth that bonds them through life , that 's the only love that I could ever admit to . |
| 10 | The breach of the special trust that exists between a child and a parent is no less violated where sexual acts other than vaginal penetration are induced or performed . |
| 11 | It was a straight road , the kind of road that leads to a temple or a sacred monument . |
| 12 | But that 's like little stuff that costs about a quid or something like that , yeah ? |
| 13 | It has a digestive tract that ends in an anus and a group of tentacles around the mouth , enclosed within the two shell valves . |
| 14 | Whether they believe that we change through investigation of the unconscious mind , through investigation of the relationship that forms between a therapist and client , through group experience or through changing patterns of behaviour will depend to some extent on which one of these experiences they can best identify with themselves . |
| 15 | Consider the typical structure of a news broadcast which opens with the ‘ headlines ’ — a set of summary statements — which are followed by a news item that consists of an expansion and repetition of the first headline , in which is embedded a comment from ‘ our man on the spot ’ that recapitulates the main points again , then , at the end of the broadcast , there is a repetition of the set of headlines . |
| 16 | th th there 's , basically there 's an ord it has an ordinary editor which is sub right , it 's an ASCII editor that appears in a window and it 's for using , for editing the ASCII files . |
| 17 | There is the meaning that derives from an association or convention of reference by which an object or an action comes to represent something abstract . |
| 18 | Anybody that works in a lesson that you doss about in , that you know you 're going to doss about in , that 's it , you get called ‘ ponce ’ and everything . ’ |
| 19 | John McGahern , on the other hand , writes , speaks and thinks in a style that is so sparse it defies anyone to deny the truth at its core . |
| 20 | Now that she saw Rupert again he was rather less interesting than she had remembered — a little older , slightly inhibited in his conversation , and unresponsive to her semi-flirtatious looks and remarks in a way that puzzled her . |
| 21 | He looks at me hard and says in a voice that can only be described as arch , ‘ Do you mean do I cry when I see children with flies round their eyes ? |
| 22 | She sings and acts like an angel and is extremely pleased because Wolfgang has served her extraordinarily well . ’ |
| 23 | She sits in that bloody chair and drools like a baby and makes as much sense . |
| 24 | ( Wendy is brought up from the hold and sees at a glance that the deck has n't been scrubbed for years . ) |
| 25 | Not guilty , did n't do it that 's why what gorilla man did sickened me ; no blood well hardly any blood literally a drop , a drip , a fucking pixel on the screen and the only thing slicing into flesh was a needle , tiny and delicate not a chainsaw or an axe or a knife or anything , but it 's that image that idea that old devil meme , I keep dreaming about it , keep having nightmares about it , and I 'm the trapped one , I 'm the man in the leather-and-chrome chair and he 's there with his gorilla face and his squeaky baby voice , explaining to the camera that what he has in this bottle and in this syringe is sperm ; the crazy fucker 's loaded it up with jism man looks like half a fucking milk bottle of the stuff and he 's going to inject it into the little guy 's veins and he ties something round the naked upper arm of the little guy strapped to the chair and pulls it tight and waits for the vein to show while the little guy howls and screams like a child and tries to shake the chair to bits or rip it apart but he 's too well strapped in there no purchase no leverage and then the man in the gorilla mask just does it ; sinks the needle into the little guy 's skin with a bit of blood and empties the whole syringe into him . |
| 26 | This — which several British critics have seen as a post-AIDS film — is postmodernist in its mixture of genres : it starts out as a straightforward melodrama and shifts into a horror or ‘ stalk and slash ’ genre . |
| 27 | In brick , it is superb and rises above a cloister that is all that remains of the monastery . |
| 28 | Against that are moments when he strays too far from the printed note in striving for that extra frisson of feeling and resorts to a delivery that stays only just the right side of being coarse . |
| 29 | Though he is neither intellectually sharp nor verbally articulate , Mr Prescott is intelligent in a self-schooled way , and speaks in a language that many Labour voters understand . |
| 30 | The choreographer must learn the natural functioning of the dancers ' bodies in order to combine steps and poses in a way that gives quality to the whole . |