Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her job is to push Cabinet ministers ‘ to do what is right ’ ; this involves reminding them of the Government 's strategy laid down in the manifestos and combating what she regards as the inertia inherent in departments . |
| 2 | ( Recall Fodor 's example of blinking when a good friend goes to poke us in the eye . ) |
| 3 | That this person should harbour aggressive feelings towards you is unimaginable , but then suddenly , she goes to poke you in the eye — and you blink . |
| 4 | This accursed recession has blinded us to the fact that we are well placed , vis-a-vis our competitors in Europe , to create wealth . |
| 5 | At one extreme is the person who starts a diet every morning and has broken it by the evening . |
| 6 | When that news hits him , the narrator seems to crumble , even though a premonitory dream the night before has readied him for the shock . |
| 7 | Yeah she said she has to wear them for the television |
| 8 | Mellowes has assigned me to the duties of the administrative assistants , then to those of the statistical clerks . |
| 9 | However , because of their wide scope , when judging such clauses under s 3 of the UCTA , one has to treat them on the basis that they exclude or restrict liability for total failure to perform by reason of wilful default . |
| 10 | I am glad that she has joined us for the debate . |
| 11 | ‘ Captain Aranyos wants to see you in the south chapel of the Stefansdom at three o'clock , ’ she blurted before he had the opportunity to broach the subject . |
| 12 | But he has forsaken them for the moment , at least in his current Emmerich show , ‘ Some Very Recent Paintings ’ ( opening 14 January ) . |
| 13 | It could also be that for some of you 1988 has also seen some trouble , a bereavement perhaps , that has shaken you to the foundations . |
| 14 | I think the first evidence we have of that , is when Brocklehurst has placed her on the stool and publicly humiliated her . |
| 15 | It is your enthusiasm , dedication and sheer hard work which has placed us at the forefront of our industry . |
| 16 | He care for the whole of mankind and has given us in the Bible a guide-book by which to live . |
| 17 | Check the output which CREFDL has given you against the example of a successful run of the command file as shown in Figure 2.1 . |
| 18 | Agnes nodded and smiled at her ; then , as Nan came behind the counter , she whispered to her , ‘ His lordship has reminded me of the time . |
| 19 | ‘ a very long boy , with a very little head , and an open mouth of disproportionate capacity ’ , devotedly attached to Betty Higden who has rescued him from the workhouse in which he has been brought up , having been a foundling child . |
| 20 | In 1986 Metromedia 's six US television stations were sold to Rupert Murdoch , who has grouped them into the Fox Television network . |
| 21 | He wants to provide us with the insight from his word and the power from his Holy Spirit that our lives should be transformed . |
| 22 | Does not my hon. Friend consider it surprising that the right hon. Member for Chingford ( Mr. Tebbit ) , who always wants to lecture us about the rule of law although we certainly need no lectures about it from him , comes to the House with , I think , two cases where crookedness was involved ? |
| 23 | THE 1993 British and US Open champion , Patty Sheehan , had the better of a tense battle with Canada 's Dawn Coe-Jones to win the $700,000 Standard Register Ping — a 32nd tour victory which has catapulted her into the LPGA 's Hall of Fame . |
| 24 | PETER MARSHALL 's double-handed style has carried him to the top of the British rankings , and many observers were looking to this week 's British Open Championship at Wembley Conference Centre to provide proof of his potential at world level . |
| 25 | SUN man Paul Welford has reported him to the police , and Flashman said : ‘ If people want to do that , then fair enough . |
| 26 | ‘ Our visit has impressed us with the skill and the quality of our soldiers , and with the risks they run . |
| 27 | But it is obvious that the sentences form part of some larger act of conversational interaction between two speakers ; the sentences contain several references that presuppose shared knowledge ( e.g. ‘ that meeting ’ implies that both speakers know which meeting is being spoken about ) , and in some cases the meaning of a sentence can only be correctly interpreted in the light of knowledge of what has preceded it in the conversation ( e.g. ‘ You ca n't be sure ’ ) . |
| 28 | There is a dark power to their fastidiously constructed nightmare pounders which has pushed them to the fore of hardcore . |
| 29 | The person with the cushion on their lap then has to stroke them on the head and say ‘ Poor pussy ’ without laughing . |
| 30 | See here , they 're gon na get thirty six for it as it stands put it on the market as |