Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | grapes no not one twenty , yes , Keith goes through them like a hot mouth through butter . |
| 2 | A catapult lives with you until the last moment ; it stays tensed in your hands , breathing with you , moving with you , ready to leap , ready to sing and jerk , and leaving you in that dramatic pose , arms and hands outstretched while you wait for the dark curve of the ball in its flight to find its target , that delicious thud . |
| 3 | The onus lies with them in the first place , because the design of the programmes of study is their responsibility . |
| 4 | The inquirer does not believe current scientific results , but simply looks upon them as the current stage on the route to a final description of reality . |
| 5 | But you know , for every one of us as Christians , Jesus Christ lives in us by the Holy Spirit , by his spirit . |
| 6 | Similarly , in shaping the format and means of communicating plans and performance down to managers , ‘ having run the retail operation at TSB I appreciate the needs of the front-end operation and the importance of giving people the information that really matters to them with the right commentary . |
| 7 | If the Americans accepted that the Israel-Palestine problem was insoluble , at least for now , they could concentrate on what really matters to them in the Middle East . |
| 8 | This seemed like a Falangist revival , for it was the first session that had been held since 1945 and Franco asserted that it was " necessary that the National Council should recover the role which corresponds to it in the political tasks , because it is hierarchically the highest body in the Movement , whose duty it is to ensure the purity of the organization and the continuity of the doctrine " .18 But many of those present , including the Vice-Secretary of FET , Diego Salas Pombo , detected behind the smokescreen of verbiage a lack of genuine commitment to Arrese 's plan for a Falange-dominated future . |
| 9 | He looks at me for the first time . |
| 10 | The headmaster looks at him with a firm but caring gaze . |
| 11 | ‘ He stands and looks at them for a long time . |
| 12 | Somebody looks at you in the wrong way some morning , you know , what 's the matter with you , that type of thing you know . |
| 13 | The dwarf holds out her hand , it flutters in hers like a caged bird . |
| 14 | So what happens to me in the great cultural revolution ? |
| 15 | ‘ We 're not going to pay skilled workers $18 an hour to clean phone booth ’ , he says to me in an aggressive tone of voice . |
| 16 | Where an innocent purchaser is able to rely upon an estoppel , property in the goods passes to him in the normal way , i.e. as if his seller himself has good title to give . |
| 17 | But , cooped up in his 12 by 10 feet prison cell in the Indiana Youth Centre , Tyson spoke about his sentence and his incarceration that eats at him like a malignant disease . |
| 18 | An option for processing mail has been selected and no mail exists for you at the present time . |
| 19 | You will sometimes find that if your employer acts towards you in an unsatisfactory way , he is in breach of his implied duty of mutual trust and confidence . |
| 20 | ‘ My philosophy disagrees with theirs in the long-term because I think for them to succeed properly , they have to subvert from within . |
| 21 | Then worries rush into her consciousness , as into his , like clamorous patients who have been waiting all night for the doctor 's surgery to open ; but she deals with them in a rational , orderly manner . |
| 22 | The only memorable moment comes when Martin commiserates with me over an ambitious red that squirms in and out of a pocket . |
| 23 | The Allegro assai that follows this piece probably belongs with it as the second movement of a two movement sonata . |
| 24 | Now Sebastian is dead , long dead , and Alix is married to Brian Bowen , son of a saw polisher , grandson of a furnaceman , and often sits with him on an old settee in her stockinged feet . |
| 25 | The draft is still officially secret , but church sources said that leaks about it in the Italian press were generally correct . |
| 26 | an inscription on the Monument which was not finally removed until 1831 imputed the blame for the Great Fire of London ( 1666 ) to treacherous Roman Catholics , and Pope indignantly alludes to it in the third of his Moral Essays ( ll. 339–40 ) : ‘ Where London 's column , pointing at the skies , / Like a tall bully , lifts its head and lies . ’ |
| 27 | A. This sounds to me like a classic case of the ‘ straw that broke the camel 's back ’ syndrome . |
| 28 | Now it sounds to me like the final stages of a marriage : two separated parties , screwed to their own particular pieces of floor , uttering routine chatter while the rain begins to fall . |
| 29 | ‘ That one sounds to me like an archetypal priest , ’ said Dhani . |
| 30 | The time interval between one bird stopping and the other starting is so short that we can not detect it , and the duet sounds to us like a continuous solo . |