Example sentences of "[vb -s] it [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A text , says Furman , quoting the French semiotician Roland Barthes , is a reading of a text : a reader , like a musician faced with a score , appropriates it in a way that is meaningful . |
| 2 | ‘ She has been the target of such spite that it disgraces those who offer it , and she bears it with a dignity that makes me proud , ’ he said as Mrs Kinnock stood behind him , smiling but with tears in her eyes . |
| 3 | Perhaps the book of lamentation is not the book you normally turn to , to find words of encouragement , but there are tremendous encouragements to be found in it , listen what the profits says there , in the third chapter , he says this I recall to my mind , and he 's talking about the time of his own affliction , the time when he is going through it , the time when nobody loves him , the time when everybody 's against him , when he 's suffering and he 's in pain the time when life is full of bitterness for him , he says this I recall to my mind , therefore I have hope , the lords loving kindness indeed never ceases for his compassion 's never fail and here Jesus is demonstrating that , he 's compassion 's never fail , he 's loving kindnesses they never cease , here in his dying hour Jesus is showing that in reaching out to this man but as we said the other week the , the deepest , the most important significance of what Jesus did then , of what Jesus said then , its not just of the historical account , but that he is able and willing to say and to do exactly the same today in your experience and in mine , what he did for that man on the cross he 's ready and willing to do for every one of us the incident may of happened nineteen hundred years ago , but there 's the old hymn , the verse reminds us , picks out that very story and it says the dying thief rejoiced to see that fountain in his day and there may I , though via us he wash all my sins away , and that verse from William Cowper 's hymn , it takes up that great historical event , that tremendous happening in that man 's life and he links it with a present and it applies it to you and to me and says this can be our experience as well . |
| 4 | But Newley sings it in a way that personalises it . |
| 5 | After a while , there being no apparent threat of this , he closes it with a sigh and selects the review section from the thick fold of newspaper beside him . |
| 6 | Like Grisone , they believe that the horse regards it as a reward when the rider or handler stops punishing it ! |
| 7 | ‘ The joke evolves down the pub in Newcastle , and the lorry driver tells it at a truck-stop and within 24 hours it 's all over the country . ’ |
| 8 | He turns it into a hotel and falls in love with a local French lass . |
| 9 | One might wonder why metaphor so often demands that its work be described in terms of colonization and occupation , and what it is about an initial transportation of meaning that turns it into a conquest or a coercive restructuring . |
| 10 | Stephen has gone through confession , and is , he declares , ‘ Ready to forge that language ’ , but he declares it in a language that will not yet take Joyce out of desperation . |
| 11 | He puts it against a house and go up through the window . |
| 12 | He never does it on a path or nothing , he always reverses in somewhere . |
| 13 | Even when he makes mistakes he does it in a way that still brings results and takes him over the gain line . |
| 14 | He finishes the note , sticks it on a pole and then jumps off the building , floating delightedly in slow motion behind the credits . |
| 15 | The reading of the passage , or the listening to an extract of spoken language , has to be such as to be dependent , a part of some activity of broader significance which provides it with a cause and a consequence which have independent point . |