Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pron] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a great yearning among lay people to understand in terms of their own vernacular this inner experience of the faith , which , through the institutional influence of the Church , formally governed the structure of their lives , although their education may not have been such as to enable them to cope with the official language of the Church or highly intellectual theological exposition . |
| 2 | I am grateful to the right hon. Member for Selby for allowing me to quote from the letter . |
| 3 | Er thank you Chairman for allowing me to speak as a non member , I am however , a er member of one of your representatives on the Luton Airport Consultative Committee . |
| 4 | For allowing ourselves to look at the report and find the actions , and not just the actions themselves . |
| 5 | ‘ The misery of unemployment or of repossession is all the more stark for seeing it written in a face rather than on a page . |
| 6 | It 's the least you can tell me after keeping me waiting for an hour ! ’ |
| 7 | She was attacked after asking him to move from the touchline during an amateur game at Gillingham , Kent . |
| 8 | William of Jumièges says that Cnut married her after having her brought from the city before the siege ended and giving her weight in gold and silver before the whole army , but his chronology here is suspect , as he places the battle of Auxendunum ( presumably Assandun , 18 October ) before Æthelred 's death on 23 April , and the more contemporary Chronicle date of mid-1017 for the marriage is preferable . |
| 9 | Legend relates that while he was living in the mountains he brewed a hypnotic drink , and after drinking it fell into a deep sleep and dreamed strange dreams . |
| 10 | It was pretty obvious he was after making me look like a rent boy . |
| 11 | After graduating he moved to the Royal Holloway College to research a Ph.D . |
| 12 | But even if we did have some such reason — even if we thought it slightly more natural for right-handed people , who form the majority , to drive on the right — our reasons for wanting everyone to drive on the same side would still be much stronger . |
| 13 | We pour much time , money , anxiety and effort into our children simply for the pleasure of seeing them grow into the kind of people we long for them to be . |
| 14 | After that the solid throb of their engines and the thrill of seeing them skim to a halt on the waters of Poole Harbour were mere memories , although they continued to give excellent service in other parts of the world and a travel company has recently introduced a nostalgic flying-boat holiday across Africa on the route once used by Imperial Airways . |
| 15 | It takes the form partly of encouraging them to relate to the personal and subjective while boys begin to grapple with the impersonal and objective . |
| 16 | She was kicking herself for forgetting the most basic Capricorn trait of allowing nothing to stand in the way of their goal . |
| 17 | Not physically ; this was more the sort of fear you had as a child — of ghosties and ghoulies and long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night . |
| 18 | but I 've got this C I T B N V Q stuff really to sort of to see what went into an N V Q's package |
| 19 | Because of this the skill required is often very challenging , but it is not the skill of the performer ; it is the skill of bringing oneself to function with a degree of maturity that one 's normal ‘ life ’ role does not demand . |
| 20 | is totally different so I did the first lecture with what my idea of to find myself talking to a a contract housing guy whose biggest order was two thousand pounds |
| 21 | Remember that bit of bother I had in the Red Hart in Berkeley ? ’ he continued , ‘ the sailor went through the window . ’ |
| 22 | Horowitz was an Israeli government spokesman , a middle-aged man with an angry , almost bitter way of explaining what happened to the Arabs of the old Palestine mandate . |
| 23 | The hidden costs of being in hospital — lost income , the cost of employing someone to look after the children , the cost of having someone to look after the home if your partner works , even your partner 's lost income — can soon add up to become a severe financial burden during an already difficult time . |
| 24 | If an accident happens as a result of driving which deviates from the proper standard , then that may well be a case of negligence even if the driver had never thought of the risk in that particular case , because the driver is presumed to know the Highway Code . |
| 25 | We nearly did go back , when despite picking what looked like the most innocuous section of the next cloud blocking the route , the VSI cranked round briefly to over 1,000 fpm ascent . |
| 26 | Scattered about was exactly the sort of clutter you found in the parish church : holy pictures of saints , missals , rosaries , little bottles of holy water . |
| 27 | Whichever of these six defences in section 4 is raised , the burden of establishing it rests upon the defendant . |
| 28 | Now when we were taught sums like that , probably erm they were written down and we had special ways of writing it to distinguish between the two cases four times and then two plus one added together , to give us four times three equals twelve , or , four times two , which is eight , add one , which is nine . |
| 29 | He was our , he was our squadron but not our troop you see , see if I 'd a been his troop he probably would n't of made me go into the sea , but it was fucking cold , I mean , I mean full M B C kit right |
| 30 | They suggested that the repeated occurrence of similar losses might increase the likelihood of believing oneself to blame for the event . |