Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pron] [verb] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's the least you can tell me after keeping me waiting for an hour ! ’ |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | One is that I 'm going to give John and Julian and Lloyd an opportunity to say anything that they are burning to say on the basis of hearing us waffle for an hour or so , anything they wish to chip in . |
| 4 | This has the immediate effect of making her look like an extremely expensive deco doll . |
| 5 | It had that quality of making you feel like an old friend who had visited there many times before . |
| 6 | And , now , crumbling in decay , over laden with a desolate burden of humanity , the houses had the look of queuing for a great knacker 's yard , of eagerly embracing the extinction of their former grandeur , of offering themselves to ruin with an abandonment almost luxurious . |
| 7 | It was like watching someone push at an invisible turnstile . |
| 8 | She used to show you a collection of photographs which she kept in her wallet as if they were family photographs , but in fact these pictures were all pictures of men 's cocks , she used to make them stop on the way home at the photobooth in the entrance to the station , she 'd make them stand on the stool with their trousers down , she never got caught — Greta , on seeing me leave with an especially handsome man : ‘ I hope you 're on the pill . ’ |
| 9 | He could n't even ask a reasonable question without making it sound like an insult ! |
| 10 | Standing off-set can present a smaller target area to the opponent and , by forcing him to strike at an alternative area , can trap him into leaving himself wide open . |
| 11 | In fact the function of such eye- and ear-witness accounts as the ‘ Kentucky fried chips ’ incident is to authorize and authenticate the racialization of experience by making it seem like an entirely spontaneous and natural process , and one for which blacks themselves must be held responsible . |
| 12 | By covering the pot during the day and by placing it uncovered beneath an electric lamp at night you could try to reverse their pattern of behaviour . |