Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | British tourist Stephen Profitt , who paid £200 for Lucky in Malta , was fined £100 yesterday for bringing her into the country without a licence . |
| 2 | ‘ As far as I and the society is concerned that was a warm-blooded animal that can suffer pain and starvation , just like any human being , and we will not apologise for bringing it to the court 's attention , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Even then , there is a good case for bringing it before a court so that each side is heard and specific boundaries are laid down . |
| 4 | I have no compunction about seeing you in the gutter . |
| 5 | A traditional device for drawing us beyond the possibility of sweetening by sadism , right to the viewpoint of the dying man , is the death speech , at its starkest when Agamemnon cries offstage that he has been struck his mortal blow . |
| 6 | The core of Plant 's argument is a careful statement of the case for social citizenship and the reasons for preferring it to the philosophy of the New Right . |
| 7 | Nadirpur spoke to his office in Monaco and left instructions for contacting him at the IAP offices in London . |
| 8 | Suspended for a week by the club , fined £2,000 and dropped following misbehaviour at a supporters ' dinner , Merson spoke of the 89th-minute winner that restored Arsenal to the top as a personal thankyou to Arsenal 's players and staff for assisting him on the road to recovery . |
| 9 | It will achieve this not through seeing itself as a piece of concrete , proprietary estate , as an end in itself ; rather it is a moving organisation for progress , existing for its future not its present , and achieving its future , and so fulfilling its raison d'etre , in aspiration for , and achievement of , improvement . |
| 10 | It is worth reminding him of the fact that Japan 's economy grew by 4.5 per cent. , and ours shrank by 2.5 per cent . |
| 11 | For days he 'd been in the blackest of moods , furious with her for wasting herself on a man old enough to be her father , and even more furious with himself for not having taken her forcefully after that Christmas evening when he 'd known her feelings were as inflamed as his own . |
| 12 | He describes the tour of Wales as ‘ a joke ’ , not meant as a jibe at the opposition but at Australian officials for keeping them on a whistle stop that would daunt American tourists . |
| 13 | Tottenham had to thank another youngster for keeping them in a position to fight back . |
| 14 | Severe overcrowding in the urban areas was usually cited as the reason for keeping them in the countryside , but there were probably underlying political motives . |
| 15 | The hypothesis that can explain bat navigation is a good candidate for explaining anything in the world of life , and if Paley 's explanation for any one of his examples was wrong we ca n't make it right by multiplying up examples . |
| 16 | Water management is the major part of fishkeeping — but I do have this fantasy about keeping it to the minimum and this partly explains the filtration system I am suggesting , based on a fairly standard undergravel . |
| 17 | On the Ukrainian tour , Houghton thought the band were too fervid about keeping it in the family . |
| 18 | She answered the telephone , thanked the Martellis for thanking her for the party . |
| 19 | What possible reason could a sane man have for thanking her for an evening that had never happened ? |
| 20 | But Shallis argues that this is hardly surprising , because its very terms of thought are such as to exclude it from the content of all discussion , at the very outset . |
| 21 | Do n't blame yourself for that choice ; you had reasons for adopting it at the time . |
| 22 | To explain the-timidity of these people , we need look no further than the example of Arthur Jensen , who , after devoting himself to the study of educationally significant individual differences , is declared by the press to be an advocate of segregated schooling for ‘ poor and black children ’ . |
| 23 | In particular Jan had been impressed with Kylie after seeing her on The Zoo Family . |
| 24 | AFTER seeing herself in a video , , receptionist at South East regional office at Burston , decided it was time to lose weight . |
| 25 | Tracey Cole , 18 , was found in her room at Oxford 's Lady Margaret Hall , after hanging herself with a dressing gown cord . |
| 26 | If the user has the authority to do so , modules may be entered into LIFESPAN after including them in the module header of a package and instructing LIFESPAN to enter them . |
| 27 | Stella was afraid Babs might tell Dotty that she did n't wear a slip and that Dotty would rush out and buy her one , just as she had bought her a brassière after catching her in the wardrobe with her arms above her head about to be fitted for her Ptolemy costume . |
| 28 | Left alone with Carrie , Joe sat watching her pour the boiling water into the earthenware teapot , and after bringing it to the table and setting it on a stand , she smiled at him and said softly , ‘ How are you ? ’ |
| 29 | BRITISH spy Ian Spiro left bloody fingerprints smeared on his son 's bedroom walls after blasting him in the head twice with a handgun . |
| 30 | ‘ Winning the Ulster final of the Barton Shield against Warrenpoint was a bit of a fairytale , after defeating them in the final of the Senior Cup ! |