Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [conj] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keep close watch on the stitches , it is worth working a little slower to make sure that all the stitches have knitted and should you find that an occasional loop stays over the needle after knitting the row , set the main carriage for EMPTY and move it across the knitting to knit any unworked loop . |
| 2 | The natural physiological mechanisms put us in a state of alert and prepare us for what is called the fight-or-flight response . |
| 3 | If the SNP manages to overcome its bitterness towards Labour and join it in a united push for change , the cause of devolution could well be advanced . |
| 4 | We are an organisation specialising in Stearmans and have wide experience of restoring and operating them at our Norfolk base . |
| 5 | I should like the opportunity of starving and beating you to a pulp . |
| 6 | He wadded the money up tight and shoved it into one of the pouches on his Sam Browne belt . |
| 7 | When he did let it out , he did so in a rather peculiar fashion , linking it to a quarrel with Mauve and casting it in a dramatic mode , with himself in the first and then third person . |
| 8 | The accused also deny charges of conspiring to cause an explosion , having the bomb with intent and possessing it in suspicious circumstances . |
| 9 | Mr Budgen said : ‘ The Government 's actions have been disgraceful , describing Maastricht as an issue of confidence in private and denying it in public . |
| 10 | Intrigue and treachery , especially from former officials , were advertised in public as besetting him from all sides . |
| 11 | Unlike Richard he was not brought up in Welsh but learnt it as a foreign language . |
| 12 | These groups are known by a variety of names , but the central idea is to bring together a small number of people who have certain interests or characteristics in common and to interview them as a group . |
| 13 | Since this brings out what they have in common and shows them to be on the same side , we too shall use ‘ Positivism ’ to include the Realist approach . |
| 14 | If smoking is allowed it stops people doing it in secret and making it into a clever or fashionable thing to do |
| 15 | One of the younger men charged up to Sabine and pulled her into the circle . |
| 16 | At first the prisoners had only a very small piece of wired in exercise ground at the back of the orphanage , but later , on humanitarian grounds , the Italian Colonel was forced to relent and extend it by wiring in an extra expanse of rough ground about a hundred metres square . |
| 17 | She takes a left turn at random and finds herself in an area of derelict buildings , burned out and boarded up , the site , she realizes , of the previous year 's rioting . |
| 18 | She opened it at random and placed it on Matilda 's desk . |
| 19 | Children 's co-operation can be secured by guiding and helping them towards some desirable action or way of thought . |