Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [vb base] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Flows of assistance between generations provide us with an important example where , in practice , support is often one way , and where apparently this is regarded as quite proper .
2 But not any more , because you see this is how I look at it now : those kind of schools grind you into a certain way of thinking and … and somehow , unless you become very careful , you 're stuck that way for the rest of your life .
3 ‘ For your own sakes , for your families ' sakes , for God 's sake , do n't let the selfish pursuit of thrills blind you to the implications of this body in the coffin and to the awfulness of the activity you are involved in , ’ he said .
4 Less self-satisfied social reformers , while not denying improvement — in the case of the elite of workers whose relative scarcity of qualifications put them into a fairly continuous sellers ' market , the substantial improvement — gave a less rose-tinted picture :
5 These type of thoughts put us in the mood to feel anxiety .
6 The " and then " reading of both ands in the first sentence can be shown to be systematically " read in " to conjoined reports of events by a pragmatic principle governing the reporting of events tell them in the order in which they will or have occurred .
7 For psychology , the irrationality , affectivity and sociability which it attributes to women link them to the unscientific uncertainties of subjectivity , and put them slightly outside the discipline 's proper field .
8 Stir it softly over a slow fire , and when it begins to simmer , take it off , and by degrees stir it into the gooseberries .
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