Example sentences of "[prep] [indef pn] [verb] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We want to make it easy for everyone to go abroad on holiday , regardless of limited mobility or other handicaps . |
| 2 | I hate it when you walk past someone goes right in front of you and you sort of give it you do n't care if he 's ten feet tall you just look at him like this and you see this nasty greeny . |
| 3 | Consequently the Thatcher government elected in 1979 turned away from what Pollitt ( 1984 , p. 121 ) describes as ‘ the classic [ Machinery of Government ] issues ’ — the macro-structure of departments and policy appraisal and planning mechanisms — towards one concentrating primarily on resource use and constraints . |
| 4 | Though this portrait has a haunting sadness , it also conveys the sensation of something held firmly in check . |
| 5 | Files which before the war were lucid and precise , with everything stated simply in model letters and reports , become in the fifties and sixties thin and skimped with occasional notes ‘ for the file ’ covering actions taken after lengthy phone calls in which the actual decisions were made . |