Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [verb] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Be very careful of old fluorescent light tubes , which can explode if dropped , and never puncture old aerosol cans or throw them on a fire . |
| 2 | Failure to achieve this goal at the outset may result in a patient who depends on others for insulin injections , misses injections or does them with a very poor technique . |
| 3 | Why did the banks cheerfully lend billions to a man who would never open the family books or provide them with a balance sheet ? |
| 4 | They form a component of some social stratification systems simply because members of those systems select certain characteristics and evaluate them in a particular way . |
| 5 | All that stuff on our first two records I think is really cool and in some ways I prefer it to what we 're doing now , and I knew that once we took any of those songs and put them in an electric context people would go , ‘ Duh , it 's a good song ! ’ . |
| 6 | And I shall write my songs and carry them in a pack and I shall recite them to the people , and sing them too , and I shall tell stories , and the little children shall gather around me , the while himself is in the temple . ’ |
| 7 | It 's alleged Gary Corbett held her by the legs and swung her against a wall at the flat in which they all lived at Forest Green in Nailsworth , near Stroud in Gloucestershire . |
| 8 | Piquet 's 200 mph crash nearly took off his legs and left him with a limp for life . |
| 9 | This guy , yeah , he falls in love with this woman , takes her to his apartment and slowly , he 's a surgeon and he slowly amputates all her arms and legs and keeps her in a box . |
| 10 | A digital television immediately decodes the incoming sound and picture signals and converts them into an 8-bit digital code . |
| 11 | Apparently , they consider that their responsibilities end when they have unpacked their baggage of trophies from the record offices and arranged them in a convincing pattern . |
| 12 | Hall takes a Schumpeterian view of long waves and translates it into a geographical context . |
| 13 | Franca had once seen a film of a burial at sea , how the coffin slid with a curious slowness down toward the waves and entered them without a splash . |
| 14 | On Dec. 16 the Netherlands authorities expelled 43 Russian Jews and put them on an aeroplane to Israel after their applications for asylum were turned down ; a further nine were expelled on Dec. 23 . |
| 15 | Close your eyes and imagine yourself in a bookshop . |
| 16 | This type of informal intervention in turn increased confusion over the weight to be attached to the enterprise 's different objectives , and made it harder to co-ordinate political goals and express them in a coherent manner . |
| 17 | The man took off his spectacles and wiped them on a snowy white handkerchief . |
| 18 | Taczek took off his spectacles and polished them with a handkerchief . |
| 19 | I got on my bike and went back to the house a bit recklessly , shooting through puddles on the path and taking the Jump — a bit on the path where there 's a long downhill on a dune and then a short uphill where it 's easy to leave the ground — at a good forty kilometres per hour , landing with a muddy thump that nearly had me in the whin bushes and left me with a very sore bum , making me want to keep opening my mouth with the feeling of it . |
| 20 | In her decoration ‘ Lilith ’ ( Museum Boymans-van Beuningen , Rotterdam — watercolour sketch at the Tate Gallery ) it is as if she has taken one of these nudes and stood her against a tree , where , with arms wrapped around her head and one leg twisted into the other she writhes provocatively for the pleasure of the viewer . |
| 21 | Use a vacuum cleaner to remove debris from between the key caps and clean them with a suitable solution . |
| 22 | The positive approach of Comte was developed by Emile Durkheim who adopted Comte 's empirical and rationalist methods and fashioned them into an approach which provides a major foundation for the study of sociology today . |
| 23 | Jelinek trained his system on a corpus of 1,500,000 words and tested it on a test corpus of 300,000 . |
| 24 | Children , particularly our own grandchildren I discovered er had got money in the building societies I mean we give them money for presents and throw it into a building society , and I said what 's happening about your , your tax ? |
| 25 | Perhaps she had heard our voices and used them as an excuse to break away from Henry Clerval . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's no good ‘ effing and blinding ’ , ’ he remonstrated mildly , holding her firmly by the shoulders and inspecting her with a brilliantly dispassionate gaze . |
| 27 | He 'd obviously put his own glass down , because he halted her by grabbing her shoulders and bringing her to a halt . |
| 28 | Marc looped an arm around her shoulders and pulled her to a more comfortable position beneath him . |
| 29 | I came round the desk then and raised Mrs. Porter by slipping one arm around her shoulders and heaving her into a sitting position . |
| 30 | This product grabs Windows by the lapels and uses it in a whole new way . |