Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rincewind looked around nervously for a tall figure in black ( wizards , even failed wizards , have in addition to rods and cones in their eyeballs the tiny octagons that enable them to see into the far octarine , the basic colour of which all other colours are merely pale shadows impinging on normal four-dimensional space . |
| 2 | In many cases , the parents of the brighter children wished them to go to the secondary school in Jarrow , an overcrowded building housing about 400 pupils in which good scholarship results were achieved , but there were serious difficulties facing their children : |
| 3 | It was a strange conversation , sleepily hostile , with both of them drained by the extravagant expenditure of passion that had gone before . |
| 4 | What good is an educational system which fools youngsters into thinking they are much cleverer than they really are and lets them loose on the working world ( not that there 's much work there ) with worthless qualifications ? |
| 5 | This level of provision represents a very substantial commitment of resources to the enterprise bodies and it should be sufficient to enable them to carry through the wide range of tasks expected of them and to build on their excellent first year of operation . |
| 6 | I wanted to go out last week , but he said , ‘ No way , you 're not going out there ’ , and he made me stay in the whole week . |
| 7 | Nobody told me to become a stand-up comedian and nobody told me to go on the fucking telly . ’ |
| 8 | He ca n't help it : Do you want me to go into the other room ? |
| 9 | There is considerable ( ? deliberate ) confusion about the figures , but it seems that general practice and community services will receive about 4% extra revenue next year to help them prepare for the extra workload . |
| 10 | There was a great yearning among lay people to understand in terms of their own vernacular this inner experience of the faith , which , through the institutional influence of the Church , formally governed the structure of their lives , although their education may not have been such as to enable them to cope with the official language of the Church or highly intellectual theological exposition . |
| 11 | All four species live in the surf zone of the lake and have a reduced swim-bladder which enables them to cope with the rapid water movement . |
| 12 | Deciding what facts are relevant to a choice of means may be very complicated , and that the difficulties from admitting his obligation to take account of them testifies to the irresistible authority of ‘ Be aware ’ in practical decisions . |
| 13 | Corbett stared at him and looked away , the tension between them broken by the Pictish leader who took Thomas by the hand , like a child with a parent , and led him into the largest house , beckoning Corbett to follow them . |
| 14 | Perhaps they are sheepish about the efficiency or integrity of their testing systems , and unwilling to have them exposed to the public scrutiny that would follow if the banned athletes chose to take the matter further in law . |
| 15 | Get yourself twelve songs — and have them transposed into the right key , for God 's sake . |
| 16 | Do n't overfeed them to compensate for the fasting stage . |
| 17 | They might have them frozen in the frozen bit , frozen gateaux and stuff |
| 18 | Some of them appear in the above list , for a hard line can not be drawn . |
| 19 | Unfortunately , in the absence of all the facts , it is not possible for me to comment on the individual case , nor would I wish to do so in a public forum . |
| 20 | Carel Weight visited Wimbledon and encouraged me to try for the Royal College . |
| 21 | After they had left , she stood in the doorway and watched them walking down the main street past the square . |
| 22 | Some theft cases can be prosecuted under section 15 , but it is fallacious , having regard to what I perceive as the true meaning of appropriation , to say that all cases of obtaining by deception can be prosecuted under section 1 . |
| 23 | I applied for the occasional post that I thought might be interesting , but never heard anything back . |
| 24 | I doubled to the other side of the deck and joined the Sergeant Major and Brigadier Mills Roberts . |
| 25 | I doubled across the cobbled yard and stood in the middle of the road to watch the jeeps disappear in the distance in a cloud of dust . |
| 26 | Limply I gazed at the mortal oiliness of the water , in which no creature could prosper , and the dockside crowds of welcome floating and swimming above like tropical fish . |
| 27 | There is a perception amongst informed people in the community that there may well be a shortage of long stay beds in Leicestershire and you do need to bear in mind that the National Health Service is increasingly going down the road of not keeping people in hospitals longer than they have to because hospitals are perceived as being very , a very expensive way of providing beds and you have to take that into account because that 's a fairly clear national policy and you are likely to see an acceleration in that process from what I read in the national press . |
| 28 | I reiterate the point that I made to the hon. Member for Greenock and Port Glasgow ( Dr. Godman ) . |
| 29 | The comparison that I made in The Independent newspaper was based on what the Secretary of State 's own review had recommended as the number required to run the system . |
| 30 | And was that sublime trip I made around the celestial skyline embracing the deep recesses of Cwm Llan just a dream ? |