Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Draw a number line to read in equal spaces from unc The building at the side of this page has an elevator which carries people up or down to save them from climbing the stairs . |
| 2 | The building at the side of this page has an elevator which carries people up or down to save them from climbing the stairs . |
| 3 | So far in this chapter my argument has been that by entirely removing the Devil from the Christian world-view , or simply silencing him by demythologising him away a la Bultmann , we undercut the gospel as divine drama . |
| 4 | The fourth and fifth relate to a long-standing debate about the purpose of RE — this is the " confessional " approach which starts off from the assumption of the truth of a particular religious viewpoint and seeks to nurture pupils within , or strongly encourage them towards accepting , that viewpoint . |
| 5 | A person ‘ publishes ’ an article when he sells it , or otherwise distributes it by giving it away , letting it on hire or lending it . |
| 6 | The 28-year-old woman was walking alone in the town 's Templehill area at around 12:30am when she was grabbed from behind outside a funeral parlour and indecently assaulted her before escaping on foot . |
| 7 | In other words , controlling as he did the nominations to all learned appointments in whichever of the areas he was then kazasker , he would urge young scholars to enter the relative dead end of the career of kasabat kadi and thereby prevent them from passing up through the ranks of medreses to become candidates for mevleviyets and thus rivals to his own position . |
| 8 | Pride holds onto the past and so prevents us from moving forward and achieving more with our lives . |
| 9 | As the horse learns from the voice to listen to the seat , leg and rein aids then you gradually dispense with the voice and only use it for rewarding when he is good . |
| 10 | Oliver was very surprised to see all this , and greatly admired them for controlling their sadness so well . |
| 11 | The extreme toxicity of their venom enables them to kill their main prey — eels — very rapidly and thus prevent them from wriggling free . |
| 12 | These valves also serve to trap any water which may accidentally pass the blowhole , and thus prevent it from entering the lungs , which would cause choking or drowning . |
| 13 | If we do not face up to our fears , we might project them onto the outside world , perhaps in the form of violent crime , epidemics , disasters or a vengeful God , or ( closer to home ) in the form of a partner , family or friends who ‘ block ’ our growth , and thus protect us from facing our fears . |
| 14 | The mace was particularly favoured by militant churchmen , who argued that although the scriptures forbade the shedding of blood , and thus precluded them from wielding swords , the mace was a crushing implement and thus avoided such religious bans altogether . |
| 15 | They are meant to appeal to Tamburlaine 's humanity and hopefully stop him from plundering the town . |
| 16 | Niazi , whose Jamiat Ulama-i Pakistan ( Niazi ) party ( JUP ) would nevertheless remain a member of the ruling Islamic Democratic Alliance ( IDA ) , objected to Sharif 's pro-United States policy , and also accused him of failing to enforce the Islamic Sharia code as Pakistan 's supreme law , one of the IDA 's election pledges . |
| 17 | He found McPhee guilty of abandoning the dog and wilfully neglecting him by failing to provide veterinary treatment . |
| 18 | ‘ I mean , how was I to know you were n't a sex-mad pervert who 'd broken in and hideously raped you before coming after me ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ And please forgive me for butting in on you like this . |
| 20 | It tries to deduce what , if anything , the author has to say , and then nags him into saying it clearly . |
| 21 | The women who were working there looked at me in a kind curious way at first and then took me for granted . |
| 22 | A rich but ugly hunchback is able to obtain a beautiful young girl to be his wife and then guards her with consuming jealousy . |
| 23 | Thieves , having stolen a car , take it for a joy ride and then strip it before setting it alight to destroy the evidence . |
| 24 | The gaucho slips a rug under the door , ejects the key and then recovers it by hauling the rug towards him . |
| 25 | We have a duty , as the authority that extracts money from the taxpayer and then spends it on buying services for the taxpayer , to ensure that every pound we spend on the taxpayers ' behalf buys as much as it possibly can . |
| 26 | It is appropriate here to start with the main equation in the form ( 10.62 ) using the variables t and z defined by ( 10.60 ) , and then transforming it by putting ( 10.72 ) where the parameters v and η are not necessarily real . |
| 27 | And then dreams he of smelling out a suit ; |
| 28 | And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats , |
| 29 | Added to which was the emotional harassment of fellow priest Laverty whose idea of support was to visit and then accuse her of trying to wreck the life of a good priest . |
| 30 | Said , ‘ I am not a very political politician , ’ and then proved it by singing ‘ My Darling Clementine ’ live on Irish TV a few hours after an IRA massacre . |