Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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31 And it 's already I mean we 've we 've kept it in prime condition , painted with company colours .
32 At the beginning of this chapter it was suggested that the main features by which we can characterise the wider category of positivist criminology ( and which also serve to distinguish it from classical criminology ) are determinism , differentiation , pathology and the diversion of attention away from crime ( and the criminal law ) to the criminal .
33 You have treated me with great courtesy and kindness ; for all that I thank you .
34 I have hated her with theatric passion .
35 Because it is subject to the conditions of carriage that we accept their business and therefore we have to provide them with written information .
36 I know , because I have applied it with complete success to his own speeches and writings .
37 With characteristic business acumen , the Swiss spas saw the renaissance of the classical water therapy on the way , beckoning all sections of society , and they have turned it to good account .
38 Pieces of abstract art do not suddenly change colour because we have moved them from artificial light to daylight .
39 Stained glass features throughout their home and the Michies have incorporated it with great success .
40 A glance around the London hotel scene shows examples of plenty of exceptional women who have made it to general management ; Madelon Boom , at the age of 26 , at Hyatt 's Lowndes Hotel ; Dagmar Woodward at The May Fair Inter-Continental ; Doreen Boulding at The Conrad Chelsea Harbour , etc .
41 The racial success story turns those who have made it into narrative role models for the next generation , who are pledged to follow in their footsteps ‘ one day ’ .
42 We have hold it at head office every week .
43 We have used them to great effect from boats or for getting baits in under trees or undercut banks where casting has been impossible but the wind has helped to carry the bait into inaccessible areas often inhabited by pike .
44 The reason for this advice is that quite possibly the question was set as a trap , and if you refrain have avoided it by good luck rather than good management .
45 Yet it has often happened that attacks on such alternative groups , by established opinion , have shifted them into conscious opposition as distinct from conscious dissent or the offering of a conscious alternative .
46 Others have interpreted it as tactical manoeuvring , a manifestation of his habitual tendency to have two or more irons in the fire .
47 Edward insisted : ‘ They have accused me of damaging land owned by the DoE , but in fact I have improved it .
48 If we do , we now have a model and can say that he and his family have been through it and have borne it with great fortitude , resilience and courage — as has been said , only through their deep religious faith — and that that has been a great lesson to us all .
49 They have exempted it from public expenditure cuts because they see it as an investment for the future .
50 The Conservative government 's policies on taxation and welfare have brought it into increasing conflict with the Church of England .
51 He does not , however , have to pursue his own investigations if the parties have provided him with sufficient evidence : 14.8 .
52 No doubt , having aired these feelings well in public he will be exerting pressure behind the scenes to ensure there is no further need to repeat them in open audience .
53 Let us look now at some problems of this neo-fundamentalism as I have observed them in modern church life .
54 Fans have besieged me of late claiming that in my last programme notes I announced the opening of a club shop .
55 I have loved her in obsessive fashion . ’
56 Their social habits have fitted them to human society .
57 The first thing I did was to refurbish my 1973 vehicle , of course I have kept it in good order .
58 They check that the employees in that department know who is in charge and have kept it in good order .
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