Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't a conscious move on her part , and yet , once open to his erotically roving tongue , she was helpless to do anything except melt against him with a low moan as the same desire as yesterday curled through her stomach . |
| 2 | And then he was passing beneath the huge , towering Gates , and he saw how they stretched above him into infinity , and he felt the timelessness of the great Prison descend on him like a huge , unseen weight . |
| 3 | He says that ‘ when children have limited communication and language skills , you often need to reinforce what you say to them in a physical form . |
| 4 | With his shorts flapping around his knees and his wispy , thinning hair he was almost a caricature of a footballer , but Wally could mesmerise his opposing full-back or swerve past him at a deceptive pace , before putting across an accurate , teasing centre . |
| 5 | For him , at that time and in that position , everything that could be seen between the distant boundaries of blue hill and black mountain , everything that spread below him under a fathomless heaven , was resonant with new meaning , new speech , new glory . |
| 6 | I unite with all who protest against them as a grave menace to youth , to home life , to country and to religion . |
| 7 | The populations of two towns A and B and the number of persons who die in them in a certain year are given in the table below . |
| 8 | Listen , listen to me , when it 's finished , instead of putting it in the box we 'll put it on that other one and listen to it for a wee while |
| 9 | This fellow Simon , you read about him in a few verses earlier , he was a , he was a magician , a so , er a sorcerer , he was the , the wi the witch doctor if you like , if he was in i i in an African situation , there he was , he was the medicine man of the town , of the area and he too believed and was converted , he was baptized , and he was amazed at the miracles that he 'd seen being performed by Philip through the power of God . |
| 10 | No , yeah I 'll come with you , you go off and stay with Joyce , look after her for a little while and let Kenneth sort things out ! |
| 11 | Often they are middle-aged or elderly ladies , who look upon it as a social club . |
| 12 | The people look to me as a new Messiah . |
| 13 | Obviously many look on it as a significant occasion which is very , very flattering ’ . |
| 14 | Look on it from a medical angle if you like , as a cure for an ailment . ’ |
| 15 | Hence the strategy of the working class is worked out in terms of the opportunities open to it in a particular situation — or rather in terms of the opportunities that Poulantzas claims would have been open to it had the class itself been quite different . |
| 16 | You sound to me like a tired little rascal |
| 17 | For instance , when people find out that my father ran off with a schoolgirl they invariably look at me in a particular way , which means one of two things , if not both of them . |
| 18 | It is difficult to assess exactly what all these developments mean individually , but when you step back and look at them as a whole trend , the implications become clear . |
| 19 | We can not literally weigh religious truth-claims or look at them through a micro- scope . |
| 20 | Look at them in a new way . |
| 21 | So when you look at it on a yearly basis and a compare it to what it was a few years ago , Yes it 's gone up a lot . |
| 22 | we 've been talking about individuals and what they want , and we live in a context in which if people want a thing and the , and we feel that they should have the choice particularly if they have the money that if to , if you look at it in a wider context there are seven million children living on the streets in Brazil ! |
| 23 | Yes , if you look at it in a certain light , as those philosophers are apt to who go on to say that there must ( 286 ) have been more than the sentence in my mind for it to be the case that I meant such and such . |
| 24 | If you look at it in a certain way , right , it shows your ignorance , I mean you 're over in England , right , for so long — I mean to say you should know what to chat in front of certain people , right ? |
| 25 | Telephone sales teams daily insult the intelligence of thousands of potential customers , as they read at them from a prepared sales script . |
| 26 | Just stand by me for a little bit longer . |
| 27 | At first it amused me ; after my first year it drove me to distraction ; in my second year I learned to take a novel with me to work and , with a bit of luck , get through it in a two-day shoot . |
| 28 | It is rare to find an elderly person 's home that could not be made much more comfortable , convenient and secure for her by a few carefully planned improvements and adaptations . |
| 29 | The one thing Phil is still learning is how to cope when batsmen get after him on a good pitch . |
| 30 | Local transport : Lake steamers , car ferries and hydro foils ply across the lake , while buses drive round it on a regular basis . |