Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It ends : ‘ Will the tight budget bring us to a grinding halt ? |
| 2 | And if , as seems extremely likely , Middlesbrough make it into next season 's premier league , an initial payment of at least £2m from television rights could be expected . |
| 3 | Yet a couple of features in the sentence push it towards Orientation : it contains an explicit temporal signal in the form of " when " and , more significantly , contains a past progressive verb phrase ( " he was sitting " ) . |
| 4 | Preferences bring us to Regan who is rightfully critical of the counter-intuitive implications of Frey 's blanket denials of beliefs , desires , perceptions , emotions , and so on to animals and is at great pains to stress their similarities of behaviour to that of human beings . |
| 5 | Griffin , to exemplify this , reports a signing sequence by Patterson 's Koko : ‘ Please milk please me like drink apple bottle ’ , and one from Nim , ‘ Give orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you ’ ( 1984 : 200 ) . |
| 6 | ( Corney & Barrow sell it from 12 Helmet Row , London , EC1 ; tel : 071 251 4051 ) . |
| 7 | It could be simply a difference of opinion where conflicting views bring us to an impasse . |
| 8 | In addition , local boroughs and health authorities fund us through grants and service contracts . |
| 9 | Wishes provide us with motivation and strategy , for without the greed of a wish we would never get started . |
| 10 | Where do evokes the infinitive as a reality , the modals evoke it as a potentiality . |
| 11 | Musicians knock 'em for six |
| 12 | Indeed , the researchers expect it to be another 10 years before devices using the technology can come to market . |
| 13 | If superiors involve them in decision-making , they are more likely to be management-minded . |
| 14 | Notice also how these skills provide us with a timeless wisdom , applicable to all people-situations anywhere . |
| 15 | In which case forgive me for writing as I have done . |
| 16 | Aelian reports that ‘ the Brahmins honour them above all other birds . |
| 17 | Here their superiors criticise them for failing after they have been given such brilliant training . |
| 18 | James argued here that abstract rules provide us with only limited assistance in arriving at moral decisions because ‘ every real dilemma is in literal strictness a unique situation ’ . |
| 19 | The first two hours knock us into shape , however , as we battle with the boulder-strewn approach to Condoriri . |
| 20 | Flows of assistance between generations provide us with an important example where , in practice , support is often one way , and where apparently this is regarded as quite proper . |
| 21 | As far as the make-up of the commission is concerned , the Russians want it to be composed of professionals and specialists , while the Germans believe that it should above all have a strong political element ’ . |
| 22 | Bob and I are progressing as a piano/clarsach duo , and of course some of the accompaniments to his songs tax me to the limit , or have to be vetoed altogether . |
| 23 | No black on wings and no long trailing legs distinguish them from all other large white birds in flight . |
| 24 | chlorine combine it with |
| 25 | She opened it , and found a very small cake with the words EAT ME on it . |
| 26 | waves push me to the side |
| 27 | The language of the marketing echoes exactly that of any supermarket brand-name : ‘ our readers perceive us as a brand of books with a special flavour and image ’ . |
| 28 | Indeed , as we saw in Chapter 3 , sections 17 and 18 of the Sale of Goods Act expressly recognise that property passes to the buyer at the time the parties intend it to . |
| 29 | Section 17 says that property in specific goods passes to the buyer at such time as the parties intend it to be transferred . |
| 30 | Property passes when the parties intend it to , section 17 . |