Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now his plea involves him in sharing their sentence with them . |
| 2 | Your heart fits me like a glove . |
| 3 | e.g : Spider notes Yet another method of making notes involves you in a " brain storming " exercise in which you allow your memory to recall any information you can associate with a particular topic or question . |
| 4 | In the first place , becoming a housewife impresses them by the very openness of the role [ ? ] and by the freedom they now have from constraining supervision … |
| 5 | Karajan ( DG ) has often been taken to task from making an adagio meal of Shostakovich 's andante here , but Flor turns it into a snail 's banquet ( beautiful Concertgebouw wind playing notwithstanding ) . |
| 6 | We have to put a shelf mark on the books so that we can shelve the book , but that tells us quite a lot about the subject , and if you start putting those three things together the librarian , as manager of his library , can start to put all this information together — in fact , the computer digests it for him — to give him an overview of how effective his operation is , when he should be buying extra copies , when perhaps he should be thinking of not buying quite so much , or being a little more selective . |
| 7 | In fact the computer digests it for him to give him and overview of how effective his operation is , when he should be buying extra copies , when perhaps he should be thinking of not buying quite so much , or being a little more selective . |
| 8 | No baptism has been traced , though his marriage certificate records him as the son of John Crockford , schoolmaster . |
| 9 | Every day the Canyon humbles us with some new wonder : a 2,000ft sheer wall of red limestone , a golden eagle soaring down to the river to fish , a natural rock amphitheatre which would comfortably accommodate a full orchestra and 20,000 people . |
| 10 | Thus the term irony is used in something approaching its usual acceptance when Brooks associates it with Yeats 's appeal to the Greek sages in ‘ Sailing to That Yeats should speak of the ‘ artifice of eternity ’ evidently undermines in a sense the appearance of passion and sincerity with which he invokes the Greek sages , and thus can be said to bring about a kind of ironic reconciliation between his aspiration of a life free from Nature , and his rational awareness of his human limitations ( Brooks 1949 : 173 ) . |
| 11 | The D G joins me in wishing you every success in your future career . |
| 12 | ‘ At the end of the day , a system is only as good as the user wants it to be , ’ says Peterborough Software 's David Laking . |
| 13 | But , as one ex-councillor puts it , ‘ If he ca n't manage to present the Labour Party in new colours in his own constituency , what hope has he of doing it in the country ? ’ |
| 14 | Polls had until recently shown support for Mr Patten but now a majority wants him to back down . |
| 15 | Jan starts hers at four , for which I take my hat off to her . |
| 16 | Our second introductory case places you in this situation . |
| 17 | Stewart joins us on the line now good morning Mr . |
| 18 | ‘ Cyclists in bus lanes may also cause delay to buses , although banning cyclists places them in danger if they are required to ride in the main carriageway , with buses passing on their nearside . ’ |
| 19 | Printer Sharing is handled in much the same way — the owner makes a printer available , and a remote user specifies it as a network printer in the Printers control panel , attaching it to , say , LPT3 on his own machine . |
| 20 | Nine months on Mr Boulton is still waiting for the two and a half thousand pounds he claims Brit-Pol owes him for the coach . |
| 21 | With goods having only one normal use the mere fact of the purchase will , by implication , make it known that this is what the buyer wants them for , e. g. a hot-water bottle , as in Priest v. |
| 22 | In narratives as diverse as Jane Eyre and Great Expectations , we are aware , when reading , of a certain inevitability of outcome : the writer has us by the hand — in his or her hand , almost — and we know we will be led , not necessarily to a happy conclusion but that the narrative will be resolved at a place that feels safe and right , that leaves us satisfied . |
| 23 | But even people who are concerned about me say things which seem to be complimentary ; a teacher remarks that I have become ‘ a sylph ’ lately , Mum defends me to my grandma as ‘ naturally slender ’ , and Dad makes jokes about my skinny legs — reassuring jokes , the sort he used to make when I was little , before I became ‘ a young woman ’ and embarrassing to him . |
| 24 | I 'm just not persuaded Marcus has it in him to be at that level of intensity ’ |
| 25 | EIiot 's intense sympathy with the fishermen of the Massachusetts coast transforms them into figures of endurance , secular saints , whose course is one of earthly failure which the toughest faith transforms into gain . |
| 26 | The concretion of the Christian religion drives them to its edge ; indeed makes them wonder whether there is a place for them within it . |
| 27 | The central figure points me to a single chair , placed opposite . |
| 28 | In the wild their seed capsules are first frozen and them buried under snow until the Spring kicks them into life . |
| 29 | Macintosh System 7 : You get in the car to go to the store and the car drives you to the church . |
| 30 | There is no evidence , to date , that making people belt-up turns them into worse drivers . |