Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If one knew how to go about it the Fall was reversible . |
| 2 | In September and October we read in the papers of the heavy raids on London , and the more we read and heard about them the more difficult it became to understand how people could survive . |
| 3 | Even if she could be brought to view his actions in his own light , he would remain for her the instrument of death . |
| 4 | Now both of them were choking with their laughter as Mick ended , ‘ It got so bad that they used to wait for it every Sunday night and try to smother me with a pillow . |
| 5 | The extra resources available from the uprated grant and loan more than compensate for what the majority of students could have claimed . |
| 6 | When a quantum mechanic thinks about what an electron is " doing " he is thinking about what sort of wavefunction is associated with it . |
| 7 | Would somebody with expertise here like to define for the rest of us what what , what differentiates somebody with a , a , an eating disorder , er from someone who 's er a chronic dieter or a chronic worrier or no not a chronic dieter at all , but someone who just thinks about it a lot ? |
| 8 | ‘ If one thinks about it the President makes an ideal stalking horse . |
| 9 | This became for me a serious piece of policy . |
| 10 | The fall , identified for so long with a sweet , sad nostalgia , a magnificence of gold and crimson under startling blue skies , became for us a nightmare . |
| 11 | It is Davie 's contention that this view is quite wrong : there are a great many outstandingly talented British poets , including Charles Tomlinson , C H Sisson , Elaine Feinstein and others ( Davie , as distinguished a poet as any of his subjects , modestly excludes his own work ) who do not answer to this description , and one purpose of Under Briggflats is to claim for them the attention they have often been denied ; in some cases , indeed , to rescue them from scandalous neglect . |
| 12 | Also , interestingly , Labour was trying to claim for itself the new Prospective owner-occupiers with a promise of low interest mortgages for low income earners . |
| 13 | To check you have grasped the idea of incidence , try drawing for yourself a market with a relatively elastic supply curve and a relatively inelastic demand curve . |
| 14 | Quite possibly another administration than a British one , less morally aspiring and less legally punctilious , would have arranged for him a quiet accident , or a fatal incarceration . |
| 15 | we had to pull forward it 's not due so we 've got er so we 've given them three days to You see when we worked out the numbers for the we were given all the , the allowances , the rates et cetera , et cetera , we worked the forecast through and seen huge amounts of time given for which the assumption is that it 's all done by hand , the job these cranes so the resources how much money had been spent . |
| 16 | I remember little of my stay in the intensive care unit , but I am told they cared for me every second of the night and day . |
| 17 | If , however , you suffer from a skin complaint such as eczema , psoriasis or acne , you may need to seek further advice ( an aromatherapist , herbalist or nutritionist ) who will devise for you a personalised healing programme . |
| 18 | Be can not marry himself or marry his sons or daughters without leave , nor sell for himself a foal he has foaled , if male . |
| 19 | I mean I 'm I mean for me the issues is avoiding guilt tripping them , but at the same time erm I want them to know erm that they are real children who are being really affected and hurt and damaged and losing their parents as a result of this war , and that is a hurtful thing to know . |
| 20 | For myself , I pretended that I had left home with full approval , inventing for myself a Harrogate doctor father , fleshing out an imaginary family … . |
| 21 | Thiercelin and Lefevre found themselves received at their billet with almost embarrassing cordiality , the householder , Herr Bauer , and his wife insisting upon catering for their every need , whilst regaling them with complaints of Hapsburg perfidy and the brutality of their Russian allies . |
| 22 | A lot of mums , however , still lay out their twenty-year-old 's washed and ironed clothes on the bed for them each morning and continuously clean up after them , catering for their every need . |
| 23 | A delegation from Europe 's largest hotel , the Izmailovo in Moscow , recently visited the Moat House International Hotel , Glasgow , to see for themselves the operating standards of a western hotel . |
| 24 | Winston sent out a party of men and women from public life to see for themselves the horrors of Belsen . |
| 25 | This has been configured so that visitors to the Museum can see in the cockpit and operate the flying controls to see for themselves the effects of stick on elevators and rudder . |
| 26 | LENTA organised parties of business people and senior ILEA personnel to see for themselves the achievements of the Boston Compact . |
| 27 | Still others are there to show their sympathy and respect , but also to see for themselves the spectacle of a city 's mass grief … |
| 28 | Now they began to see for themselves the amazing interconnected web of life which links the creatures and plants on Denmark Farm , and the critical role which each link plays in maintaining the chain of existence — the working ecological system . |
| 29 | They set off from Wyre Mill to see for themselves the finishing touches being put to the weir nearby . |
| 30 | We want you to see for yourself the subtlety and awareness that can be wrought from the earth , to give style and grace to your everyday living . |