Example sentences of "[pron] [subord] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The astonished reptile released its grip just long enough for Laba to break free and stagger off down the track — with the serpent in hot pursuit apparently loudly vocalizing with the same sibilant barks which we were later to hear ourselves while filming a python hunt . |
| 2 | It must not be thought that such differences are mere matters of imagination , and that we take the sensations to be different because we represent each of them to ourselves as occupying a different place . |
| 3 | They were trying more to come one place ahead of me than to win a medal . |
| 4 | Enjoying my fishing , including the enjoyment I would have derived from seeing a friend catch , is more important to me than compiling a longer list of big fish than anyone else . |
| 5 | As far as anybody knew , he 'd mangled himself while helping a friend with some car repairs . |
| 6 | Matisse saw himself as occupying a similar transitional role to Giotto , but it is , in a way , Giotto 's role turned around . |
| 7 | Gallie concludes that the relatively greater emphasis upon authoritarian and paternalistic practices within the French context is not solely a reflection of managerial attitudes engendered by the structural characteristics of industry , as typified by a long predominance of small , family firms in which the employer regarded himself as having a right to exclusive control . |
| 8 | Griffith had come to the movies quite late in life and he came as a man whose varied experiences and whose accumulated opinions , myths , and prejudices had given him a sense of America and of himself as having a place in it . |
| 9 | This is no exaggeration : though primarily a moralist , Arnold was almost equally a political reformer , and he thought of himself as performing a service to the state . |
| 10 | Are you considering taking a Hormone Replacement Therapy course ? |
| 11 | For one thing it was an opportunity , in a purely objective , journalistic sense , to expose the hypocrisy of a magazine that , to Branson 's mind , ‘ had always purported to be so perfect itself while having a go at everybody else ’ . |
| 12 | The active part is played by a public corporation , the National Coal Board , which carries on the vast bulk of the exploitation itself whilst licensing a minute amount of private enterprise by others . |
| 13 | There are few better punishers of poor opposition than Rick Smith , who when given a freer role and told to forget about defending , responds by slaughtering teams single-handed . |
| 14 | Obviously radio would never recover the prominence of the post-war years , but it successfully re-established itself as meeting a need complementary to TV , whether judged by audience figures or by advertising revenue . |
| 15 | It was clear that the Government now saw itself as taking a greater part in determining TBC policies , and this was confirmed by the addition of an External Service to the TBC 's responsibilities . |
| 16 | Britain in the 1940s and 1950s saw itself as having a major power ( primarily military ) space programme . |
| 17 | The models of teaching it commended were expected to be influential , and the Authority saw itself as having a duty to provide a clear lead on the direction and character of primary classroom practice . |
| 18 | The emergence of nation states , initially in Western Europe and the US , depended upon two main conditions : one was the development of modern centralized government , undertaken by the absolute monarchs from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century , while the other was the rise of nationalism , embodying the idea of political self-determination for a social group which inhabits a definite territory , conceives itself as having a distinct ethnic and cultural character , and has embarked upon a struggle to establish popular sovereignty in place of dynastic rule . |
| 19 | The pure economist may see himself or herself as occupying a different space from that of the applied economist ; the ‘ scholarly ’ critic from the ‘ responsive ’ one ; the ‘ objective ’ social researcher from the ‘ interpretative ’ one ; the doctor who ‘ delivers ’ health care from the one who ‘ responds ’ to his or her patients . |
| 20 | The idea of marking the site of Liddell 's grave at Weifang in China , and establishing the Foundation came to him while researching a book on Liddell . |
| 21 | Horace Walpole described her as having a ‘ paltry air of significant learning and absurdity ’ , and added that she was so totally lacking in humour that ‘ she repined when she should laugh and reasoned when she should be diverted ’ . |
| 22 | You can never describe her as having a particular image . |
| 23 | ‘ Old bass-voiced Ethel Walker , ’ Woolf called her and described her as having a ‘ rough-raddled charm , the result of living a regular herring grillers life ’ . |
| 24 | Merton ( 1938 ) , for example , does not conclude his exposition of anomie theory by proposing a solution ( though he gives enough away elsewhere for Taylor , Walton and Young , 1973 , to see him as favouring a ‘ meritocratic ’ solution ) . |
| 25 | Although John was generally a quick worker , Anne Heaton remembers him as taking a long time over this work and seeming nervous about it . |
| 26 | ‘ We have no intention of interfering in government , ’ Itar-Tass news agency quoted him as telling a visiting Thai princess . |
| 27 | Although I rated Mr Smith quite high in terms of integrity , I did not regard him as having a superior intellect and throughout the negotiations with which I was concerned he remained blinded by a prejudiced belief that the only rule in Rhodesia which was tolerable or possible was white rule . |
| 28 | Brooke met Gerry Collins , the Irish Foreign Minister , on May 31 amid a public controversy over the disclosure on May 30 that the Unionist parties had rejected Lord Carrington , a former UK Foreign Secretary , as a possible chair of the second phase of talks , describing him as having a " deplorable " record on Northern Ireland . |
| 29 | All that wickedness , and you do n't have to explain it or understand it or do a bloody thing about it except put a stop to it . |
| 30 | This idea or nominal essence will vary from person to person ; goldsmiths know more properties of gold , and so have a different idea of it than does a child . |