Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Changes in company policy , new products and services , financial results , staff appointments , sponsorship news , factory openings — in fact almost any " happening " or change within your company or organisation will probably merit a release to at least a few papers or radio stations . |
| 2 | If at any time after a person has been charged with or informed he may be prosecuted for an offence a police officer wishes to bring to the notice of that person any written statement made by another person or the content of an interview with another person , he shall hand to that person a true copy of any such written statement or bring to his attention the content of the interview record , but shall say or do nothing to invite any reply or comment save to caution him in the terms of paragraph 10.4 above . |
| 3 | And then you , Sir John ! lust in case I should forget , or withdraw , or hide behind my church walls , you are here , ready to lead me along the streets , remind me that there is no escape from murder , from witnessing the greatest sin of all — a man slaying his brother ! ’ |
| 4 | There was nothing secret or mean in his character , and we soon became good friends . |
| 5 | Or concentrate on your breathing for a few minutes , just feeling your stomach rising and falling but without trying to control the breathing in any way . |
| 6 | You might choose to repeat a chosen word or phrase , gently returning to it whenever your mind wanders ; or concentrate on your breathing ; or ‘ watch ’ your thoughts as they drift like clouds through your mind ; or contemplate a theme ; or embark on a visual-experiential journey to the inner realms . |
| 7 | ‘ She has minimal response to pain and noise , there is little eye movement , she is unable to communicate , she ca n't move her limbs or eat on her own . ’ |
| 8 | Elevation Lie or sit with your legs raised higher than your waist . |
| 9 | I watch the men and women as they crowd along the streets or sit in their cars and vans and buses and trucks , and their freedom seems inestimably precious , exotic and vicariously intoxicating . |
| 10 | He did n't throw his head back like Peggy Pine did when she laughed , or giggle into his fist like Paccy Moore ; he did n't make big gestures like Mario in the fish and chip shop , or even get wheezing and coughing fits like Dessie Burns often did . |
| 11 | Also , at the end of the day there may not be a great deal of difference between a system which requires all charges subject to exceptions to be registered as opposed to the present one which requires specified charges to be registered subject to the power of the Secretary of State to add to or delete from their number . |
| 12 | ( 2 ) To require the person whose affairs are to be investigated ( a ) to produce documents appearing to relate to any matter relevant to the investigation , or account for their absence , and ( b ) to provide an explanation for any such document . |
| 13 | ( 4 ) To require any other person ( a ) to produce documents appearing to relate to any matter relevant to the investigation , or account for their absence , and ( b ) to provide an explanation for any such document . |
| 14 | It collects its food on a curtain of baleen or whalebone in its mouth and after a single meal may well have transferred to its stomach no less than 2 tons of tiny shrimps , each no more than 3 inches long . |
| 15 | To act on or defy a socially established rule has effects on all who benefit or suffer by its observance . |
| 16 | Our link up with adidas has certainly provided a boost to membership , with many of you taking up the option to join and receive a free headband or wristband for their trouble . |
| 17 | Whenever I had a sheet of paper in front of me and a paintbrush or pencil in my hand , the result was inevitable . |
| 18 | If you are considering a new boat or retrofit rig you 'll want to know more , just write , phone or fax for our product literature , to arrange a meeting or to organise a tender . |
| 19 | Or send for our brochure . |
| 20 | A few go to a kind of " halfway house " , of which there should be many more , which usually consists of four or five small flatlets which girls either share or occupy on their own . |
| 21 | Ensure that your child does n't rely on his emergency bronchodilator , or forget about his condition after he 's had an attack . |
| 22 | There is no inconsistency in my and my neighbour 's holding that we each should look after our own dog ( or sleep with our own wife , come to that ) . |
| 23 | The university teacher in Britain , thinking of producing a tape-slide sequence to explain a particular concept or process to his students , may well need only to consider , with a production assistant , the learning objectives , the structure of the process to be considered , the best ways to exemplify this in the photographs to be taken , the graphics to design , and the commentary to write , and then turn it all over to the producer to put into effect , with his guidelines and help . |
| 24 | The Emperor Frederick I drew his popular names of Barbarossa or Rothbart from his red coloured beard . |
| 25 | Whenever one organism promotes the fitness of another at its own expense and without reciprocal benefit to itself or benefit to its own genes present in the recipient it has perforce performed an act of induced altruism . |
| 26 | or worry about their performance as compared with that of |
| 27 | erm you know never mind that most children who are beaten or abused or die at their , the hands of their parents er you know , do so at the hands of their heterosexual parents |
| 28 | How many people do you know who never show on their faces or reveal in their words what they truly feel ? |
| 29 | oh , what you going to try some of this or wait for your whisky and lemon ? |
| 30 | Ride along the promenade in a Dotto Train or relax on our award winning beach . |