Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | 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 … |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | No baptism has been traced , though his marriage certificate records him as the son of John Crockford , schoolmaster . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ? ’ |
| 9 | Polls had until recently shown support for Mr Patten but now a majority wants him to back down . |
| 10 | Our second introductory case places you in this situation . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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. |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The concretion of the Christian religion drives them to its edge ; indeed makes them wonder whether there is a place for them within it . |
| 17 | The central figure points me to a single chair , placed opposite . |
| 18 | In the wild their seed capsules are first frozen and them buried under snow until the Spring kicks them into life . |
| 19 | Macintosh System 7 : You get in the car to go to the store and the car drives you to the church . |
| 20 | There is no evidence , to date , that making people belt-up turns them into worse drivers . |
| 21 | This schematic way of thinking channels us into an obscurantist cul-de-sac instead of regenerating our culture . |
| 22 | Ms Leaming tells it all with vim , though the gossip turns her on far more than the movies : ‘ Aly practised an Eastern art of love known as Imsak , which allowed him to exercise indefinite control … ’ |
| 23 | This call from the black side equips us with a challenge to put to the whites . |
| 24 | In summary , the sociological perspective outlined earlier in this chapter orientates us towards examining the social construction of ideas about child abuse . |
| 25 | Radon occurs naturally in rocks such as granite , and can move readily through porous rock and soil and can seep into buildings causing dangerous concentrations to accumulate ( inhaling radon causes it to be deposited in the lungs so increasing the risks of lung cancer ) . |
| 26 | ‘ The Number One DJ wants you on his show . ’ |
| 27 | According to the 1929 Encyclopaedia Britannica , one theory of consciousness holds it to be inherent in every atom of the body . |
| 28 | It is evident that the expertise and contacts Grampian companies have developed through supplying the North Sea oil industry stands them in good stead to take advantage of oil related opportunities in the Middle East . |
| 29 | Some scientific ‘ wets ’ will not want to soil their hands with ‘ blood money ’ ; but in these days of financial stringency , every professor owes it to his department to get in there and pitch for Pentagon pennies . |
| 30 | ‘ Though I know the Princesse loves you as if you were her own child . |