Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now his plea involves him in sharing their sentence with them . |
| 2 | This decision represents something of a final throw . |
| 3 | Your heart fits me like a glove . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Taking in several large weirs and the Warden Gorge plus other smaller rapids , the 39km course offers plenty of interest and the organizers hope that it will grow to be comparable with the Liffey Descent and the Devizes to Westminster Race . |
| 8 | Coutts & Co prides itself on offering comprehensive national and international banking and financial services with ‘ an unwavering commitment to courteous and individual service ’ . |
| 9 | No baptism has been traced , though his marriage certificate records him as the son of John Crockford , schoolmaster . |
| 10 | Though one is lost and another damaged , the survivor is sent off into space with the forest when the scientist destroys himself with his ship to conceal the fact that the forest still exists . |
| 11 | The down-side is that the critic 's representation of the text has none of the authority that objectivity would lend to the analysis . |
| 12 | Admiration has nothing at all to do with — falling in love , that sort of thing . |
| 13 | This coexistence of change and resistance owes something to the limits set by nature . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | The male busies himself with placing the eggs in a nest , and when this is complete , the ritual can begin again . |
| 16 | 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 ? ’ |
| 17 | Polls had until recently shown support for Mr Patten but now a majority wants him to back down . |
| 18 | Our second introductory case places you in this situation . |
| 19 | The squirrel has nothing on this : |
| 20 | WHEN it comes to press manipulation , the Ministry of Defence has nothing on Apple Corporation , maker of the famous Apple microcomputer . |
| 21 | This resort has something for everyone . |
| 22 | The male places himself behind the female and pecks at her cloaca . |
| 23 | A kitchen needs something like 10 to 15 changes of air an hour when it is in use , which means , for example , that for a 3m × 2.5m kitchen an extractor fan with a capacity of around 250cu m/hr is needed . |
| 24 | Institutionalised racism manifests itself in insensitive service provision in health and social services , with barriers around language , the pattern of family names and vocabulary . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Rotten little cow has something on me and she 's come to gloat . |
| 27 | The ‘ resentment ’ at being denied possible access to positions of respect and maybe responsibility manifests itself in a number of ways , not least in the social posture of black youth in the UK . |
| 28 | 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. |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |