Example sentences of "[det] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She lived at New Houses , and was related to me in a mixed up kind of way — her father and my grandmother were cousins , but what that made me to Miss Bayles I can not imagine ! |
| 2 | That made her to me , a mere new boy , a prefect . |
| 3 | Does that answer it for you or not ? |
| 4 | does that compare them with the customers ? |
| 5 | I can see the town airport from where I am , indeed I can touch its tarmac with a digit thrust through the chain-link fence — all that separates it from the Lofleiđ3ir — but to get from here to there is not so easy , and involves taking a bus into town and back out again or taking a taxi . |
| 6 | To it we owe that nervous , spidery line of the drawings — so quick , so attentive , yet so despairing — that alerts us to the elusiveness of the subject at the same time that it perseveres in the attempt to render it . |
| 7 | While there is no doubt that fascist organisations like the National Front have attempted to recruit members from the ranks of football hooligans , there is little to connect them with violence in the game ( Popplewell , 1986:59 ) . |
| 8 | But that led him to be grilled by detectives for two hours because he unwittingly bought a cabinet stolen from an old lady in North Oxford a few days before . |
| 9 | That led them to a Kamalian whose secretions matched the saliva found at the scene of the crime . ’ |
| 10 | Many people make do with a cup of coffee which , although it may taste good , does little to support you until lunchtime . |
| 11 | That got me to thirty-and-five . |
| 12 | ’ Becke 's revision reads : ‘ He dwelleth wyth his wyfe accordinge to knowledge , that taketh her as a necessarye healper , and not as a bonde servaunte or a bonde slave . |
| 13 | That turns me on that does . |
| 14 | Does that reassure you on that one , or do you still think you were being asked to do something ? |
| 15 | What 's that make it in four weeks ? |
| 16 | That covers me for office work to negotiate to try and settle this case . |
| 17 | That is significant because that covers us for paying you commission . |
| 18 | That covers you for us paying you in the next week . |
| 19 | That chilled me in a way I ca n't properly describe . |
| 20 | That stopped her in her tracks . |
| 21 | ‘ That places me at something of a disadvantage . ’ |
| 22 | What is communicated can easily be a view that ignores other religions , or that interprets them inadequately within terms of a comparison with one 's own , or that accepts them without trying to relate to them so that they exist in a kind of schizophrenic soup in the mind and emotions . |
| 23 | Would that suit you for the time being , Graham ? |
| 24 | The defence recognises that market makers play an important role within the securities market and that to provide them with no immunity would be to make that market less liquid . |
| 25 | Humpage had been chosen as wicketkeeper and started the game behind the stumps , but with Gloucestershire finding little to worry them in the efforts of Warwickshire 's regular bowlers , Humpage removed his pads and gloves , with Chris Maynard , playing as a batsman , taking over as wicketkeeper . |
| 26 | That blessed us with the vision faith had won , |
| 27 | Dr Neil tried to calm himself by a grave examination of the doll , as though it were one of his patients , holding the tiny wrist to take the pulse , only to see the laughter on her face , and for that to provoke him to further inward excesses . |
| 28 | There are no standard procedures , in fact , by now you will have realised that the ‘ flying fantasies ’ are unique to their creators and , although some sell theirs on a commercial basis , it is a case that , if you want to make one , then you have to devise your own creation . |
| 29 | If mothers receive a benefit which they are expected and indeed do spend to service the needs of their families , then this re-confirms them as the day-to-day managers of household finances , which for millions of women is not only a chore but also a source of considerable anxiety ( McClelland , 1982 ) . |
| 30 | Despite this , an intrepid few made it from the continent , including examples from France , Holland , although the star of the event was from much further afield — half-way around the world . |