Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That stone curtain will not descend which now shuts off the inmates of prison from the free world outside . |
| 2 | However they should not be a worry for a pilot who is well trained , and who keeps in practice and thinks about the conditions before each flight . |
| 3 | Whatever one thinks about the activities of the author , he was a former member of the security services . |
| 4 | I do n't know what the Department thinks about the universities . |
| 5 | Jamie , 18 , is Boro 's young player of the year while Sean , also 18 , plays for the Quakers . |
| 6 | Rory plays for the Tigers . |
| 7 | STEVE LLOYD , Moseley 's giant Uruguayan-born second row forward , is to be watched by Wales rugby union scout Terry Cobner when he plays for the Barbarians against Leicester on Boxing Day . |
| 8 | Although on-trial Norwegian striker Tore Andre Dahlum plays for the reserves on Wednesday , Ferguson admits he is for the future , and he must plunge now . |
| 9 | Forrest plays for the reserves tonight and will welcome the match practice as he has been unable to win his first team place back from Clive Baker . |
| 10 | But as the chill of doubt takes hold , underpinned by Lincoln 's development from an enchanting small boy into an adolescent from hell , Carroll 's novel abruptly veers off the rails , lurching from an interesting and astute study of an ordinary man faced with a monstrous moral dilemma into a considerably less interesting fantasy about ( I think ) cyclical existence and reincarnation . |
| 11 | It should be noted that the maturity variable differs between the contracts traded at any moment in time . |
| 12 | For example , Ralls ( 1977 ) argues that ‘ the intensity of intrasexual selection in a species should be proportional to the ratio of the lifetime number of offspring sired by a highly successful male compared to the number born by a highly successful female in her lifetime ’ while Payne ( 1979 ) suggests that the extent to which variance in breeding success differs between the sexes is important . |
| 13 | In this case one male drives off the others when the nest is completed . |
| 14 | Easy Rider was the motivation for a lot of things and for those not familiar with the story , it is one of free love and excessive drugs and of American society as perceived by Hopper in 1968 , with some moralistic warnings about drug use and undertones about the consequences of such a lifestyle — but only if you were actually looking for them . |
| 15 | On a slow day , Quigley just goes through the newspapers and rambles on about whatever comes into his brain . |
| 16 | Without it there could be a free for all and if abolition goes through the employers may well find themselves having to resort to some form of cooperative or wages club in its place . |
| 17 | Oxygen from the air goes through the LUNGS into the blood . |
| 18 | er I 've got several favourites , er the one at Thrupp , Hampton Gay which I mentioned , where the train disaster was , that 's a particularly nice one because it 's along very nice stretches of canal and river , I like the one er up at er the Rollright Stones , and , and I like the ones in the Chilterns as well , there 's a couple in the Chilterns , one at er Watlington Hill , just outside the town of Watlington , and er one which goes through the grounds of Stonor Park , but er superb scenery up there obviously with the beech woods and so on . |
| 19 | The cloud is like a magnet so the water goes through the cracks and goes up . |
| 20 | Nearing the head of the loch , the road goes through the woodlands of the Beinn Eighe Nature Reserve and trails are available for the public up the mountainside . |
| 21 | So nothing goes through the docks , the income 's still there and it 's getting bigger . |
| 22 | He belongs to a paper society which goes through the motions of life , in the air , notionally . |
| 23 | In the novel he stays polarized , but without bulk and in a tragic sense without force ; he goes through the motions ( ‘ the habits of a decent man ’ and so forth ) while his great-sinner infamies are unloaded upon a past which he can not even renounce . |
| 24 | The person who sits on the dais in Ottawa or Canberra and goes through the motions of opening a Parliament is not and can not be the same being at all as the person who does these things and has done them from time immemorial at Westminster . |
| 25 | To illustrate this point , Piaget uses the following examples : the creation or imagined characters to provide a sympathetic audience for a child 's actions or speech ; catharsis , as when a doll is allowed to ride a machine which a child fears ; and compensatory combinations , as when a child goes through the motions of pretend washing up when forbidden access to the real thing by its parent . |
| 26 | It whistles off the stars |
| 27 | Steam hisses between the blocks of lava , caking the mouths of the vents with yellow sulphur . |
| 28 | It is possible that due to replacement of ageing springs and ropes the organs originally went somewhat slower , but they could not have gone slower by much because the bellows are linked with the barrels ' rotation too slow a pace means that insufficient air circulates for the pipes to speak . |
| 29 | The upper and working classes , being less verbal , less given to talk of shoulds and oughts between the sheets , have less trouble , if you 'll forgive me , simply getting it up and putting it in , to the relief and satisfaction of everyone concerned . |
| 30 | She pulls off her t-shirt , she is safe while he is swimming out to the centre , she slips out of the rest of her clothes , kicks off the espadrilles , and running along the boards dives in . |