Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pers pn] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What irritates me about Vienna is a certain not-quite-definable smugness , a feeling that somehow this place feels itself to be the centre . |
| 2 | ‘ He plays them like game fish . |
| 3 | Turns them into shapes , and gives to airy nothing |
| 4 | Starting early , I traverse the long ridge of hills that separates me from Isafjördur , arriving late in the afternoon . |
| 5 | It also sort of encourages them to farm as much land as they can to presumably rent more out . |
| 6 | At once she bereaves me to money and cunt . |
| 7 | Anita drives me to Twickenham Clinic at seven . |
| 8 | The other tribe , however , finds twins fearful , appalling , degrading , an aberration , because you see only animals have litters of young and therefore twins are considered to be inferior , a threat , so much so , in fact , that this latter tribe ritually murders them at birth . |
| 9 | In the wild their seed capsules are first frozen and them buried under snow until the Spring kicks them into life . |
| 10 | In both cases the wages of journeywomen were so low that he associates them with prostitution : " Take a survey of all the common women of the town , who take their walks between Charing Cross and Fleet Ditch , and I am persuaded more than half of them have been bred milliners . " |
| 11 | The computer accepts wrongly-spelled words , nonsense words and rude words and displays them on screen in the story to the amusement of the class . |
| 12 | In particular this would support litigation which is not the fault of the parties to it , yet involves them in cost . |
| 13 | directors , officers and employees of such bodies whilst acting in their professional capacity , whose employment involves them in investment business activities . |
| 14 | Thus , these subcultures respectively enable corporate officials and lower-class adolescent males to commit crimes without too many pangs of conscience ; through their sanitizing prism , each sub-culture softens criminal acts so that they assume the appearance of ‘ not really ’ being against the law , or it transforms them into acts required by a morality higher than that enshrined in a parochial criminal law . |
| 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 | Diarrhoea which drives them from bed in the morning , worse ( < ) at 5 am . |
| 17 | " The government supplies them with meat , " Mrs. Favor said . |
| 18 | What really impresses me about players is having a unique sound , whether it 's fast or slow . |
| 19 | What impresses me in Messner is the combination he has of immense boldness and analytical power . |
| 20 | And if our drama is to be at all dramatic we 'll need to put those people in a difficult situation , one which confronts them with choices . |
| 21 | Some people stress the need to protect innocent children from the misuse of adult power ; others see the way forward as one of liberating and empowering children , even if this places them at risk . |
| 22 | Reproducing his own handwriting , Bernard Faucon makes large words of wood placed alongside each other then coats the sentences with a reflecting substance and places them in landscapes , from the island of Elba to Vietnam . |
| 23 | ‘ Cyclists in bus lanes may also cause delay to buses , although banning cyclists places them in danger if they are required to ride in the main carriageway , with buses passing on their nearside . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ No , it 's not that … he owes me at poker . ’ |
| 25 | The farmers see a danger that their products will become uncompetitive ; the road freight carriers have similar fears about what will happen if 1992 and the advent of the European single market exposes them to competition from foreign firms unfettered by the restrictions and burdens imposed on the Dutch . |
| 26 | For instance , it softens the shells of crayfish , and exposes them to disease . |
| 27 | There are many of these power bases and their usefulness depends on whether other people concede that the individual has them as bases for power or not . |
| 28 | Hamlet is given soliloquies for reflection , self-criticism , and for resolves to act , some of which are carried out ; Iago has them for self-presentation and for announcements of his actions which — like Richard III in his self-confidence — are first described , then performed , and subsequently commented on . |
| 29 | ‘ Or if they 're not there it may be Canon Wheeler has them for safekeeping . ’ |
| 30 | Goods are in consumer use when a person is using them , or has them for use , other than exclusively for business purposes . |