Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A force that comes and goes depending on your motion . |
| 2 | We investigated the town with a wheelchair , taking turns to sit in it . |
| 3 | We now reach the impossible position where if somebody goes to appeal against us and they win , they can claim costs against us , and we actually have that now , we 've got fairly large sums of cost hanging against the council , so if I 'd like to ask Les to erm I 'd like to have his support for stronger planning laws , then we could do the things that he says we ought to do . |
| 4 | Roman Catholics ‘ should be received with lenity and all meekness , not to quench with delays the feeble smoke of conformity which seemeth to breathe from them , but to build wheresoever there is any foundation ’ . |
| 5 | Examples of such tasks are : an adolescent girl who has been having unprotected sexual intercourse with her boyfriend agrees to go to her local family planning clinic to seek contraceptive advice and to avoid having intercourse until contraception has been arranged ; a student with difficulty getting down to revising for an important examination decides that he must make a list of what he needs to do — his therapist suggests he also arranges the topics in their order of importance . |
| 6 | ‘ Chris , that 's just one of the many strokes that Martinez has pulled in his time ; and he still goes laughing on his way to the bank with his twenty-five per cent commission . |
| 7 | Even the sexing of fossil human remains appears to be far more difficult than was previously imagined , as Genoves ( 1954 ) has emphasized in his study of Neanderthal remains . |
| 8 | You know , the monk who has jumped over his monastery wall , Martin Luther . ’ |
| 9 | For Merton , such behaviour occurs as a result of a discrepancy or contradiction between the aspirations which society has socialised into its members ( the ends or goals ) and the way that is provided for the realisation of such aspirations ( the means ) . |
| 10 | A trade union movement anxious to extend rather than limit its influence would seek to regain those functions that the state has stripped from it . |
| 11 | The blood has drained from his cheeks . |
| 12 | AN Oxford student has plunged to his death after a late-night drink and drugs party . |
| 13 | Well , Bryony wants to sit in her own chair today , so you sit on your own chair . |
| 14 | She has received for her 1990–91 sabbatical year a Research Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada to support her work on a new book on Gottfried Benn 's lyrical poetry . |
| 15 | In addition we are still receiving enquiries about prisoners featured in the first two series in 1988 and 1989 , and we have recently received a copy of a letter from Alattin Sahin , the Turkish prisoner of conscience in the 1988 , which someone has received on his release . |
| 16 | To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent representations he has received about his proposal to introduce a Bill to address problems of youngsters under 17 years stealing cars . |
| 17 | In similarly insincere terms he thanks Duncan for the honours he has received from him : These speeches are subtly calculated by Shakespeare , for their insincerity is obvious to us ( the affected metaphors , the flabby repetitions ) but not to the recipients . |
| 18 | Since then every Q.T. has received in their notes a red paper outlining the Grant Aid meeting also a letter containing a revised timetable in which you were asked to think about specific items . |
| 19 | At this stage , the sequence has developed towards what Simmel calls the relativistic world view , which he understands as contributing to certain attitudes to the world which comprehend processes rather than just entities ( 1978 : 101–8 ) . |
| 20 | This is often an essential first step in identifying the strengths and personal resources which an older person has developed during their lifetime . |
| 21 | Since then WWF-UK has developed under his leadership into one of the country 's most effective and powerful conservation groups , raising funds for environmental protection both in Britain and abroad . |
| 22 | Failure to match performance to expectations has developed into something of a national neurosis . |
| 23 | Since 1977 the computational analysis of English has developed into my major research occupation . |
| 24 | In France , the nearest equivalent to social services departments has developed within their structures the ‘ circonscription de service social ’ , a co-ordinating and enabling mechanism for linking departments to other agencies and to community groups . |
| 25 | The juxtaposition of her actions compared to Macbeth 's both before and after Duncan 's murder reveals a great uneasiness which has developed within her character . |
| 26 | Over this period an influential school of thought called monetarism has developed around his ideas and has come to challenge the Keynesian orthodoxy as the dominant academic influence over monetary policy . |
| 27 | You 've got a personality , a character which was partly what you were born with , partly what life has developed in you , as somebody described it e we , we are the sum total of the luggage we 've acquired . |
| 28 | However , the sex allocation theory that Eric Charnov has developed in his embracing monograph has further implications . |
| 29 | If the dam , which has leaked at its toe for as long as any one can remember , should collapse , it would sweep away the busy tourist road the B3046 , seven houses and their inhabitants — and quite probably , the Parliamentary career of Peter Maxwell . |
| 30 | … or perhaps worse , your bull has broken into your neighbour 's heifers or your lambs are on the road where they could cause an accident . |