Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm not the kind of bloke who thinks about retiring in 14 years or whatever . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm not the kind of bloke who thinks about retiring in 14 years or whatever . |
| 3 | Perhaps the rationalisation the person devises for coping with the first loss is shattered by the second loss . |
| 4 | He 's a very bright man , Michael Howard , but it 's quite clear that he 's much more concerned with grabbing the headlines and finding scapegoats , than with taking action through law that will actually improve the chance , both of preventing crime and of detecting crime , and then even more so , deterring people from re-offending , and it 's most distressing to see that when research showed that a particular non-custodial method of punishment is effective in perhaps fifty or seventy or eighty percent of cases , whereas prison is not , he goes for prison , he goes for picking on squatters , he goes for picking on the defendants right to silence so that we can see more people like er , jailed when they were innocent . |
| 5 | He 's a very bright man , Michael Howard , but it 's quite clear that he 's much more concerned with grabbing the headlines and finding scapegoats , than with taking action through law that will actually improve the chance , both of preventing crime and of detecting crime , and then even more so , deterring people from re-offending , and it 's most distressing to see that when research showed that a particular non-custodial method of punishment is effective in perhaps fifty or seventy or eighty percent of cases , whereas prison is not , he goes for prison , he goes for picking on squatters , he goes for picking on the defendants right to silence so that we can see more people like er , jailed when they were innocent . |
| 6 | The same goes for diving in front of a seal pup to protect it from the sealers . |
| 7 | Indeed , support for Salman Rushdie and all that his situation stands for has from the start been more vociferous and active abroad than in his own country , something he feels understandably bitter about . |
| 8 | Who cares about ageing in the sun ? |
| 9 | Each family doctor practice will be able to discuss with the local Family Practitioner Committee the amount it needs for prescribing for its patients . |
| 10 | The vehicle starts after cranking on the starter , and runs perfectly until I switch off , and then the whole process has to be repeated . |
| 11 | According to the BBC , the only chance Bunter has of getting on television again would be to update Greyfriars into something like a public school version of Grange Hill . |
| 12 | The greater the complexity of systems , the more danger of something going wrong , and the less chance individual will has of operating on the systems for good . |
| 13 | The more opportunities he/she has of looking at the illustrations and reading the captions with you , the more he/she will come to recognise the words . |
| 14 | Making a will is the surest way anyone has of providing for others after their death . |
| 15 | This , they say , is the only chance the rhino has of surviving in the wild |
| 16 | She means Trouble , with a capital T. Trouble with Lapointe , with other men , with bitchy women , with her moods , her stammer , her embarrassing conversation , her tears , and that awful habit she has of staring at people … . |
| 17 | He reads the Koran , he attends daily prayers , and occasionally , when there is a gap in the conversation , he babbles of going to Mecca . |
| 18 | Cos otherwise it looks like writing to random M Ps . |
| 19 | Already the Americans are working on improved versions of the original cruise missiles , and this continuous East-West jockeying for supremacy looks like developing into a full-blooded arms race . |
| 20 | We mentioned a small acquisition in Japan last year , medi on the medical side of Longman , P P S K K it cost us about four million pounds and we were reckoning on a profit of about half a million a year pleased to say that its er , its profit looks like getting to a million pounds by the year end . |
| 21 | What looks like thinning in a major unit may turn out to be something much more complicated in the smaller constituent units . |
| 22 | ‘ It looks like pimping in the West End is a lucrative business . |
| 23 | Local Management of Schools ( LMS ) looks like running until the 2020s . |
| 24 | Slater , who rarely looks like adding to his tally of one goal for Celtic , missed a peach even by his standards after good work by Collins , Payton and McAvennie . |
| 25 | The ‘ war on drugs ’ looks like turning into a Norteamericano war on the peasants and the ruthless Maoists of Sendero Luminoso . |
| 26 | A COLLEGE course about former Prime Minister Lady Thatcher looks like turning into a giant flop . |
| 27 | What was to have been a lesson in geography looks like turning into a lesson in harsh economics . |
| 28 | The Chelsea ground where John Major and David Mellor spent their Saturdays in quieter times is the prize in a tussle which is already into extra-time and looks like heading for a replay . |
| 29 | The success of ‘ Schtoom ’ , along with its successor ‘ Shift/High And Dry ’ and Gypsy 's current ‘ I Trance You ’ looks like continuing with Deep Piece 's bold and brassy ‘ Bup Bup Birri Birri ’ . |
| 30 | Others may make more conventional protests but the pain looks like continuing for some time . |