Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It asserts that women 's social position offers them access to aspects or areas of reality that are not easily accessible to men … |
| 2 | A political process that offers them power over their own lives ? |
| 3 | She tells us how foolhardy we both are and offers me information on something called a ‘ towback ’ which her superiors have told her about . |
| 4 | They cite Germany 's Abitur , where school-leavers are graded in eight subjects , and where their grading wins them entry into an apprenticeship if they do not go to university . |
| 5 | So bang goes my tactic of inventing the so-called ‘ Maidstone ’ scene . |
| 6 | There goes my view of the proceedings . |
| 7 | I remember that miracle , so easy to forget , that separates my life from the fates of the suburban furies . |
| 8 | His fist crunches into my left cheek and drives my head against the ground . |
| 9 | I 'll leap into my life , he thought , if it splits my face to bits . |
| 10 | An article in The Independent on Sunday on 19 May clearly substantiates my point about the danger of an explosion in knife violence . |
| 11 | And just as everybody who looked to that serpent on the pole was healed , so I am gon na be lifted up on a cross and everybody who looks in faith to me , and in obedience receives my gift of forgiveness , they will be saved ! |
| 12 | She brushes my hair behind my ears and holds the top bit to one side . |
| 13 | I was n't particularly enamoured of the Ascom but the UltraFAX software is excellent , it 's easy to use and wins my seal of approval . |
| 14 | It does this by a process called dithering which takes two or more colours from the 16 or 256 colour palette available and places them side by side to give the impression of another colour . |
| 15 | Unscrupulous model agencies and sponsors claim she is under contract to them and owes them part of her winnings . |
| 16 | It also challenges my attitude to the more superficially respectable , whom we simply do not want to get on with , and strive earnestly to keep at arm 's length . |
| 17 | The kind of article that someone who lives my kind of life finds himself having to write to pay for that kind of life . |
| 18 | The legal contract specifies my status in terms of tenure , salary , pension , dismissal , redundancy , discipline , etc . |
| 19 | Pembrokeshire heads my list of favourite UK walking areas . |
| 20 | This , the final cherry on the snake-chasing cake concludes my hysteria with a warm flow of urine down my leg . |
| 21 | My Lords , that concludes my analysis of what I perceive to be the important British cases but before seeking to draw conclusions therefrom I must refer to certain Commonwealth and American cases . |
| 22 | But Venables countered : ‘ Gary Mabbutt was given a new three-year contract last January which illustrates my confidence in him . ’ |
| 23 | Lucker holds my hand with the kind of grasp that men at sea learn as a last resort . |
| 24 | Lynda Chalker , the transport minister said : ‘ I wish to make it clear that the county council has my confidence in its ability to undertake this particularly demanding role … ’ |
| 25 | I have also worked in Turkey , it has my vote over Spain . |
| 26 | She stands upright in her long white cotton nightgown from Laura Ashley , scratches her bottom through the cambric , and yawns . |
| 27 | The work of Askew and Ross ( 1982 ) stresses the ever-present fantasy images of the tough , macho heroes and challenges its appropriateness as a sole model of manhood . |
| 28 | He lives her life with her , year by year , seeing her become what she is . |
| 29 | I 'd rather be a paid-up churchgoer with a sense of pride in myself and my family than a part-time schizophrenic who lives her life in a fog of garbled third-hand mysticism and a building that houses goats , chickens and , from the feel of it , fleas like small sharks . |
| 30 | Indiscriminate use of praise devalues its power as a motivator and reward . |