Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Then dropping not one , but two balls will be an effective strategy because the gravitational forces acting on them converge toward the centre of the Earth as in Fig. 2.1 .
2 Without doubt , close and loving physical contact between child and mother , or surrogate mother , promotes both physical and emotional well-being in the infant ; while cursory and uncomfortable handling , lack of communication and the signs of " non-loving " implicit in them make for the opposite .
3 However , to the extent that our assumptions for thinking about them remain within the framework which derives from Weberian thought , we may well not recognize them for what they may be .
4 I step on a few and watch them crack in the middle like a sheet of glass .
5 Most of them correspond with the list your boys drew up at the UN .
6 Note has been taken of these and some of them appear in the panel 's revision .
7 And she was reported to have er have said when they when they took her out , that there would be nothing nothing grow on the site of the house but runcho And I do n't know the they were awful hungry for land in that day you ken and there was quite , there was more than one occasion there was old folk just putting up with the house just to get the land that it stood on .
8 To his list we could add attorneys and even local receivers of taxes , six of whom appear in a list of country bankers drawn up in 1784 .
9 ‘ If I want to cry , I hide in the toilet and feel desperate ’ , was a common reaction if I asked someone where she cried .
10 I hide in the bedroom , pretending to work on my lines .
11 I cite as an example the urban areas of the city which I partially represent — I speak for all of Birmingham when I speak on this issue , and I am trying to raise an important matter in which there may be some common cause .
12 I back toward the door trying to shush her , till she stops shouting long enough to ask , ‘ What sort of business are you in that uses kids as errand boys ? ’
13 With the borrowed gun I keep him covered while I back to the cabin door and open it .
14 But as a general principle the right of animals to be animals , to live in their space on God 's good earth , is a moral principle I commend as a rule of thumb .
15 The theory which I commend as a guide to the fruitful development of international law in the control of force may be called ‘ ethical ’ or perhaps ‘ functional positivism ’ .
16 The sums I award under the heading of accommodation therefore amount in total to fifty two thousand six hundred and fort thirty four pounds twenty eight pence .
17 Yeah , if I sell at a time when there 's still a recession on and you see somebody has to get my they had a visit perhaps that was somebody that actually bought a house , not she not
18 I sell to the purchasing committees of the many regions .
19 I repair to the bank with the intention of changing some more dollars and wave the wad of readies at the teller as well .
20 When two or three such persons were gathered together at our servants ' hall — I mean of the calibre of , say , Mr Graham , with whom now , sadly , I seem to have lost touch — we would have some of the most stimulating and intelligent debates on every aspect of our vocation .
21 Erm in terms of taking up their ideas , guiding them , encouraging them etcetera an and saying look , you know , this is okay er er er I mean to an extent that would depend on how much military security there was in the area .
22 Well t I mean to the extent that that is happening , that there is a development of trade on the sort of , you know , with the periphery of the empire and with erm areas outside the empire , and that was certainly happening in this period , I do n't see why it should have a significant impact on the peasant population because there is n't really any evidence that it 's , in a sense , trickling down and enriching the peasantry .
23 Can we talk about job description , because I am not clear about those , I mean to the end of the audit , I , I rang up to day and asked about whether the , who should be signing them .
24 I mean for a while I think it was maybe my glasses , but these are just new
25 I mean for the price of that bed , I mean you could n't go far wrong though .
26 When I say humanism , I mean with no belief in anything except one 's existence from , I suppose , oneself .
27 But I mean with a blade it 's only one
28 I mean with the boy ? ’
29 Ah but there 's no bins now I mean with the wheelie bins they 're the g best thing ever , stops rats , dog everything .
30 its my responses to it , that would be a very different approach , because of familiar with a , I mean with the postcard that was past around , familiar with that picture then looked at it one , I feel that about it .
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