Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [prep] the [noun] " 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 | It also times the transfer of its eggs extremely carefully so that most of them hatch in the hosts ' nests at exactly the right time . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I step on a few and watch them crack in the middle like a sheet of glass . |
| 6 | Most of them correspond with the list your boys drew up at the UN . |
| 7 | Note has been taken of these and some of them appear in the panel 's revision . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 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 | That is why I side with the scientists and the Fundamentalists of Arkansas against the fake liberals . |
| 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 | I commend to the people who want to send Monsignor Kent to the stake the self explanatory activity of the British Nuclear Forum . |
| 15 | I thought , this is the last time I taste of the benisons of nature . |
| 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 | I sell to the purchasing committees of the many regions . |
| 18 | I repair to the bank with the intention of changing some more dollars and wave the wad of readies at the teller as well . |
| 19 | And I mean including the Germans , if you can drive them out . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I mean for the price of that bed , I mean you could n't go far wrong though . |
| 24 | I mean for the Republicans the purpose is a united Ireland . |
| 25 | ‘ I mean with the boy ? ’ |
| 26 | Ah but there 's no bins now I mean with the wheelie bins they 're the g best thing ever , stops rats , dog everything . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Well the , the risk has changed for a start I mean with the chemicals there are so many now erm chemicals and so much of it being transported by road , the risk of that and the dangers of accidents must be increased , although legislation has brought in a number of improvements , so firemen have to be very much up to date with that . |
| 29 | ‘ I mean on the cooking side of the job , ’ he explained patiently . |
| 30 | Yeah , the got to actually change the starter motor erm I mean on the A D fifties and the two litre they I would sort of , its only a hundred and fifty cc , but the next biggest thing they did was stopping er , a sixteen hundred so quite a lot of those , but nine times out of ten all they did was another part , so |