Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [verb] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Serves him right for leaving it open . |
| 2 | This is a case of adding injury to insult — it was originally the cat 's job to kill the mice and the rodent-poisoners who usurped its role are not content merely with making it obsolete , but are also assaulting it physically in this underhand , prey-concealed way . |
| 3 | The overall length of a longitudinal study may be shortened somewhat by making it semi-longitudinal . |
| 4 | But it will do so by making them explicit , so that in effect techniques become distinguishable from the principles which inform them . |
| 5 | For others the best way might be talking dirty about safer sex , or just by making it clear what you want by your actions . |
| 6 | The fourteenth-century Franciscan William of Ockham went further in declaring it probable that God could make a better world than this . |
| 7 | Indeed , it would be unjustified ( and plain silly ) to strengthen corporate power further by granting them judicial privileges originally formulated to protect relatively powerless individuals . |
| 8 | You have not only derived from it the means of raising your subterranean wealth , but those also of rendering it available to the public . ’ |
| 9 | If you 're fed up with giving him heart-shaped chocolates on St. Valentine 's Day , why not treat him to one of these delicious haircuts ! |
| 10 | The key question is whether , after decades of exposure to the various ‘ risk factors ’ , it is possible to reduce the frequency of coronary events and the deaths they may cause in men in the highest-risk categories , by altering the way of life of these men , and perhaps also by giving them appropriate drugs . |
| 11 | Since winning their independence in 1949 the government , based in Java , has sought to control its vast domain partly by making it difficult even for Indonesians to travel freely throughout their own country . |
| 12 | For that matter , she might not have been far out in thinking him impudent ; his manner was innocence itself , his deference if anything delicately overdone , as though he were ready to come down off his high horse the moment she came down off hers , and did n't anticipate that the descent need be long delayed . |
| 13 | Their women , far from being grateful , turned on them , snarling , in late night conversations telling them to shut up ; far from setting them free to work for the Revolution , their women demanded that they take emotional responsibility and also clean the loos . |
| 14 | Far from rendering them subject to ridicule , such a stress is one of the best ways to hold an audience and gain sympathy . |
| 15 | Manufacturers gain through having their product demonstrated , or even through having it present in a store ( or else they would be unwilling to pay ‘ slotting allowances ’ to supermarkets ) , so that demand is not exogenous to retailing . |
| 16 | Mr Adamec is to reveal his proposed cabinet to the opposition tomorrow before making it public . |
| 17 | He started well by making it clear to a shocked and protesting Curzon that he could not again be Foreign Secretary . |
| 18 | How about calling it good old spliff or draw or even marijuana ? |
| 19 | Among the most important of these indirect effects is the role which test cases can play in politicising issues by forcing them onto the political agenda and once there in keeping them alive . |
| 20 | a little bit else about making it interesting do n't worry about yawning in my courses , at least it shows you 're still alive . |
| 21 | But instead of leaving them shut up and prey to vandals and arson , they can be sold off separately and , of course , realize much-needed capital for the health authority . |
| 22 | So , instead of leaving it idle , I sold the machine and donated the money to a charity for the disabled , as I had a mentally disabled sister who died when I was 13 . |
| 23 | The other men were standing well to one side expecting violence and the soldier finished his cigarette and put his hands into his pockets instead of holding them high . |
| 24 | It will be a complete change to report these facts instead of keeping them secret . |
| 25 | I wished I could have screens put round my bed like the really sick people had , so that instead of giving me sidelong glances of pity because I had no visitors , people would drop their voices and whisper sepulchrally to interested outsiders , " Poor little thing — she 's dying , you know . " |
| 26 | Why not view that skinhead ideology from a new perspective , for I think it brings us closer to understanding what motivates their hate instead of pumping us full of the old clichés about how inhuman they are … |
| 27 | And instead of finding it miserable and increasing the fear , we found that taking vigorous action to make the best of what we had made us feel proud . |
| 28 | And the next time it happens I remember this , but instead of making me determined to do better , I freeze again . |
| 29 | Instead of making me happy , |
| 30 | The phrase " factory system " was already entering the language when , in 1807 , Davies Gilbert MP , a distinguished scientist , declared : However specious in theory the project might be of giving education to the labouring classes of the poor , it would in effect be prejudicial to their morals and happiness : it would teach them to despise their lot in life , instead of making them good servants to agriculture and other laborious employments to which their rank in society had destined them ; instead of teaching them subordination , it would render them factious and refractory , as was evident in the manufacturing counties . |