Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [pron] and [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have some mail for you and will call out the names . ’ |
| 2 | The second problem with knitting too many rows of tuck is that if a needle is n't knitting ( and , when tucking , it is n't ) it pulls up the knitting on the needles either side of it and can prevent them knitting off correctly . |
| 3 | Hank had no doubt that , sooner or later , old tabby-cats like the MacDonald woman would get wind of it and would give his mother hell about it . |
| 4 | I think she saw you very clearly , better than some who live side by side with you and might as well be blind . |
| 5 | These provide the framework within which generally valid considerations justify the specific ways through which people can impose moral demands upon themselves and can endow their lives with value or with moral significance . |
| 6 | Because Israel did not detonate a weapon prior to 1967 , but currently possesses nuclear weapons , it would be in violation of the treaty if it were a signatory to it and would be legally obliged to destroy its stockpile and to end its nuclear programme . |
| 7 | Pressure from Bruce Millan , EC regional commissioner , has resulted in the Treasury reluctantly accepting that the funds provided by Brussels are additional to government spending rather than part of it and should be steered to specific projects rather than forming part of the spending pool . |
| 8 | This technique is a favourite of mine and can be found in different songs I have recorded . |
| 9 | While a moving-coil meter does not exhibit any steady deflection when sinusoidal current passes through it and must be preceded by some form of rectifying circuit before it can register such current , other forms of meter exist that respond usefully by themselves to sinusoidal current . |
| 10 | They did not seem very interested in business , though they ran up big drinks bills for us and would occasionally ruffle our hair or squeeze our balls with an experienced touch , weighing us up , as it were . |
| 11 | When , when erm Phil has had is training tomorrow , he will become an expert amongst us and will erm put my rather partial knowledge into the into the shade , but basically what I 've got here is a blank form for everybody to fill in — a job description questionnaire — together with job description guide notes , which should go together . |
| 12 | She had consented to intercourse with him and would not have done so had she known of the disease , yet her consent was not vitiated by his omission to tell her of his bodily condition . |
| 13 | So if you learn the words this way thinking well do I know a word that 's a bit like it and could I add a bit onto the end that 's another way another good way of learning cos you do n't have to learn class and classical and classic you just sort of learn one of them . |
| 14 | The wildlife that we so carelessly destroy has as much right to be on the planet as us and should be respected — we still have much to learn about them . |
| 15 | May we allow Him to lead us into the unknown , may we draw our courage from Him and may we place our trust in His loving kindness . |
| 16 | At the beginning of the play Angelo , the deputy judge who rules over Vienna in the Duke 's absence , is a man of severe habits , whose austerity suppresses desire in himself and would utterly eradicate it in others . |
| 17 | He said : ‘ I will keep her on the same round but I will keep an eye on her and may switch the rounds . |
| 18 | Ludens thought , she 's a puritan ; and he felt a sympathy with her and would have tarried , as he sensed that she wanted to talk to him . |
| 19 | They took the little house two doors away from Ken and Rhoda ; her own to play with , to sweep and dust and arrange as she liked , and meals for two to cook at her discretion , and her father and grandmother just down the road so she had both a respite from them and could keep an eye on them , not too close but not too far . |
| 20 | Mr Dunn said the firm hoped to create more jobs in the not too distant future , while Roddy Ross of Tecnomarine said the partnership between the two engineering firms represented a strengthening of relations between them and would work to mutual advantage . |
| 21 | Many had been decaying steadily for years : their owners had no use for them and could not imagine that anyone else would . |
| 22 | ‘ That right is a natural punch for me and could be the best I 've ever thrown , it felt so good and I did n't get any shock at all up my arm . |
| 23 | If staff find themselves having to implement policy which they have no part in making , they may have little commitment to it and may in the longer term become alienated . |
| 24 | Bibliotherapy , which we might define as the systematic and informed use of reading in the treatment of psychological problems , requires a volume to itself and will not be developed here . |
| 25 | Ca n't you wait until you have a cottage to yourself and can do what you like with your life , Seb Quilter ? ’ |
| 26 | It is a great blow to me and will I fear buck up the Germans . |
| 27 | I 'm looking very hard for a new amp as a 30th anniversary present to myself and would really like to own a quality ( loud ! ) amp which I can carry in one hand . |
| 28 | There 's a dilemma of who 's taking decisions about what and should the troops on the ground who may be involved , could be involved in fighting following an air strike erm are not under a NATO flag , they 're under a United Nations flag , so it is quite a complex situation and a very delicate one to handle . |
| 29 | This is the only fault which I can find in his character though it bears little importance as it takes nothing away from the readers ' love of him and may even increase it due to his helplessness . |
| 30 | Ronnie wants to put the whole incident behind him and would rather not say any more . |