Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This investigation takes a single case of such innovation and subjects it to intensive study . |
| 2 | And then er er but it was this was fixed right above , then you could , reach if you did feel you hand getting caught , you could slide it off and stop the p switch it onto loose pulley immediately . |
| 3 | He was seeking advice with regard to the Council 's refusal to rehouse him in suitable ground floor accommodation . |
| 4 | ‘ So show me , ’ she murmured , her gaze meeting his with glittering anticipation . |
| 5 | But , as Alison Lurie observed in the Language of Clothes ( Bloomsbury , £11.99 ) , ‘ The entire history of female fashion in this century can be viewed as a series of more or less successful campaigns to force , flatter or bribe women back into uncomfortable or awkward styles in order to handicap them in professional competition with men . ’ |
| 6 | Once they are in place , you can have the shingle delivered — it can be dumped directly on to a drive site from the road , but you 'll need to barrow it to remote garden paths , so set planks on the lawn if you have to run across it . |
| 7 | The imagination of danger keeps us immersed in a story ; the adventurous court it in actual life ; the unadventurous relate with gusto how they were carried off to hospital with an undiagnosed and probably fatal illness , as a vivid patch in an otherwise uneventful life . |
| 8 | He most likely uses it for private communication with his lackeys , and for controlling his zombis . ’ |
| 9 | Can I can I just raise a question er to r to clarify the point before I answer your question that I are am I are we to assume that in response to Mr , erm it 's on the record that there 's a er a request to add , clear expression of local preference I by local planning authorities ? |
| 10 | The Cultural Revolution aimed to reduce the size of the state bureaucracy and subject it to popular control and direct accountability to the masses . |
| 11 | ‘ Then we will take the boy 's speech and writing which is so good and subject it to careful analysis and if we teach the other boys whose writing and speech is not so good how to subject what they say and write to this kind of analysis they will realise how badly they speak and write and will promptly set about trying to improve the way they speak and write … . ’ |
| 12 | Although we welcome the Bill , we shall subject it to detailed scrutiny in Committee . |
| 13 | Men they for sudden joy did weep |
| 14 | How much does all this cost you in lost production , lost business opportunities , inefficiency ? |
| 15 | For instance , erm when he speaks the fact that the young man was cut off in his prime , perhaps the most famous passage of the lot ‘ Alas what boots it with incessant care to tend the homely slighted shepherd 's trade and strictly meditate the thankless muse . |
| 16 | When they gave quite unacceptable displays of dissent , such as Holding kicking down the stumps or Croft deliberately barging into an umpire who had no-balled him , Lloyd did nothing to discipline them in public view . |
| 17 | A course may change radically without changing its title ; conversely , re-titling a course may simply be an exercise in re-packaging it for external consumption . |
| 18 | As she had said the pot was a present she did not stop the woman gift-wrapping it in lavish style . |
| 19 | Remote Sensing Inc. was founded in Feb 1969 by Bobby Hile an electronic physicist , who used his experience gained with NASA to pioneer the commercial us of airborne space technology . |