Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pron] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to forget about it and to go about my routine day as usual . |
| 2 | They were closely followed by the children who settled down to wait for their treasure trove . |
| 3 | Sir Leon said there was no need for the United Kingdom to wait for its inflation rate to reach the European average before joining the exchange rate mechanism , nor to hold back until the further removal of capital and exchange controls next summer . |
| 4 | As one train starts to move , a passenger gazing through his carriage window , observes movement but is unsure whether it is his own train that is moving or the train on the opposite line . |
| 5 | ‘ Why do n't you go and have a shower and decide what you 're going to wear for our dinner date tonight ? ’ |
| 6 | Electing to leave him to his own devices , I wave through the windscreen but he is still fumbling through his camera bag and does n't say goodbye . |
| 7 | He had reason to be proud he thought , as he gazed through his car windscreen at the line of traffic ahead . |
| 8 | Anyway , in the present context , it serves to characterize two different personal via : one achieves its clarities by way of charitas , the other goes about its business blind , achieves its clarities by way of what you might call confusio . |
| 9 | Other Expenses BMus students should be prepared for a cost of approximately £200 per annum per instrument for private tuition in the instrumental performance or singing studies which they are required to continue during their degree course . |
| 10 | He qualified for his colliery manager 's certificate in 1947 and is one of the longest-serving members of the Institute of Mining Engineers . |
| 11 | We used to go once a month you know when the girls were in the Guides , used to go for their parade service and if you were at Auckley , Malcolm and I used to go up with Heidi did n't I ? |
| 12 | ‘ Like his lovely lady wife having inadvertently poisoned off his star pupil , you mean ? |
| 13 | Ha how would you be able to claim for your tax deduction ? |
| 14 | And then Frusamide for your water tablet and that 's to start on Thursday and then review at end of pack . |
| 15 | Her popularity was obvious when so many colleagues gathered for her farewell presentation at which she was given a crystal vase and some luggage as a leaving present . |
| 16 | We never had much to eat in ordinary times , but we had less now and us kids were really glad of the extra slice of bread and jam that we were given for our school breakfast . |
| 17 | Psychiatrists were consulted for their expert diagnosis of the Teddy Boy condition , and from America it was reported that chlorpromazine — a heavy tranquilliser , and one of the new ‘ wonder drugs ’ entering into use in the mid-1950s for the control of excited schizophrenics — seemed to quieten Teddy Boys down . |
| 18 | He asked about what material significance meant . |
| 19 | Then , place a sheet of glass over the design and trace the outlines on to the stiff card that you will be using for your stencil pattern . |
| 20 | Having turned towards your track at a certain angle , you now wait for your RC to move to a bearing where it is displace from 0° ( station ahead ) or from 180° ( station astern ) the same number of degrees that you are using for your interception angle . |
| 21 | Feldstein and Flemming ( 1971 ) carried out a study of investment in all the major industrial sectors of the UK , using as their interest rate variable a weighted average of equity and debenture yields . |
| 22 | They are more illuminating than compelling ; they show the operatic paraphrase in the hands of one of its most experienced practitioners , using as their basis music that will often have been more familiar to the listeners of its day than they now are to us ( there are some obvious exceptions on this CD ) ; and one can see why they were so successful at the time , even if they now seem slightly shallow set alongside the giants that selective history has chosen to remember . |
| 23 | perm , choose a product that 's formulated for your hair type ( see On The Home Front ) . |
| 24 | She 's one of the old ladies I go to see for my Community Care Course . |
| 25 | Kapre Software Inc , Boulder , Colorado has won $3.5m second round of financing for its object application software and C++ development environment from Hill , Carman , Kirby and Washing , Boulder , Institutional Venture Partners , Mohr and Davidow Ventures , and Stanford University . |
| 26 | This , effectively , constitutes a biological prediction of the rainfall and conditions with which the butterfly will have to contend during its adult life . |
| 27 | Hon. Members will be aware that at the same time as we consulted about our council tax proposals , we issued a consultation paper in Scotland about water and sewerage charges . |
| 28 | ‘ Intelligence and understanding : basing my view on discussion with W. what I have gathered about her school performance , and the contents of her room ( books etc . ) , |
| 29 | Mandy and Debby looked the part all right , they looked tough enough for this , particularly Debby , who gave me so much eye-contact and hand-on-knee and dressing-gown disclosure that I almost asked for her telephone number . |
| 30 | And I went in there , and asked for their tailoring department and er er I found out after that I was just dead lucky , one of their trouser finishers was going to er leave , she was getting married , and she was leaving and erm although you did n't have to leave then , she she she sort of had got to leave , so er I just fell lucky , there . |