Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We greatly respect and value each of our employees and we strive to provide for them an appropriate workplace environment . |
| 2 | Whatever Coleridge 's precise setting during those few days , the autumn landscape of Culbone drew from him an immediate poetic response . |
| 3 | At the point where in her first aria the prima donna expected from him an angry gesture , he exaggerated his anger so much that he looked as if he was about to box her ears and strike her on the nose with his fist . |
| 4 | For Ricky Stride , association with Minton was like being in the presence of an exploding star : anything might happen , for he created around him an exciting and excitable atmosphere . |
| 5 | Selection on generations of bacteria has presumably built into them an unconscious rule of thumb which works by purely biochemical means . |
| 6 | It has often been observed that , whilst old age is not an illness , it does bring with it an increased susceptibility to illness and disease . |
| 7 | If slavery is not wrong nothing is wrong and yet I have never understood the presidency conferred upon me an unrestricted right to act officially upon this judgment and feeling and I aver that to this day I have done no official act in mere deference to my abstract judgment and feeling on slavery . |
| 8 | The terrible bitterness against his parents that had led to his writing a book meant to shock them had faded into indifference ; yet there lingered in him an understandable vindictiveness . |
| 9 | Anchovy-paste sandwiches , scones and Dundee cake seemed to me an ample repast , particularly as I had a nervous , irrational distaste for eating the food of Syl 's mother in her house . |
| 10 | Reverently I picked it up and buried it in our back garden — three feet down seemed to me an appropriate depth . |
| 11 | It was a rough crossing , and most people were rather quiet , and a few were vomiting over the railings and indeed all over the upper-deck , but Clara had never felt better , and the rough lurching seemed to her an added attraction . |
| 12 | It passed almost at once and gave place to what seemed to him an assumed and slightly truculent indifference , but it had been there . |
| 13 | Strange as it may now seem , the primacy of Canterbury seemed to him an immovable feature which guaranteed the firmness of the whole structure . |
| 14 | Rain murmured to her an unconvincing : ‘ It 's all right . ’ |
| 15 | As far as study of the mystics is concerned , this has meant that modern readers have felt inhibited about discussing these texts and have attributed to them an abstruse esoteric quality ; this is ironic in view of the fact that the mystics themselves proclaim their experience to be of fundamental human importance — and essentially simple . |
| 16 | All competing teams should report to the Dashwood Arms , Kirtlington at 8am. , bringing with them an accurate set of scales . |
| 17 | The flowers were tight budded but one was beginning to open and a transitory evocation of summer came to her , bringing with it an old anxiety . |
| 18 | The Bible as holy literature , the oracles of the Logos , has become for them an inanimate object of scientific investigation . |
| 19 | These new ‘ immigrants ’ have brought with them an urban , middle-class life-style which is largely alien to the remaining local agricultural population . |
| 20 | The LRT method of shaking off destructive beliefs about ourselves brought with it an astonishing sense of joy . |
| 21 | Although the horn lent itself to delicate work and when finished had a smooth feel , its natural colour , yellow , mottled and streaked with grey , was so unattractive that the Chinese stained the objects they carved from it an artificial brown . |
| 22 | In 1910 , when the Golden Jubilee of Thomas Street was being celebrated , the Quarterly Board looked at all the work of God on the Circuit and among other things they recorded their feeling that ‘ in Edenderry there is set before us an open door and we are determined to enter in . ’ |
| 23 | Tenants for life will be those who are entitled to a life interest under the provisions of a settlement and even though that interest merely confers upon them an equitable interest , they have the power to sell the legal estate . |
| 24 | was taken out of his chair of majestie , having upon him an upper robe adorned with precious stones of all sorts , orient pearls of great quantitie , but always augmented in riches . |
| 25 | In 1962 he was awarded the OBE , and in 1971 Gallaudet College , Washington , which had previously conferred on him an Honourary Doctorate , gave him an Edward Miner Gallaudet Award , citing that : His persistent courageous , often lonely insistence in his land upon adapting educational practice with deaf children to individual characteristics preserved hope for the masses of deaf children throughout the world who were faced with the bleakness of no alternatives … |
| 26 | In 1886 he was elected FRS although he had no academic degree until 1910 , when he delivered the Herbert Spencer lecture at Oxford and the university conferred on him an honorary D.Sc . |
| 27 | After the fight with the beggars he had left the sack with Allen and Marian because it had seemed to him an ingenious way of saving himself the trouble of carrying it to Simon 's hut and back again while at the same time it was a guarantee that the children would remain until he returned . |
| 28 | The need for the Labour Party to abandon the trade union block vote has seemed to me an open-and-shut case since I first wrote advocating it , in the old Manchester Guardian , in 1957 . |
| 29 | ( It seems to me an odd misuse of modern theatre aesthetics to believe that asides and soliloquies are ‘ distancing ’ or ‘ alienating ’ devices : rather the opposite . ) |
| 30 | ( p. 3 ) This aim , which seems to me an obvious piece of common sense , caused uproar among many teachers of English , who feared a return to the rote-learning of the 1950s . |