Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Poor people do n't want a millionaire among them reminding them of some way in which they failed to make it . |
| 2 | He then transports them to earthly space for human use . |
| 3 | Such cynical behaviour and insincerity is a waste of parliamentary time and contributes nothing to democratic government . |
| 4 | We have heard them for some time ; now we see them , red and white on the green of the plains . |
| 5 | An electronic system 's been introduced to alert them to any emergency . |
| 6 | An electronic system 's been introduced to alert them to any emergency . |
| 7 | It has several aspects , including : ( a ) the range of options offered to the teacher is crucial in fitting the program to his style and enabling him to contribute effectively , but too many will be confusing ( b ) the designer may see a whole range of possible extensions to the teaching possibilities of the program : the lengthy development process of all good teaching units makes such extensions attractive but trying to include them in one program will tend to make it difficult to ‘ see through ’ and to use ( c ) the desire for compatibility with different hardware configurations often inspires programming constraints that can be severe ; conversely , programs that fully exploit the facilities of a particular microcomputer are likely to be difficult to transfer . |
| 8 | ‘ Normally we do n't like people to see them at this stage . |
| 9 | According to such a theory , if we , in English , call both our mother 's brother and our father 's brother by the same term — ‘ uncle ’ — it is because these two relatives are , to us , the same ‘ kind ’ of relative , and that probably the fact that we use the one word causes us to see them in that way . |
| 10 | ‘ Thank you — I 'd prefer to see them in full sunlight , ’ Lucy said hastily , in case Silas imagined she was anxious to experience a moonlight stroll with him . |
| 11 | My hon. Friend has been to see me about this matter with a group of colleagues . |
| 12 | As he was a very busy man , I was grateful that Eliot should have been prepared to see me without any notice at all . |
| 13 | My father come to see me at one holiday and the Easter time he see something happen and they did n't like him and cos all my as cabin boy . |
| 14 | Only thirty people were allowed in to see me at one time . |
| 15 | I do n't want to see Sarah in that way , and I would n't want her to see me in that kind of light either . ’ |
| 16 | At my weekend surgery three pensioners came to see me in considerable distress because of the difficulty that they faced in paying their water and electricity bills and other bills from private utilities following the large price increases . |
| 17 | ‘ And if you are too tired to write you must come to see me in any case , and then I shall know you are safe . |
| 18 | The act of the king touching them in this way protects them from the otherwise dangerous consequences of being in contact with the power of the king . |
| 19 | Turbobat is a very powerful multiple pass batch file compiler that takes DOS batch files and turns them into binary code that can execute up to four times faster than the original . |
| 20 | Most of her guests brought flowers when they came , knowing how she liked them , and how she loved to arrange them in tall glass vases on the kitchen table while people gathered around her , chatting in a tight excited crowd . |
| 21 | Once you have been through the various categories listed above and picked out all the names to be included next step is to arrange them in some sort of order . |
| 22 | ‘ But , Terry , surely we hide nothing from each other ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ You 're using me as some sort of buffer between yourself and your feelings for Claire . |
| 24 | You flatter me by insisting on seeing me as some sort of Casanova figure . |
| 25 | They will take approximately a week to reach this stage , so that while any traces remaining in a carpet could give rise to problems , a solid floor can be easily disinfected to kill them before this stage is reached . |
| 26 | They did n't want me at this party , but because I AM , fang and claw I have grapple-hooked their smooth cliffs , and have the right to stalk these wooded cliffs , lap at their abundant streams . |
| 27 | I take it you book me into that hotel . |
| 28 | His cord trousers are still rolled down round his ankles and get in the way and we have to stop and turn him over and pull the trousers back up , fastening them by one button . |
| 29 | The role of the museum is to present the collection in a fresh way , both showing unfamiliar paintings and hanging them in natural light ’ . |
| 30 | O God give me the strength to be victorious over myself , for nothing may chain me to this life . |