Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [prep] [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In all , Sly Spy is just about worth the four brass beer tokens asked for by your friendly computer shop . |
| 2 | Vaughan Williams , Edward Elgar and Frederick Delius all take their place , alongside George Bernard-Shaw a painting that the National Portrait Gallery might well like to know about for its pending festivities . |
| 3 | They are to be looked for in our Western indigenous psychological explanations as much as in the domains of scientific pursuit which , as Riches notes above , are not themselves free from such ontological conceptions . |
| 4 | She 's very difficult to work for on her creative days ! ’ |
| 5 | Community care planning in this new form presents better opportunities for better services and for more people in need to be looked after in their own homes . |
| 6 | Mr Deputy Speaker that 's exactly what the authorities are asked to make sure about and of course they must have sensible plans so that there are always beds and facilities for those who need them , but in a way it 's a success of care in the community that that more elderly people are being looked after in their own homes and so we 've arrested the very rapid growth in permanent residential places which was occurring before the policy was introduced er , as we now see , despite some gloomy forewarning , local authorities have in general managed well in the first year of their responsibilities , they 've examined thousands of cases and many people have been helped to make decisions about their own futures . |
| 7 | It had come to my grandfather through his great-uncle William Farmborough , on the understanding that he would be looked after in his old age . |
| 8 | Thirdly , the myth that ethnic minority elders inevitably prefer to be and always are looked after by their own is being exposed ( Grant , 1988 ) . |
| 9 | There are patients here looked after by their own G Ps especially on the medical side and of course they know their G Ps . |
| 10 | I know , er a gentlemen , like yourself , who 's looked after by his young son , by a younger son anyway , and he he 's given up his work to look after his father . |
| 11 | On his death Money left the place to his son Michel , who did not live there , but it was looked after by his step-daughter Blanche until her death in 1940 . |
| 12 | My er , circumstances are entirely different , I am the person who 's being cared for and my husband died in nineteen eighty seven , and my son in nineteen eighty eight and I was left with my young son , and he looked after me on his own , and then my daughter who li , I was living in Ireland , my daughter lived in England , and she decided it was n't good enough that it should all be left to him , so we had a long talk and we discussed it at length for two weeks at Christmas , and then they all moved Sou , over here , we got a house in Scotland , and I 'm looked after by my young son and my daughter , and since then a year ago my daughter got married , her husband moved in and he looks after me as well , so I 'm looked after by three young adults . |
| 13 | In one instance , a local commercial waste-collection contractor overestimated the tonnage he was disposing of at his own landfill site by 30% . |
| 14 | So instead they turn to the past , to an idea of what the unspoiled working class community might have looked like in its classic phase before the War , before bombs , bulldozers and planners together swept away the old slum environment with its maze of narrow streets , its self-contained economy of tenements and factories , corner shops and pubs , and its equally complex , ingrown network of grannies , uncles and lifelong ‘ mates ’ . |
| 15 | I mentioned in in my first contribution this morning a a concern about that those considerations that environmental considerations , even if they have been fully considered er are not there 's not an explanation provided anywhere in in the structure plan supporting material as to how that 's actually been achieved . |
| 16 | Uncle Philip darted Finn Medusa glances from beneath his bushy brows . |
| 17 | In 1628 , William Laud persuaded Charles I to issue a declaration prohibiting all theological disputation and ordering that the Thirty-Nine Articles should be adhered to in their full and literal sense . |
| 18 | And he used to come to with his black horse and dray and I used to go to help him on a er on a Saturday morning , used to get to about perhaps nine or half past and I 'd go the rounds with him and all I used to do was to er take the peoples things that they 'd bought up the entry you see because they were all entries then . |
| 19 | It was the first place he had come to in his own right , with something to give . |
| 20 | Want to come on on my own . |
| 21 | Well , now I 've been past many a field of hay but it does n't smell like it used to in my young days . |
| 22 | Many of their young men are going forward to train as priests , and at some time in the near future the people will be ministered to by their own men . |
| 23 | And all kinds of reasons are conventionally winked at by our good-natured policemen and traffic wardens . |
| 24 | That it is not so here is perhaps because the charioteer was not designed to be looked at on its own but as part of a larger whole . |
| 25 | It was looked at by my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State and was available to the Court of Appeal when the appeal was turned down . |
| 26 | ‘ What I 'm saying , Vitali — what I 've been driving at in my own bluff way — is that I would very much appreciate , that 's to say , well … ’ |
| 27 | The simple truth is that most captors of record fish were never heard of before their historical catch and have never been heard of since . |
| 28 | The visibility , lower than that of the drier climate of many parts of China , has caused the artist in Japan to be more concerned with the strength of outline than with the subtleties of depth sought for by his Chinese neighbour . |
| 29 | What he was not prepared for by his previous nursing experience was the lengths to which the staff in his ward had taken the system . |
| 30 | Chapman hopes Leeds do better than the Arsenal team he played for in his last European appearance 10 years ago . |