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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | Uncle Philip darted Finn Medusa glances from beneath his bushy brows . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | And all kinds of reasons are conventionally winked at by our good-natured policemen and traffic wardens . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Deliberately , the colour has little force , but this is compensated for by its allusive subtlety . |
| 20 | This was compensated for by their self-laudatory claims such as : " We have our own team of analysts , and a good research department , etc . " |
| 21 | He lacked social graces and had no small talk but this , to some extent , was compensated for by his unfailing memory . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm sure it was n't ; Garry is n't the brightest of men ; he 'd deceive himself into thinking I would n't try to trace him , and if it were n't for my sister I would n't bother ; the discrepancies in the accounts would be compensated for by his permanent absence from the firm . ’ |
| 23 | Furniture by the Edinburgh firm of Whytock and Reid did well , now increasingly sought after for its technical perfection . |
| 24 | The place was done up in his trademarked colossal style , with a huge pair of well-muscled stone legs standing astride the doorway to the main casino . |
| 25 | If you decide that a tripod is the answer , you will find a selection of these to choose from at your local photographic dealers . |
| 26 | More than 30 prospective hedges to choose from in our comprehensive and detailed selector table . |
| 27 | Biggest disappointment was ‘ The end of the story ’ , a fine Albert Moore which , while amply demonstrating his brilliance as a colourist , was done in by its overcleaned state and high reserve ( est. $500-$700,000 ) : all bidding , such as it was , stopped at $375,000 ( £250,000 ) . |
| 28 | There is real promise that the undoubted achievements of some primary schools in teaching science and the arts will be built upon by their secondary colleagues . |
| 29 | Ted , fortunately , was fluent in ( Belgian ) French because he had flown as a pilot for Sabena for many years and was , I believe , highly thought of by our French colleagues . |
| 30 | Crilly , I 'll tell you about the sparkle of Belgravia , the shimmer of white marble , a sumptuous , salubrious white , the sugary white of fluffy friendship , cloudship , feely white , and the slim cobblestone road which led to the river where I met James who was fresh from Waterstone 's with his arms full of Pinter plays , O he was as a young Terence Stamp , Crilly , but for the sly cracks of wisdom about the corners of his eyes , and we drank espresso and he told me about Spain and the high mountains of India , and the Pyrenees he had taken on foot , and though I was as trite as my shopping Saturdays and my small muggy and squirming palms in summertime , he painted my body swirly-lined and peach upon a large canvas and made love to me upon the tip of the Heath with all of London a basin of rooftops beneath us while the sky loomed low in grey and pink , the Heath a dark pudding of sloping mountains , wild and white and wide as Brontë country , with only the smug suburban cliffs of Highgate Village peering from behind its sprawling hem , and big dogs scurried like brown birds to the crevice of foothills and then disappeared , so we made love for a while beneath that sky , which cast a blaze upon us the colour of cream . |