Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will be suggested perhaps that , instead of simply feeling himself pulled between a thirst for new experience and a dread of losing his pension , a rational man would ponder conflicting principles , ‘ It is good to welcome new experience ’ and ‘ One ought not to risk one 's pension ’ , and judge between them by deducing from more general principles combined with verbally formulated facts about Bali and himself . |
| 2 | I dutifully read through them with sinking feelings and , sometimes , a touch of nausea . |
| 3 | Whereas the candidate has , in a sense , asked for it by choosing to enter the precarious and high-profile world of politics , the husband or wife in the wings has every right to feel resentful . |
| 4 | He once remarked that good prose is like a window-pane , meaning that you ought to be able to see through it without seeing it ; and anyone who has ever tried to write prose like that , or to see human creatures in life or fiction like Waugh 's early fictional characters , will know how much clutter of mind and words needs first to be cleared away . |
| 5 | They 've got all his tablets sorted for him for coming home . |
| 6 | The Shamen are a tad pissed off that nobody seems to write about them without dropping in a few drug references . |
| 7 | The Shamen are a tad pissed off that nobody seems to write about them without dropping in a few drug references . |
| 8 | If matters are simplified for him by assuming that he can move only north , south , east or west , and excluding the possibility that he might collapse on the spot , can you visualize the path he would follow ? |
| 9 | The process by which colleagues are kept informed may differ from what is expected of them in building up either a school development plan or a scheme of quality assurance . |
| 10 | This hardly looks the same principle , but the connection lies in the fact that for Kant the sense in which every person is an end is that each is a rational agent who , as such , should be conceived as potentially cooperating with me in settling upon and living by universal principles of behaviour taken as binding on all rational agents . |
| 11 | Sylvia had rung up me about booking for a meal and I thought , originally they talked about going a Friday night , and they said , Friday and Saturday are fully booked for the next five weeks . |
| 12 | His new found maturity on and off the court is impressing many and diluting the controversial image he has carried with him since turning professional four years ago . |
| 13 | ‘ Service Quality Development are happy to work with them in determining the service needs of the branch network and to encourage feedback through regular service surveys . ’ |
| 14 | At the same time it should make us aware of the enormity of the task that still lies before us in developing an adequate analysis of the art made by artists for whom ‘ being a woman ’ was not a given , but something to be explored through a historically shaped and socially conditioned artistic . |
| 15 | of course some companies do this and one or two manage to benefit from it by sending out a different type ) f product from their range each year . |
| 16 | I had come upon it in thumbing through The Writers and Artists Yearbook ; it seems to have been an Anglo-Catholic journal . |
| 17 | When a female is ready to spawn she will leave her cave ( in which she will have previously have spent a lot of time ) and approach the male , who will display to her by quivering his body slightly and beating his tail in front of her , so that she is buffeted by the current created . |
| 18 | ‘ So you have come to me after fighting so much ! ’ continues Guruji , smiling . |
| 19 | Then with great clarity and anguish he remembered the moment when Westerman had put his question about a moral lead from the press , and instead of answering at once the idea had come to him of leaning forward and judiciously stubbing out his cigarette . |
| 20 | I mentioned to her about renting , she said that she had n't , you know , took that idea out the window but she said the only thing is your at the beck and call of the landlord . |
| 21 | THE lover of Britain 's famous agony aunt , Marje Proops , was secretly cheating on her by living with another woman . |
| 22 | The idea occurred to him from observing children sticking waste prints on to pieces of broken earthenware . |
| 23 | Beyond town , beyond the extraordinary cemetery for the pioneers who had created the place and the Indians who had tried to frustrate them , and once the shanties had petered out , the Patagonian landscape was flat and treeless and the gale howled across it without ceasing . |
| 24 | She could n't ask him to stay then yell at him for caring for her . |
| 25 | Eva looks at me before replying . |
| 26 | Twenty minutes later , she was still trying to forget the way he had looked at her before slamming the door behind him . |
| 27 | She could n't even glance at him without feeling a little strange , and he never had any pleasant look on his face . |
| 28 | From ‘ African History for Beginners ’ we learn that Cain was the first white man ; he turned pale , and his features shrivelled up , when God shouted at him for killing Abel . |
| 29 | Do n't think of it as taking away one thinking of it , think of it as minus one , a number . |
| 30 | You can think of it as sharing it out between people , share that ten pound out between ten of you . |