Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 We await the Light of the World with this powerful symbol underlining for us the real nature of Advent : a time of expectation ‘ as we wait in joyful hope for the coming of our Saviour Jesus Christ ’ .
2 More than any other sound , more even than the grunting roar of a lion , their howling evokes for me the African night .
3 That 's right : someone rang up and asked for him the other day .
4 Through the horse , we have emphasized for us the animalistic and instinctive nature of the male ( or human ? ) sexual appetite .
5 So we 'd have to go through it the next day anyway .
6 Only marriage has for him the required social connotations , expressing the kind of personal and social commitment mentioned earlier .
7 Although writing here with a different purpose from our own — and exclusively from a psychodynamic perspective — Anthony nevertheless articulates for us the final theme that remains to be developed in this chapter , which concerns the formal similarities between the mechanisms of mad and creative thought .
8 However , although these five writers belonged to a minority group in their society , and although they say that their experience derives from a source greater than human reason can comprehend , they are fired with a certainty that it is intimately related to the deepest needs and purposes of human being , and has about it the simple inevitability of fulfilment .
9 Modigliani declined as politely but suggested to Lunia that she should come to his studio and pose for him the following day .
10 He finds Miriam appealing and she holds for him the added attraction of being married and committed herself .
11 Ruth sat on her bed and drew towards her the unfinished drawing of lions apparently devouring people — Christians probably , from the school 's Religious Knowledge .
12 He thought that to remain would look ‘ unsporting ’ and would count against him the next time .
13 The more frankly we could discuss with them the better . ’
14 This would have been impossible with the yoke-harness , because as soon as the horse begins to pull with it the neck-strap presses on the animal 's windpipe and thus tends not only to restrict the flow of blood to its head , but also to suffocate it !
15 In an ideal world the choice of harmonizing instrument would depend on what was most suitable for the particular project envisaged and carried with it the greatest prospect of successful implementation .
16 The tariff policy therefore carried with it the last hope of consolidating the Empire and the last hope of reversing the drift into class politics ; as a pessimist , Law saw further ahead than most of his contemporaries , and events proved him to be more nearly right than they were .
17 Branson 's fierce attack on ‘ predatory pricing ’ carried with it the implied threat of another anti-trust suit against British Airways in the American courts .
18 When you sort out your notes , Sergeant , you might include in them the additional information that my car was parked at the other end of Boundary Drive , the end furthest away from Glenfair Road , see ?
19 He seems thrilled to stumble across the notion that war has a technological impetus of its own ; others will recognise in it the familiar railway-timetable explanation of why the first world war proved so unstoppably disastrous .
20 The human being has within it the physical and mental capacity to do this , and must accept that there is no alternative way for it to be done .
21 Rushing over to the open suitcase standing on a side table , she snatched from it the long paper-cutter she had brought back for Harold from New York .
22 His first posting in 1915 took him to the Toba Batak country in Northern Sumatra in time to witness the Muslim Acehnese rising against their Christian rulers ; an event which made him appreciate the approaching crisis of Islam as a focus for nationalism , and impressed upon him the urgent need for Muslim-Christian accommodation .
23 … the circumstances are such that any reasonable man standing in the shoes of the recipient of the information would have realised that upon reasonable grounds the information was being given to him in confidence , then this should suffice to impose upon him the equitable obligation of confidence .
24 Perhaps the most elegant formulation of principle was given in Coco v Clark ( AN ) ( Engineers ) Ltd where it was said that if a reasonable man standing in the shoes of the recipient of the information would have realised that upon reasonable grounds the information was being given to him in confidence then this should suffice to impose upon him the equitable obligation of confidence .
25 Lissa thrust her belongings back into her jacket , bending her head to hide from him the secretive smile that touched her lips .
26 But the second is surely contradicted by the first ; especially if one adds to it the sympathetic view he evinces of the widow 's plight .
27 And then he described to me the first time he and Montaine had happened upon it .
28 A NEW company has been set up to exploit an automatic bicycle transmission system , which is claimed to he the biggest breakthrough in bicycle gears since Derailleur invented his system in the 1920s ( New Scientist , 6 January , p 23 ) .
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