Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The frescoes , for example , show many elements that are borrowed from Minoan Crete , but handled in a way that turns them into distinctively Theran compositions . |
| 2 | Thus the dealers were forced to bluff the more , which amazingly , made them into more effective salesmen . |
| 3 | You are the only woman I know — apart from Lucy — who wears skirts and dresses and make-up and turns me on more powerful than a monsoon with all the steam and heat … |
| 4 | These are moderate to severe pain relievers , but numerous instances were cited in the interviews where GPs had prescribed them for relatively minor ailments , some of which were fictitious , such as headaches , backache and arthritis . |
| 5 | One solution that government has used is to replace or override them with more compliant organisations such as the urban development corporations referred to above . |
| 6 | Or outworkers who were expected to know how to perform them to very exacting standards for very low wages . |
| 7 | He had been on the committee of the Scottish region , as it was ten called , since 1984 — ‘ they flung me on as naive new blood ’ — — and was vice-chairman for two years before becoming chairman at the tender age of 25 . |
| 8 | Ten years later however the BBC asked me at very short notice to compile a programme to celebrate the Queen Mother 's eighty-fifth birthday . |
| 9 | It was uncommon in those days , and still is , for publishers to commission artists of such quality to illustrate cookery books , and a little of the success of Boulestin 's early books must be acknowledged to his publishers who , no doubt under the guidance of their author , produced them in so appropriate a form , in large type , on thick paper : chunky , easy little books to handle , attractively bound . |
| 10 | In fact in its original Hebrew setting the shepherd referred to a totally different picture — one who actually cared for and was perhaps even prepared to give his life for the sheep , protecting them from very real danger from which they could not be expected to protect themselves . |
| 11 | Go for angular-shaped chairs , softening them with brightly coloured cushions . |
| 12 | A Press , frustrated by censorship , built them into almost comic-strip heroes , daily recounting and exaggerating their latest exploits , revelling in the eccentricities of their uniforms . |
| 13 | No he 's keeping them for just fun cars for himself , he 's just got the money to burn over there |
| 14 | I retained a friendship for George Brown , although he regarded me with rather dubious approval because of my omission to drink anything at any dinner party . |
| 15 | With undisguised relish a leading liberal historian embellishes the account left by one populist of what the peasants did with the revolutionary pamphlets distributed : ‘ They tore them up to roll cigarettes — paper was so scarce , they explained ’ — and one may assume they used them for less delicate purposes as well . ’ |
| 16 | You can marinate the skinned and boned whole breasts in the marinade for the same time , or slice into think steaks and flatten them into very thin paillards . |
| 17 | Qh5 where I expected White 's threats to grant him at least adequate compensation for the two sacrificed pieces , an assessment borne out by post-mortem analysis . |
| 18 | Eminent Victorians and gardeners who visited her by now famous Munstead Wood home found her wearing two pairs of spectacles . |
| 19 | At a more substantial level , a president might agree to appear in the constituency of a key congressman at election time to provide him with highly visible and , possibly , crucial support . |
| 20 | Only his skin , as I inspected him from fairly close quarters , was pallid and blotchy . |
| 21 | He has it for so long . |
| 22 | More practically , it is probably one reason why the E. coli of distant lands , where different diets provide it with significantly distinct primary habitats , are apt to give the intrepid traveller diarrhoea . |
| 23 | They were appalled by the sickly , overpowering , cloying sweet smell that pervaded the carriage , Mr Kewish described it as not dissimilar to incense ! |
| 24 | Royal Jelly enthusiasts endow it with almost magical medical properties . |
| 25 | It still thinks that by interfering and pouring on more layers of bureaucracy and government it will achieve something that has eluded it for so long and will continue to elude it if it takes that path . |
| 26 | When I revisited the place in 1974 , I found it at once grim and beautiful , at once an irrelevance to my present life and a painfully inevitable part of what I was , what I am , and what I always shall be . |
| 27 | want it for somewhere different from Marks and Spencers . |
| 28 | The weather was perfect : the memory of such a ‘ distant summer ’ endows it with possibly exaggerated serenity . |
| 29 | ‘ The Geophysical Observatory in Port Moresby have over the years provided us with very useful earthquake data and are helping us monitor the after shocks which are sill being felt in the Tari area . ’ |
| 30 | Not only have the horse mushrooms acted as a great addition to our diet , but later in life they still provide us with very fond memories . |