Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He then transports them to earthly space for human use . |
| 2 | ‘ Thank you — I 'd prefer to see them in full sunlight , ’ Lucy said hastily , in case Silas imagined she was anxious to experience a moonlight stroll with him . |
| 3 | At my weekend surgery three pensioners came to see me in considerable distress because of the difficulty that they faced in paying their water and electricity bills and other bills from private utilities following the large price increases . |
| 4 | Turbobat is a very powerful multiple pass batch file compiler that takes DOS batch files and turns them into binary code that can execute up to four times faster than the original . |
| 5 | Most of her guests brought flowers when they came , knowing how she liked them , and how she loved to arrange them in tall glass vases on the kitchen table while people gathered around her , chatting in a tight excited crowd . |
| 6 | The role of the museum is to present the collection in a fresh way , both showing unfamiliar paintings and hanging them in natural light ’ . |
| 7 | An official media campaign criticized the leaders of the DU ( formed in May 1988 — see p. 36038 ) , accusing them of personal ambition , corruption and links with anti-Soviet emigré organizations , and of seeking the overthrow of the social system . |
| 8 | So when the station came clean , they had to field several angry calls accusing them of pro-Nottingham Forest bias . |
| 9 | The Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police might care to ponder why it is that juries increasingly dismiss the sworn evidence of his officers in favour of those accusing them of gross impropriety . |
| 10 | She sighed and relaxed and when his lips sought hers again she met them with matching urgency . |
| 11 | The local police had had a busy evening with an exceptional number of hoax calls that led them to non-existent road accidents drunken brawls and even — a touch that showed a nice appreciation of British susceptibilities — a rabid dog on the loose . |
| 12 | Captaining Jamaica for the second successive season , he not only led them to Red Stripe Cup triumph ( their third in five years ) , but , with the ball , he broke the tournament record with 36 wickets at 11.30 . |
| 13 | A decade ago , Kung Fu martial arts films were banned by Zambian cinemas after Kaunda attacked them for encouraging violence amongst youths . |
| 14 | He began gathering the books together , handling them with exaggerated care and opening them a second time to gaze at Melissa 's signature . |
| 15 | You have treated me with great courtesy and kindness ; for all that I thank you . |
| 16 | The decision arose from a claim lodged with the ECJ by a group of mainly Spanish-owned fishing companies , employing vessels registered as British , that amendments to the UK 1988 Merchant Shipping Act which excluded 95 of their vessels from British waters were illegal under EC law and had exposed them to financial ruin . |
| 17 | Exporters can raise prices in sterling terms ( so maintaining them in foreign currency terms ) without losing competitiveness . |
| 18 | Processing items as soon as possible after soiling and/or submitting them to preliminary treatment . |
| 19 | ‘ If he shares his uncle 's hostility towards the female sex he might very well be prepared to treat them with similar contempt ! ’ |
| 20 | These were slow to develop , and the realisation of this made it difficult ( even had they wished to do so ) for Ministers to treat them like private sector companies , subject largely to control by fiscal and monetary policies rather than detailed intervention on capital spending . |
| 21 | I mean you asked me about formal education , and immediately we 're talking about nursery education . |
| 22 | I mean you asked me about formal education and immediately we 're talking about nursery education . |
| 23 | The hon. Member for Linlithgow also asked me about competitive tendering and the tendering process . |
| 24 | You are already familiar with the mathematical operations curl , div , and grad ( I prefer using them in vector-operator form ) , and you need no introduction to the concepts of electricity . |
| 25 | One of the most successful ways of giving a different quality to the steps and poses of classical dance and of transforming them into demi-caractère style is to relate them intimately to appropriate music . |
| 26 | When you meet Virginia 's parents , you will treat them with utmost kindness and regret , do you hear ? |
| 27 | The hasty note , the spluttering pen , the exasperated correction , the careful clerkly hand , the grandiloquent flourish , the obsequious subscription , the torn seal , the glint of sand still held in the writing from the hand that strewed it centuries ago — all these and much else bring me into close company with the past , more than the rooms in which men sat , the streets they walked , the clothes they wore or the trinkets that adorned them . |
| 28 | Another problem with doing these talks is working out at what level I should pitch them for different age groups . |
| 29 | In the time I was there she did pencil out a few passages , and got me to red ink a lot more . |
| 30 | And last night it got me into hot water . |