Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They should change the law to include them with dogs like pit bulls which have to wear a muzzle . |
| 2 | But , bold as they are , giant colour prints of segmented bodies , rough skins and the centrepiece of a kiss in rich colour close-up , it is difficult to see them as challenges to a visual or a political status quo . |
| 3 | Farming families worked hard and long for scanty remuneration , and it is difficult indeed to see them as beneficiaries of the government 's development policy . |
| 4 | Since each member of the ring is only one mutational step away from the central biomorph , it is easy for us to see them as children of the central parent . |
| 5 | For justification , and the very baptism which is its outward symbol , means dying with Christ and rising again ; dying to the old sinful ways , and being prepared to see them as characteristics of the unregenerate nature that was dealt with on the cross by Jesus and must be kept there . |
| 6 | National Park rangers eventually managed to speak to the two men but were unable to see them for clouds of steam . |
| 7 | But dawn had already reached inside the grey stone walls , touching them with fingers of amethyst , softening the austerity of Castell Rocamar and rendering the place almsot pretty . |
| 8 | You can intersperse them between units of archers . |
| 9 | Those who are addicted to the vertiginous rhetoric where language tells us nothing about reality , merely about other language , and where signifiers float in endless unattached free play , are apt to be contemptuous of demonstration and logic , seeing them as forms of bourgeois intellectual oppression . |
| 10 | He had unfortunately proceeded to mar them by fastening them to strips of card with paper clips , which had rusted and left their foul trail on the bookmarks . |
| 11 | This simply means that instead of bending and scuffling around for saucepans stacked up in a dark base unit , try hanging them from hooks near the sink ( where you are going to fill them with water ) or near the stove . |
| 12 | While Violette entertained them with stories of increasing complexity , Katherine from beneath lowered lids stole occasional glances at Carlo . |
| 13 | They trust me with bunches of keys and let me phone my sister . |
| 14 | But travellers in Latin America in the early twentieth century found there stations which led them into rhapsodies of praise . |
| 15 | De Valois , Ashton and MacMillan have studied paintings and drawings by English artists and/or the words of such great playwrights as Shakespeare and translated them into gestures for which the dancer 's whole body has to play a part . |
| 16 | At various times , the Unionist government attempted to curb such displays either by banning marches or by re-routeing them through areas with the same politics as the marchers . |
| 17 | Attempts to make the arts accountable by submitting them to forms of assessment which properly belong elsewhere may actually make them appear wanting by looking for inappropriate forms of proof . |
| 18 | It seems more elegant , and closer to the linguistic facts of the case , to treat them as cases of underlexicalisation . |
| 19 | Some top runners swear by it and arrange to have an expert on hand to treat them within minutes of hitting the tape . |
| 20 | Beginning in the 1860s , Degas made small wax statuettes of horses and female figures , keeping them in his studio and occasionally using them as models for his two-dimensional work . |
| 21 | At the beginning of the war with England the French crown , denied the use of the ports and coastline of Brittany and Aquitaine , had to witness the English army enjoying access to both , and using them as bastions on the continental mainland from which to launch attacks into territories ruled by the king of France . |
| 22 | We carry out rummage searches of the islands to deter such activities as smuggling , and terrorists from using them as locations for weapon hides . |
| 23 | Recent works isolate and enlarge single objects such as a spoon , a fingernail , and the bubble from a carpenter 's level , transforming them into meditations on space , form and texture . |
| 24 | Either the will had failed , so the trust clause was being enlisted to salvage civil-law dispositions , transforming them into trusts of which the intestate heir was trustee ; or individual legacies had failed on formal grounds , and the intention was to try and salvage them as trusts of which the testamentary heir was trustee . |
| 25 | Their world views are so different that we can not treat them as participants in the same world . |
| 26 | Or we can treat them as victims of an insurable risk . |
| 27 | This led me into programmes like Tom Keating , Every window tells a story , which was about stained glass , Tudor miniatures , Edwin Mullins doing a Love Affair with Nature , Paintability , that wonderful Pottery Ladies series on the old ladies who painted all the original designs for Charlotte Rheade , Clarice Cliff and Susie Cooper — in that series you had a fantastic combination of feminism , oral history , skill , design , all in one series . |
| 28 | But the house hanging over the cliff got me into agonies of suspense , and I was amazed , when the dark came without bombs , by how the black on the screen , especially the black of Charlie Chaplin 's suit , his moustache , hat and rolling intense eyes , fitted the darkness of the little cinema . |
| 29 | In ‘ Smooth Operators ’ I took to task the brace of pop collaborators — Hue and Cry , Wet Wet Wet and so forth — whose reading of white funk has implicated them as collaborators in pop 's current fixation with sincerity , soulfulness , positivism . |
| 30 | ‘ Quasi-syntactic ’ ambiguities require careful consideration because there may be a temptation to diagnose them as cases of lexical ambiguity . |