Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following details of courses were sent to us recently but we were unable to include them in an earlier issue . |
| 2 | Touching , stroking not her but the jewels — touching them with an awful tenderness . |
| 3 | The idea took off and now Dunkin' Donuts , who sell them in an amazing 31 flavours , say ‘ holes ’ are one of their most popular lines . |
| 4 | you met me with an exalted smile |
| 5 | Anderson captained Ireland on their short tour of France , led them to an unexpected victory over a French XV and keeps the job now but age and waning powers put a question-mark over his selection for the team at all . |
| 6 | Christina led them under an arched stone portico and through a labyrinth of white-stucco passageways opening onto vine-covered courtyards where tiny humming-birds fluttered through tall bamboo , and antique urns overflowed with red and pink angelica . |
| 7 | Generally it falls , although I 've used as the sub-heading , I suppose the overall title of this area is perception organisation , the way that erm things become organised , how we perceive them as an organised whole . |
| 8 | COMIC Mike Harding has had more than 30 poems published after submitting them under an assumed name . |
| 9 | TWO escaped prisoners were back behind bars yesterday after police re-arrested them in an early morning swoop . |
| 10 | The basic guidelines is erm if somebody is a danger to themselves or other people then perhaps there is some way of helping them with an enforced medication or hospital treatment . |
| 11 | The completion of the exercises involves them in an active learning experience . |
| 12 | Cleo took the velvet poison bag and the money pouch out of her drawer , together with a handful of stockings , and stuffed them into an old leather holdall in which she 'd formerly kept a collection of limbs , torsos and heads from broken porcelain dolls . |
| 13 | To determine whether DP-1 is present in complexes containing Rb , we immunoprecipitated them with an anti-Rb monoclonal antibody from extracts of the human leukaemic cell line JM , which contain high levels of the DRTF1/E2F-Rb complex . |
| 14 | Typically then they operate to defeat the title of the unpaid seller ( let us call him C ) who has entrusted his goods to a buyer who , without paying C , has in turn sold them to an innocent purchaser . |
| 15 | Mr. Wall argued that the exercise of the discretion which arises as a result of the finding of ‘ acquiescence ’ made by the Court of Appeal , is limited to considering the nature and quality of the acquiescence itself and would not entitle the court to take into account ‘ welfare ’ considerations relating specifically to the children unless the court were able to find that there had been established a grave risk that the return of the children would expose them to an intolerable situation under article 13 ( b ) . |
| 16 | Willie pulls himself up the stairs reminding me of an elderly praying mantis . |
| 17 | ‘ Ah , Gina … how could you compare me with an insensitive brute like that ? ’ |
| 18 | He may regard me as an amateur but the fact is that , due to physical difficulties , I can not pull and twist in a horizontal mode and so I invoked gravity to assist . |
| 19 | So massive a change of emphasis must be of fundamental significance , not only to the anthropologist and the social historian , but to the child psychologists , psychiatrists and psychotherapists whose very existence as a group depends upon the climate of opinion which regards their professional skills as valuable and necessary , and which places them on an equal footing in social esteem with the more anciently respected callings of the paediatrician and the pedagogue . |
| 20 | Yet , the intimate knowledge of the sick individual often places them in an ideal position to link illness with iatrogenesis , and the better doctors will see such insight as a welcome assistance rather than interference , and make full use of it . |
| 21 | The judge also had to consider a submission made by the mother that the return of the children ( if ordered ) would expose them to a ‘ grave risk of physical or psychological harm or place them in an intolerable situation ’ within the terms of paragraph ( b ) of article 13 . |
| 22 | He further decided that she had not established a grave risk that the return of the children would expose them to physical or psychological harm or otherwise place them in an intolerable situation , and he ordered their return to Australia pursuant to the provisions of article 12 of the Hague Convention . |
| 23 | He submits that matters regarding their welfare can only be taken into account on the exercise of discretion under article 13 if they establish the criterion to be found in article 13 ( b ) , i.e. , that there is a grave risk that their return would expose them to physical or psychological harm or otherwise place them in an intolerable situation . |
| 24 | though this a bit rich and observed that it was the study 's authors who proposed , in effect , to remove directors ' responsibilities for judgmental matters and vest them in an omniscient panel of assessors . |
| 25 | He 's a sharp operator , adept at playing the angles , continually bouncing gags off the course of a meandering conversation which takes in flotation tanks ( ’ They told me they wanted to recreate the conditions of the womb , but that 's all I need : some jerk in a white coat stabbing me with an ice-pick for half an hour ’ ) : Panama ( ’ Most American casualties over there were self-inflicted , but that 's because we have a lot of Hispanics in the armed services and some guys get confused ; some Hispanics in the armed services and some guys get confused ; some Hispanics shot themselves , they 're that loyal ’ ) ; even , somehow , the British motorway system ( ’ Driving up the M1 ! |
| 26 | I told him to meet me inside an isolated summer house . |
| 27 | Perhaps these are symptoms of the greater concreteness of Lawrence 's description : he makes his nouns , adjectives , verbs and adverbs work for him without weaving them into an abstract web of relationships . |
| 28 | The drawings were purchased by the museum from William Proby , whose family had owned them from an early date , for £310,000 with assistance from the National Heritage Memorial Fund , the National Art Collections Fund and other benefactors . |
| 29 | Stage 4 : Care planning — Negotiating the most appropriate ways of achieving the objectives identified by the assessment of need and incorporating them into an individual care plan . |
| 30 | What left his stamp on the stewardship of our movement was that he held to these passions so tenaciously and yet drew on inner reserves that illumined them with an unshakeable commitment to excellence and that rarest of all qualities personal integrity . |