Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At their elbows stand the ghosts of the fallen in the first world war , reminding them of that earlier occasion when so many ministers preached uncritical political guidance from their pulpits . |
| 2 | ‘ Be there — or you 'll really get fucked , ’ he hissed , jabbing a manicured index finger at my face and transfixing me with lifeless black eyes . |
| 3 | Other sketchbooks contain swift pencil notations which correspond to oil paintings , although it is not entirely clear what function they served and whether Monet consulted them at any later stage in the evolution of his compositions . |
| 4 | I am happy to see them in this workmanlike state . |
| 5 | language … gives structure to experience , and helps to determine our way of looking at things , so that it requires some intellectual effort to see them in any other way than that which our language suggests to us . |
| 6 | Very good of you to see me at such short notice . ’ |
| 7 | The draft orders are again the subject of consultation , following which parliamentary approval turns them into legal binding requirements . |
| 8 | When the time is right Shamans pick the special fungus and make the vile brew which sends the Fanatics crazy and turns them into uncontrolled whirling maniacs . |
| 9 | By depreciating against the other currencies as needed , the scavenger currency would insulate them from this local depression . |
| 10 | They do n't build them like this any more — Healey ( top ) , Cobra ( above ) |
| 11 | Not er like they bring them in these cardboard boxes you know , wooden boxes . |
| 12 | I remember seeing them on Ready Steady go and liking Ronnie Lane 's smile . |
| 13 | ‘ Why do you insist on seeing me in this horrible way ? ’ she finished up . |
| 14 | Words failed me at this last find … but not so my companions ! |
| 15 | The hallway and various passages off it were full of visitors helping pyjama-ed relatives in and out of chairs , plumping cushions for them or fetching magazines from a well-stocked rack , or encouraging them to that last little drop of cocoa from what seemed to be a standard issue purple mug . |
| 16 | But , I mean , they sell them round at Dash Hill for erm , they sell them for two hundred and fifty do n't , the shops |
| 17 | and the Warner Brothers Bugs Bunny and the popcorn , you go and get your popcorn dish out of thing , show Alex how much popcorn we bought , I mean you go up there and it 's not like it used to be years ago a little bale of popcorn they sell them in huge great big cartons up there |
| 18 | The second argues more generally that since we have made mistakes , or would make them in imaginary similar circumstances , we do not know now . |
| 19 | As they moved from one high-ceilinged panelled room to the next , signs of disorder and decay met them at each open door . |
| 20 | Langton led them through two more doors , finally coming to a small room with a desk and two chairs . |
| 21 | It broke the concentration of my players and led them into serious defensive errors . |
| 22 | Thrill-seeking impulses led them to many momentary and immediate adventures , and it was this period of his life he referred to when he said he had never been in an orgy of more than three people , although he tried ineffectively to promote it a time or two . |
| 23 | Older people , on the basis of chronological age , are progressively removed from economic life , which provides them not only with income , but structures their daily routines and integrates them into regular social relationships . |
| 24 | For one has to recognize that if one had their desires one would not accept principles which rode roughshod over their satisfaction , and this implies that one should not accept them at all , since one can not universalise them to that hypothetical situation in which one would be forced to reject them . |
| 25 | They even got the transparency of the house the wrong way round in their ‘ Country Homes ’ magazine , but their name and reputation insulated them against such elementary errors . |
| 26 | The new technology of automation had stripped them of any human dignity in their labour . |
| 27 | What better way to taunt the auld enemy than to treat them with such reckless contempt ? |
| 28 | ‘ And you hate me for all that , of course , ’ Luke accepted neutrally . |
| 29 | He made his way through the twisting streets of the harbour district , crossing the little squares where the market traders were spreading linen sheets on the ground before decking them with neat conical piles of vegetables and spices whose reds , yellows and greens shone out brightly against the white . |
| 30 | However , in order for the abdominals to grow you must treat them like any other muscle group , and work them hard for 8 to 12 reps using 3 to 4 sets . |