Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But no-one has dismissed it as a rogue poll . |
| 2 | Anyone who has enrolled himself as a disciple of Jesus will want to study the Gospels to discover his teaching about prayer . |
| 3 | One example in Torquay , Devon , has proven itself over a few years . |
| 4 | For a long time it has been content with this unchanging splendour but more recently it has treated itself to a quartier in the most modern style , complete with a magnificent new concert hall , the Corum ( which unfortunately appears to have been built on ground that it is less than stable ) . |
| 5 | No yes Mr Singe is dedicated to the fewcher of Athletes Whaddon and to proove it has prezented me with a BLANK czech for £53–24p only , which is at my dispozal for strainthning the squid . |
| 6 | Fate has placed you in a situation of subservience ; but in the sight of God you are the equal of an emperor . |
| 7 | Eighth , they plant churches because ‘ God wants YWAM missionaries to build into local congregations the spiritual foundations ’ he has given them as a mission . |
| 8 | Thus within hospitals the Alliance of Health Workers ( AHW ) has formed which as a union allies itself with the progressive national union federation . |
| 9 | Christopher Gill ( Member for Ludlow and a Midlands businessman ) , as has been mentioned in Chapter 6 , has concerned himself for a long time with what were once seen to be obscure constitutional issues of subsidiarity . |
| 10 | Despite the retirement of coaching team-mates Jim Telfer and Derrick Grand after the recent World Cup , Ian McGeechan has committed himself to a further term as Scotland 's principal coach . |
| 11 | Labour has committed itself to a wide range of civil-liberties legislation and constitutional reform when it returns to government , to counter what its Deputy Leader , Mr Hattersley , has described as the vulnerability of traditional freedoms to the dual threat of ‘ legal restriction and a cynical partnership between Government and private enterprise ’ . |
| 12 | What the procedure does not permit is an exploration of alternative approaches , an understanding of the views of outside groups ( unless they think it worth briefing MPs ) and there is no scope for public opinion to form and react before the government has committed itself to a definite approach to the problem . |
| 13 | We know perfectly well that the Labour party has committed itself to an additional £35,000 million of public spending and no capping on local authority expenditure . |
| 14 | This has committed it to an inevitable struggle with the Palestinians for control of policy on the Palestine question and , by extension , for control of Jordan itself . |
| 15 | Their views are readily recognizable in a world where the fuss about the Turin Shroud has reminded us of a time when high hopes and claims of miracle were commonly attached to pieces of the true cross or heads of John the Baptist , where much Christian literature promises believers great success in life if only they have enough faith in God , and where men and women of political power still try to have God and his Church on their side , and to use their authority to enhance their own . |
| 16 | TV COMIC Tony Slattery has sketched himself for a charity auction — starkers . |
| 17 | This is a relative newcomer to the hobby , so new that nobody has slotted them into a genus yet . |
| 18 | It has surrounded itself with a region from which nothing — absolutely nothing — can escape . |
| 19 | Overall , the search for ‘ a ’ cure for cancer has resolved itself into a large number of separate questions , many of which have still to be solved . |
| 20 | THE Government has drilled itself into a well on oil jobs as it ‘ scrambles out of a hole on pit closures ’ , Alex Salmond , the Scottish National Party leader , said yesterday . |
| 21 | If God really has disclosed himself in a Son ; and if that Son was characterised by his possession of the Holy Spirit which he has passed on to his followers then we can not with t denying Christ maintain that God has revealed himself a much in Buddhism as in Christianity ; we can not make an amalgam of religions as if we were all honest seekers after a God who hides himself . |
| 22 | According to the survey , 44 per cent of the sponsored students among the 14,000 engineers graduating in 1989 claimed that their work experience , averaging 13 months , has discouraged them from a career in engineering . |
| 23 | According to the survey , 44 per cent of the sponsored students among the 14,000 engineers graduating in 1989 claimed that their work experience , averaging 13 months , has discouraged them from a career in engineering . |
| 24 | The sweater has enjoyed something of a renaissance since the 1980s . |
| 25 | He has approached it as an example of a much more general position in the debate about the possibilities of knowledge which he called ‘ historicism ’ characterized by a presumption about the nature of history : |
| 26 | Deuce , a pimp , has added him to a clutch of boys he is taking to a hotel . |
| 27 | My mother has rung me on a Sunday morning and said oh you had a row last night and I 'd say how do you know oh your father went to paper shop this morning . |
| 28 | When Deckard asks his wife why she has programmed herself for a ‘ six hour self-accusatory depression ’ , she says |
| 29 | ‘ First , my miserable Yankee friend , the good Brigadeführer Farber has recommended you for an immediate Iron Cross First Class which , from what he says , you deserve . ’ |
| 30 | Comedian and writer Ben Miller has the answers , and has incorporated them into a tribute performance , Gone With Noakes ( playing at Covent Garden 's Donmar Warehouse on Dec 4–5 ) . |