Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sorry for giving you a hard time there . |
| 2 | Do not feel guilty about giving yourself a little time off occasionally like this . |
| 3 | St Albans Crown Court heard how 50 year old David Lashley raped and killed the 24 year old after earning himself the reputation of a habitual rapist . |
| 4 | ‘ I am not afraid of calling myself a trader despite the fact it is now rather fashionable to describe the field you work in as a profession , ’ he says . |
| 5 | Nevertheless if they were going to fly again they were gon na pay for a seat and they 're only looking for some recompense towards a new new ticket what 's wrong with sending them a voucher y'know , a properly produced voucher that we c that 's controlled properly by and all they do is guarantee any travel at their normal travel agent , do the business , attach the voucher to the B S P |
| 6 | When a girl was a marriageable age , her father advertised this by placing a pot of sweet basil on the windowsill of his house ; the young man interested in finding himself a bride would send a matchmaker to her parents , as guarantors of his good character . |
| 7 | Petri often quoted the older man 's opinion : ‘ He called me his most genuine pupil and tried everything to further me , recommended me to managers and conductors , sent to me all the pupils he did not want to take , and was instrumental in getting me the appointment of Professor of Piano at the Royal College of Manchester , England , where I remained from 1905 to 1911 ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ Then you 'd probably see your way clear to getting me a bottle of Scotch instead . ’ |
| 9 | But he is also an American and before he guns you down in cold blood , in the manner you so justly deserve I might add , I 'm sure he will see his way clear to giving you a dying request . ’ |
| 10 | I 've also had people at forty plus telling me the same thing which is a nonsense . |
| 11 | ‘ Matt Busby would have dealt with this by buying me a bottle of champagne . |
| 12 | He normally managed this by allowing himself a few seconds of pure indulgence in sensation and then thinking of something neutral for a while and , if this did n't work , something really horrible . |
| 13 | Sam solved this by getting himself a loading job . |
| 14 | And since I am raising this question of the universalizing and the depersonalizing of egoism as it becomes poetic dedication in poetry , I 'd like to do this by offering you a contrast , and I choose as my contrast Alexander Pope , another poet who was obsessively concerned with his own role as a poet — in his satires in this case . |
| 15 | They have done this by asking what the British really want from a holiday . |
| 16 | Richard , however , had already made overtures of friendship to the Sicilian king and cemented this by giving him a rich and generous gift — Excalibur , the magical sword of King Arthur . |
| 17 | They can execrate someone whom they decide is a useless clown and they do this by making him a Lord , giving him the chairmanship of a quango and telling the chaps at the Athenaeum to hand him non-executive directorships in 15 companies and a merchant bank . |
| 18 | Some teachers guard against this by making it a principle never to award an A. According to a French adage quoted by Remi Clignet ( 1974 , p. 349 ) , the maximum of 20 is ‘ given only to God , 19 to his saints , 18 to the professor 's professor , 17 to the professor himself ’ — so the student of French composition ca n't be expected to score more than 16 ! |
| 19 | Further , the employment of an agent may be such as to give him an authority to contract on behalf of his principal generally with regard to a wider or narrower class of affairs ; and as between the principal and third parties such authority can not be limited by restrictions imposed by the principal , but not known to third parties . |
| 20 | With his splendid physique and proud , noble head his presence is such as to give him an instant advantage over any bowler , and he has rarely failed to put that advantage to use ; spinners in particular have suffered at his hands , but when he decides that he wants to score runs it is virtually impossible to bowl to him . |
| 21 | Indeed , the type of man who organised local seamen 's societies in the 1870s 1880s and 1890s was often such as to give them a bad name . |
| 22 | THE VISUAL richness of Philip Prowse 's stage for his adaptation of Oscar Wilde 's novel is such as to make it the theatrical equivalent of one of those packed galleries in the Louvre , so pell mell with works of art that the task is to know where to fix the eye . |
| 23 | But the establishment of these facts is only one step on the way to a consideration of whether , in all the circumstances , the situation created by the delay is such as to make it an unfair employment of the powers of the court any longer to hold the defendant to account . |
| 24 | They do have other uses of course , such as giving you an early , audible warning of a bite you have not yet seen , and allow you to attend to other things like pouring a cup of coffee and watering the horse , without the risk of missing a bite . |
| 25 | By sliding the narrow strip through the slots , combinations such as Give me the English book may be formed . |
| 26 | There was no doubting her sister 's passion as she struggled to express her resentment , writing : — on my life Lily I declare I want only what is best for the child and would not be Cruel to him nor the cause of Cruelty and what you asked was Cruel the child knowing no Italian and being Fearful of leaving me the only Mother he has known and who he loves as his own . |
| 27 | Fearful of waking him a second time I waited . |
| 28 | It just seems right to bring a hobby , my experience and a livelihood together and we are very set on giving it a go , ’ Mrs Rowan said . |
| 29 | Suppose that he has to produce , not the complete works of Shakespeare but just the short sentence " Methinks it is like a weasel " , and we shall make it relatively easy by giving him a typewriter with a restricted keyboard , one with just the 26 ( capital ) letters , and a space bar . |
| 30 | Legal records are unique in giving us an inkling of how people of the age saw the world about them . |