Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was afraid , waiting for Mum to raise her hand , but she did not move . |
| 2 | GMTV took over the morning franchise from TV-am and last month brought in LWT 's chief executive Greg Dyke as chairman to spearhead its fight for more viewers . |
| 3 | The Secretary of State for Defence roused his audience with a fierce attack on Labour over its Brighton conference decisions on defence and the appearance at a fringe meeting there of Gerry Adams , the Sinn Fein leader . |
| 4 | Teachers looking for funding to support their research can apply to the Scottish Office Education Department for a grant under its sponsored research programme . |
| 5 | The concept of publication , a creation of the age of printing , begins to evaporate as printing yields its monopoly in the world of communication ; so , even more disturbingly , does a more fundamental concept which long antedates printing , that of the stable document . |
| 6 | The tax was rushed through Parliament to ensure its arrival on the statute books before the election , and it may repeat some of the community charge 's mistakes . |
| 7 | It must be for Parliament to decide what documentary material or testimony it requires and the extent to which Parliamentary privilege should attach . |
| 8 | In the next year and a half Dr Chick expects to apply to America 's Food and Drug Administration for permission to test his device in people . |
| 9 | If someone has looked after your child for 5 years or more they could apply to the court for permission to adopt your child . |
| 10 | Science for instance makes its contribution by studiously avoiding social and political comment : it thus misses the way that it is inextricably bound up with dominant values , amongst them attitudes which assume ethnocentric and nationalistic positions . |
| 11 | Well what 's so funny about mum having her head sliced off ? |
| 12 | Thus suppose , to take a less bloodthirsty example , that Pooh 's desire for honey makes his belief that there 's some in the cupboard cause him to go to the cupboard to get it . |
| 13 | For example , when a householder is in the market for double-glazing does he resort to Yellow Pages , take the advice of a neighbour , or depend on one of the well-known and heavily advertised names ? |
| 14 | Now when interest charges fall , the person who is buying the house benefits from the reduction in interest charges , but the person who is renting a house in local authority and then in this case nobody , nobody else in Harlow to rent it from , is faced with , not with a decreased monthly rental , but with an ever increasing one because as more and more Council houses are sold the cost of maintaining that there , the superstructure of the town , the cost of maintaining Council houses goes on increasing and so the burden is laid on the tenants and the tenant can find , will find himself that pound for pound increasing his rent while the house owner is decreasing his mortgage charges and at the end of the day the tenant is paying increased rent , increased rate and with nothing to show for it , erm , I 've always been in favour of a sale , of , of property er owner occupiers , but not at the expense of the people who can not afford to be owner occupiers , ah , to my mind , the present housing system is designed to maintain the existing class structure because even with the large discounts that one gets and nobody 's ever yet convinced me that why you should get a discount because you buy a Council house , but if you buy one privately owned you ca n't get a discount and it , there 's , this , this is so utter nonsense , but it is throwing a much heavier burden every time a house is sold on the remaining houses which are for rent , and so you that , although the idea is to make it a classless this society with more and more people owning their own properties the mo the mere fact that the majority of people in the town can not afford to buy even the reduced priced Council house , is an example that the , the system , the class system a division by income still exists . |
| 15 | I think it may well be necessary for Chapter to terminate his contract with us in the near future . ’ |
| 16 | The sound of wheels tearing through gravel engrossed her memory . |
| 17 | The line through 501 indicates that Mr R. James departed after lunch settling his account of £80.15 by Access credit card . |
| 18 | I returned to his caravan the following afternoon after school bearing my load , which was by then little more than a dusty stain on the inside of a beaker . |
| 19 | But , in the final analysis , if you ca n't get any help , if he wo n't refer you to a specialist for help change your doctor ! |
| 20 | The government in January 1990 gave up its attempt to join the Union monétaire ouest africaine ( UMOA ) , whose members ' currencies were linked to the French franc , and decided to turn to Portugal for help to make its currency convertible . |
| 21 | Ipuky was caught too off guard to conceal his reaction . |
| 22 | In May 1938 , Miss Campbell issued a printed appeal for assistance giving her address as c/o Department of Botany , British Museum ( Nat . |
| 23 | The noise levels were deafening and you came off work feeling your head would explode . |
| 24 | I 've had to take time off work to get my ticket . |
| 25 | It 's a chance for rugby to throw its weight around . |
| 26 | Another sip of whisky cleared his brow and restored his prevailing expression of geniality . |
| 27 | And Lancaster was just the sort of geezer to know his solicitor 's telephone number off by heart . |
| 28 | Many of the species of owl swallow their prey whole and so there is minimal breakage of postcranial elements . |
| 29 | Robyn tipped back her head and allowed the sharp , cool tang of champagne to enter her mouth . |
| 30 | Thibaud IV of Champagne defended his decision to hang a criminal by asserting that he was the devil incarnate ; yet the prince could not prevail against St Bernard 's cry ‘ I will hang this murderer myself ! ’ |