Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She closed her eyes for a second , and then opened them to see a glimpse of concern on Guy Sterne 's dark face . |
| 2 | Nevertheless the conservatives who manned the Juntas were not provincial separatists : they were inspired , not merely by a vague programme of reform on a national level , but by a sense of order that forced them to see the necessity of a central government . |
| 3 | He declared that it provides time for the family to gather or the body to be transported home and it offers an opportunity for them to see the person in a state of peaceful repose . |
| 4 | It was difficult to get them to see the relevance of some of the questions . ’ |
| 5 | In Reg. v. Barrett , 12 J.L.R. 179 , where again the accused applied unsuccessfully for leave to appeal against conviction , the defence contended that the trial judge should have allowed them to see the statement of a witness who had identified the accused at an identification parade 10 days after the commission of the offence , on the ground that , the witness having stated that she had given a description of the accused to the police , the defence were entitled as a matter of law to know the details of that description for the purpose of cross-examining the witness and testing her credibility . |
| 6 | This leads them to see the organization as a well-defined unit and not as the heaving , changing mass with fluctuating boundaries that it really is . |
| 7 | This was done by asking them to report the position of a dot moving round an oscilloscope screen at the moment of the experience . |
| 8 | Poems order experience and share it ; understanding them and writing them involves an act of creativity , and in both activities there is a kind of joy involved when the order of words , or insight into the effect of that order , corresponds with the way things are . |
| 9 | One of them involves the observation of events as they actually occur , and the other involves experimentation which causes events to take place . |
| 10 | A passenger sitting next to me flung a coin into the river with great enthusiasm . |
| 11 | Two thirds of them scratch a living from the soil . |
| 12 | If we look at the Church we find the numbers of monks and secular clergy growing , especially in the eleventh and twelfth centuries ; we also find that more and more of them lived a life of celibacy after the papal reform . |
| 13 | One of his daughters takes me to borrow the telephone of a surly neighbour , who insists I pay for the call . |
| 14 | Nothing forbids me to dramatize the crisis by saying that the individual has found a new sense of his dignity in the knowledge that he is wholly free to choose , with the sole responsibility for his choice . |
| 15 | ‘ Designing a ring is always a lengthy process which involves me producing a number of drawings until the customer and I get it right between us . |
| 16 | ‘ I believe I have two more years of top-class rugby in me and I want them to include a return to the England team . ’ |
| 17 | Admittedly , Popper and Habermas may seem to be strange bedfellows ; for they have entered the lists against each other precisely over their views on knowledge and reason , both of them seeing the other as an unwitting ideologue . |
| 18 | ‘ Do n't be so fucking patronising , ’ she said , turning her back on me to continue a conversation with Geraldine Porter . |
| 19 | ‘ Neither of them fits the picture of a proper mother . ’ |
| 20 | Derek was always very supportive of what I was trying to do — helping me build the aviary in his back garden had made him interested in birds too — but I could n't expect him to drop everything and drive me from Tintagel to London . |
| 21 | ‘ Peter Seabrook helped me build the pond on the programme , ’ he pointed out . |
| 22 | The size of modern language classes in ordinary primary and secondary schools is thought by the teachers in them to inhibit the development of effective teaching methods . |
| 23 | Shortly after the formation of Apple Films ( a subsidiary of the Beatles ' Apple Corps Ltd ) , Ringo and his associate Hilary Gerard had approached us to help them make a film about Arthurian legends and " Magical Britain " . |
| 24 | But do n't let them make a pig of you . |
| 25 | Carvajal was survived by a wife and two sons : one of them became a broker on the exchange , but neither of them seems to have married . |
| 26 | And Gee ( 1975 : 311 ) argues that whereas in I helped them carry the load " I take part in the carrying " , this is not necessarily implied by the sentence with to , where " I need not actually have done any carrying " , as shown by : ( 16a ) I helped them to carry the load by having my secretary get them a cart . |
| 27 | The new business groups were part of an imperial market and often this was far too important to them to risk the fragmentation of nationalism . |
| 28 | So water for me represents the ordinariness of life which Jesus can take and make very special . |
| 29 | So , on my return home , I approached the French Federation and persuaded them to support the idea of a Student World Cup in France ’ , Bonfils recalled . |
| 30 | But erm , yes , so I still do n't know what 's happening with that yet , and I 'm waiting also for them to confirm a date for this first sort of Do Business in France seminar , that we 're going to help them with , which was originally going to be February , and is now going to be March . |