Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Andy , my anaesthesiologist , gave me a smile and a pre-med jab and left me to float in a warm sea-green calm which was interrupted by the slap of rubber swing-doors and a breathless , ‘ Hi , my name 's Nudleman . |
| 2 | Vases in the Marine Style , including rhytons , bridge-spouted jugs and three-handled amphoras , are decorated with triton shells , argonauts , octopuses , starfish , rocks and seaweed — all of them treated in a free and fluid way . |
| 3 | Bartlemas had an enormous private income , and the pair of them lived in a tall Victorian house in Islington , which was filled to the brim with play-bills , prints , prompt copies , figurines and other souvenirs of their two heroes . |
| 4 | Some of them lived in a rented house , while the Taiwan Ten took over the garage and yard . |
| 5 | I wanted to go out last week , but he said , ‘ No way , you 're not going out there ’ , and he made me stay in the whole week . |
| 6 | In my own section , towards the middle of the cloakroom , I saw to my horror two lines of girls staring at me and giggling , and as I came near , one of them asked in a sarcastic voice where I came from . |
| 7 | You will find them listed in the Yellow Pages . |
| 8 | Our main purpose in life is to make people aware of the problem , to make them think of their own vulnerability and responsibility and make them act in a safe and sensible way . |
| 9 | Many health policies in Third World countries are based on at least the vocabulary of this approach though the political climate does not always encourage such radical rethinking of health care nor does the training of most health workers prepare them to work in the new ways implied in the PHC philosophy . |
| 10 | They might have them frozen in the frozen bit , frozen gateaux and stuff |
| 11 | Some of them appear in the above list , for a hard line can not be drawn . |
| 12 | Galleys took some small part in the indecisive battle of Cape Matapan between the Turkish and Venetian fleets in 1717 ; but apart from the large fleets of them maintained in the Baltic by Russia and Sweden they had become obsolete long before the end of this period . |
| 13 | Thus , one might characterize one 's grasp on the experience of seeming to see a red object as something is going on in me ( I do n't know what it is ) which is like what goes on when a red object is acting on my eyes ; or … like what goes on in me to make me behave in a red-object-appropriate way . |
| 14 | ( 1981 ) also shows how positive measures to meet the needs of visually handicapped pupils can help them to flourish in a happy community atmosphere . |
| 15 | He lifted his shoulders and let them fall in a dismissive shrug . |
| 16 | When I became in a conscious way feminist I pondered long what it meant that a woman could not in such a way depict Christ as being in her image . |
| 17 | Because I asked in the other classes , three or four American students , and I asked them the same question . |
| 18 | There is a perception amongst informed people in the community that there may well be a shortage of long stay beds in Leicestershire and you do need to bear in mind that the National Health Service is increasingly going down the road of not keeping people in hospitals longer than they have to because hospitals are perceived as being very , a very expensive way of providing beds and you have to take that into account because that 's a fairly clear national policy and you are likely to see an acceleration in that process from what I read in the national press . |
| 19 | Well this highlights my point I made in a previous message … how many of the above transfers out can you say we should have got more ? |
| 20 | To those who point to Britain 's right , under the Maastricht Treaty on European Union , to choose not to be part of the Single Currency , I recommend a passing glance at a passage in a speech I made in the closing stages of the second reading of the European Communities ( Amendment ) Bill on 21 May 1992 . |
| 21 | The comparison that I made in The Independent newspaper was based on what the Secretary of State 's own review had recommended as the number required to run the system . |
| 22 | That afternoon she and I devised in the small front room of our lodgings ( pliant landlady , audience of children ) a double act : the Carruthers Sisters . |
| 23 | No they 're not gon na exploit their own workers but surely the , the , the whole idea of the build up towards land reform is that you are making , I mean in a Marxist sense it 's the only way in which you can do it is , is you make progress through conflict . |
| 24 | I mean in a different town , not just |
| 25 | But I mean in the actual downstairs , in the living room |
| 26 | er present work , and so I mean , you , you , could say we 'll take it , er two or three hundred complaints from London , and buy time I suppose , erm to see if if if er work up here had picked up or natural wastage went or what ever , erm , if it did n't go up then , I mean in the long term , erm one could n't envisage keeping on with more staff than what 's thought to be a fairly generously assessed formula anyway , says we need . |
| 27 | I mean in the neural network terms we just use a summation function . |
| 28 | Er , I mean in the olden days , they used , they they usually the sent to the colonies or , sent into the army or or into religion , were n't they . |
| 29 | I must explain that and I eat in a special compartment , screened from the other foreign friends , who pay for their own meals . |
| 30 | In Chapter 2 I argued in a similar vein that the concept of an ontological existent involves the idea of non-arbitrariness , in the sense that by positing something as an ontological existent , i.e. as existing in its own right and not merely as an object of someone 's thought , we are by implication positing this something as a potential subject of a nun-arbitrary subset of predicates from among an indefinite number of meaningful predicates . |