Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Serve the slags right for beating us at home . |
| 2 | Well , it would serve them right for treating her like a baby . |
| 3 | A letter to a Front soldier from a citizen of Görlitz in late June or early July 1940 undoubtedly spoke for many in stating that , following the ‘ unimaginably great ’ events which had been seen each week in the newsreels , ‘ we will never be able to thank the Führer and brave army enough for sparing us at home the horrors of war ’ , and that an ‘ immensely great ’ future awaited Germany ‘ in the construction of Europe after the final victory ’ . |
| 4 | it 's following on from what Geoff was saying er and I think it 's perhaps worth mentioning something about coastal zone management and estuary management . |
| 5 | Do n't worry too much about providing her with a healthy diet for the time being — the strangest combinations of food can provide an adequate intake of nutrients and children can be perfectly healthy on remarkably little . |
| 6 | Trevor , thanks very much for joining us on the programme . |
| 7 | Okay Alan , well thanks very much for joining us on the programme this afternoon |
| 8 | What amazes me is how often they 'll say to me ‘ Thank you very much for treating me like a human being ’ because however drunk they are in the churchyard I always believe that you 're much more likely to get somewhere with somebody if you are polite and kind to them and treat them like a real human being , and you can get into all sorts of fascinating conversations with these people even when they are fairly drunk , because actually they are real human beings , they are n't awful people . |
| 9 | There is a further cause-effect or condition-effect relation to be noted , but it will be best to do so after noting one between causal circumstance and effect , implied already . |
| 10 | Well erm erm had a word with erm who was about oh fourth in line in the erm education hierarchy in those days and erm then spoke to who was the Chief Education Officer and er , I think they were a bit erm , bit apprehensive about employing a blind typist because erm it was something that they had never had any experience of but in the end they thought it was worth a try and er especially after supporting me at the College and erm also perhaps they had in mind that many of the erm employees would be leaving if war broke out and erm , in fact by that time war had probably started |
| 11 | As control of pests and diseases consists basically of subjecting them to conditions or substances that are harmful to them , we have to recognize that , as they have all evolved defences of one kind or another — and very successfully too , which is why they are still on this Earth and contending with us for our roses — somewhere in their life cycles are periods and stages when they are more exposed and vulnerable . |
| 12 | He acknowledges her humiliation by jumping out of his side of the car , coming round to hers , opening the door for her and waiting ostentatiously for her awkwardly to tuck her legs inside before closing it with a little bow . |
| 13 | My mother will take care of you while I get the house together , ’ he said , embracing her gently before taking us into the house . |
| 14 | The new matrix is symmetric , since both its i , jth and j , ith elements are unity ; moreover , its determinant is -1 , since in moving the jth row to the ith position unc we cross j — i rows ; but the original ith row is now the i + 1th and so in taking it to the jth position we cross j — i — 1 rows . |
| 15 | Even here , however , the separate heading is worth preserving , since modern style-studies can and do content themselves with the mere description of distinctive linguistic patterns , abstaining not only from relating them to external factors such as authors or literary movements , but also from attributing to them any specific literary function . |
| 16 | The appeal was based upon the consideration that Harris could have suffered foetal brain damage as a result of alcohol abuse by his mother , or from blows inflicted by his father who had tried to abort the foetus , but had succeeded only in causing it to be born three months prematurely . |
| 17 | He tried to stop it but succeeded only in propelling it across the line . |
| 18 | AS OPPOSITION to the palace coup in Peru mounts inside and outside the country , it seems President Alberto Fujimori , by turning the guns of dictatorship against his own government , has succeeded only in shooting himself in the foot . |
| 19 | It was a dirty trick to put it into to poor Mary Lou 's desk said Jean , she ca n't help being scared of things I suppose , she almost jumped out of her skin when she saw it , I should of thought any joker in our form would of been decent enough to popped it into say Alicia 's desk , not if it happened to be Alicia who popped it in said a sly voice , you do so love playing tricks do n't you Alicia ? |
| 20 | The East Germans were not set on abolishing the distinction between town and country , just perhaps on smothering it in a pall of acidic smoke and rain . |
| 21 | If the threat of ( big ) wars is small , it will make sense to spend more of that money researching and developing weapons and less on putting them into full-scale production — or on training and feeding expensive troops . |
| 22 | The safety of an army in the field is dependent not only on defending itself against direct attack but also on its maintaining open communications with its base … we should be as much concerned with threats to the rear as with threats to the front . |
| 23 | John Urry and I then broadened it and transformed it to make it the cornerstone of our chapter on postmodernism in The End of Organized Capitalism , especially by locating it within a framework of a book which is essentially a comparative political economy of advanced capitalist societies . |
| 24 | It 's also worth noting that if leather corals are disturbed , especially by introducing them into an unfamiliar aquarium , the polyps will retract and it may take several days for them to reopen . |
| 25 | He was never patronizing , and freely admitted that ‘ if I taught them anything , I certainly learnt ( as ) much by watching them at work . ’ |
| 26 | Imagine a mercantile agent who obtains possession of the goods ( perhaps by borrowing them from the owner ) and who shows them to X , an innocent prospective purchaser . |
| 27 | Christmas is not the reality of the Christian faith : it is a sign of God 's gracious invitation to celebrate his love personally by welcoming him into our hearts and lives , not just once a year but every day we live . |
| 28 | Geometrical demonstrations which prove something to be true of all triangles do not do so by proving it to be true of an abstract triangle to which all triangles correspond . |
| 29 | The reasoning behind it being that she would not be able to come to terms with the notion of her mother being dead , so by removing her from the place where the tragedy had occurred and allowing enough time to pass , she would better be able to come to terms with her loss . |
| 30 | Only by supplying something outside the poem — claims for intention , the ostensible participation of the language in recognisable ( and thus containable ) poetic conventions , the equation of Astrophil with Sidney and his love with Penelope Rich ( the sequence 's Stella ) and then a testing of the language 's claim against their history — could the referential quality of the poem 's language be critically maintained . |