Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After speeding across the moors and winding through woodland he at last found her and together they flowed slowly as one out into the Hamoaze . |
| 2 | ‘ Of course you re fair , ’ Dwayne says . |
| 3 | I think the problem is perhaps that when we love that we no , we never love the same degree , the two people do n't li , love exactly the same way that in every relationship there is one who loves and one who is loved , one who kisses and one who is kissed and I think perhaps this balance if the relationship is weak , this kind of works it out that , that then they eventually split up , that one goes the other way and the ca n't stay together . |
| 4 | For years we in this country have been accustomed to say ‘ American education is superficial ’ or ‘ the trouble with American students is that they have no idea of scholarship ’ . |
| 5 | Near Medina he at last found Ibrahim , who declined to discuss politics . |
| 6 | Adultery features in this novel , as it did in Stand We At Last and Here Today , another of her novels . |
| 7 | Yeah I 'll I 'll check what I 've got booked where and then I 'll I 'll get in touch you for next week . |
| 8 | A course may change radically without changing its title ; conversely , re-titling a course may simply be an exercise in re-packaging it for external consumption . |
| 9 | Attempts are made to route them into low-level manual work regardless of ability or level of motivation for further education , and discrimination in entry to training schemes acts as a further block to employment and careers ( Wrench , 1987 , 1990 ) . |
| 10 | The obvious thing to do with such an important heiress was to betroth her to one of his sons and the fact that he chose his third son , Geoffrey , shows that Richard was still marked out as the future Duke of Aquitaine . |
| 11 | It seemed , at that moment , to distress her above all others . |
| 12 | If you 'd planned to set his mind like glue on wedding you to this Islesman , you could n't have done better . |
| 13 | Emma Cons lived on for another twelve years , continuing to work at her housing projects : but a new chapter had opened in the history of what was to become the Old Vic , as Lilian Baylis began to programme it for early films and then light opera and later Shakespeare . |
| 14 | to inverse it with that . |
| 15 | One idea is to encapsulate the haemoglobin in spherical structures of fatty material called liposomes , or to cross-link it with chemical agents . |
| 16 | He was seeking advice with regard to the Council 's refusal to rehouse him in suitable ground floor accommodation . |
| 17 | Although Charlie was still thin — now a flyweight — and not all that tall , once his seventeenth birthday had come and gone he noticed that the ladies on the corner of the Whitechapel Road , who were still placing white feathers on anyone wearing civilian clothes who looked as if they might be between the ages of eighteen and forty , were beginning to eye him like impatient vultures . |
| 18 | ‘ Aye , ’ I nodded slowly , hoping to content her with this , then looked away and up to one side as though I had just found something very interesting and important to look at on the ceiling . |
| 19 | As he did so , he was all too aware of the ache and stiffness in his injured arm and leg , threatening to handicap him in any confrontation with an enemy . |
| 20 | But , as Alison Lurie observed in the Language of Clothes ( Bloomsbury , £11.99 ) , ‘ The entire history of female fashion in this century can be viewed as a series of more or less successful campaigns to force , flatter or bribe women back into uncomfortable or awkward styles in order to handicap them in professional competition with men . ’ |
| 21 | The conventional treatment for large tumours , deep within the body , is to bombard them with powerful doses of gamma radiation . |
| 22 | Once they are in place , you can have the shingle delivered — it can be dumped directly on to a drive site from the road , but you 'll need to barrow it to remote garden paths , so set planks on the lawn if you have to run across it . |
| 23 | That is a good illustration of the strength of the voluntary agreement approach to advertising and of the weakness of seeking to enshrine it in statutory to legal bounds . |
| 24 | It was about er the press and unemployment and it was about the way the effects of unemployment were written about in well broadsheet and popular newspapers , it also involved a bit of a study where I gave people some articles to show which had been typed up in a fairly anonymous format and , and got them to rate them in various ways and that was in , let me see , nineteen eighty three long long time ago |
| 25 | It was his intention to people it with English colonists , but it is difficult to say how far he succeeded , since there is virtually no information about the civilian population of Calais . |
| 26 | Your solicitor will be able to advice you on financial matters , and the local Social Work Centre or Hospital Social Worker can also help . |
| 27 | GPs or local family planning clinics will be able to advice you on these . |
| 28 | A better method of laying the slabs is to bed them on five little heaps of cement and sand : a 1:6 mix would be ample . |
| 29 | This is not the time to subject me to some kind of general knowledge quiz … or to make love to me , although heaven knows I 'd like you to . |
| 30 | When a programme has been developed to a stage where it is appropriate to subject it to observational tests it is confirmations rather than falsifications that are of paramount importance , according to Lakatos . |