Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Promoters , The Mean Fiddler Group , are said to be seeking compensation for non-fulfilment of his contract as well as a separate settlement for bringing their organisation into disrepute . |
| 2 | For the last forty years population growth has been used an explanation for African famine , allowing us to blame Africans for bringing their poverty upon themselves . |
| 3 | All through the first part of the interview — the crazy part , when she had been talking about seeing her son in the house — Hank had been telling the straight truth . |
| 4 | Great Universal , one of the UK 's leading home shopping catalogues , is packed with ingenious ideas for transforming your house into a dream home . |
| 5 | Thomas , who testified first , vehemently denied Hill 's charges and himself took the offensive against liberal Democrats for allowing his reputation to be destroyed in public hearings , televised to the world . |
| 6 | Rami Dotan was sentenced to 13 years in prison on March 27 for using his position as the Israeli Air Force 's chief procurement officer to embezzle at least US$6,000,000 . |
| 7 | A Texan jury on December 20th convicted Don ‘ Big Daddy ’ Dixon for using his bank as a personal piggy-bank ; the next day prosecutors announced that they had squeezed a guilty plea from Edwin ‘ Fast Eddie ’ McBirney , who admitted to artful manipulation of deposits at Sunbelt Savings Association , the largest S&L ever to fail in Texas . |
| 8 | This is a time for using your creativity to its fullest extent . |
| 9 | The other thing is you can claim an allowance for using your room against your tax , that 's one |
| 10 | The exercise of cooperating with the other people , even though they 're in the same relative area than in this case it may be use of facilities for leisure , is not very easy and there may be a very very good cause to have a proper course in how to get on with other people , in these sort of cooperative ventures , so thank you for , for drawing our attention to it , it is an interes would be an interesting exercise to . |
| 11 | I am grateful to Ken Robinson ( 1981 ) for drawing my attention to Tormey 's writings on Expression . |
| 12 | Thank you for drawing my attention to your proposed exhibition , I did indeed receive your telephone message , but other pressures prevented me from responding to it before you had also handed in your portfolio . |
| 13 | I am grateful to him for drawing my attention to that . |
| 14 | I thank my hon. Friend for drawing my attention to the representations that he has made . |
| 15 | I am grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for Newham , North-West ( Mr. Banks ) for drawing my attention to the article in the Evening Standard . |
| 16 | The President-elect got straight down to work yesterday with a meeting with the team responsible for easing his passage into power on January 20 . |
| 17 | I would like to thank you for helping my case by removing the names of my coauthors — Jim Bull and Robert Paxton — from the article ‘ Why some insects look pretty nasty ’ ( 6 January , p 26 ) . |
| 18 | Law binds not because it says it does ( although it does say just that ) but because there are good reasons for accepting its claim to mandatoriness and these good reasons have to do with what law can do for us in certain situations of social opportunity , difficulty and peril . |
| 19 | I think Mrs Stove was a little worried about trusting her daughter to me that particular summer , as it was the one after I 'd struck young Paul down in his prime , but at nine years of age I was an obviously happy and well-adjusted child , responsible and well-spoken and , when it was mentioned , demonstrably sad about my younger brother 's demise . |
| 20 | The Franciscans had a specially charismatic gift for transmitting their understanding of the inward nature of redemption . |
| 21 | Had General Francis not had his two sticks propped against his chair as a tangible reminder of his condition , and had he not , as had now been explained to me , been making this social call to thank me for nursing his son after paying a second professional visit himself to Bernard Remington-Hart , his appearance and that Rolls outside would have frozen Margaret into a prissy caricature of her normal self . |
| 22 | It is proposed that hypertext systems go some way towards providing students with alternative structures for organizing their knowledge of electronic publishing . |
| 23 | ‘ I know not why he troubled — keeping us both standing about catching our death of cold ! ’ |
| 24 | You may snort and think that this is very far-fetched but you can be assured that the majority of lecturers who appear before you not only know their subjects but are enthusiastic about them and about transmitting their knowledge to you . |
| 25 | He 's good about helping my mum in the house . |
| 26 | ‘ That 's what you get for sticking your dick in a plug socket . ’ |
| 27 | I 'll bollock him for sticking his rubbish in my cu cupboards . |
| 28 | The other feature , I think , of the debt that 's worth drawing your attention to is a sharp shift towards variable debt compared to a year ago , a number of our swaps have matured , we 've put one new one in er , some of our medium term notes have matured in the , in the States and we 're at last in a position to take more advantage of er , lower , short term variable interest rates than we were . |
| 29 | Erm I told you about that chap Michael Bell who wrote to me about using my book as play , I 'll read you his letter some other week . |
| 30 | A strong iron pan for cooking our food on board . |