Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | There are today houses with the remains of ingenious devices for channelling away the water . |
| 32 | Egypt and Syria have a smaller stake in the war , but they also have sound pragmatic reasons for seeing off a rival . |
| 33 | I think some people do think that is selfish and that marriage is about bringing up a family and looking after the house . ’ |
| 34 | You may have worries about bringing up the subject of safer sex in case your partner thinks you are ‘ easy ’ or that you have ‘ slept around ’ . |
| 35 | [ J. Hall , Trial of Abraham Thornton , 1926 ; The Times , 11 , 25 August , 7 , 18 , 24 November 1817 , 26 , 30 January , 7 , 9 February , 17 , 21 April 1818 ; E. A. Kendall , An Argument for construing largely the Right of an Appellee of Murder , 1817 ; Luke Booker , A Moral Review of the Conduct and Case of Mary Ashford ; E. Holroyd , Observations Upon the Case of Abraham Thornton , 1819 . ] |
| 36 | Ian Cocking just about manages to persuade the council that the ramp is worth keeping so the ramp is fixed up but a botch job on one piece of coping makes any trick other then just plain rock 'n' rolls virtually impossible . |
| 37 | In France there had already been speculation , followed by disaster , when John Law persuaded the government to unite all the French colonies into a single vast Company for trading up the Mississippi and in the Indies , which was then used as the base for a wild expansion of the French currency . |
| 38 | Do use them for mopping up the blood on the new road . |
| 39 | The reasons for keeping down the number of updates to an inverted file are discussed below , and the form of a dual serial-inverted file system is shown in Fig. 8.4 . |
| 40 | If you find this comfortable , then it 's a great benefit for keeping out the spindrift when winter climbing . |
| 41 | ‘ It 's a Brandy Mac , the best thing for keeping out the cold . |
| 42 | And er , I thought I 'd probably have wall paper on that wall , you know , use , use the curtains just as plenty of fullness , but have them for keeping out the light or keeping in the heat , |
| 43 | But was damnably plagu 'd for to find out the Sign |
| 44 | There is little chance of the " professional " participator emerging with real understanding , for to find out the truth of religion it has to be wrestled with and lived , not just safely and probably patronizingly studied from a safe distance . |
| 45 | Chaabane had in June 1991 been appointed " first adviser to the President on human rights " [ see p. 38363 ] and had been responsible for explaining abroad the government 's policy towards the Islamic movement and on electoral reform . |
| 46 | Short-term money market accounts yielding high interest were abolished , to be replaced by a " Social Development Fund " where short-term money would be pooled to finance the debts of state and local government , blamed by the government as being primarily responsible for driving up the money supply . |
| 47 | As it is such an important programming tool , with such important consequences for musicians ' careers , it is worth understanding how the playlist is chosen . |
| 48 | A two-year research project has produced what is called the home bus system , a set of standards for wiring up the home with coaxial cable . |
| 49 | What was needed , and what perhaps lay behind its inauguration , was an atmosphere of mutual confidence among its members , and especially between France and West Germany , which was to be produced through tackling together a list of specific problems by stipulated deadlines . |
| 50 | This is in addition to the normal purposes of cuts , such as keeping up the pace of the story , or giving emphasis to actions or reactions . |
| 51 | She had no time to spare for embarrassment , due to shoes totally unsuitable for climbing down a cliff path . |
| 52 | Two huntsmen have been jailed for two months for knocking down a hunt saboteur with a four wheeled buggy . |
| 53 | But if you want to see the beauty of Corsica without worrying about driving over a cliff edge , try The Trembler . |
| 54 | When we stroll past the front of the van I peep up to check the reaction , and I guess that the two cops hunched inside see these two anxious faces glancing nervously , and they decide it is n't worth climbing out the van for , and I reckon that if I was them I too would lock the doors and stay inside . |
| 55 | So your rule of thumb , for starting , is that if somebody 's spending more than two or three hours a day , perhaps , on accounts or stock-taking or whatever , then it might be worth checking out the possibility of using a computer . |
| 56 | Moon Valley Software 's Icon Hear-It is a program offering lots of fun utilities for brightening up the Window Desktop . |
| 57 | Moon Valley Software 's Icon Hear-It is a program offering lots of fun utilities for brightening up the Window Desktop . |
| 58 | Hand-painted in ten different colourways to match the china , the tiles are proving popular not only for the floor and fireplace surrounds , but for brightening up the area around kitchen Agas . |
| 59 | Shilton , winner of a record 125 caps and a star of three World Cup campaigns , received the red card for slicing down an opponent in front of just 4,194 fans at humble Hull . |
| 60 | Here 's an end to worrying about totting up the calories in food and wondering whether you are eating the right thing . |