Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Neil tried to calm himself by a grave examination of the doll , as though it were one of his patients , holding the tiny wrist to take the pulse , only to see the laughter on her face , and for that to provoke him to further inward excesses . |
| 2 | It is time , it is thought , for English to organize itself in ways that make it more like a proper academic discipline , with clear procedures and goals . |
| 3 | In this sense , pluralism has for some become something of an Aunt Sally , to be knocked down through juxtaposing the idealised equal distribution of power assumed in pluralist theory with the actual inequalities in the distribution of power found in Western liberal democracies . |
| 4 | For this convinced him of how essential was religious practice to all civilizations . |
| 5 | The competition lacked the prestige of the League Championship , and its future looked uncertain as one club after another abandoned it by successfully applying to enter the Football League — Bristol City in 1901 , Chelsea in 1905 , Fulham in 1907 and Tottenham in 1908 . |
| 6 | Pat found herself wondering whether to return to Purley , but decided after all to establish herself in the South West and spread the Medau message by taking up teaching again after her rather brief retirement . |
| 7 | This advocate of the ‘ intelligent education of the hand and eye ’ had after all shown himself to be a resourceful manufacturer . |
| 8 | He strangled her — after first manacling her with handcuffs , torturing her and sexually assaulting her , the prosecution alleged . |
| 9 | The significance of this was to give a much-needed niche for future leaders of the Third World in the years after 1945 to prepare themselves for their daunting task . |
| 10 | It would have surprised Claudia if Dana did have any money ; she earned a great deal but spent it as fast as she made it , and , while it made sense for Roman to bring her under his wing , Claudia resented it fiercely . |
| 11 | with header : ’ HERE IS YOUR WORLD CUP STRIKER DRILLO ’ ( drillo is norway 's boss ) and picture of Fat-Frank putting it in ( hmm tha ball that eez ) . |
| 12 | Sally Prosser ( Wentworth ) gave Britain a third Asian title in four weeks when a final round of 75 carried her to victory in the JAL Malaysian Open at Rahman Putra in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday . |
| 13 | Of course he has been over it a million times in his mind , but when the normal glide speed is 160kts , with the drop tanks you should have 175kts , add another 15 on top of that to flare it from a descent , and he really needed 200 kts to make a decent landing in those conditions . |
| 14 | Frankly , none of that interests me in the slightest . |
| 15 | For example in one school we asked the head of French to show us on the shelves the books she had ordered under the project . |
| 16 | Another twenty minutes of this reduces me to a disorientated wreck , near to tears and vomiting . |
| 17 | Paper circulates today in vast quantities , and you need only to retrieve some of this to provide yourself with an adequate body of notes at no cost at all . |
| 18 | The tiny white fruiting bodies of this provide them with their food . |
| 19 | The movement of this reminds me of er stage set and the figures on the bench could almost be actors and actresses and with the figure at the bottom here , the male at the bottom , well its not quite at bottom , tucked away at the side there , he , he , he looks like erm , like a harlequin figure , maybe a mischief maker , er I , I felt there was a lot of fun in this painting and a lot of erm , er gravado and , and stage specs , that kind of thing , so this poem is called for obvious reasons People Of The Nile , and I 'll read it twice , probably be the best way Ancient people drawn on a vase , tell a tale , warn a friend , man dressed in red holds back a curtain , over hears and tells , they are gossiping people , playing Chinese whispers , so I , I , I quite wanted to give that er a , a contemporary updated feel , erm , I read that again for the people who may of just seen the picture at the back People Of The Nile , Ancient people drawn on a vase , tell a tale , warn a friend , man dressed in red holds back a curtain , over hears and tells , they are gossiping people , playing chinese whispers , erm , the next one , we 'll have to put you on wheels I think |
| 20 | Samantha Newbery 's IQ of 156 puts her among Britain 's cleverest one per cent according to Mensa , the club for geniuses . |
| 21 | The cut fell on 145 , one over par , and consequently 63 of the original field of 83 made it under what is known as the ‘ 10-stroke rule ’ — anyone who is within 10 shots of the leader , on the theoretical grounds that it is still possible to win from there . |
| 22 | A break of 83 put him in front for the first time adding a 70 clearance in the sixth after Wattana led 58-0 . |
| 23 | All accounts of Six describe him as a competent yet modest and unassuming man of great integrity , and a devout Christian . |
| 24 | The Oxford public orator of 1960 commended him for all he had done in persuading Oxford undergraduates to a reasonable faith and called him a most penetrating interpreter of the New Testament and a very powerful bulwark of Mother Church . |
| 25 | ‘ My nan waited up till half past three to see us on The Chart Show , ’ says guitarist Rat shaking a tousled head . |
| 26 | ‘ My nan waited up till half past three to see us on The Chart Show , ’ says guitarist Rat shaking a tousled head . |
| 27 | His final round of 73 left him on 279 , five strokes behind the winner , Australian Peter Fowler , who shot 67 for a two-stroke triumph . |
| 28 | Half of these make it to the training yards , and not all of them , by a long way , will ever make it to a race track . |
| 29 | Only the last of these put him in a bad light , but it is enough . |
| 30 | ‘ I think all the things that I initially tried to recruit carers were n't successful — I went to talk to vicars and community centres and the job centre , and wherever — none of these provided me with … well one vicar provided me with somebody . |