Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " When we shift from saying something to reporting what someone else said , we are changing our footing . |
| 2 | What if the intention is to protect the older person , say by locking them in a room ? |
| 3 | In fact , if glass is prevented from cracking in tension , say by putting it into compression , then it is quite easy to get it to flow like a soft solid ; for instance , glass will behave like putty under the blunt point of a diamond indenter but the shear stresses required to cause flow are well above the normally observed fracture stresses — in common glasses at room temperature usually above 500,000 p.s.i . |
| 4 | So , against Clark , it must be argued that it is misleading to claim that because animals , imbeciles , and normal infants are all weak , defenceless , and at our mercy , to treat any of them in the same way ( say by killing them for food or using them in research ) is ‘ in moral terms , the very same act ’ ( Clark 1978 : 149 ) . |
| 5 | You can usually route hot and cold supply pipes to wherever you want by running them underneath the floorboards , the bath or around the perimeter of the room , hiding them with a low box plinth , which could also be an ideal place to store bathroom bottles . |
| 6 | Er but yes people worry about leaving it to their children , do n't bother . |
| 7 | Shostakovich obviously had good reason for these references , but they are to music so well-known that I worry about finding them in someone else 's piece , even a composer of the supreme integrity of Shostakovich . |
| 8 | I 'm getting paranoid about that , determined not to sign anything , worried that maybe I already have when they first brought me here and said it was just a receipt for personal effects or a legal-aid application or whatever , and I worry about them getting me to sign something when I 'm tired and they 've been interviewing me in shifts and all I want to do is go to bed and sleep and they say oh do us all a favour and sign this and you can sleep , come on now ; it 's just a formality you can always deny it later , change your mind , but you ca n't you ca n't of course , they 're lying and you ca n't ; I even worry about signing something in my sleep , or them hypnotising me and getting me to do it that way ; hell , I do n't know what they get up to . |
| 9 | But he also makes some telling comparisons between the Windsors ' gleeful acceptance of baubles from foreign potentates , and the reluctance they show in giving anything in return . |
| 10 | If you embark on using someone as your detective who is immensely superior to yourself either intellectually or in the social scale ( and by that I do not mean any conventional listing of dukes , earls , barons and honourables ) you will be heading for trouble when you try to have the sort of insights for them that they would naturally have . |
| 11 | Visual information helps us interpret the audio signals we receive by reinforcing them with additional clues : a beckoning finger reinforces the words " Come here " ; at the same time the expression on the face of the beckoner can give us a clue as to the nature of the summons . |
| 12 | The function of these groups is not to provide any romantic possibilities ( although that may happen ) , but to provide contact and support by introducing you to people who have similar problems to yourself . |
| 13 | Beware of over-committing yourself to the foot sweep . |
| 14 | Begin with thanking me for him ; look at him as a person as important to me as you are . ’ |
| 15 | If you overdraw without arranging it in advance with your branch , your overdraft is termed ‘ unauthorised ’ and consequently the usage fee charged will be higher . |
| 16 | Begin by watching yourself for half an hour each day as if you are a stranger . |
| 17 | Begin by addressing yourself to the problem . |
| 18 | Ryle wishes not to dissipate the contrast between mind and matter by absorbing one by the other but by showing that the contrasting of the two is as illegitimate as contrasting ‘ She came home in a flood of tears ’ and ‘ She came home in a sedan-chair ’ . |
| 19 | Though engrossed in picking his teeth with a match he gave me a long appraising stare before addressing me in rich cockney . |
| 20 | Finally retrieval is a separate process because of another familiar phenomenon that it is possible to know something , that is it must be in storage , but not actually succeed in retrieving it at a particular time . |
| 21 | Furthermore , plants utilize carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that animals eject , and animals Bean yet more energy from the environment by utilizing the oxygen that plants eject by converting it into new combinations of chemicals . |
| 22 | And I think really this comes from the problem of those pupils in the streamed situation , in the bottoms streams in particular , who found that they wanted alternatives to school , when the , they were in an inferior position in the school , they were devalued if you like by finding themselves in the bottom streams , and so they tended to look for out-of-school things , alternatives to school , from which to gain their satisfactions , and they would look to the pop media , to fashion , to football , to these kinds of things , and in the mixed ability situation this certainly did not happen in the same way . |
| 23 | I think really this comes from the problem of those pupils in the streamed situation , in the bottom streams in particular , who found that they wanted alternatives to school when they were in an inferior position in the school , they were devalued if you like by finding themselves in the bottom streams and so they tended to look for out of school things , alternatives to school , from which to gain their satisfaction and they would look to the pop media , to fashion , to football , to these kinds of things . |
| 24 | Two boys arrive after spotting us in the distance . |
| 25 | It 's the pasta Italians use for those glorious family feasts that mark special occasions — or just any time they feel like spoiling themselves at table ! |
| 26 | Maybe I feel like throwing something in their direction , physically , verbally , or just under my breath . |
| 27 | You and your body have been through a lot of stressful experiences , both good and bad , and it could be as long as two weeks before you feel like doing anything except the most gently of runs . |
| 28 | Feel like cutting myself down the middle ! |
| 29 | ‘ I feel like suing somebody for all this . ’ |
| 30 | If you 've done the business believe in paying you for it . |