Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In the absence of transactions costs and the option premium this series of contracts would permit the investor to buy the shares at 220p from the writer and sell them in the market for 237p thus gaining a gross profit of 17p per share . |
| 32 | First of all , he could borrow dollars from the Fritz Bank and sell them in the spot market for DMs . |
| 33 | ‘ He would not , ’ he added , ‘ trust me with the money , you understand . ’ |
| 34 | Then they would bring their talons forward and reach their beaks out and in one swift movement crash them on the surface of the still lake , and out of the splashing spray caused by their wings as they beat to gain height again they would rise struggling with a fish in their talons . ’ |
| 35 | ‘ I borrow them from the library . |
| 36 | I see , you criticize my appearance , and then you stab me in the back ! |
| 37 | MAKE everyone in the house agree to breakfast at the same time so you ( a ) get a clear kitchen , and ( b ) know you can get some help . |
| 38 | You bring me into the office to shout at me and I ca n't say anything . |
| 39 | David Hunt from Downing Street told Lascelles that Ramsey had been known to stop in a procession , send for a pair of trousers to replace the wrong ones which he had put on by mistake , and change them in the middle of the aisle . |
| 40 | They have no enforceable right to enter British territory , and in some cases the Government is authorized by Statute to exclude and even expel them from the United Kingdom . |
| 41 | Emotivism claims that the distinctive meaning of ethical words lies in their power ( in virtue of our early linguistic conditioning ) to stimulate emotions and attitudes in a hearer , and vent them on the part of the speaker . |
| 42 | It screeches to a halt beside me , three guys get out , blindfold me , tie me hand and foot and bundle me into the van . |
| 43 | To a lesser degree they still exist nearer home ; in the Alps herdsmen take their cattle to the ‘ Alm ’ meadows where they tend them during the summer , and in Scotland and Wales the hill sheep spend half the year on the mountain commons whilst the lower , enclosed land grows winter keep . |
| 44 | But you pat me on the bottom and send me home , and hope I 'll ‘ keep in touch ’ ! |
| 45 | We pat them on the back , as if they were dogs ; |
| 46 | I 've cut the ropes that bind me to the shore , she thought , and sinking down onto the arm of Meredith 's chair she listened , smiling , to one of the pirates confiding that when he was in town he consulted the same dentist as dear Johnny . |
| 47 | But if you have others which I do not deal with satisfactorily then please raise them at the end . ’ |
| 48 | This would still be so even if Members of Parliament were persuaded to settle issues with Health Authorities and not raise them in the House of Commons when dissatisfied . |
| 49 | The boys spear them on the reef . |
| 50 | She stripped the bed and lay me on the bed . |
| 51 | Bob and I are progressing as a piano/clarsach duo , and of course some of the accompaniments to his songs tax me to the limit , or have to be vetoed altogether . |
| 52 | ‘ I make them for the shops to sell , ’ she told Virginia . |
| 53 | They will understand me too quickly ; they will turn my own generosity against me and despise me for the lovers I took ; and they will cast me as the woman who briefly threatened to interfere with the writing of the books which they have enjoyed reading . |
| 54 | Our amendments would er restore democratic accountability for police authorities , they would remove the proposed concentration of power in the hands of the Home Secretary and I commend them to the Committee . |
| 55 | I commend them to the house . |
| 56 | ‘ Obey them to the letter and you will be well rewarded — any bungling or playing the fool and I doubt you 'll live to tell the tale ! ’ |
| 57 | The BTEC HND courses consistently and successfully attract students of a more practical than academic inclination , and develop them to the stage where their natural pragmatic talents have been enhanced with a rigorous regime of integrated business skills . |
| 58 | In addition , these user histories point to the fact that the receptionists of some surgeries were instructed to turn away ‘ addicts ’ or , at least , segregate them from the rest of the patients . |
| 59 | Connect them to the radio , especially Radio Four whose discussion programmes give the impression someone is having a conversation . |
| 60 | That has never been seen as a constituent of self regulation , and I doubt whether any government would be willing to divert so many responsibilities already assigned to other existing bodies ( for example , the Medical Research Council and the Committee on Safety of Medicines ) — better qualified to carry them out — and concentrate them in the GMC alone under the sole control of the profession . |