Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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1 | I miss it , I missed it on Sunday , they bring me yorkshire puddings in |
2 | I make my potted salmon in a shallow round white pot decorated on the outside with coloured fish . |
3 | and I perhaps then wax my legs or erm , but not to the extreme of having some one else involved in my improvements , I make my own improvements in my body |
4 | With it I almost completely rewrote my first draft in response to Guzzardi 's urgings . |
5 | Female conceptualizations of power emphasize its co-operative aspects in terms of alliance-building and problem-solving — that is power as ‘ energy , capacity , potential … the ability to act in concert ’ ( Tickner , 1991 ) . |
6 | ‘ At one point when my mother was ill , the district nurse refused to enter her home and treat her , for fear that she would be contaminated and consequently place her other patients in danger . ’ |
7 | James and the Nazarean hierarchy send their own missionaries in his wake , to undo his preaching and compromise him with his own converts — for Paul , by now , is preaching something very different from what the Nazareans themselves , under Jesus 's brother , have sanctioned . |
8 | GLORY , GLORY … the Pakistani players celebrate their stunning victory in the 4th Texaco one-day international at Lord 's |
9 | Boys and girls are apprentices to the professionals as they plan and build their own playhouse in the school grounds . |
10 | They talked of hereditary occupations in the Highlands ; the rigour of church rules and creeds ; they looked at Latin books , and tiptoed around a delicate matter — whether Johnson the Anglican might wish to hear Mr MacAulay say their Presbyterian prayers in the household , which Boswell doubted . |
11 | His division is a big supplier of factory painting machinery , particularly to car manufacturers , German customers — including Volkswagen , GM/Opel and Ford — have slowed investment ; managers there say their heavy involvement in eastern Europe is draining funds . |
12 | Many of the disabled people who use the centre cook their own meals in the kitchen . |
13 | Some widows in this position transform their lost husband in their minds into the man they wish he had been , and finally live at peace with a dream instead of in conflict with reality . |
14 | They have fallen much from their early splendour , and are today really just roving gypsies of the Eastern seas , though they ply their various trades in the only true " tall ships " still sailing for a living — for even the giant dhows of the Arabian Gulf are now powered by Perkins , Mitsubishi and Rolls-Royce engines . |
15 | In 1963 the Peerage Bill became law and members of the House of Lords could now renounce their titles and preserve their political careers in the Commons . |
16 | Of course an Asian child here must learn English , but must she or he forget their own language in order to learn English ? |
17 | " Take a good piece of veal , about three pounds in weight , brown it both sides in butter . |
18 | Place your front foot in the training strap , using the back foot to keep the board level . |
19 | Because we want your actual figures in there , and just see the whole thing explode and come to life . |
20 | Dare to enter the terrifying Beast 's Lair or cheer your favourite knight in the spectacular jousting tournaments . |
21 | 8 Grow your own herbs in these beautiful terracotta pots from Olive Tree . |
22 | Soviet lock Sergei Sergeyev , one of the finds of the inaugural tournament , gets a helping hand as his side suffer their only reversal in the pool matches , losing 10–8 to Italy . |
23 | This was in the mid-thirties when Miss Gladys Batchelor niece of " Spot " Batchelor , owner of the cement works , would visit her uncle and land her light aircraft in the village , on one occasion she landed in an autogyro , the early equivalent of a helicopter . |
24 | For those republicans who lose their own lives in advancing their struggle , there is available the full solace of their Church as IRA murderers are buried with no lesser Roman Catholic Church rites than the very priests of that Church . |
25 | Renner ( 1949 ) argued with some plausible empirical evidence that legal norms which appear to persist for lengthy historical periods , spanning different modes of production , in fact change their substantive functions in response to developments in economic structures . |
26 | He also wants to push farmers to take land out of production and to pay them grants if they tend their non-productive land in an environmentally-friendly way or use less chemical fertilisers and pesticides on their crops . |
27 | We are convinced that managers who develop their human resources in conjunction with implementing AMT [ Advanced Manufacturing Technology ] will achieve a competitive advantage . |
28 | Today , huge crowds gathered to watch John and girlfriend Jill Morrell launch their new book in Oxford . |
29 | It is as if we have frozen the beauty or anaesthetized it in an image ; but the images are like the humming birds of a museum case , the real and living beauty is incomparably brighter for those birds are gems that flash their iridiscent colours in a tropical forest . |
30 | These terms make their initial appearance in Lord Parker C.J. 's judgment in Re HK . |