Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [prep] [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1466 a Bohemian visitor to England commented : … the peasants dig ditches round their fields and meadows and so fence them in that no one can pass on foot or on horseback except by the main roads ' ( 25 , p.53 ) . |
| 2 | Yet the accounts of the explorers Armand and Michaela Menise , who travelled the land but a season earlier , say nothing of such an edifice . |
| 3 | Would those older cadets actually report him for such an infringement , on Lexandro 's part , of cousinly courtesy ? |
| 4 | I really want it on all the time now . |
| 5 | To check that we have the correct total number of vibrational degrees of freedom , we count one for each a ( or b ) species vibration , and two for each e ( doubly degenerate ) vibration . |
| 6 | His ingenious situation concerns very small homunculi from space , of the order of magnitude of body cells , who enter a human being in large numbers and colonize him to such an extent that he is eventually made up of small conscious entities . |
| 7 | And you 've got to say , that , we 'll restrict this , right , restrict it to all the negative numbers . |
| 8 | You restrict yourself to half a dozen goals in each case . |
| 9 | " To a pint of cream put a pound of double-refined sugar , the juice of seven lemons , grate the rinds of two lemons into a pint of white wine , add half a pint of sack , then put them all into a deep pot , and whisk them for half an hour , put it into glasses the night before you want it : it is better for standing two or three days , but it will keep a week if required . " |
| 10 | Brian had his cholesterol test on er little bit of paper they give you with all the information it tells you the only oils you should use are erm olive oil and saffro saffrall |
| 11 | Shocked , she stared disbelievingly at the receding back of Doctor Anderson , and wondered what had been contained in the message that had made a member of the staff drop everything in such an unprofessional way . |
| 12 | It 's a matter , I think , of managing it properly , of making sure that we minimise any kind of deleterious effect on the environment , that we manage it in such a way that is tolerable and beneficial to ourselves , to our communities wherever we live . |
| 13 | They describe it in such a way that it finally appears as it is , that is to say intolerable . " |
| 14 | Do n't try and do any sums on it and think ooh I 'll square one and add it on half the other . |
| 15 | In this context the relationship of the persuader to the patient — for example , spouse , parents or religious adviser — will be important , because some relationships more readily lend themselves to overbearing the patient 's independent will than do others . |
| 16 | Then again , as to the repairs : it may be that the original lease from the ground landlord contained covenants compelling repairs to be made by the lessee ; but we know nothing of such a lease or such covenants . |
| 17 | Also , Lord God , we ask that you remember the dark deeds of any communistic so-called-interrogators , in this time of great upheaval in eastern Europe ; we know that you will not forget their crimes when their day of reckoning comes , and their guttural , Slavic voices cry out to ye for mercy , and ye reward them with all the compassion they ever showed to those unfortunate souls delivered unto them . |
| 18 | A deconstructive reading of this kind , then , will take the metaphysical , logocentric oppositions at work in a text , reverse them , and then question them in such a way as to ‘ neutralize ’ them . |
| 19 | Now how did a giant of the church get himself into such a position ? |
| 20 | And that ties up When you get it like this a tenth of the speed . |
| 21 | After another 13 years of getting the country into a mess the Tories tell us of all the good things they are going to do if re-elected . |
| 22 | Denying that women clients required special handling , she added : ‘ A customer is a customer , I approach them in all the same way . |
| 23 | Why should this presentable , able-bodied girl who seemed so willing and meticulous in carrying out her chores , find herself in such a hopeless position ? |
| 24 | But for some strange reason , and I do n't know whether they direct it to Christian the last shot of the film , almost unnoticeable because the credits were going up she went back into church and it was a communion service and all you saw was her receiving the bread and passing the plate and the plate was to the young black lad on the farm and you thought , he 's come back ! |
| 25 | The people taking part commit themselves to half an hour of scripture based prayer each day and a half hour meeting with a ‘ Prayer Guide ’ each evening when they receive personal guidance . |
| 26 | Even given the expenditure that the Government have devoted to the public sector , there can not be many Ministers who find themselves in such a favourable position . |
| 27 | Such remarks , though a backhanded compliment in their implied assumption of her intelligence , made her hate him with such an intensity that she could actually feel herself start to tremble and sweat . |
| 28 | We leave you with some the lighter moments from our past and the names and faces who put us on air every night . |
| 29 | The manorial style was what Robert Forbes had been accustomed to portray in his early days in Hollywood , when Paramount had tagged him ‘ the young Ronald Colman ’ and cast him in half a dozen minor heroic roles with reasonable success . |
| 30 | Handle or a knob or whatever you call it with all the proper kind of things on it |