Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [vb -s] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This simply means that meaning shared by words or signs allows them to be located close together in the system which allows them to be identified internally . |
| 2 | Is it not possible , for example , that some theory is better , in the sense of being closer to the truth , a better problem solver , a better instrument of prediction or whatever , than a rival , even though no individual or group judges it to be so ? |
| 3 | And because she happens to live reasonably near a park , she walks Sandy or Sandy walks her in the park , she meets other dog walkers and they are her human contacts . |
| 4 | Incidentally , I shall use the name Mary as a double blind in the sense that none of the woman 's family or friends knows her as Mary . |
| 5 | When an inquisitive fish or crab provokes them to such action , it finds itself struggling in a mesh of filaments while the sea cucumber slowly inches itself away on the tube feet that protrude from its underside . |
| 6 | The displays demonstrate the reality , provide live plants to look at , and assure us that nothing larger than an unfortunate lizard or rat makes it into the green traps . |
| 7 | Neither rejection , protest nor availability prepares us for the demands which celibacy is making on us nowadays . |
| 8 | We write most of it and mum puts it into a computer . |
| 9 | And Miss gives it to the student in n it ? |
| 10 | She kills it , and Mira reproaches her in a spirit of raillery for similar treatment of two admirers , Cynthio and Amintor : |
| 11 | Brah 's review of the debate about the inclusiveness and limitations of the category ‘ black ’ and of the often fractious engagement between feminism and antiracism shows her to be not unsympathetic to this post-structuralist perspective . |
| 12 | But the women 's fight immediately loses control and Spenser depicts them as a tiger and a lioness , beasts confronting one another with animal fury unnaturally seeking to attack their legitimate feminine identity : |
| 13 | A girl selling newspapers in the street until 10pm on a Friday and Saturday buys them for 17.5p and sells them for 22p ( 1990 figures ) . |
| 14 | The clash between human and divine presents us with two spheres , each with right on its side , pointing forward to a reconciliation in line with the Aeschylean view of Fate enthroned above gods and men as eternal justice . |
| 15 | And David says it for all of us , I was born in sin and shapen in inequity . |
| 16 | Andy clears a way through the undergrowth and we drag the man beneath the thorns and soft fruit of the brambles and the glossy leaves of the rhodies , into the green darkness ; his rucksack catches on the branches above and Andy takes it off him , pushing it ahead of us . |
| 17 | To justify this and Stalin presents it as a revolutionary me measure , as a shift to the left , as the creation of socialism , to justify it er Stalin presents the argument that the whole world is moving forward to a new stage on the road to socialism , it 's all a lot of nonsense but the ideological needs of the regime in Russia are determining the advice which is being given to er various communist parties . |
| 18 | ‘ If A delivers goods to B on sale or return and B having received them immediately delivers them to C on sale or return , the reasonable time in the one case must , I think , be co-extensive with that in the other case and if that reasonable time elapses and C brings back the goods to B and B takes them back to A , everybody is acting within his rights , and it appears to me that property never passes … if under like circumstances A delivers goods to B and B delivers them to C in each case on sale or return and the reasonable time be , let us say , 14 days , and C after four days sells the goods or elects to buy the goods , I think property will have passed , because C will have done an act which renders it impossible for B to return the goods to A. ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I hope you turn into an eel and Tom puts you in a broth . ’ |
| 20 | [ PAMELA dances and BELVILLE follows her with his eyes . ] |
| 21 | ‘ It is also to be remarked , ’ wrote Wallace , ‘ that the great chain of active volcanoes in Sumatra and Java furnishes us with a sufficient cause for this subsidence , since the enormous masses of matter thrown out would take away the foundations of the surrounding district ; and this may be the true explanation of the often-noticed fact that volcanoes and volcanic chains are always near the sea . |
| 22 | This shows the plebeians that Brutus is the man they need to lead them as all his speech is honest and spoke truths and did everything unselfishly , for other people — the crowd then go wild with enthusiasm for Brutus , and Brutus leaves them with Mark Antony , wrongly , asking the crowd to show respect for Caesar 's body and for Antony 's speech . |
| 23 | Much of this music has no other recording — and none of it on the harp , and King plays it with rare strength , sensitivity and the conviction of one who is also inventing it as the same time — and is delighted by his own trouvailles . |
| 24 | Milan was one of the first composers to give specific direction on how to perform a piece of music ( 1536 ) and King follows them in the most natural- sounding way . |
| 25 | Ham dishonours his drunken father , and Noah curses him through his descendants . |
| 26 | The kid steps in and Ali stabs him with a well-timed jab that 's as sweet as a bite from the last tangy apple of autumn . |
| 27 | If your food and drink supplies you with exactly enough fuel to maintain your body 's activities ( the energy required to keep the vital functions going , and also for muscular work ) then you will stay at a constant weight . |
| 28 | Mr and Mrs go to play bridge with the Fountains-Abbotts and Seb takes me to a film . |
| 29 | ‘ And frankly , ’ he said , coming to the essence of the matter , ‘ those two do n't want to go without you , and Harry wants you to be there and … well … so do I. ’ |
| 30 | Cain kills Abel — it is a short step from rebellion to bloodshed — and God condemns him to a nomadic life , but provides protection against death . |