Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [prep] [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Changes in company policy , new products and services , financial results , staff appointments , sponsorship news , factory openings — in fact almost any " happening " or change within your company or organisation will probably merit a release to at least a few papers or radio stations . |
| 2 | If at any time after a person has been charged with or informed he may be prosecuted for an offence a police officer wishes to bring to the notice of that person any written statement made by another person or the content of an interview with another person , he shall hand to that person a true copy of any such written statement or bring to his attention the content of the interview record , but shall say or do nothing to invite any reply or comment save to caution him in the terms of paragraph 10.4 above . |
| 3 | And then you , Sir John ! lust in case I should forget , or withdraw , or hide behind my church walls , you are here , ready to lead me along the streets , remind me that there is no escape from murder , from witnessing the greatest sin of all — a man slaying his brother ! ’ |
| 4 | Placement support which at the least minimised the chances that the ex-patient would be evicted from his home or sacked from his job the first time a problem occurred would seem essential . |
| 5 | In ways such as these , late Roman bishops worked slowly , by piecemeal additions and elaborations of regularly recurrent observances , to define a new sacred time in which the Christian life was to be wholly caught up , until the sacred time of the old pagan past was slowly forgotten , or emptied of its charge of religiosity . |
| 6 | There was nothing secret or mean in his character , and we soon became good friends . |
| 7 | In other cases there were no restrictions on numbers of temporary workers or the duration of their employment , merely a requirement to inform or consult about their use . |
| 8 | Or concentrate on your breathing for a few minutes , just feeling your stomach rising and falling but without trying to control the breathing in any way . |
| 9 | You might choose to repeat a chosen word or phrase , gently returning to it whenever your mind wanders ; or concentrate on your breathing ; or ‘ watch ’ your thoughts as they drift like clouds through your mind ; or contemplate a theme ; or embark on a visual-experiential journey to the inner realms . |
| 10 | AN academic has been banned from sleeping or eating in her office at Stirling University after being told it was so cluttered with papers and food that it constituted a health and fire hazard . |
| 11 | When using those dramatic frames which require children to prepare and then share small group work ( e.g. the investigation , the pageant , the making of a documentary ) take the opportunity to question or comment on their use of space : " I wonder why the council official would n't look at the interviewer ? " |
| 12 | He did n't throw his head back like Peggy Pine did when she laughed , or giggle into his fist like Paccy Moore ; he did n't make big gestures like Mario in the fish and chip shop , or even get wheezing and coughing fits like Dessie Burns often did . |
| 13 | I think that to be a loner and a writer is hell enough , but many would instantly tell me how horrendous it is to work in a factory — 1 did it for three months and loathed it — or to go to their office and stop from biting their nails when their boss has to score petty points off them . |
| 14 | ( At Taï , a young chimpanzee will often harass its mother in order to use her tools , to eat her fruit or to sit on her branch . ) |
| 15 | Whatever you may have read or heard about their relationship still can not prepare you for her own account . |
| 16 | But I think I knew about her and her mother long before I looked them both in the face , or heard about their existence ; knew that the half-understood adult conversations around me , the quarrels about " her " , the litany of " she " , " she " , " she " from behind closed doors made the figure in the New Look coat , hurrying away , wearing the clothes my mother wanted to wear , angry with me yet nervously inviting me to follow , caught finally in the revolving door . |
| 17 | If you have a special request please advise your Travel Agent at the time of booking and ensure this is either correctly noted by the Agent on our computerised Reservations system or given to our Telephone Reservations department as appropriate . |
| 18 | Also , at the end of the day there may not be a great deal of difference between a system which requires all charges subject to exceptions to be registered as opposed to the present one which requires specified charges to be registered subject to the power of the Secretary of State to add to or delete from their number . |
| 19 | ( 2 ) To require the person whose affairs are to be investigated ( a ) to produce documents appearing to relate to any matter relevant to the investigation , or account for their absence , and ( b ) to provide an explanation for any such document . |
| 20 | ( 4 ) To require any other person ( a ) to produce documents appearing to relate to any matter relevant to the investigation , or account for their absence , and ( b ) to provide an explanation for any such document . |
| 21 | It collects its food on a curtain of baleen or whalebone in its mouth and after a single meal may well have transferred to its stomach no less than 2 tons of tiny shrimps , each no more than 3 inches long . |
| 22 | Additionally , carried away by enthusiasm that ought not to affect the judgement of experienced lawyers , they advised him , or agreed on his urging ( I do not know which ) , that he should issue writs for libel , which he did , with the disastrous effect that he actually accepted some damages from one publication before he was compelled to reveal the falsity of his assertions . |
| 23 | To act on or defy a socially established rule has effects on all who benefit or suffer by its observance . |
| 24 | The content of the text appeals to them or fits into their experience differently . |
| 25 | Sometimes , when she was startled or frightened on my fist or as I approached her , it was painful to think that I might be responsible for her fear . |
| 26 | Nor was she at all put off or frightened by his intensity , when he flew into a temper if a drawing went badly . |
| 27 | We pray for those who are angry or bitter because they feel unwanted or marginalised in our society . |
| 28 | Before this week , Parmer had never been dropped or substituted in his club career . |
| 29 | In actual practice you could find an analysis that very often the things that have been repressed have not been repressed in the sense that they 've been totally submerged from your consciousness and totally forgotten without any trace , but what often happens is they 've become isolated or , or divorced from their context in your memory . |
| 30 | No teacher will wear or display on his person or car a badge which indicates support for a pressure group ( like CND or Greenpeace ) . |