Example sentences of "[coord] [noun sg] [vb base] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you need to bring an umbrella , a street guide or anything other than a briefcase or handbag leave it in the reception area during the interview . |
| 2 | Well if you stop crying and ask for it properly and you do n't mind if mummy or daddy do it for you that 's fine . |
| 3 | Does dew or rain reduce it to a sodden pulpy mass ? |
| 4 | But some people do n't like having the responsibility of doing their own thinking — they let the Church or television do it for them . |
| 5 | Stars of stage , screen & radio welcome you to the ‘ World of Entertainment ’ . |
| 6 | This is not the place for a proper discussion of Empson 's views , which like a great deal of British work are more concerned with critical method than with theory ( he wrote ( 1950 : 594 ) that ‘ a critic ought to trust his own nose , like the hunting dog , and if he lets any kind of theory or principle distract him from that , he is not doing his work ’ ) . |
| 7 | People whose disabilities begin with severe illness or injury find themselves in medical hands whether they like it or not . |
| 8 | Asthma , heart conditions , diabetes or epilepsy expose you to special risks , and we do n't recommend you windsurf with any of these conditions . |
| 9 | These included being prepared to listen and acknowledge Tony 's difficulties , helping his father and girlfriend view them in a more understanding way , after allowing them to ventilate their feelings , clarifying the nature of Tony 's problems and helping him focus on those which he could do something about . |
| 10 | The hills , lakes and coast lend themselves to a variety of outdoor pursuits such as fell walking , mountaineering , pony-trekking , fishing , sailing , canoeing and swimming . |
| 11 | On the other hand , the buyer will wish to have the comfort of the guarantee , and , in addition , whatever rights law and statute grant him in the particular circumstances of the case . |
| 12 | If our constitution does not altogether submerge us in wishful thinking , that is because pain and misfortune force themselves on attention from outside . |
| 13 | Exposed rafters , wall-to-wall pine panelling and the extensive use of beech and oak endow it with a warmth that is too often absent from modern architecture . |
| 14 | Lam 's stylistic passage through Primitivism , Cubism , and Surrealism show him to be a man of his times . |
| 15 | At NEWTONDALE HALT peace and tranquillity greet you in this dale where no cars can go . |
| 16 | What I hope to show is that the attacks on the reality and irreducibility of both subjective experience and thought leave one with no contentful conception of the world . |
| 17 | Thus , the world and man reveal themselves by undertakings . |
| 18 | It might be thought that the hon. Gentleman 's independence of mind and spirit owe something to his background . |
| 19 | The need to do this could arise when time and space prevent him from having immediate contact with his source of succour , as would occur for example , on hunting expeditions . |
| 20 | Jargon and quirkiness assail him at times like passing attacks of cramp , but in the main he is always on the alert for a new ‘ angle ’ , always individual in expression and always ready to usher the most illuminating quotations to their correct places with the discreet poise of a butler from his chosen period . |
| 21 | Now he is playing solicitor Spettigue , whose niece and ward misbehave themselves by having an unchaperoned lunch at Oxford University with a couple of male students . |
| 22 | In any case , there is no point in letting the great abstractions Truth and Reality divert us into epistemology and metaphysics , since such questions have no relevance to the application of ‘ Be aware ’ in the conduct of life . |
| 23 | Abstraction and theory imprison us , or try to do so , as if in a net , and the novel tests and demolishes the allegedly superior power of abstract thought over a thinking and feeling life : ‘ how far conceptualizing and theorizing divide you from the thing that is the object of theoretical attention . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Mum and Dad want me to be here , I know . |
| 25 | The image , of course , centres around the fact that faith and doubt have something of the same curious relationship as health and sickness . |
| 26 | Love , generosity and wisdom reveal themselves in visible beauty upon the wrinkled face of the old woman . |
| 27 | Positive and negative pressures applied to straight edged polygons and polyhedra convert them from the crystalline forms of rocks and earths to the positive and negative , male and female , expressions of life . |