Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't a conscious move on her part , and yet , once open to his erotically roving tongue , she was helpless to do anything except melt against him with a low moan as the same desire as yesterday curled through her stomach . |
| 2 | Mira , it seems , is walking in the landscape rather than looking at it from a height : |
| 3 | Keep your exercises plain and simple , and you have a better chance of enjoying them , rather than looking on them as a burden . |
| 4 | But it is easier to show that the Aquitanians ' identity as a people was imposed on them rather than felt by them in Carolingian times . |
| 5 | Eager to keep together , they tended to widen any track they used rather than tramp along it in single file . |
| 6 | You will probably be surprised at what a different experience it is actually speaking the words rather than running through them in your head . |
| 7 | So horrid as it all is , it 's not that much worse than reading about it in the newspapers . |
| 8 | If we experience the mercy of Jesus , we will naturally share mercy with others , rather than hiding from them as mere observers . |
| 9 | It 's quicker for me to clear up/wash up and so on than to argue with them about doing it . |
| 10 | erm Somebody on this morning 's course said that they quite like answering machines , they use them like note pads , and they ring up people they know have got an answering machine so they can just leave a message , they say it 's quicker than writing a letter , and it 's easier than talking to them for hours , you can just ring them up and leave a message on their answering machine like a sort of note pad , which I had n't thought of , but I suppose it 's rather good , is n't it ! |
| 11 | Telephoning the elderly who live alone needs even more care and tact than talking with them in the course of a visit . |
| 12 | The same increasing central control and rationalization can be seen also in the introduction in 1720 of a regular tariff for the purchase of commissions ; in the 1750s of the custom of numbering regiments rather than referring to them by their colonel 's name ; and in 1792 of a common system of drill , based on that of Prussia , for the whole army . |
| 13 | ‘ But … we ca n't take your bed , ’ objected Isabel faintly , although she wondered why the thought of sleeping in a bed with fitzAlan seemed worse than sleeping with him on a bench . |
| 14 | Surely he deserves better of me than to gaze at him with my policeman 's eyes . |
| 15 | We were only twenty or thirty yards from the line-up , albeit divided from it by a thin blue line of helmeted , truncheon-tipped breakers . |
| 16 | And if given to us as actual temptations , the rather lure of the church , the Reverend Simon Stephen Daedalus SJ , and the lure of the flesh ‘ He closed his eyes , surrendering himself to her body and mind , conscious of nothing in the world but the dark pressure of her softly parting lips ’ . |
| 17 | If talking to her on the phone does n't work then I 'll have to reconsider my position . ’ |
| 18 | With alarming speed a large moth dashed at the candle , repeatedly and frantically , as if attached to it by elastic cord . |
| 19 | Because of the difficulties of investigating a complaint too long after the event , we will not consider any complaint unless notified to us in writing within that time . |
| 20 | Uncle Philip broke the armour off a pink battalion of shrimps and ate them steadily , chewed through a loaf of bread spread with half a pound of butter and helped himself to the lion 's share of the cake while gazing at her with expressionless satisfaction , apparently deriving a certain pleasure from her discomfort , or even finding that the sight of it improved his appetite . |
| 21 | Not , however , when Charlotte sat opposite him in an eerily empty airport cafe and described her experiences in the United States while gazing at him with an expression implying what he most wanted to believe : that she trusted him unreservedly . |
| 22 | While appearing with them in Berlin in 1937 she tore a ligament and had to give up further hope of dancing . |
| 23 | The co-operation of these voices might be seen as the very essence of critical commentary : to interpret the text while refering to it with varying levels of precision . |
| 24 | Following this ritual , she was separated from Annabel while waiting for it to be decided which class she would attend first . |
| 25 | At their most basic this might be a name and address book that can dial the number selected , but the target is for more sophisticated uses , such as the shared white board approach , where workers can doodle their ideas on the computer screens linked by one 64kbps B channel , while chatting about them on a phone connected over the second channel . |
| 26 | The fact that he had written a large part of it after his marriage led him to think of it as a work quite different from the one he had originally envisaged.It was while engaged on it at Kensington Court Gardens that he added the more tender love scenes which provide its real poetry . |
| 27 | Andrew Tombs , 27 , of Stokesley , North Yorkshire , agreed to carry out 150 hours community service after pleading guilty at Teesside Crown Court to stealing equipment valued at £7,400 from Tarmac Construction , while working for them as a drainer on a building site in the town . |
| 28 | Andrew Tombs , 27 , of Stokesley , North Yorkshire , agreed to carry out 150 hours community service after admitting at Teesside Crown Court stealing equipment worth £7,400 from Tarmac Construction , while working for them as a drainer on a building site in the town . |
| 29 | Whilst drinking with them in a pub Minton had become very attracted to one of Wirth-Miller 's friends , a sailor called Hogey Carmichael . |
| 30 | My room-mate happening to be a policeman , I was at a loss whether to look upon it as a special honour or a special precaution , mine host putting into my room a representative of the force . |