Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever I go into his kennel it 's a toss-up whether he escapes or not ; he wins about one in fifteen times . |
| 2 | ‘ Goes for it in that sort of way . |
| 3 | When tonight those Tory MPs have all voted for the Prime Minister 's motion — for different and often conflicting reasons — the Prime Minister will claim that his motion has given him a mandate for Maastricht , when he stands for nothing at all . |
| 4 | Price : £108,994 0–60mph : 6.5secs 30–70mph : 6.1secs 30–50 in 4th : 2.4secs Top Speed : 143mph Overall MPG : 15.1 Citation : For putting the fight back into Bentley and creating a form of transport that wants for nothing at all |
| 5 | I wonder if it counts for anything at all when it comes to expressing more profound thought . |
| 6 | Inspector Finch looks for it in various places . |
| 7 | The risk of death in a bungee jump in Nigel 's opinion lies between one in one million and one in ten million . |
| 8 | Kardamíli seemed a good base , since the author himself writes of it with such affection . |
| 9 | Someone — teacher , examiner , ‘ assessor ’ — observes the student at work , or perhaps interacts with him/her in some way , or more commonly analyses products of the student 's work . |
| 10 | Anyway I wo n't say any more because I 'll other people will eventually go but Hugh Berger is a gentleman who owns it or who lives in it at this time |
| 11 | ‘ What matters to me in this cooperative , ’ he wrote to his wife from Helsinki , ‘ is that they are all well-established people , with left-wing sympathies . |
| 12 | It 's the oldest lyrical theme in the world and David Gedge adheres to it with laudable steadfastness . |
| 13 | In rural areas , the figure drops to one in three . |
| 14 | Further to my note of 11th December , Susannah Wainman of SAWD Books writes to me with more details of the competition for a new logo for the Independent Publishers Guild . |
| 15 | Well every time I send something out writes to me on bloody DOPACS saying this is not the way to disseminate this information . |
| 16 | If the hon. Gentleman writes to me about any individual cases , I shall respond in detail . |
| 17 | We had never met her before she came , yet she immediately called us Mummy and Daddy , and still writes to us in this way from Nigeria . |
| 18 | The world looks to them for decisive leadership on this issue , as on others " . |
| 19 | I thought she 'd got over being ashamed of me , but now she looks at me with contemptuous pity . |
| 20 | The girl who is almost as silent as me and looks at me with such horror . |
| 21 | She do n't say nothing to me , she just looks at me with these big eyes . |
| 22 | They roll apart and she looks at him with sullen exhaustion , her head still pumping in and out . |
| 23 | Then he gallops towards it at terrific speed . |
| 24 | She says she thinks of him as one of her own children . |
| 25 | " He thinks of me as such . " |
| 26 | I was never going to be a replacement for his wife , just a diversion , and I hope that , if he thinks of me at all , it is with the same shiver of half-remembered pleasure with which I think of him . |
| 27 | Well , of course , it is inevitable that one thinks of it from that angle from the way one has been brought up but actually one ca n't think of anything more barbaric than the Crucifixion and that way of killing somebody . |
| 28 | Russell was what you might call a social climber , inasmuch as he specialized in fitting out rock shelters for himself at various altitudes and if possible receiving his friends in them . |
| 29 | It steals between us in such a way that whether or not he sees me only as the outline Woman , I see him through it only as the crude outline Man . |
| 30 | My heart , or what passes for one in demonic physiology , is in my mouth , for fear that I am about to be exiled from Rainbow Rosenbloom , and from Chinese food , movies and other earthly delights , for evermore . |