Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are distinct from the longer stories not only in terms of content , but in graphology also : most are italicised , which separates them visually from the other material . |
| 2 | Should n't be surprised if it drives me straight into the arms of the recruiting officer . |
| 3 | He hated them before the war and he hates them now with a depth you gentlemen here would find hard to understand . ’ |
| 4 | It receives them automatically as a member of the European Broadcasting Union , a privilege granted to it because 15 member stations of that cosy cartel own the half of Eurosport which Murdoch does not . |
| 5 | An Elf war fleet led by Tyrion defeats the Norse in a huge sea battle and drives them away from the coast of Ulthuan . |
| 6 | In the hit movie Withnall and I , the two visit Riggindale and it drives them almost to the brink of distraction . |
| 7 | If the description fits someone else in the office , take action . |
| 8 | The pluralizing nature of texts as varied as Robbe-Grillet 's Le Miroir qui revient and La Maison de Rendez-vous , Claude Simon 's Triptyque and Les Géorgiques , Pinget 's L'Apocryphe and Sarraute 's Enfance places them firmly within the postmodernist camp . |
| 9 | The child finds the same letters on the eight cubes and places them correctly in the tray underneath the card . |
| 10 | I turn away so I ca n't look at her , but she leans over and looks me straight in the face . |
| 11 | He looks me straight in the eyes as he takes his hand from my glass . |
| 12 | Kellard looks me briefly in the eye . |
| 13 | He is such a lucid writer — and although he defends himself ably against the charge of superficiality ( which has been levelled since I was a student ) the breadth of his scholarship is so immense that the defence seems unnecessary . |
| 14 | In the first called Ascot , Nielsen disguises himself cunningly in a hat that would have probably made Gertrude Shilling turn pale . |
| 15 | For a man who places himself resolutely against the suppression o questions Lord Todd 's juggling act with logic seem odd . |
| 16 | A further contrast , as I have indicated , may be drawn between the political systems of ‘ developed ’ and ‘ underdeveloped ’ societies , often in terms of the instability of the latter as compared with the former ( Huntington , 1968 ) ; an instability which manifests itself partly in the frequency of military coups and the prevalence of military regimes in the non-industrial countries . |
| 17 | For this kind of disproportionality only appears if an over-production of means of production has taken place and manifests itself externally as an over-production of means of consumption . |
| 18 | The catalogue , therefore , places itself firmly behind the cutting edge of the historicising , multidisciplinary methodology which questions the value of the formalistic analysis and compositional description characteristic of traditional art history . |
| 19 | Between the subtle observations of the period of about 270–240 B.C. and the adulation of poems like that by Melinno — which , though undated , places itself naturally in the early second century — we have to recognize a gap . |
| 20 | THE HONEST old hired hand who has seen it all looks you unwaveringly in the eye . |
| 21 | His mission had been planned two years ago when he worked well with stablemate Balthus , the 1987 Cambridgeshire winner , and Glover promises he has something else in the yard to continue the trend in two years . |
| 22 | Naomi looks her straight in the eye , and demands , in a stage-whisper , ‘ Is it anything … to do with … sex ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ ME , YOU SOFT GETS ! ’ shouts everybody else on the planet . |
| 24 | He left a Will which places him firmly in the central Anglican tradition : |
| 25 | He unfolds it there as the antithesis between sin and grace . |
| 26 | It can not , except in a thoroughly perverted form , be a satisfactory instrument for party political indoctrination and it can not live happily in a situation which subjects it continually to the harsher pressures of party political confrontation . ’ |
| 27 | The little girl holds the caterpillar , plies it carefully from the twig to which it had moulded itself . |
| 28 | We are standing in that kitchen where I 've shared her meals and laughter , and she finishes drying the glass and places it carefully on the table . |
| 29 | The victim-to-be purchases , or is given , the W.N.B. and places it unsuspectingly in the top pocket of his or her jacket , with the humorous head protruding . |
| 30 | For example , Mr X gives property to Mr Z who holds it absolutely for the infant unmarried son of Mr X. That is a transfer of an asset and a settlement for the purposes of ss663 and 664 ( although the Revenue may not apply ss663 where the income is not paid to the infant ) . |