Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pers pn] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And they play the pipes , just as the Arab plays them with a bag holding air , ’ I added . |
| 2 | Tell him that a young lady who has read his story with interest and affection offers them as a gift . |
| 3 | Modernization eventually takes away children 's ability to earn and turns them into a cost as they need education to earn as adults . |
| 4 | The degeneration occurs , not because men are congenitally or even incorrigibly narrow , libertine , isolated or selfish , but because in defining themselves as autonomous beings in opposition to other human beings they have had to seek what separates them as a group from others . |
| 5 | Highlights include ‘ Allergy plight of nice-girl Nicky — ‘ one sip of vodka turns me into a sex maniac ’ ’ ( News of the World magazine ) and ‘ Women could be turned on by a chunk of cheddar ’ ( People ) . |
| 6 | He has studied the details of their forms and physiognomy and renders them in a manner both truthful and original . |
| 7 | Bitflik scans a directory for all BMP files and displays them like a slideshow , one after the other pausing briefly between each one . |
| 8 | The educational problem-posing approach with triggers and dialogue helps people move beyond barriers to learning and involves them in a group process to change their lives as learners and as emerging teachers in their communities . |
| 9 | Each set of social practices not only determines the characteristics of the individuals who engage in it but also supplies them with a conception of the range of properties they can have , and of its limits . |
| 10 | She strokes my hair and soothes me like a baby . |
| 11 | Your heart fits me like a glove . |
| 12 | BECAUSE DUDLEY MOORE has been told to turn up at his restaurant at Venice Beach , California at 2.30 pm to tell me his version of the story of his life , then Dudley Moore more or less dudleys into his restaurant at Venice Beach , California and joins me at a corner table where I 've been waiting to hear his story . |
| 13 | The reason is that the folding of the ears brings them forward and this places them in a posture that is not part of the usual ear-lowering signal . |
| 14 | At this stage , he was firmly opposed to federation ; ‘ Federation is harmful because it sanctions segregation and alienation , elevates them to a principle , to a law . ’ |
| 15 | Jesus wants me for a sunbeam , Uncle Philip wants me for a little flower . |
| 16 | What worries me about a desire for achievement which finds its vindication solely in number is the externality of it all . |
| 17 | The shears are a Y that wants to be an X — he holds them like a water diviner , |
| 18 | TV loves them as a bunch of token weirdos . |
| 19 | Before she gets into the car , she turns around and thanks me with a squeeze of her hand . |
| 20 | By a combination of Impressionist vision , imagination , a magical mastery of language , Proust uses À la recherche to explore often banal objects , often apparently dull people , often apparently trivial episodes , in such a way that he recreates them with a freshness , erm a power of conviction , that persuade us we 're actually seeing them with a privileged insight , or perhaps even seeing them for the first time . |
| 21 | if the gallery accepts you for a solo exhibition , they will normally organise everything and bear the costs of running and advertising it . |
| 22 | In the second play , Audience , Ferdinand is called in by the head maltster , played by Freddie Jones , who insists that he joins him for a drink and a chat . |
| 23 | The Iggy-mimicking singer , having removed his trousers , is prancing around in red underpants as Beast joins him for a rap style duet . |
| 24 | Whilst the pert , Californian sexuality of Baywatch bimbos seems to be aimed at the heart of adolescent lust , Schiffer possesses a vital ambiguity within her features and her poise which recreates her as a story waiting to be told , as opposed to a fantasy waiting to be fulfilled . |
| 25 | There , she is befriended by Stoney , a sexy rock ‘ n ’ roller who rescues her from a world of LSD that she has dropped into . |
| 26 | It is simply the case that the heroin use of the male partner places her in a situation in which the drug is not only readily available , but its use is also seen as socially acceptable . |
| 27 | The Chinese believe that to stand on one leg while kicking with the other unbalances the practitioner and places him at a disadvantage . |
| 28 | His abolition of the subject carries with it the demise of the individual as the locus of knowledge and agency , and places him in a position where , as we saw , there can be no question of compromise with individualism . |
| 29 | Karenin also tells Anna he loves her as a husband but she does n't believe he is capable of love or knows what it is either . |
| 30 | At the moment , she just loves him as a friend . |