Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He then transports them to earthly space for human use . |
| 2 | Turbobat is a very powerful multiple pass batch file compiler that takes DOS batch files and turns them into binary code that can execute up to four times faster than the original . |
| 3 | Just because unsubstantiated rumours abound that Terry 's brother Ted occasionally supplies me with specialist literature from the Continent , it does not mean I am taking backhanders or looking favourably towards Terry when including him in the first team . |
| 4 | It is evident that the expertise and contacts Grampian companies have developed through supplying the North Sea oil industry stands them in good stead to take advantage of oil related opportunities in the Middle East . |
| 5 | He has a weasel face and subjects me to piercing scrutiny . |
| 6 | As for the case made against the versions in the Classic Anthology — that by using rhyme they align themselves with the closed poetry of print and not with the open poetry of the speaking breath — the obvious retort is that , although in these poems Pound often rhymes , he writes them in free verse , and in a free verse where the syllables are weighed , and the varying pace controlled , as scrupulously as in anything else he has written . |
| 7 | You are good at expressing yourself , which stands you in good stead if you want to ask someone to do you a favour . |
| 8 | ‘ Ay , it 's where an ignorance of good book-keeping stands you in good stead . ’ |
| 9 | The man who persistently questions you about after-sales service . |
| 10 | Well apparently she said stands her in good stead because |
| 11 | When the staff at Bloomfield criticize the Profitboss for cancelling a visit three times running , he accepts it as constructive advice . |
| 12 | Sherfey ( 1970 ) points out that femininity may not be a transhistorical absolute ; but her certainty that it exists now endows it with contemporary universality . |
| 13 | Every woman is connected to that lineage , whether or not she furthers it through physical reproduction . |
| 14 | The idea of sub-contracting an exhibition piece now fills me with abject horror . |
| 15 | For example when Pip meets Miss Haversham for the 1st time , Dickens describes her in immense detail . |
| 16 | Not content with damning Churchill for causing the Dardanelles disaster , attempting to stifle Bolshevism at birth , returning to the Gold Standard and trying to hold on to India , John Charmley faults him for opposing appeasement . |
| 17 | It is Jim 's book-nourished imagination , in fact , that betrays him into unheroic behaviour . |
| 18 | It fills him with strange satisfaction to think that while the great illumination of the Market Square is quite invisible from this point , the little lamps of Iron Green can be seen glowing through a gap beyond Albert Road , It is many years now since he has visited the lower end of Odborough , for his legs will not carry him up and down the hill , and he growls like a dog if anyone suggests a car . |
| 19 | Nice chap and he teaches creative writing in Glasgow , used to be a teacher then a teacher trainer and then I think took early retirement and he does this but made the point that he simply uses it for extra income for pleasure and interest as opposed I suppose to a way of writing you know so |
| 20 | The first creates a CLI command file that lists the line to a file and then calls the second procedure which cleans it up and uses it as redirected input before exiting . |
| 21 | Rita is a lively observer of her world , and describes it with vivid insight . |
| 22 | Rapport , the community newspaper , describes it as wanton damage and wilful vandalism . |
| 23 | Tim Albery 's production takes this weird eighteenth-century fantasy of nobles , bourgeois , and servants , all of whom finally settle for marrying their own class , and instils it with Fuselian surrealism . |
| 24 | Suppose that an infant who has hired a horse injures it by careless riding . |
| 25 | ‘ Acid rain can be abatted by taking the sulphur from power station flue gases , using the Wellman-Lord process , which extracts it as sulphuric acid . |
| 26 | A friend fills hers with miniature whisky bottles for the men and lace handkerchiefs for the women . |
| 27 | Anyone who 's attacked who is very old or very young fills us with deep concern . |
| 28 | I have made mention elsewhere of the sense that warns us of impending danger , and will not labour the subject further beyond stating that this sense is a very real one and that I do not know , and therefore can not explain , what brings it into operation . |
| 29 | Often our intuition or sixth sense warns us of impending danger but we ignore it because of social pressure , lack of time or lack of courage . |
| 30 | If , on the other hand , you take in too few calories ( that is , your diet supplies you with insufficient fuel to meet your energy requirements ) you will draw on stored fuel . |