Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Nahum Plunkett coming here to see Anna is probably the only chance anyone has of pulling her through this crisis , you know that really , do n't you , Seb ? ’ |
| 2 | The difficulty lies in convincing yourself of that ! |
| 3 | All non-productive wood must be cut out , and the skill lies in deciding which of the many buds are wood buds and which are fruit buds , and then in deciding which of the wood buds are likely to produce the most fruit buds . |
| 4 | Historical research has thus proved more successful in demolishing old myths and theories about the relationship between crime and social change than it has in replacing them with sustainable generalizations . |
| 5 | The goldsmiths employed by abbots and bishops as well as by kings embellished gospel covers by enclosing them in gold set with gems , just as scribes illuminated sacred texts in gold leaf . |
| 6 | The skilled negotiator , by contrast , reverses the order and gives an explanation first ( ie the reason for being in disagreement ) and finishes by saying something like ‘ and that is why I disagree ’ . |
| 7 | Supporters of this generally held theory point to the tiger 's thick fur and heavy layer of fat ; also to its need to keep cool in the hot climates in which it now lives by immersing itself in water whenever it can during the heat of the day . |
| 8 | She starts by telling us of her welcome . |
| 9 | But until we have found out why the generalisation holds by complementing it with an account of the actions and attitudes of individuals , we will not have explained what is going on . |
| 10 | M My job depends on getting them in here . |
| 11 | Successive Chancellors of the Exchequer have striven to encourage people to invest in pension plans by favouring them with tax concessions — to the point at which they are one of the most attractive and tax-efficient investments you can make . |
| 12 | Encourage the puppy to recognize its own chews by handing them to it . |
| 13 | Yet for the past two years , Zara has had almost inseparable on-court support from coach Michael Ferguson , who she warmly credits for bringing her to her current level . |
| 14 | If this analysis of marriage , though no doubt over-simple and lacking subtlety , has some validity , then an argument clearly exists for extending it to relationships previously outside its scope . |
| 15 | But it is not every image that succeeds in suggesting something of the thrill of the hunt as well as curiosity . |
| 16 | Lady Macbeth succeeds in calming him by her usual tactics of scornful reductivism : ‘ When all 's done , /You look but on a stool ’ ( 67f. ) , and mockery of his cowardice : ‘ What ! quite unmanned in folly ? ’ ( 73 ) . |
| 17 | However , there 's no doubt that a usp puts the creative team in a stronger position than not having one , as long as he or she succeeds in selling it to the public . |
| 18 | Succeeds in driving one in three directions ( 4 ) |
| 19 | In fact even if one succeeds in dissociating oneself from some of the more romantic claims that are made on its behalf it 's easy to get the discouraging impression that communication without words is after all a residual topic and that once orthodox language has been subtracted all that is left is a rubbish heap of nudges , shrugs , pouts , sighs , winks and glances — or to put it another way that non-verbal communication is simply the behavioural exhaust thrown out of the rear end of an extremely high-tech linguistic machine . |
| 20 | When the Reeve likens himself to an " " open-ers " " he associates himself with Nicholas in the tale just passed , and can thus be attributed with the same wry self-reflection as the Miller shows in attaching himself to John the carpenter . |
| 21 | And who benefits from treating it as an ‘ I win , you lose ’ tussle ? |
| 22 | Aeneas returns to try and persuade him to join the battle , and succeeds by describing it as ‘ good sport ’ . |
| 23 | And I think you can see that the , the word transference here is , is in the sense that transference erm , alludes to transferring something from one place to another , as if the feeling , which were originally experienced , for example , in the family , were being transferred to the , to the analytic situation , to the , to the analysis . |
| 24 | Do not allow yourself to be pushed around by an agency that tells you they have a large number of suitable vacancies and then persists in sending you for jobs which are not within your specifications . |
| 25 | Since the egg can not enter the oviduct , the treatment consists of removing it from the ovary prior to ovulation , fertilizing it in the laboratory , and placing the proembryo into the uterus where it has a chance to implant . |
| 26 | Testing consists of identifying which of the known ones which of the known er sub-patterns er occur in my new input . |
| 27 | Because social changes which can be fitted into comparatively lengthy processes are yoked together with some structures in a single category , much of the history of conjonctures consists in relating one to another . |
| 28 | The counselling process focuses upon self-image , and ultimately aims at modifying it in a constructive way . |
| 29 | ( v ) Adhere the cells on to their glass coverslips by centrifuging them at 500 g for 10 min at 20-C in a HB-4 rotor of a Sorvall RC-5 centrifuge . |
| 30 | However , their analysis goes beyond encouraging us to ’ vote with our feet ’ , to a condemnation of consumerism itself : Both for the environmental destruction it causes and the damaging messages it sends women through ads that constantly tell us we 're ’ not being discreet enough ’ . |