Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [prep] [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vaughan Williams , Edward Elgar and Frederick Delius all take their place , alongside George Bernard-Shaw a painting that the National Portrait Gallery might well like to know about for its pending festivities . |
| 2 | She 's very difficult to work for on her creative days ! ’ |
| 3 | And he used to come to with his black horse and dray and I used to go to help him on a er on a Saturday morning , used to get to about perhaps nine or half past and I 'd go the rounds with him and all I used to do was to er take the peoples things that they 'd bought up the entry you see because they were all entries then . |
| 4 | Want to come on on my own . |
| 5 | It was early still , but , while she had quite enjoyed his company and having someone else to converse with in her own language , an early night seemed quite a good idea . |
| 6 | If you decide that a tripod is the answer , you will find a selection of these to choose from at your local photographic dealers . |
| 7 | More than 30 prospective hedges to choose from in our comprehensive and detailed selector table . |
| 8 | Many mothers of sons never see them to talk to on their own from the day they marry , because their daughters-in-law always expect to be present on every conceivable occasion , and this is something that can build up a very understandable resentment . |
| 9 | On the day after the funeral of 3-year-old Leoni , the popular newspapers had another case to focus upon for their front page headlines : EVIL OLD MAN WHO KILLED KIRSTY GETS LIFE ( Daily Mail ) ; 60 YEARS OF EVIL Kirsty 's killer , 79 , led a life of crime ( Sun ) . |
| 10 | Not only is he fun to look at with his bright colours , he 's very durable too and more than able to withstand the very worst kind of punishment little ones are capable of dishing out ! |
| 11 | There are plenty of other things to look at besides your precious orchids . |
| 12 | Its international stature alone guarantees the attraction of custom , particularly from traders involved in export/import finance deals which small domestically-orientated banks might find difficult to cope with on their own . |
| 13 | Being discriminated against or harassed on any grounds — whether it 's racist , sexist or even ageist — is always hard to cope with on your own . |
| 14 | As Dogs Today readers know , poor Des has had buckets to cope with in his short life and can be a bit free ‘ n ’ easy with his pearly whites . |
| 15 | But where they address discourses of ‘ race ’ , sexuality , age , and class among subjects , they seem to find them difficult to deal with on their own terms . |
| 16 | So it 's nothing to do with by their own choice so I understand . |
| 17 | There was not one villager who had dared to emerge from behind his shuttered door , not since the foreigner had come to the village . |
| 18 | We are on the floor together : the door has to swing to on its own , as it is designed to do , though more for the sake of security than lovers . |
| 19 | Now he had no one to go to with his artistic problems , no hearth to sit at . |
| 20 | She did not wish to remain outside of her usual , blameworthy self for longer than was necessary . |
| 21 | Although the basics of toilet training can be mastered rapidly , it will take two or three months before a puppy is regularly asking to go outside of its own accord . |
| 22 | Where it is possible to arrange viewing facilities , a bank of classroom recordings for teachers to refer to in their own time is a sensible and useful resource . |
| 23 | His wife was no help to him , she was a poor , sickly creature , and he had his young sister to care for beside his own boy . |
| 24 | Lucy followed to discover that food hampers were already in place , and that there were labelled zipper bags which , she guessed , contained warm clothes for the rafters to change into after their hot showers . |
| 25 | And , of course , we 're very easy to get to with our convenient city centre location and designated car parking . |
| 26 | Now if you understand that , if you 're actually targeting , you want to get something into a national paper or local paper or something , you need to think at about your particular item you want to get across and think ‘ What sort of angle could actually be useful for that particular outlet ? ’ |
| 27 | I find this very difficult to erm , to relate , to relate hard work to the women portraying in , in this , we 've got the postcard of that one , erm it must of been hard work and very tedious , but I think every now and then the moment breaks away and shines through at the back , and I think people like , like Gaugin erm captures those moments and then releases them on the canvass , and I hope that erm by , I hope I 've been able to show you how I use art as a voice erm and a friend as my own work , even though we 've maybe had to do such a sort of hand fist way , hand fisted way , erm , but , I , I 've recently started to re-visit old favourite of paintings and I found that the story they tell sometimes has changed dramatically , maybe sometimes when your very little that , that , you know , sometimes dramatically as well , erm , but I , mostly , most importantly its , its still , I still find them , all of them compelling and challenging and , and something to stride for in my own work , erm , er only time will tell so I 'll finish with the , the last poem which is erm comes from the postcard what 's going round which is harvest , its called Patterns In The Grass , Wheat cut and falls , making lion head patterns in the grass , sickle shaped women bend and bow as a naive dressed as a dog steals the evening meal . |
| 28 | Psychologically it would apply to a life completely expressed without regrets and with all guilts erased ; a difficult number to resonate with in our present type of society . |
| 29 | On grotty days it 's a great advantage to stick to the lowlands , and our valleys are just the places to head for with their tremendous scenery and often surprisingly challenging walking . |
| 30 | You get somebody who is very outrageous on stage but who is maybe very shy off stage , and I think being on stage in front of an audience enables you to step outside of your own body and be somebody else totally different for that period of time . |