Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stopped for a moment , and gazed at it with pleasure , and saw how huge it was , surging against the rocks with far more power and energy than it had in the shelter of the estuary , flinging plumes of spray about in a reckless manner and dragging back to gather itself for the next rush forward . |
| 2 | ‘ No , no , ’ the Finnish detective said , shaking his head as if to rid himself of the last remnants of misunderstanding . |
| 3 | So he resorted to an old favourite , which was to imagine himself as a First World War fighter ace engaged in an aerial duel with an enemy pilot . |
| 4 | He welcomed a recent Government announcement that an extra £25 million would be made available to help his organisation to restructure itself over the next three years . |
| 5 | Heads of department from the Soviet trade union centre , the AUCCTU , are expected to visit Congress House in the New Year on a fact-finding mission , and there have been requests for training links to be built between the TUC and the Hungarian trade union body , SZOT , which has been attempting to restructure itself over the last two years . |
| 6 | Vechey had decided to hang himself on the last . |
| 7 | These witches are the ‘ middle class ’ of respectability , always concerned to distance themselves from the first group and ever keen to present the acceptable face of natural religion . |
| 8 | We shall have to ask ourselves in the next lecture to what extent they succeeded with so little Latin at their disposal . |
| 9 | In these circumstances , the tensions apparent within the philosophies of life available in the nineteenth century were able to perpetuate themselves into the twentieth . |
| 10 | ‘ Times when it is hard to take yourself to the 1st tee . |
| 11 | But again , she 's making good eye contact , both of them only let their eyes flick down to their notes to remind themselves of the next point they want to make . |
| 12 | He 's been lucky of course , in that respect , in that he has had something to occupy himself over the last few months as far as the Gulf war is concerned , and in that respect , of course , I think I do n't I think it would be very difficult to fault him . |
| 13 | But Lisa 's mother points out that it 's unusual for people with Downs Syndrome to be given a chance to prove themselves in the first place : |