Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the snow comes , this will insulate them from the cold air and allow them to tease out woodlice , spiders and other invertebrates from leaf-litter or plant roots . |
| 2 | Hard though he tried , Floyd could make nothing of the inward half and Couples , having gone to the front with a birdie at the ninth , was never caught again . |
| 3 | It 's better to take them with you in the car rather than consign them to the chilly furniture van . |
| 4 | You 'll want them on a long-line sweater or jacket , or else on a kind of Jolly Roger jumpsuit . |
| 5 | If a potential investor should assume that ‘ preference ’ means that he should prefer them to the ordinary shares he would be sorely in need of professional advice . |
| 6 | ‘ Let's go and have a drink , then you can treat me to a celebratory dinner ! ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Other students did n't treat me as a mature student and I got to know students aged 17 to 70 . |
| 8 | But please , Mama , Lucinda pleaded silently , do n't treat me like a complete idiot . |
| 9 | ‘ You need not treat me like a half-witted child ! ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Why ca n't he treat me like a good-time girl , ’ wailed Babs . |
| 11 | Do n't treat me like a naughty schoolgirl . |
| 12 | Well you would treat them as a separate entity . |
| 13 | They have subsequently been developed by other thinkers , but for clarity 's sake we shall treat them as a single body of thought . |
| 14 | We shall treat them as a special type of word and give them the following rule : when a pair of prefix-plus-stem words exists , both members of which are spelt identically , one of which is a verb and the other is either a noun or an adjective , the stress will be placed on the second syllable of the verb but on the first syllable of the noun or adjective . |
| 15 | Ladies and gentlemen , I 'm very grateful to Professor Eppell for his characteristically kind and generous remarks , and erm I accept them all the more readily because I know you will treat them with a healthy degree of scepticism . |
| 16 | It should out-point them on the rough stuff , too , for the Range Rover is still king of the wild frontiers . |
| 17 | In exploring such environments pupils will experience the type of argument and logical analysis that will prepare them for the real-life problems they will tackle outside . |
| 18 | Sometimes they are perceived only by those in intimate contact , yet sometimes they can make everyone in a large crowd aware of individual feelings . |
| 19 | The courts recognise these limitations , which are inherent in any system of taking evidence abroad ahead of the trial , but can not regard them as a sufficient objection to the making of the order . |
| 20 | Mr. Wall argued that the exercise of the discretion which arises as a result of the finding of ‘ acquiescence ’ made by the Court of Appeal , is limited to considering the nature and quality of the acquiescence itself and would not entitle the court to take into account ‘ welfare ’ considerations relating specifically to the children unless the court were able to find that there had been established a grave risk that the return of the children would expose them to an intolerable situation under article 13 ( b ) . |
| 21 | ‘ Ah , Gina … how could you compare me with an insensitive brute like that ? ’ |
| 22 | I looked at what all those other glamour pusses produced and I thought , Edna , you can knock them into a cocked hat . |
| 23 | He may regard me as an amateur but the fact is that , due to physical difficulties , I can not pull and twist in a horizontal mode and so I invoked gravity to assist . |
| 24 | ‘ Can you direct me to the private wing ? ’ |
| 25 | My course will eventually qualify me for a good career but meanwhile I 'm struggling on an allowance . |
| 26 | Yeah , but you can only buy them for a little while in the year |
| 27 | Went to the Royal Academy when I was doing my 'O' Levels , it was a Jackson follow up it was about , ambulance was about twelve foot by twelve foot , it was literally splodges of paint all over the fucking place , it was horrible , you can actually buy them at the Royal Academy , you ca n't buy them at , but he was asking a hundred thousand pounds for it , I could n't believe it , a trained monkey could of fucking painted that |
| 28 | The first was whether a reasonable buyer who was acquainted with the condition of the goods would buy them without a substantial abatement of the price . |
| 29 | You can also recognise them by the round yellow bill patch . |
| 30 | Wessex region would not recognise me as a senior registrar until the college 's approval had been received . |