Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like Matthew , we will keep creating realities which coax or provoke us into feeling anger — by being hurt , by suffering from injustice , by seeing a world full of hatred and cruelty . |
| 2 | Neither the personal circumstances of the patient nor a speculative answer to the question ‘ What would the patient have chosen ? ’ can bind the practitioner in his choice of whether or not to treat or how to treat or justify him in acting contrary to a clearly established anticipatory refusal to accept treatment but they are factors to be taken into account by him in forming a clinical judgment as to what is in the best interests of the patient . |
| 3 | It might be supposed that to injure him by getting deeply into his debt sufficed to satisfy any unfriendly feelings they might entertain towards him . |
| 4 | And in what might have proved a momentous extension of this diplomatic sequence , it was at Hendaye that in 1940 , after the fall of France , Hitler met Franco , to try and talk him into joining in the war on the German side against the British . |
| 5 | At their recent meeting Nether Wyresdale Parish Council asked me to write and thank you for allowing the seat from Snowhill to be kept on your property after it had been removed from its base . |
| 6 | Everyone in the playground was staring at her , and any minute now Miss Hardbroom ( Mildred 's terrifying form-mistress from the previous year ) was bound to appear and accuse her of upsetting a poor new girl . |
| 7 | The sister who 'd protested and overruled her by bringing in another doctor to relieve Brückner 's suffering . |
| 8 | Emily ? … laughing and teasing him about deserving a white feather … ? |
| 9 | I chased 'im all the way up the Butts with me stew saucepan , and a bobby 'ad to come an' save 'im from 'aving 'is brains bashed in . |
| 10 | It is often guilt or fear that stops us from telling the truth . |
| 11 | Mr Stuart-Moore alleged that Alison 's murderer had forced her to tell him this personal detail after handcuffing her , torturing and assaulting her before killing her . |
| 12 | They claimed that Philip III of France , his court and his officers had recently ( a modico tempore ) hindered and troubled them by citing them before other courts — not only the Paris Parlement , but the court of the French seneschal of Périgord . |
| 13 | Thus a better strategy to employ is one that teaches her to wait and rewards her for doing so . |
| 14 | The temptation for the rich nations will be to avoid or limit them by deferring expenditures on pre-emptive measures which will add up at home to taxes , higher energy costs and technology transfers to poor countries striving to compete with the donors . |
| 15 | Something happened that stopped me from going . |
| 16 | On 6 March 1992 more than 35 agents of the Mobile Military Police cordoned off four blocks of Guatemala City and violently rounded up the street children , handcuffing and beating them before dumping them in a van and taking them to the 2nd precinct police station . |
| 17 | In case your bike is stolen , make it easier for the police to identify and recover it by marking the frame with your postcode . |
| 18 | The building on its other side the Theatre has raised £230,000 to buy and convert it into dressing rooms , store rooms and even a rehearsal room in the attic . |
| 19 | I gave him a hard releasing shove in the general direction of Sam , Perkin and an open-mouthed Gareth and at last watched a dozen restraining hands clutch and keep him from destroying himself entirely , but he struggled against them and turned his vindictive face my way and shouted in still exploding rage , ‘ I 'll kill you . ’ |
| 20 | Since colours can vary slightly , it 's important to buy all the tiles you need at once to ensure that they 're from the same batch ; it 's also a good idea to unpack and mix them before fixing them , to even out any colour variations . |
| 21 | ‘ I thought I 'd ring and congratulate you on managing at last to see what some of us have been going on about for all these years . ’ |
| 22 | Mina 's sister , too , was childless and her husband had humiliated and rejected her by marrying a second wife . |
| 23 | The dealers snatch the baskets of produce they have bought and rush them to waiting lorries . |
| 24 | This learning difficulty has to be ‘ significantly greater … than for the majority of children of his age ’ ; or , he has to have a ‘ disability which either prevents or hinders him from making use of educational facilities of a kind generally provided in schools maintained by the local education authority concerned … ’ . |
| 25 | But it is still a passive role and , while many major figures in sport express a sense of responsibility for black youth , none actively encourage or discourage them from following their examples . |
| 26 | How right we were : he drew plans with all the details we needed and submitted them for planning and building approval . |
| 27 | The pupil 's classroom and working groups ( how an individual 's behaviour may have a function for the whole group who may then try and prevent him from changing it ; how groups may be handled so as not to ‘ need ’ one child 's particular behaviour and instead support his progress ) |
| 28 | Good interviewers will try and prevent you from feeling overwhelmed but being outnumbered inevitably creates a certain tension . |
| 29 | Cos she saw me putting the corn in and she decided she 'd try and get it by diving through the black net instead of going through the gate , like with a normal hen , you know , this one 's obviously brain dead or |
| 30 | Brandishing a handgun , he forced the 23-year-old boyfriend into the boot , where he bound and gagged him before dragging the terrified woman into his own vehicle . |