Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [vb base] [verb] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These conditions typically exist in garage servicing , though they are by no means con fined to it . |
| 2 | Current members of the Club go up for the weekend to climb ( this year it was too cold — even the lakes were frozen ) and after dinner retire to doss on whatever floor may be found . |
| 3 | Captains of industry know ogling at me Is |
| 4 | She felt a splinter of pain awaken in her heart and a sense of grief go rushing through her . |
| 5 | Two years of applying to courts for arrears of maintenance have come to nothing . |
| 6 | She felt a stab of emotion go driving through her . |
| 7 | Right right , I 'm erm very big , I 'm like a football ground , but I 'm not and erm lots of crickets have fallen on me before |
| 8 | Hours of work have gone into their plaited hair . |
| 9 | This makes one wonder just how many other kinds of excavations have depended for their chronology on similar evidence . |
| 10 | An increasing number of customers have turned to our Petroleum Engineering laboratories for scale prevention and optimisation services . |
| 11 | Whilst a number of writers have commented upon his contributions to debates upon current policy problems , little has been said about the theoretical basis of these contributions . |
| 12 | For other types of relationship do exist in which the parties may desire the system of rights and duties which flow from the legal concept of marriage , while — and this is a critical point — the common law is singularly lacking in alternative forms of institutionalized and legitimate union . |
| 13 | David Tyler , finance director of Christies International , observed , ‘ during the past few years , an increasing number of vendors have come to us requesting an advance of their sale proceeds ; we have been happy to meet those requests in many cases ’ . |
| 14 | Hundreds of thousands of Somalis have fled from their homes , some to refugee camps in Ethiopia , others to revert to their ancestral nomadic existence in Somalia 's empty semi-deserts . |
| 15 | A succession of managers have sworn by his midfield drive and energy but , it seems , been only too happy to let him move on . |
| 16 | And , of course , all sorts of things do happen to us as we grow . |
| 17 | We are here today talking about a tiny amount of water when in the past seven days billions of gallons have descended upon us . |
| 18 | In doing so there are a number of people wish to see on what to do . |
| 19 | In drama a number of people agree to abstract from what they know of the ‘ hiding ’ function and to combine that knowledge with what they have understood about a particular ‘ hiding ’ context , say , King Charles and his followers hiding from the Roundheads ( hiders are therefore labelled Cavaliers , and the seekers Roundheads ) and to behave ‘ as if ’ only that function mattered . |
| 20 | Tons of people have said to me , ‘ Oh , it 's nice to have a rounded body ’ , but personally I 'm not very happy with the body I 've got . |
| 21 | A lot of people have said to us that our gigs remind them of when they 're in the bathroom , miming with a tennis racket , pouring water over their heads for that sweat experience . ’ |
| 22 | A lot of people have said to us that our gigs remind them of when they 're in the bathroom , miming with a tennis racket , pouring water over their heads for that sweat experience . ’ |
| 23 | Hundreds of thousands of people have appealed for their freedom . |
| 24 | Parish council clerk at Gainford Margaret Brown said : ‘ They should n't strictly have been on the bridge but a lot of people do walk on it and climb over the small barricade at each end . |
| 25 | and a lot of people do fight against it , and I , I can understand it er , it 's so different to me |
| 26 | But for the sale er it 's well advertised you know and er there 's a lot of people seem to know about it , you know connected with the college mainly I suppose , they get their mates to come ooh there 's good stuff and there is some good stuff , you know ? |
| 27 | to stop the wetness seeping through and that the gel , what they do is they shave rabbits , and rub it into their skin , the rashes and that and a couple of rabbits have died from it when they first started testing the stuff |
| 28 | But , even as she thought it , she rejected the question and felt a surge of anger go darting through her . |
| 29 | As they have sown , so must they reap and reap , even when the poppy flowers of passion have withered in their hands , and their harvest is but bitter tares , garnered in satiety . |
| 30 | Should you happen to be driving in the vicinity of one of these ‘ sealed lorries ’ extreme caution is advised as a number of motorists have found to their cost , sometimes the spills are more substantial . |