Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two or three years ago a friend of mine who is a publisher applied to me for help in dealing with a complaint from a man who had bought one of his cookery books . |
| 2 | Mental activity and life-satisfaction in old age thrive , in part , on the elderly having plenty of opportunity for talking with others . |
| 3 | If you ca n't find just what you want , there is plenty of scope for fiddling with the basic plans . |
| 4 | Success required dogged determination , academic ability , money , plenty of patience for dealing with the state bureaucracy and some useful contacts or ‘ guanxi ’ , i.e. connections with people in positions of responsibility who could help , which was becoming an increasingly important way of getting things done in China . |
| 5 | Student pilots need plenty of practice at dealing with both these kinds of situation during their basic training if they are to learn to be able to spot them developing . |
| 6 | An invaluable reference book offering plenty of advice on looking after everything in the home — from the furniture to the family . |
| 7 | If you 've plenty of time for thinking about it |
| 8 | Then Hughes , for so long dogged by the determined attentions of marker Guennady Fillimonov , suddenly shook himself into space before blasting from the edge of the box but Podshivalov reacted superbly . |
| 9 | He felt it necessary in any case to establish himself on campus before leaving for Cyprus , in order to avoid arousing suspicion among his university colleagues , and to connect with the Fulbright Commission , which administered its scholarship programme through offices in American embassies overseas . |
| 10 | Here , significantly , it is only God who puts himself on oath by passing between the pieces . |
| 11 | John puts himself at risk by hanging from the bannister ( line 13 ) . |
| 12 | John puts himself at risk by climbing on wardrobes ( line 13 ) . |
| 13 | But again I held myself warily at a certain distance , not daring to make contact with him for fear of falling into the kind of trap Dana had prepared for me . |
| 14 | Be sure though to let the ‘ nice guy ’ have his say and in conflict situations bring him into play by asking for his views . |
| 15 | ‘ Will you bathe her and put her to bed before attending to me , ’ Mrs Carson said . |
| 16 | The National Rivers Authority bought in dozens of workers to pump sludge from the river and take it by tanker for spreading on nearby fields . |
| 17 | Derry politics aroused nothing but distaste for working within the system among the few people who were interested in politics but who were not already involved in one of the two main parties . |
| 18 | There were stories of people putting themselves through college by working during the day and studying at night . |
| 19 | Others , such as the caterpillars of the hawk-moth , bury themselves in soil before turning into chrysalids . |
| 20 | Both are motorcylcists of long standing and had hardened themselves in readiness by taking to their bikes in the run-up to the rally . |
| 21 | staff exposed themselves to danger by standing in the four-foot . |
| 22 | It requires lots of experience of working with other people in varied situations . |
| 23 | Seen in this light , both Cairns-Smith 's theory and the primeval-soup theory seem if anything in danger of erring on the side of being too plausible ! |
| 24 | Diane Mynors saved us from oblivion by playing in the Oxford Women 's first eleven cricket team which defeated Cambridge . |
| 25 | The second is that the components of language do not have meaning for us in virtue of standing for objects , of various ontological kinds , with which we become acquainted through some kind of ostensive definition . |
| 26 | The third is the application of the second to concepts like ‘ pain' : words like ‘ pain' do not have meaning for us in virtue of standing for objects with which we become acquainted through an internal ostensive definition . |