Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [pron] [prep] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm sure I catch something about meeting the Prime Minister.He bounds down to meet me , spruce and sporty in blazer and striped tie . |
| 2 | I admire him for remembering the day . |
| 3 | I thank you for taking the trouble to share your concerns with me , and hope that you will find the response reassuring . |
| 4 | I salute him for having the courage to come off the fence ; though he leaves many of his colleagues still perching there . |
| 5 | I join him in congratulating the industry on its export achievements — something that we never hear from the Labour party . |
| 6 | I pride myself on having a slightly more sophisticated sense of humour than that . ’ |
| 7 | If private property is to be legitimate within the framework of a liberal society it is also necessary to show that there are constraints which prevent it from becoming a source of power which threatens the liberty of the individual or rivals the power of the state . |
| 8 | A durian dilettante is a breed apart : there are even special clubs which devote themselves to following the durian season round the entire archipelago — feasting and waxing lyrical on the fruit 's narcotic delights . |
| 9 | It is only their sheltered lives which keep them from facing the same problem . |
| 10 | Er , the other motion is of course pointing to so many of the changes that are taking place in our industrial society which prompt us into building a new union . |
| 11 | This is placed between two staves and moved to wherever you want it by using the cursor keys . |
| 12 | It 's far more likely that you will get the spells you are looking for if you select them from say the Amethyst or the Jade college rather than choosing one from Jade , one from Bright , one from Amethyst etc . |
| 13 | You lift it with Had a a thing like that and a knob like this . |
| 14 | ‘ And you accuse me of having an oversized ego ? |
| 15 | Juliana Hatfield , in an ideal world , would be one of the candidates for courtship by the major labels in America who think nothing of offering the noise-for-noise sake Helmet half a million dollars to ditch an indie label for the big-time . |
| 16 | A mere elimination of explicit truth-claims — assuming such a thing was possible — would not in itself contribute anything towards clarifying the concept of truth . |
| 17 | The spirit can be carried fairly safely in closed containers and evaporates quickly if you spill it without leaving a smell or mess . |
| 18 | What it is about is using our members ' money to benefit the people who represent them by moving the responsibility of training from national to regional level . |
| 19 | No , well they 've actually done something this time , the accountant 's going to be there , I mean when we went last time they just said we know nothing about running a hall , we bought you here to tell us and charged us for the privilege . |
| 20 | We do it by providing a health insurance tax credit of up to $3,750 for each low-income family . |
| 21 | At this point we think it worth using a little space to examine the concept of accountability . |
| 22 | There are , of course , no unique prescriptions for realizing these principles but we think it worth examining a few possible approaches in a little more detail . |
| 23 | Additions such as these certainly enrich the idea of the longue durée ; but at the same time they complicate it by broadening the notion of constraint on which it depends and obscuring its relationship with conjonctures . |
| 24 | They criticise me for getting a new curtain or taking a holiday . |
| 25 | If employees are unable to sell their old properties at the same time as they commit themselves to buying a new one , they may need finance in the form of a bridging loan . |
| 26 | Even when they apply themselves to understanding the effects of social relations on individual cognition , as with work on social identity and social representations , the patterns they describe are assumed to be based on universal properties of the human mind . |
| 27 | They pride themselves on providing a top grade service and have done everything form cleaning ocean-going liners to baby-sitting chinchillas . |
| 28 | The Arab said , ‘ They blame me for guarding the food . |