Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] [prep] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That places me at something of a disadvantage . ’ |
| 2 | A rite is part of the culture the individual is born into , and it imposes itself on him from the outside like the rest of his culture . |
| 3 | Crilly leads me into Perry 's flat and seats me beside him on the orange settee . |
| 4 | He reveals him to us through the operas , which ‘ lay at the core of Mozart 's life as a thinking artist ’ and on which Mr Till has worked as a producer . |
| 5 | Against the egotism of the preoccupation of being with itself , he posits a relation of sociality , whereby the self instead of assimilating the other opens itself to it through a relation with it . |
| 6 | Tom Fearon keeps him for me at the livery stables . |
| 7 | They were ordinary chaps who deliberately sold themselves short right down to their weedy name , an idea that still attaches itself to anything on the label . |
| 8 | I am learning that to narrow a woman 's focus and to make her faceless , as the fog does every day , turns her despite herself against the things she loves best . |
| 9 | His reaction puzzles Banquo , but Macbeth explains it to us in an aside : The word ‘ swelling ’ is sometimes glossed by comparison with a stage thronged with people , but it also suggests pregnancy , and we may recall Angelo 's sense of ‘ the strong and swelling evil/Of my conception ’ . |
| 10 | He drags me after him through the woods . |
| 11 | Sheila , it strikes me that one of the main problems with the argument is just what Ruth said : wages for housework is a kind of global undefined demand which sucks everything into it like a whirlpool , and ignores all the other demands — what about equal pay , what about equal educational opportunities , what about contraception and abortion , what about nurseries — there 's no short-term strategy in it , let alone long-term strategy . |
| 12 | so you 're made to feel the most special person on the earth and I think that makes it worth it for a lot of them . |
| 13 | It provides us with something like a snapshot of meaning . |