Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [pers pn] [adv] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He tries to convey the humour to Phil , but Phil looks at him sardonically and talks of other things .
2 The rite of passage of marriage is not , interestingly enough , if one looks at it carefully but baptism certainly is .
3 George Wallace meets with them regularly and John Murphy , Manager Service Quality Development is enthusiastic about the positive approach being taken to customer service by Technology .
4 The contract is thus a " dual capacity " transaction in the strict sense and the broker enters into it both as agent for the client and as principal .
5 Note that this claim would not be undermined by showing that infants ‘ mindlessly ’ master the communicative content of structured sentences before it dawns on them gradually that assertions express beliefs and that deceit is possible .
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