Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every is going to be female , now does that mean to say , that if no males apply , or if you only advertise for someone female , which I presumably erm , actually going to er run the impossibly do it . |
| 2 | Though consent , if valid , has normative consequences , and can only be explained through its purported normative consequences , it does not bear its normativeness on its face . |
| 3 | SEEDY : Rumpled bed and empty bottles in the borrowed Fulham flat where Mellor and Antonia met for their steamy love sessions |
| 4 | But when the Assembly met for its first session on 5 January 1918 it immediately became clear that a majority of the deputies were hostile to the government and the Assembly was forcibly disbanded . |
| 5 | Evidence of the Host 's appearance is said to be the red crotal ( lichen ) stain found on rocks the morning after a heavy frost , which is blood they have spilled during their aerial spats . |
| 6 | They appeared to apologize for their pitiable weaknesses , instead of forming themselves into a counter attack . |
| 7 | After all , not many business executives or lawyers write satirical novels or plays about their own profession . |
| 8 | Oddly , she felt less happy , less content , less well able to go about her daily business than she had in the three painful months of her sexual abstinence . |
| 9 | People continued to go about their daily lives , make their plans , take decisions , eat , drink , love , pray for a good harvest , pray for rain , in complete ignorance of the dramatic effect this far-off encounter would have on their lives . |
| 10 | Does the Minister agree that the best right for the people of the United Kingdom under any citizens charter would be the right to live and to go about their daily work without the continual threat of terrorism ? |
| 11 | The solution was a simple one : employ priests with the sole responsibility of singing the memorial requiems so as to allow the parish priests to go about their customary role of caring for the spiritual needs of the living . |
| 12 | Every time a Labour MP pairs with a Tory , leaving that Tory MP free to go about his other business commitments , most of them highly paid , that MP abstained from taking part in opposing this government 's policies . |
| 13 | Most of us believe that accidents always happen to someone else , which I suppose is how we are able to go about our everyday lives . |
| 14 | Further to my letter of 3 September 1992 , I am most grateful to you for your permission to borrow for our forthcoming exhibition on John Slezer the Slezer drawings of Edinburgh held by Edinburgh City Libraries , and shall be in touch with Miss McDougall about practical arrangements in due course . |
| 15 | Figure 6.5 Ants follow pheromone trails by balancing the concentrations smelled through its two antennae . |
| 16 | There are the end-of-tether diaries published as My Sister and Myself by his literary executor , Francis King , and any number of references in the voluminous literature that has grown up around the figure of E M Forster , whose acolyte Ackerley became between their first meeting in 1922 and his death , aged 71 , in 1967 . |
| 17 | When the locum who had visited Allison at home heard about her multiple miscarriages , she suggested Allison should ask to be referred to the Recurrent Miscarriage Clinic at Pembury Hospital in Kent . |
| 18 | They had heard about her erotic exploits but their jaws dropped during the dress rehearsal of one of her entrances . |
| 19 | The Everton and Wales star , caught doing 80 in a 50mph area , escaped a ban after magistrates heard about his extensive charity work . |
| 20 | As control families were traced through their general practitioner with the facilities offered by the central register , families who emigrated before the study began ( five ) and those whose current family health services authority was not recorded ( five ) or incorrectly recorded ( 11 ) were replaced by the next eligible control in the series . |
| 21 | She had been so busy with her dress house in Rome , coping with her designer , planning for the future and ensuring that everyone in the business was kept happy — each of which seemed a full-time job in itself — that she had hardly had time to spare for her three children , let alone her mother . |
| 22 | With less reliable means of reaching the station , with perhaps less requirement for haste , and less opportunity to understand the timetables or gauge time by any other means than the sun , these passengers used all the patience of the peasant to wait for their appropriate train . |
| 23 | And Elinor was just going to have to wait for her merciful release . |
| 24 | Even when she was tiny she had n't really thought of him that way , and when she was older , about thirteen , she had secretly been terribly proud in front of the other girls when Georg , who had never seemed to go through a spotty adolescent phase like other boys , used to wait for her outside school so that they could walk up the mountain road together . |
| 25 | I did n't have long to wait for my first recovery , because the next day a kid arrived at the house carrying the ghastly yellow-coated corpse of a starling . |
| 26 | Imagine — with Air Miles you do n't have to wait for your annual summer holidays to come around . |
| 27 | On the other , we have still to wait for our final adoption at the Second Coming ( Rom. 8:23 ) . |
| 28 | Deng Xiaoping managed to stay alive and did not wish to wait for his own death before being given any credit . |
| 29 | He can indulge himself with whichever other women attract him , but you 're to remain for his exclusive use , keeping yourself unencumbered , ready and available for whenever he has a whim to renew the relationship ? ’ |
| 30 | The three newspapers I took were sticking through my front door , which was at the side of the house . |