Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the period immediately before a race it is worth eating something sweet to provide glucose and drink plenty of fluids since in a long race you can become dehydrated and can lose up to 5lb . |
| 2 | We are also indebted to the Minister and the Whips for allowing us adequate time in which to adduce our arguments . |
| 3 | It is argued , by many people , that this is an unacceptable price to pay for allowing our domestic cats to roam freely . |
| 4 | Faced with the possibility that IBM Corp is to reduce the royalties for using its Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking code , and despite its membership of the APPI Forum backing the proposed open Advanced Peer-to-Peer Internetworking standard , Westborough , Massachusetts-based Proteon International Inc believes that APPN is set to become the industry standard . |
| 5 | It 's easy to become enthusiastic about ideas for using something new , without stopping to think through your reasons for doing it . |
| 6 | Mr Greenway , 58 , correctwas accused of accepting foreign holidays and gifts in return for using his parliamentary influence to help an Austrian company win British Rail contracts . |
| 7 | Last month the Liverpool-based band were forced to pay huge damages to the estate of Irish songwriter Sean O'Rieda for using his instrumental , Women Of Ireland on their last hit , Words . |
| 8 | In the meantime , here are some tips for using our old friend the male condom . |
| 9 | I do not see any reason for using anything special , so I choose to bait with two items , bread and worms . |
| 10 | girls are presented with a dilemma between maintaining their feminine identities or becoming closely identified with the study of physics . |
| 11 | Once I did this without looking where I was going and went straight into the backs of nine armourers who were ambling towards the Mess for supper , and had to be disentangled from my machine , picked up and dusted off , which they did with all the gleeful enthusiasm which Thursby reserved for drawing his heavy black frontal lines on our neatly drawn charts . |
| 12 | But her own perspective was different : Durance had told Joseph that Leary was living nearby but Joseph had done nothing about contacting his old friend until he needed an alibi for the night of the murder . |
| 13 | That chance arose in 1988 when Colorgraphic acquired P&W as a vehicle for building its direct mail printing business north of the border . |
| 14 | Only the Queen , with a total annual income from the state of £475,000 , came out at better than American rates — $1,330,000 — but two-thirds of that sum was specifically for maintaining her enormous household . |
| 15 | It 's worth contacting your local County Council Planning Department for more information . |
| 16 | This means that , if you do pursue an appeal , you should not overlook any relevant time limits for pursuing your statutory rights . |
| 17 | Drenching even a few rooms , with foam and then a chemical spray seems to me a high penalty for catching what American police forces call a perpetrator . |
| 18 | Now he keeps blamin' me for keepin' her clean . |
| 19 | ‘ And if you really are serious about pursuing your ridiculous claim for custody , I shall make damned sure that the court knows all about you . |
| 20 | Undoubtedly that takes much time , and the GKN Group is to be congratulated for encouraging its senior executives to play such an important part in an organisation that achieves such excellent work in Shropshire . |
| 21 | Although she enjoys the aesthetic value of wild flowers , her reason for encouraging their widespread growth is principally scientific . |
| 22 | A third criterion for labelling something unmarked is relative neutrality of meaning . |
| 23 | That Wright is ultimately responsible for handling his short fuse and , to help him do that , think back to the hundreds of games he 's played when there has been no trouble . |
| 24 | And yet there is now a way in which a small business can introduce ‘ new technology ’ methods for producing its internal documentation , manuals , price lists , brochures , indeed anything that previously would have been sent to a designer or printshop . |
| 25 | If his taxes did deter hard work , the economy would wilt , jobs would be lost and he and his colleagues would run short of the tax revenue for financing their favourite causes . |
| 26 | She was not squeamish about using her considerable social influence in support of her son Winston ; she pressed his writing on publishers , sought for favourable reviewers , and appealed directly to the third Marquess of Salisbury , then prime minister , to permit him to join the expedition to the Sudan under Sir H. Herbert Kitchener ( later first Earl Kitchener of Khartoum , q.v . ) . |
| 27 | Status is about using your personal power to gain recognition from others . |
| 28 | It is also within this group that a fan has the most obvious opportunities for becoming somebody special . |
| 29 | Although in poor health since a heart operation in 1990 , Muldoon had made it clear in announcing his resignation on Nov. 17 that the primary reason for ending his 31-year parliamentary career was his intense dissatisfaction with the policies of the National Party government [ see p. 38580 ] . |
| 30 | A boring time is ahead , so you 'll need to think out some ideas for keeping yourself amused . |