Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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1 | One day the farmer thought , " I could increase those rabbits : make them part of my farm — their meat , their skins . |
2 | If you begin to apply some of these techniques to your studies and make them part of your habits of thought , you 'll find it much easier to solve problems , to write better essays and to produce higher-scoring examination answers . |
3 | Play another sound effect — perhaps a door opening , keys jangling , a car moving off , a bomb exploding , or a dog barking — and it becomes difficult not to link the two sounds together and make them part of the same story . |
4 | New pastures indeed and I regret my lack of education in historical bibliography . |
5 | None of my previous assistants has ever suggested that I change my style of management , and I can assure you that I have no intention of starting now . |
6 | I mean I kind of you know , you give a start and unfortunately if you 're in bed with somebody else you tend to wake them up , because my wife never does that , she 's just too good to be true . |
7 | I mean I do it sort of a bit naturally , I mean if you , you know that what , the Delvine Hotel , I mean I sort of went in and I du n no sort of part way in I sort of said can I ask you if , you know , you 've had your other quotes and he sort of said yes we 're gon na sit down tonight and make our minds up |
8 | But do go back , and amend my description of Boy so that he is , is some way , if you see what I mean , your type . |
9 | I want my can of Coke back . |
10 | I believe you can see why , first of it it 's most common , and second to coronary artery disease , I 'm a cardiac surgeon , I want my piece of the action too , so we keep as well . |
11 | Is the evidence on which I base my denial of God actually non-experience , in which case how can I be sure that this is not caused by my own limitations in accessing what in reality exists ? |
12 | I quickly exhaust my quota of courage out on the roads when seated on something flighty . |
13 | Please forgive my lack of knowledge but who is Victor Meldrew ? |
14 | who pity my grasp of their mother tongue . |
15 | The partnership sensibly place their account of five Seidl setting before the Rellstab and Heine sings . |
16 | Editor , — Martin R Howard and colleagues report their experience of preoperative provision of autologous blood in the Northern region between December 1989 and November 1991 . |
17 | Editor , — David E Mutton and colleagues report their analysis of the national Down 's syndrome register for 1989–91 . |
18 | ‘ The colleges want their pound of flesh , ’ said another . |
19 | Their purpose is to convey the peoples ' mode of perception and suggest their interpretation of phenomena . |
20 | They expound their policy of minimal state interference to find the ‘ least detrimental available alternative ’ — one in which child placement and procedure for child placement ‘ maximises , in accord with the child 's sense of time , the child 's opportunity for being wanted and for maintaining on a continuous , unconditional and permanent basis , a relationship with at least one adult who is or will become the child 's psychological parent ’ ( Goldstein et al. , 1979 , p. 189 ) . |
21 | The software 's called ’ Bankchek ’ and its developers say their survey of over 100 small businesses reveals repeated slip-ups by bank staff . |
22 | We will work to help the churches transform their view of what communication is and should be . |
23 | While the local press reports many cases of sexual assault with small factual stories , the popular national press generally pursues primarily those which fit its thesis of the sex fiend . |
24 | And in Asturias 's Men of Maize , which deals with the expropriation of Indian communal lands for the commercial exploitation of maize , the Guatemalan Indians ' resistance to the destruction of their way of life is waged not only with arms , but also through the myths by which they preserve their concept of the world . |
25 | On Aug. 7 it was announced that the United Arab Emirates had launched a programme to strengthen its armed forces ( which numbered 40,000 before the 1990-91 Gulf war crisis ) and replace its component of Arab and non-Arab expatriates with UAE nationals . |
26 | The reason they do this is in order to link general criticisms of the capitalist economic system with a specific analysis of the poverty of the elderly , but in doing so they shift their point of reference . |
27 | This will require a consideration of the extent to which local knowledge is re-evaluated in the face of new ‘ superior ’ knowledge , and the ways in which Balinese interpret and restructure their understanding of themselves and their place in the world in daily life and more formal settings like theatre . |
28 | We say instead that a country 's constitution is a body of rules — some laws , some conventions — which regulate its system of government . |
29 | Could use you sometimes you say they kind of , |
30 | Then , as could happen with him , he felt a deep despondency replace his feeling of elation . |