Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her latest pester-the-public project involves hanging outside a shoe repair shop and testing people 's trust by asking to take a copy of their house key . |
| 2 | We have thus tried to fit to the NMR data by imposing these ε values ( on one junction at a time ) while also constraining the sugar puckers to agree with the COSY data . |
| 3 | Attendance at these affairs , which involves queueing for the sandwiches , queueing for a glimpse of the Queen , queueing for the lavatories , queueing to leave , is potent evidence of the continuing talismanic influence of the monarchy . |
| 4 | This job also involves assisting in the organisation of promotional events in the UK and overseas . |
| 5 | Whilst discussing Derwentwater he discourages drawing from a boat or small island , ‘ the passion for boat prospects is owing to the delusive fascinations of the water . ’ |
| 6 | The section prohibits canvassing in the sense of the attempt of an applicant or of another person at his instigation to influence a member of a licensing board to support his application for a grant , renewal or permanent transfer of a licence , or for a regular extension of permitted hours before the application is considered by the board ( subs . |
| 7 | My husband and I take turns to sit at the stall . |
| 8 | Through Clennam , Cavaletto goes to lodge at the Plornishes , enabling Mrs Plornish ( Sally , except in chap . |
| 9 | Meanwhile a carefree Madonna goes jogging on the beach with her personal trainer . |
| 10 | If the former involves drawing on a richness of tacit knowledge the latter is necessarily concerned with reversing this process , ie with making explicit the tacit richness of design activity . |
| 11 | We 've just had a golf course defined as a strategic issue and I think that in a way goes goes goes to the heart of what this is what this is all about . |
| 12 | ( Where sounds correspond aurally yet the concept differs depending on the context , further confusion can arise . |
| 13 | The tempo of speech differs depending on the urgency ( rapid ) or deliberation ( slow ) of the speech . |
| 14 | He confesses his initial involvement to Sutherland , but will not say what happened after the petrol station unless Keifer agrees to go through the same process , starting with the taking of a sleeping draught . |
| 15 | He confesses his initial involvement to Sutherland , but will not say what happened after the petrol station unless Keifer agrees to go through the same process , starting with the taking of a sleeping draught . |
| 16 | The Artificer commonly goes clad like the Yeoman : the Yeoman like the Gentleman : the Gentleman as the Nobleman : the Nobleman as the Prince : which bringeth great confusion , and utterly overturneth the order which God hath set in the states and conditions of men . |
| 17 | It is an iterative process which involves trawling through the design space of possible configurations until the optimal solution is found . |
| 18 | HONG KONG has stepped up the pressure on China , promising to publish democratic reform legislation soon unless Beijing agrees to come to the negotiating table . |
| 19 | Thus deadlock can occur if and only if the environment offers to communicate on a set of channels disjoint from one of the sets represented by the |
| 20 | If they dream up a bright profit-winning idea , even if it involves walking in the dirty waters of pornography as the 0898 service does , the Government are unable or unwilling to do anything about it , even over a six-year period . |
| 21 | Q : I think that is because people see it as an act of desperation when an actress agrees to appear in a nude magazine like Playboy . |
| 22 | He crawls , in a shame of abasement , when he longs to leap like a flung wave , like a cloud of starlings . |
| 23 | The farm has nine acres of land , including the ruins of an old British indigo factory — a long redbrick wall with trees and bushes growing on the old factory floor , weeds climbing along the bricks . |
| 24 | The amendment stated that the USA would attempt to dissuade any NATO ally from making force reductions , and that , should this attempt fail , the USA would seek to persuade other NATO allies to compensate for the resultant shortfall in overall NATO force levels . |
| 25 | But if you just take those points er an and , and think them through in your own mind about how this system of government differs say from the British system of government and the position of local government in the British system , you can see that , well we do n't really have local government do we ? |
| 26 | The screaming at one their concerts he wrote ‘ pierced the recoiling eardrums like the shriek of ten thousand bo'suns whistles blasting through a wind tunnel . ’ |
| 27 | Even MTV has jumped on the bandwagon with The Real World , a show that chronicles the lives of seven kids rooming together in a SoHo loft . |
| 28 | Two months after Apple Computer Inc released a Catalan version of its System 7 , Microsoft Corp has jumped on the bandwagon and announced Catalan editions of MS-DOS 5.0 , Windows 3.1 , and a spell-checker and dictionary for Word for Windows 2.0 . |
| 29 | Everyone has jumped on the bus without paying and now the whole transport system is going under . |
| 30 | AT the age of 80 the Rev. Anthony Cunningham has jumped at the chance of a new job . |