Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [be] fixed [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ My mind was fixed on the tribunal most of the day , then I spent four hours travelling up for what I thought would be a place on the bench . |
2 | My free wing hung from the pole for I could not easily close it without terrible pain ; my eyes were fixed on them . |
3 | On my first acquaintance with the mad little road , in about 1950 , I had no feelings of affection for it nor any eye for the beauty all around , my gaze being fixed on the tarmac ahead as I dragged weary legs along it . |
4 | My attention was fixed on Toby , still sitting by the window . |
5 | The scope of their action is fixed by universally applicable criteria . |
6 | He had a think , and blew his nose , noticing after a moment that her mind was fixed on his words in a way that made him feel quite light . |
7 | Holists and individualists may both be said to have an overarching interest in understanding the mechanisms which operate in the social world , but beneath this unifying umbrella their eyes are fixed on different features on the landscape , and their respective theories are to be judged in relation to the tasks they set themselves . |
8 | Their eyes were fixed on each other in cold fury , their hands placed on the table , palms down , and they seemed to be waiting — waiting for |
9 | Ella noticed , with some alarm , that their eyes were fixed upon the silver basket which Dimity was proffering . |
10 | I do n't need to see through the sheet to know that Anya 's flushed brick red , and that her eyes are fixed on somewhere quite far to the east of the Walthamstow marshes . |
11 | The last words were spoken almost under her breath but her eyes were fixed on Lessingham 's face . |
12 | She sat quite still and her eyes were fixed on me with a curious , dark look of sympathy mixed with something else . |
13 | All through the night her eyes were fixed on the lights of Casterbridge , the end of her journey . |
14 | ’ Her eyes were fixed on Melissa as if in quest of a miracle . |
15 | Her eyes were fixed upon his slumbering member hanging limply and harmlessly between his legs . |
16 | While her back legs trampled the pups in the box , her gaze was fixed on the door through which Lady had passed to the freedom of the yard . |
17 | But her feet were fixed with six-inch nails to the floor . |
18 | However , one inexpensive precaution is to apply self-adhesive warning stickers on the glass at eye level : for example , on a patio door which someone might inadvertently walk or run into while their attention is fixed on the garden beyond . |
19 | The earth is the resource base for human life ; its nature is fixed by physical processes — which can be altered both endogenously ( within the physical system ) and exogenously ( by human action ) — but identification of aspects of the environment as a resource is a human creation . |
20 | So either we shall have to disallow such a possibility and decree that nothing qualifies as a genuine proposition unless its truth-value is fixed for all time , i.e. that all propositions are what is sometimes called " eternal " propositions , or we shall have to accept that truth-value is not an integral part of the objective propositional content . |
21 | In 1731 its strength was fixed at over 132,000 men : by 1796 ( i.e. before Russia had begun to play an active part in the struggle against the French Revolution ) it numbered 458,000 . |
22 | While Moses looks forward to the ‘ good ’ to come , their minds are fixed on the ‘ evil ’ of the present . |
23 | Her face was fixed with a strange expression , eyes open , lips parted . |
24 | One way would be to have a chemical whose concentration was fixed at one end of the line , and this concentration decreased as one moved down the line . |
25 | I also get all sorts of people , from average riders wanting a family horse to have fun with to those whose sights are fixed at the very top . |
26 | In the election campaign , the Conservatives had made much of ‘ setting the people free ’ of the planners , and of making the nationalised industries more ‘ businesslike ’ and ‘ commercial ’ , but the reality of controls remained for some years , as indeed was inevitable given the physical limits of a national cake whose size was fixed in the short term . |
27 | I had not intended to intrude on my hon. Friend 's speech , but does he consider that a schoolteacher , whose salary is fixed through national wage agreements by the independent pay review body for teachers and who lives in my hon. Friend 's or my constituency in the south-east , is better able to afford the council tax on a higher band than a teacher who lives in Darlington or elsewhere in the north ? |
28 | His eyes are fixed on hers as if he is trying to outstare her . |
29 | Seemingly standing rigid like a statue , his eyes are fixed on page one of the script while peripheral vision is trying to take in every detail of events going on around him in the studio . |
30 | His eyes are fixed on you and you know , you just know that he 's about to spring . |