Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [pron] and [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She designed a T-shirt for them and has written their anthem Children of the 90s . |
| 2 | He is the one who paid the money for them and has made some bad mistakes , e.g. Mo Johnston , Paul Rideout , Alan Harper and Barry Horne . |
| 3 | It has a peculiarly romantic ring about it and refers to ‘ special protection , opportunities and facilities to enable them to develop in a healthy and normal manner in freedom and dignity ’ , to ‘ special treatment , education and care ’ and ‘ love and understanding and an atmosphere of affection and security ’ . |
| 4 | just how dark each region is can be measured in an automatic scanner which passes a tiny beam of light through it and records how much is transmitted . |
| 5 | I turn over and pretend I 'm still asleep but she pulls the duvet off me and switches the lights on . |
| 6 | Diamond considers different sectors of HE and reports that children who do not gain the formal qualifications for HE are around ten times more likely to enter HE if both their parents had left school after age 17 than if both parents had left school by the age of 15 . |
| 7 | Jamie has no demons like you and defies you with being a skunk Repulsive to humanity and most of the animal kingdom , but irresistible to another skunk ! |
| 8 | A classic example is the agoraphobic housewife whose husband is , ‘ really wonderful , very sympathetic and understanding … he does everything for me … he comes around all the shops with me and drives me wherever I want to go ’ . |
| 9 | I can see it in his eyes as he takes his seat beside me and says , deadpan : " Cue Bruce . " |
| 10 | Technically , if you hand someone a joint you 're supplying , but it means a lot of work for them and does n't catch the people who are the big fish . |
| 11 | The man takes a plastic tub of something and sticks his hands in it . |
| 12 | ‘ Every body placed in the luminous air spreads out in circles and fills the surrounding space with infinite likenesses of itself and appears all in all and all in every part . ’ |
| 13 | At last the house has made our peace with us and hangs on to her slates in the gardens . |
| 14 | The Department of Transport has refused to buy their home from them and claims their lives would not be seriously affected by the road . |
| 15 | At least , this human being loyally follows me around the place , keeps tabs on me and rings me up the whole time . |
| 16 | The receptionist welcomes the guests with a smile and greeting , hands the pen to them and asks if they will kindly complete the registration form ( Fig. 3.8 ) or sign the hotel register ( Fig. 3.21 ) . |
| 17 | Des lounges against it and switches on his walkie-talkie . |
| 18 | She appeals to our memory of shelter , our perpetual desire for it and fires our memory into longing with the ignition of ‘ blanket ’ , ‘ picnics ’ , ‘ sicknesses ’ and ‘ spreading stain' . |
| 19 | There simply is n't any dramatic , conflict in a story about a purported villain who wears a Beatle cap , drinks from a huge glass with fish in it and gazes out from his island home on the great blue sea as he waits for his pursuers , a pair of handsome would-be lovers who sing songs like ‘ We could of , we should of , perhaps we can . |
| 20 | Clearly , it may not be possible to ingather that information within the time after service and it , therefore , becomes of critical importance that the insurance file has properly identified the witnesses , has detailed statements from them and has all the documentary back-up relevant . |
| 21 | But it is difficult to make anything of the sort of entry which assesses the rector at nil and omits the chaplain 's name , implying that he was not in his post . |
| 22 | And so he turns aside under a pine tree , lays his sword and oliphant under him and lies down to die : he makes his confession , holds up his right glove to God and angels come and carry his soul to Paradise . |
| 23 | the trunks on top of his trousers , unbuttons himself and pulls them down , and he gets , he 's er really , really awkward the way he does it and all the rest of it and gets , he finally gets his trousers off , pulls up his er trunks and your man gets up , pulls off his towel , gets out his white stick and |
| 24 | Small wonder , then , that heart disease kills a quarter of us and leaves another third chronically disabled . |
| 25 | We see therefore that Boltzmann 's superposition integral is a special case of a more general functional relationship between stress and deformation gradient in which and has the special form in which the kernel function K1 contains t and only in the combination ( t — ) . |
| 26 | Fa , after laboriously carrying water in her cupped hands , has a picture of finding shells with water in them and struggles to understand its relevance . |
| 27 | The appendix is some 60 pages in itself and includes details of Windows technical support and Compuserve , Windows Information Resources and a very detailed Index . |
| 28 | As we also found earlier , it is far from easy to specify exactly what being an autonomous agent actually consists in , although we have a firm conception of a kind of ideal type — someone moved by the pure light of reason who ponders the evidence before them and makes considered , unconstrained decisions . |
| 29 | Walter sees a friend among them and asks if this is a private wedding party . |
| 30 | ‘ Talking of smokescreens , Victor — ‘ ' But he just blows a mouthful at me and jabs the end of his cigar into the fug . |