Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [noun] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Swirling in an army Chinook helicopter through wind and fog and over a sea of smouldering lava yesterday , it was easy to see why earlier plans to bomb or mine it off course and up on to the surface have been shelved . |
| 2 | The child 's developing cognitive capacities mean that events which at one age produce little or no anxiety may , at another , be extremely distressing . |
| 3 | I fail to see why I should stay and subject myself to any more of your murderous mood . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I like to sit and sun myself in these spots , ’ said the Bookman . |
| 5 | It was n't fair , not a bit , the way he could side-step and outmanoeuvre her with such ease . |
| 6 | It may be worth noting that Heath himself in another article extends his time-scale further back to include the reforms of the first decade of the twentieth century . |
| 7 | Even if one does think of self-consciousness as perceiving one 's own activities rather than heeding them ( as one also heeds the perceived ) , there is no obvious reason why one should not be perceiving as thought and emotion what to the eye would be neural process , just as when , with the same experience of temporal change without spatial extension , one hears as sound what one would see as vibrations . |
| 8 | As long ago as the second century A.D. , the Roman historian Lucius Coelius recorded that , when he was free from his studies and more weighty affairs , he was not ashamed to play and sport himself with his cat . |
| 9 | ‘ As for him , some people reap a little more than they sow and others nothing at all . |
| 10 | In place of the original image of the power of God in which man was created , came a distorted travesty of it " a foule merk wrecched trinite " ( 43b.314. – 114 ) in which God is not recognised and things which of their very nature can not fully satisfy desire become its object . |
| 11 | You can not force or dragoon yourself into a concentrated effort . |
| 12 | But before I start , I should tell you that Mick Collins sends you all his regards and thanks you for your efforts on his — and out behalf . " |
| 13 | Shay and Brenda who between them have 90 years experience of selling poppies in memory of those who died in the service of their country |
| 14 | I always wash my hair with Wash & Go and condition it with Flex conditioner from Revlon . |
| 15 | Harry led our team by example — although perhaps what some of his colleagues needed was a skipper who could also drive or cajole them to better things — but it was a mark of the respect in which he was held by Palace supporters that his well-deserved Benefit in 1953–54 was so well attended . |
| 16 | The caller from the agency may plead and cajole you into agreeing to accept the job , especially if it is a last minute booking and they are desperate for someone . |
| 17 | All you have to do is complete the attached application form and take or post it to your branch . |
| 18 | All you have to do is complete the attached application from and take or post it to your branch . |
| 19 | All you have to do is complete the attached application form , making sure both parties sign if the Bond is to be in joint names , then take or post it to your local Midland branch , together with your investment ( minimum £2,000 ) . |
| 20 | Called NeuFuz4 , it runs under Windows and is claimed to reduce the cost and time needed to implement fuzzy logic because it automatically create a fuzzy system based on desired system inputs and outputs — it enables up to four inputs to create one output , then verifies and codes it for use with NatSemi 's COP8 family of embedded microcontrollers . |
| 21 | There may be many reasons why the husband and wife do not make any formal agreement about separation , but this should not entitle a husband to return and force himself upon his wife weeks , months , or even years since he last saw her . |
| 22 | I hope that the Government will listen to some of what she had to say and enshrine it in law . |
| 23 | And we tell our graduate students that they must never take such risks , construing as scruple what in fact is timidity . |