Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [conj] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Phenolic precursors of the quinones that link amino-acid chains to form sclerotin are widely distributed , though some Apterygotes lack them and harden their cuticles by disulphide linkages ( Krishnan , 1969 ) . |
| 2 | I offered my thanks to the interviewer for seeing me and shook his/her hand at the end . |
| 3 | Using a cream gives time for the hydrogen peroxide to be in contact with the bacteria in order to kill them or inhibit their division . |
| 4 | It has to respond to the emerging consciousness of the black community , gay people , feminists by marginalising them and delegitimating their claims . |
| 5 | He was fourteen years old , intelligent , forceful , capable of listening attentively to his ministers and then overruling them and going his own way , capable , even , or so they said , of arguing a case strenuously and sensibly against the king himself in Westminster , though he seldom won his way there ; but he was still a boy , unpractised , with little experience yet of living . |
| 6 | Chambers , for his part , had given his endorsement in the book : ‘ During the case Nixon and his family were at our farm , encouraging me and comforting my family . |
| 7 | The client is encouraged , and initially assisted , in developing and carrying out strategies for testing thoughts and beliefs about what might happen , e.g. ‘ If I ask my boss for a raise he 'll sack me or bite my head off . ’ , |
| 8 | My small circle of friends stuck with me , choosing to support me and risking their own popularity . |
| 9 | I was glad of Ika 's presence to support me and supplement my responses : |
| 10 | It is always prudent to wash any foodstuffs before cooking or eating them and to wash your hands to reduce the amount of residues adhering to the skin . |
| 11 | Ben looked into her eyes and she lowered them and turned her head away . |
| 12 | Blake could n't say whether the creatures were pursuing them or had their own sinister reason for haunting this part of London . |
| 13 | He saw them in terms of the hours of training he had given them and regarded their departure as something to be listed in the debit columns . |
| 14 | The horses moved in their stalls as she passed them and threaded her way to the ladder . |
| 15 | However , they have told me recently that , when I was about nine or ten , they thought me a bully because I would surreptitiously pinch them or pull their hair in order to keep them in line — that is , in order to make them behave as my parents would have wished them to . |
| 16 | ‘ This decision totally vindicates me and clears my name of the slur that I have lied about myself . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ It will certainly release a lot of the pressure that has surrounded them and made their personal lives very difficult . |
| 18 | test me and know my anxious thoughts . |
| 19 | A serjeant-at-arms wearing the royal livery stopped them and asked their business before allowing them through . |
| 20 | Then a wave of feebleness swamped me and dumped my body on the top step . |
| 21 | He is not concerned like Western man with mechanistic explanations of how things happen ; he is concerned with why afflictions befall him , how to forestall them and remove their menace … . |
| 22 | He turned on the cameraman , assaulted him and threw his camera into the water . |
| 23 | Making the best of the situation , Arden-Clarke invited Nkrumah to meet him and submit his list of names for the majority of the Executive Council who would now become Ministers . |
| 24 | Her mother scolded her and made her ashamed . |
| 25 | When the two truckers gave up their cursory attempt to find him and rejoined their companions , he advanced to the edge of the clearing to keep them under observation . |
| 26 | If a harem is travelling alone and encounters an all-male group , the male then faces the risk that adult males from the group will attack him and usurp his reproductive role . |
| 27 | He was limping dejectedly towards the summit of Shunner when I overtook him and garnered his story . |
| 28 | The book helped him and satisfied his mind for the time . |
| 29 | Only yesterday in Oxford Frank Baughan called for the youngsters who beat him and broke his wrist to be birched. frank Bishop is n't today 's only victim . |
| 30 | Then two others beside him prodded him and rolled his head back . |