Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pron] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was perhaps a strategy for dissuading him from coming round so often . |
| 2 | So I skulked round the pub , had a burger and a pint and after embarrasing myself by asking two likely candidates if they were Mark , I shot off . |
| 3 | There is an overwhelming case for giving the D.O. , the most important unit in the whole machine , more responsibility , and for saving him from dancing attendance on Residents who notoriously dodge responsibility . |
| 4 | ‘ It has provided a mechanism for formalising everything in writing so people are very clear about what is expected of them . |
| 5 | It is worth re-reading it before continuing with this chapter . |
| 6 | The Greeks were fond of using them for mounting on earrings , but it was the Romans who developed a passionate interest in pearls . |
| 7 | The list shows how easy it was at the time ( 1860 ) to raise money for a line intended to run from Craven Arms to Montgomery , and what a number of persons , sufficiently well-disposed to the district to advance such large sums would be deprived of all chance of recouping themselves by completing the line , if the policy of closing it was adopted . |
| 8 | Much of Muskie 's political fame was earned from his leadership in environmental affairs , which was now being eroded not only by Nixon 's proposals but also by a Ralph Nader report on air pollution which strongly criticized Muskie 's role in the past and just stopped short of accusing him of selling out to industrial polluters ( Lundqvist , 1980 ) . |
| 9 | An arsenal of political treacheries was employed to impede our progress , from the medium-range one of accusing us of lacking the right political perspective , to the more insidious long-range ones of accusing us of divisiveness , bringing men into feminism by speaking about the war in Ireland and , even on one occasion , attempting to show an exhibition — the famous , ‘ Bin Lids and Barricades ’ . |
| 10 | Apart from making sure that permanent mains-voltage lights are installed by a competent electrician , the main way of protecting yourself against getting an electric shock from garden lights is to install an RCD . |
| 11 | It has the advantage for believers of saving them from having to invent their own personal neurosis , and they gain from the social nature of religion rather than the purely private character of a personal neurosis . |
| 12 | There seemed no way of refusing him without causing him hurt . |
| 13 | He is intrinsically proud : this reveals itself through his habit of defining himself by telling you his achievements . |
| 14 | ‘ Each is only concerned to find ways of advocating it without getting it . ’ |
| 15 | He lived for his profession , so much so that , instead of limiting himself to examining the remains of bomb-blast victims , he attended the courses and lectures available only to a very few on bomb-making and disarming offered at Fort Halstead . |
| 16 | For example , pupils with reading problems ( including dyslexic pupils ) should not be deprived of literature , but should have the opportunity of experiencing it through listening to others reading aloud , whether live or recorded , and through seeing plays and films , as well as through reading suitably simplified versions . |
| 17 | In at least two areas of the city , voters were misdirected by official polling cards to the wrong polling stations — a clever way of discouraging them from voting without actually disenfranchising them — and when the final count was made , 1,000 votes were added to the Tory candidate 's total . |
| 18 | So , in fact you 're not going to do anything to them much in the way of discouraging them from removing their forest , by stopping them exporting small amounts of . |
| 19 | You sort of pass it without realising , going to the Dordogne . |
| 20 | The shocked priority of examining herself after escaping , literally , from the jaws of death , wore off . |
| 21 | This , then , is the first stage of reacting to loss : denial — shock that something bad has happened — is our psyche 's way of defending us from experiencing too great a sense of harm too quickly . |
| 22 | Painting food colour directly on to icing and marzipan instead of kneading it in has a number of advantages . |
| 23 | Although slight changes have been made to covenant administration , the principle of committing yourself to giving , for four or more years , remains the same . |
| 24 | There is also the consideration that she seems to be flirting with the possibility of committing herself to re-entering mainstream education locally . |
| 25 | I suppose that 's your way of punishing me for kissing you yesterday evening . |
| 26 | The Higher Labour Court decided that having extramarital affairs with married women was not a violation of the contract of employment that would justify a dismissal , as this would have the effect of punishing someone for interfering in marital relations , which the German Code of Civil Procedure would not permit . |
| 27 | She could not think of any means of doing it without involving Andrew . |
| 28 | And this is a way of doing it without having to , you know , log-in to er a specific tradition , but to invoke , sort of a wider , more general principles . |
| 29 | She felt that the ‘ on — off ’ nature of their relationship — when he was here today but not tomorrow , or even the next day — was all part of Nicky 's habit of taking her for granted . |
| 30 | Luckily for the future of the SAS , Stirling himself escaped with a damaged wrist — which had the virtue of stopping him from driving for while . |