Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] [pron] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Telecommunications — a Technology for Change has everything you would expect , plus more . |
| 2 | The pre-independence newspapers that campaigned for self-government knew what they were aiming for ; their journalists , contributors and backers came from the new , educated élite united by common aspirations and interests . |
| 3 | There has got to be some kind of responsibility to deliver what they think they are buying . ’ |
| 4 | Seton , warned , would now of course do what he could to help the townsmen , but his actual authority was limited to this royal castle . |
| 5 | He had seen the building the day before when he lit upon a trattoria for his supper , without of course realising what it was . |
| 6 | The answer , for the doting parent or grandparent who is also a woodworking enthusiast , is of course to make one yourself . |
| 7 | Its mouth was open and it had an expression on its face of someone who is going to have a lot of difficulty explaining what they have just seen , especially to themselves . |
| 8 | He had a sneaking suspicion Philpott had members of staff whose sole function was to dig up the personal indiscretions of those people who could be beneficial to UNACO , then use them as a form of blackmail to get what he wanted . |
| 9 | David decided to test out the conditions — his ten years of experience showed us what could be achieved with practice . |
| 10 | ‘ With the current shortage of money facing us it was greatly appreciated . ’ |
| 11 | 1/ The author is making the point that there is no benefit for people in spending huge amounts of money creating something which has no practical use , and that this money would be far better allocated to essentials ie housing , food , water etc rather than luxuries like T.V.s , videos etc . |
| 12 | It ensures the ability of democratically elected Members of Parliament to discuss what they will ( freedom of debate ) and to say what they will ( freedom of speech ) . |
| 13 | Her highly alerted state of mind told her there was some purpose behind that question . |
| 14 | His low growl of pleasure told her she was pleasing him , and his voice was unsteady as he murmured against her lips . |
| 15 | The opening of Sonnet 148 again criticizes his own powers of sight and discrimination : It is not only a failure in perception : as we have seen in 152 , the eyes were merely agents or instruments of the will or judgement , from which self-deception flowed , forcing the organs of perception to see what they are told to see ( as in the political conformity enforced in George Orwell 's Nineteen Eighty-Four ) . |
| 16 | Determination , aggression and commitment have all been missing from their recent displays , but a lack of concentration denied them their first much-needed double of the season . |
| 17 | The development of bird song therefore has an abstract similarity with the development of chick pecking which we discussed earlier . |
| 18 | The pictures in the book are a useful stimulus because they hint at the disasters and yet allow the children to flesh out the world of the carpenters , the gardeners , the cooks , the soldiers , the furniture makers ( perhaps using small pieces of fabric to indicate who they are ) . |
| 19 | The Royal Academy of Dancing awarded him its Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Award in 1975 . |
| 20 | The other poem which Coleridge wrote during his retreat , and the circumstances of its composition , have entered the mythology of English literary history : while staying at the Culbone farmhouse he took three grains of opium to relieve what he variously described as ‘ a dysentery ’ or ‘ a slight indisposition ’ , and in the deep reverie which followed composed two or three hundred lines of poetry ‘ without any sensation of consciousness of effort ’ . |
| 21 | We are now encouraging the public to let the Department of Transport know what they feel . |
| 22 | ‘ Remember we had a discussion about this once — the ethics of bribery to get what you wanted . |
| 23 | Of course they will go through all the natural stages of refusal to believe what they have been told , of anger and of unhappiness . |
| 24 | In other words Locke argues on the basis of his general notion of the relationship between the individual and God and the individual and his fellow human beings , erm Locke argues that the individual in the state of nature has what one may fairly call legislative and executive authority over others . |
| 25 | The probability of war informed everything they did . |
| 26 | The tragedy of the whole affair becomes so pathetic as we realise that Coleen does love him and only a delay of post cost him his life . |
| 27 | There are volumes of evidence to substantiate what my hon. Friend has said , and I hope to give the House some examples . |
| 28 | In one notorious case in July 1966 , Nils Groth , a Danish lawyer on an AI mission to Guinea to enquire about prisoners of conscience became one himself . |
| 29 | The Ministry of propaganda did what it could to play down such disasters and tried for as long as possible to preserve the illusion that they were not important , but Fascism now began to lose a lot of its popular support . |
| 30 | Although her mother was n't the sort of person to tell you anything if it was something she did n't think you needed to know . |