Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] the [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This predicament forced him to examine his goals and to make one last push for the success which had eluded him for so long . |
| 2 | I mean I mean during the week she never , she 's going to get to the stage except that Chris is taking Amy to ballet , she wo n't see Neighbours at all . |
| 3 | Can you think of reasons in others which account for the way you react as you do ? |
| 4 | She is uninterested in fame ; she may attract it , however , and although she finds it annoying , she can turn it to good account for the work she is doing . |
| 5 | Using a worksheet draw up the balance sheet and profit and loss account for the business whose transactions are set out below : |
| 6 | Although the lines are exceedingly fine ( ie , just resolved ) at this distance , increasing the separation between source and observer can produce very strong lines which account for the glare I have noticed . |
| 7 | ( 42 ) If he was small enough to sell his Lord for so little , how account for the remorse which led him to suicide when he realized that Christ was to be slain ? |
| 8 | A big woman , bigger than her husband , nothing cowed or mean about the way she stood . |
| 9 | I just mean after the way he had lived , how was he ever going to convince anybody he was a white man ? |
| 10 | Chimpanzees for instance have enormous canine teeth , but the males have them and not the females , so the idea here is that normally a big canine tooth , a sexually dimorphic canine tooth is probably related to inter-male conflict , rather than to killing and , and whether , how that affects your er what you say about the spacing I 'm not sure , but certainly it would be a safe erm generalization to say normally big canines are an aspect of sexual dimorphism and in mammals are very common . |
| 11 | But Sarah had stepped into the railway carriage with relief , unable to feel anything but pity for the curate whose heart she had unwittingly stolen . |
| 12 | If I sleep during the day I do n't sleep at night . |
| 13 | certain of the elements combine so naturally and with so powerful an effect that we pursue that path of combination as a path in its own right and forget about the problem we are trying to solve . |
| 14 | Forget about the final he says . |
| 15 | When Otto directed Trevor Howard in a TV version of Brief Encounter restoring Noel Coward 's original storyline and title of Still Life , Preminger told Howard , ‘ Forget about the picture you made . |
| 16 | One more story about O : he told me ( it was as if he was trying to explain the oddity of his lovemaking to me , as if he was trying to account for or apologise for the way he 'd treated me , or perhaps to reassure me concerning the effect he 'd had on me , I do n't know ) , in the morning he told me that there was one man , this had been just a couple of years previously , there was one man who had summoned him to his bedside to be counted amongst a farewell gathering of lovers , dear friends and great passions . |
| 17 | Nor did she think he could ever feel anything but shame for the way he treated them ; if he was now ready to pretend otherwise , it would only be that he saw some advantage in it . |
| 18 | It reminded her of how , in her youth , she had always been puzzled by the lines of the hymn : Can a mother 's tender care , cease towards the child she bear ? |
| 19 | Fly.now , Creggan , and fly like the eagle we all might be . |
| 20 | When you cook with the Debut you will realise that such benefits will give you better cooking , an easier time in the kitchen and more time to indulge in the things you enjoy in life . |
| 21 | The reason is not that I now disagree with the stance I took ten years ago , but that in this past decade my own understanding of the work of the Holy Spirit in the individual and in the Church has greatly developed , and the whole charismatic or renewal movement , then comparatively young , has matured enormously within the life of the Church at large . |
| 22 | A sudden storm or hiccup in the generator which supplied electricity could plunge the whole compound into darkness . |
| 23 | If they fly in the area they will be well aware we are likely to attack . ’ |
| 24 | In the form in which the principles appear in the Act they relate clearly to a version which was included in the Council of Europe Convention of 1981 . |
| 25 | Most have interesting things to say , but why they appear in the order they do is explicable only on some deep theory of random numbers : the editors provide no justification for the selection or their order — or useful introductory remarks or guidelines . |
| 26 | Consequently , splits appear in the surface which will admit water . |
| 27 | All the children , from the eldest , Elizabeth , down to Thomas Walter , appear in the diary which Green kept , extant for the years 1802–5 , 1806–8 , 1814–21 . |
| 28 | That having been said , where gaps appear in the Code it would be better for them to be filled by a change in the Code itself rather than by judicial interpretation , for it must not be forgotten that breach of the Code is a disciplinary offence and it would be unfortunate if the officers in the present case , who were rightly not made the subject of any criticism by the court , should even in theory be liable to disciplinary proceedings . |
| 29 | Naive users sometimes assume that the computer can tell them anything that is worth knowing ; to quote from Erickson and Nosanchuk , ‘ when we plug in the computer we often ‘ unplug ’ our brains ' ( 1977 : 28 ) . |
| 30 | And then we can you know , whatever we want in the afternoon which will be rather nice ! |