Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] [adv] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In general , the former method of organising by themes and keywords involves you more in doing analysis and thinking at the moment of reading , which is generally a good idea . |
| 2 | Meditating on God 's word leads us forward into contemplating God himself . |
| 3 | The muddled thinking that makes us claim at least some vague idea of what God is leads us disastrously to thinking that if we say God can not be one kind of thing we must be saying he is the other . |
| 4 | And the Jockey Club can not be accused of headlong profligation of its long held principals , though Caulfield accuses them now of handing the rule book straight to the animal welfare groups . |
| 5 | The carer gently levers him forwards by placing her hands behind his seat and swivelling his hips sideways and forwards . |
| 6 | ‘ Is it not the time when all those who have an interest in our industry should sit down and discuss our future together and try to get back to the situation where the industry controls and governs itself instead of allowing it to be manipulated by those who purchase our product ? ’ he asked about 200 delegates . |
| 7 | The consequence ( usually ) is that he achieves his goal ; he coerces you both into giving way a very rewarding state of affairs seen from his point of view , a very unrewarding ( and sometimes humiliating ) state of affairs seen from your perspective . |
| 8 | If you eat an ice cream it prevents anyone else from eating the same ice cream . |
| 9 | If we can laugh out loud about getting old , break the silence that surrounds it instead of suffering quietly , then we are beginning to escape from a fear society wants us to have — so we will buy uplift bras , expensive face creams and continue to fear and envy younger women . |
| 10 | And when the program is ready , the student enters it simply by moving a light pen across the bar codes . |
| 11 | His memory plays him false in averring that I ‘ chose the post of Home Secretary ’ . |
| 12 | So it 's very important that if we do n't get erm visitors coming into the country from overseas that we perhaps erm help the industry , the industry helps itself indeed by giving and providing holidays for people from this country . |
| 13 | The house is a mobile home , carried about as the caddis walks , like the shell of a snail or hermit crab except that the animals builds it instead of growing it or finding it . |
| 14 | ‘ That serves me right for going out to fetch it fresh . ’ |
| 15 | It serves them right for playing a game in which even the winners become losers if they try to repeat their success . |
| 16 | ‘ Serves you right for overdoing it . ’ |
| 17 | Serves him right for sucking up to them — being the Thinking Person 's Tory , and all that , eh ? |
| 18 | Serves him right for leaving it open . |
| 19 | Serves him right for biting off more than he could chew … but then , he 's always doing that . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Serves him right for pigging out on egg and pickle sandwiches ! ’ |
| 21 | The vital phrase is ‘ any computer ’ at the end of section 1(1) ( a ) and the Act has been drafted , it is submitted , so as to deal with someone who misuses a computer , whether he accesses it indirectly by using another computer , perhaps in other premises , or whether he accesses it directly , as happened in the present case . |
| 22 | Sending such digital signals lends itself well to using light along optical fibres rather than electrical signals along copper wires . |
| 23 | Health visitors can be employed in a part-time capacity , and the job theoretically lends itself well to jobsharing . |
| 24 | Is there a risk that the Anonymous Fellowships can become a cult that takes over all life and leaves nothing else worth having ? |
| 25 | The blood leakage will dissipate eventually and the blurring will go away , but then there 'll be another leak , and another , and every time it happens it brings me closer to going blind one day . ’ |
| 26 | This positions them uniquely in exploiting the multimedia potential of their list . |
| 27 | You could also bring up the point that learning how to study any subject successfully makes you quicker at learning new skills and better able to handle the unfamiliar skills you will have to learn as part of the job . |
| 28 | The very diversity of the Scottish experience , from the views and activities of the constitutional suffragist , Bady Frances Balfour , to the continuing connection in Glasgow between the working-class suffragettes and the Independent Labour Party ( at a time when the WSPU in England had become very middle class ) makes it particularly worth studying . |
| 29 | That is carried , forty nine for , thirty two against , which brings us now to voting on the substantive motion . |