Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [noun pl] [conj] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ Denying to Louise that he is vain ( December 9th , 1852 ) , he distinguishes between Pride and Vanity : ‘ Pride is a wild beast which lives in caves and roams the desert ; Vanity , on the other hand , is a parrot which hops from branch to branch and chatters away in full view . |
| 2 | Pride is one thing : a wild beast which lives in caves and roams the desert ; Vanity , on the other hand , is a parrot which hops from branch to branch and chatters away in full view . ’ |
| 3 | What do you think Audrey 'd like , indeed if I know — and Joan 's getting to the stage where she looks at toys and says politely , " Yes , but what does it do ? " |
| 4 | It eats into savings and hurts those who live on fixed incomes . |
| 5 | In the book , Godwin eloquently describes in words and photographs the ills our land is prey to . |
| 6 | In the book , Godwin eloquently describes in words and photographs the ills our land is prey to . |
| 7 | Poverty huddles in corners or squats by pitiful displays of chocolates long past their sellby date . |
| 8 | What I found when I looked at this problem over the course of ten years was that this complexity , like responsibility time span , also occurs in leaps or jumps . |
| 9 | WHAT HAPPENS TO SITES AND FINDS |
| 10 | The study has often been used to illustrate the way television deals with events and constructs meanings around those events . |
| 11 | It is transmitted by a blackfly which breeds in rivers and passes on minute parasitic worms from other infected humans . |
| 12 | Mrs Lovell , who was involved in a hospice movement in Hampshire , chose the Darlington and district hospice movement , which already sits with carers and relieves carers , as one of her two charities to support when she was President of Richmond and Dales Soroptimists in 1990/91 . |
| 13 | He travels with camels and has just got back . |
| 14 | The Corrado feels subjectively as though it is screwed together just a little more tightly but neither car suffers from rattles or shakes . |
| 15 | But while Nicholas sits alongside undergraduates and gets to grips with computing , a row brews over his future . |
| 16 | Jane had struck an ‘ off ’ period , for advertising goes in fits and starts . |
| 17 | He fishes for oysters and leaves them for her lunch . |
| 18 | When machines provide the energy and set the pace the objective of the operator ( and consequently of ergonomics ) shifts from rates and amounts to quality , reliability and safety . |
| 19 | The Trust has no endowment and relies on donations and grants to undertake its conservation work on the nunnery , the most complete medieval example of its kind in Scotland and Britain . |
| 20 | Burke falls for Sillas and loses interest in locating father which upsets Sage , he wanders off on his own and runs across young Romanian epileptic Elina ( Elina Lowensohn ) who bizarrely turns out to be pater 's juvenile mistress . |
| 21 | As a consequence there is no one body which speaks for teachers or presents a considered and constructive view of education . |
| 22 | Colin must win because he is the physical buffoon ; he falls into traps and puts his head through walls , falls downstairs and all those things . ’ |
| 23 | MILITARY technology advances by fits and starts . |
| 24 | A corresponding cleanup program is supplied which scans for viruses and removes them , often by having to delete the infected program . |
| 25 | A corresponding clean-up program is supplied which scans for viruses and removes them , often by having to delete the infected program . |
| 26 | In drama one might revise Bacon 's dictum to read , ‘ a lie shrinks from men but faces the audience ’ . |
| 27 | [ She puts on gloves and picks up her fan . ] |
| 28 | He even points at houses and tells uniformed officers ‘ That 's where so and so lives ’ . |
| 29 | Can we supply a doctor who knows about bullets and keeps his mouth shut ? ’ |
| 30 | The method of resolution , which begins with effects and seeks for causes , was traditionally called the ‘ method of discovery , invention , or investigation ’ ; so the direction or ‘ order of discovery ’ is from ‘ effects to causes ’ . |