Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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31 | ‘ The aim is to encourage public awareness about the value of the buildings around them and to get owners who no longer want the properties , to sell or lease them to new people . ’ |
32 | I 'm afraid I have had little time to entertain you or introduce you to Hochhauser . |
33 | Story-telling is considered a part of a woman 's magical repertoire — a device she can use to affect the listener , melting his heart , distracting him or binding him to her as the occasion demands . |
34 | Many may have discovered that the trouble-free lifestyle they had planned has turned out to be a good bit less well-regulated and tidy than they had expected or intended it to be . |
35 | The door stayed jammed shut , and he did n't shout back or answer her in any way . |
36 | or clips it like that and you ca n't tell |
37 | Now tell my why I should not have you killed or make you into slaves . ’ |
38 | What this argument suggests in Gandhi 's case is that he does not abandon his commitment to the principle of non-violence or qualify it in any way when he approves the destruction of life . |
39 | There was none of the violence of illness in it , no writhing or moaning , and it was never impatient or irritable when Kalchu tried to feed it or probed it for sores . |
40 | ‘ Except that I will not detain you in prison or expel you from Scotland , on one condition . |
41 | The minister told a questioner later : ‘ To somehow suggest that this incident of 1,000MBq released into the atmosphere is somehow responsible for massive contamination of the food chain … it clearly is nonsense to suggest that or to compare it in any way with Chernobyl . ’ |
42 | If a person wishes to give up his physical integrity in certain circumstances , or to risk it for the sake of sport or excitement , should the criminal law allow the consent to negative what would otherwise be a crime ? |
43 | The terms respondents used to describe the advantages of early retirement , or to rationalize it in retrospect , often showed concern for the position of young people in the labour market , although this was rarely cited as a reason for taking early retirement . |
44 | There is nothing essentially new in thus narrowing the scope of will ; most of mankind throughout most of its history seems to have taken it for granted that they were moved by forces from beyond them and mysterious to them , which might lift them above or drag them below the capacities of which they might presume to be in command ( in Christian theology , the unpredictable visitations of divine grace assisting a will otherwise impotent to resist the Devil ) , and in the present century , ever since Freud demonstrated that the same conception of man could be translated from a religious into a psychological language , we have found ourselves thinking our way back to it . |
45 | Situations in which they can prove useful are in small and/or lightly-stocked tanks , and rearing tanks where feeding is rather heavy and regular , as long as the turnover rate is not too high so as to stress the young fish or drag them into the filter . |
46 | He seemed more likely to blow a kiss than to throw a punch ; to be at a dinner-table than to be down in the dives ; to be rubbing shoulders than to be shoving or sticking it to the comfortable ( I almost said to the bourgeoisie . ) |
47 | At least it was comforting to know that he would n't consider her compliance ‘ cheap ’ or despise her for the speed with which he had been able to seduce her . |
48 | If the visitor has such jurisdiction , the court has no power to ignore it or review it by way of mandamus or in any other way . |
49 | Maybe the murderer knew nothing about the ransom , and had followed Newley or met him by chance at the gazebo . |
50 | Ivory tower allergists discount reactions to food unless an IgE mechanism has been proved , but denying them or attributing them to hypochondriasis is a sign not of scientific superiority but of a head in the sand mentality . |
51 | Nevertheless the British government refused to assign its Polaris submarines permanently and unambiguously to Nato , or to include them in any of the current multinational or multilateral ( MLF ) schemes being floated by the Americans . |
52 | So instead we have made progress by finding partial theories that describe a limited range of happenings and by neglecting other effects or approximating them by certain numbers . |
53 | This is how they are currently treated when we use them as research tools or slaughter them for consumption at our tables . |
54 | comments you could consider entering it or part of it in one of the many fiction competitions or submitting it in total to a which takes fiction . |
55 | The LC layer is used as a shutter , blocking light or transmitting it onto a screen . |
56 | Having failed to break us politically or silence us through censorship , the role of the death squads is to kill us . ’ |
57 | Control the interview or lose it to the candidate ? |
58 | You should be able to buy these books at a bookshop or borrow them from a library . |
59 | It was her apartment , paid for with her own money , and she did n't need or want him in her life any more . |
60 | Some exercises they perform sitting on chairs or using them for support , but floor exercises have been out of the question . |