Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , in the search for wholeness one partner may choose and use the other to express a feared or unrecognized part of the self , and this , by definition , is unconscious : ‘ I love the unrecognized me in you ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , keel-haul me fer a Spanisher , ’ Susan exclaimed , ‘ ye 're as scurvy a shipment o ’ cut-throats as any that e'er sailed the Main . |
| 3 | I 'd heard so much about the blinking cruise being in October and not in September that I 'd considered it done and June , fool that she is , chose not to challenge me outright because her tactic is to suffer in silence until her suffering spills from her like lava , devastating everyone in its path . |
| 4 | He goes sorry nothing in here Cor it 's ever so nice though it 's one of them Amstrads with that big bit on the bottom , that square base . |
| 5 | Lucy drove , deft competent hands guiding them through the suburbs , Jay lit cigarettes for them both , a secret kiss at the tip of each one ; houses blurred past beyond Lucy 's profile . |
| 6 | A local man had been bullied into guiding them through the treacherous , quaking waste . |
| 7 | Secondly , assistance and information is offered to these firms , guiding them through the planning and development process , and offering advice on a range of issues from education and housing to estate agents and government grants . |
| 8 | They have used them already to build communal tents , to extrude life-lines guiding them over plants , or ropes to let themselves down from one twig to another . |
| 9 | Mediating the differences between these groups and guiding them towards mutually agreed goals is the overriding notion of the national interest . |
| 10 | Within the schools , the Bilingual Education Project has created curricular materials such as Gaelic nursery rhymes and songs , cards , picture books with Gaelic tests , photographic sequences reflecting the communities in which the children are growing up and materials for young mothers aimed at informing and guiding them on issues related to the quality of playgroup experience , including books on children 's play , book-making materials and equipment and films on playgroup organisation and on the way young children learn . |
| 11 | As a child , I thought about this a good deal and my father would often invite me to feel the holes in his head — taking my fingers in his hand and guiding them to the slight depressions under his vaselined hair . |
| 12 | Van Praagh became a close friend of the Cranko family , Herbert and Phyllis as well as John ; she proved a valuable ally , not only for her position within the company but also because she had a flair for bringing out the best qualities of young dancers and choreographers , and guiding them in their careers . |
| 13 | I have met women who epitomize the ‘ good mother ’ ; they genuinely love and care for their children and give them a great deal of attention , playing with them and guiding them in a way that most of us feel we can never emulate . |
| 14 | Her brother Jeff was guiding them alongside the jetty now . |
| 15 | Ian Osborne is my guest in this piece , guiding me through RoboCop 3 … |
| 16 | Unfortunately , this view was not shared by those who , through no fault of their own , had been charged with the task of guiding me through the mists of ignorance to the sunny uplands of clarity and understanding . |
| 17 | Thou hast been ‘ the cloud ’ before me from the day that I left the flesh-pots of Egypt , and was led through the way of the wilderness — the cloud that hast been guiding me to a land flowing with milk and honey — the milk of innocence , the honey of friendship ! |
| 18 | ‘ I think that the powers of Callanish have been guiding me to Wrath all my life , ’ she said . |
| 19 | I can personally vouch for the usefulness of the information in guiding me to places where turn-of-the-century cyclists had rested on roadside verges — and lost money and valuables . |
| 20 | I 'm afraid nothing of the sort is hidden from him . |
| 21 | On the front of the jacket a naked young girl was spread languidly on her stomach on a seashore– nothing of her anatomy being left to the imagination . |
| 22 | I 'm afraid someone from Waterloo Road Station will contact you . |
| 23 | ‘ You seem sharp enough to me , ’ Lucy said , thinking how hard it was to find a way of guiding someone into telling you things that they 'll assume you already know . |
| 24 | But the literal Levi is a writer who has his own way of interesting himself in the contrasts which have been attributed to Babel . |
| 25 | It is not clear which of the pair put these points to Attlee . |
| 26 | It is not clear which of these factors is more important in these cases . |
| 27 | While in 1990 it is clear which of these views is currently favoured in Rome , it is far from clear which will finally prevail . |
| 28 | It was clear which of them was the leader — broad-shouldered and heavily built , he lifted the knife menacingly and said , ‘ Where d' you keep it ? |
| 29 | Moreover , he understood another , deeper thing : it was not clear which of them was departing . |
| 30 | One comes across a man who resigned his post because of the grief occasioned by the death of a son ; or another who , from disappointed expectations , turned to drugs and thereby unfitted himself for the offices he coveted . |