Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her latest pester-the-public project involves hanging outside a shoe repair shop and testing people 's trust by asking to take a copy of their house key . |
| 2 | On the one hand , some clients may prefer a structured day with routine care , which everyone receives given at set times , very probably by a succession of nurses . |
| 3 | It now offers charting by way of Microsoft Graph and you can include a chart on a slide as you would any other graphics object . |
| 4 | A force that comes and goes depending on your motion . |
| 5 | We have thus tried to fit to the NMR data by imposing these ε values ( on one junction at a time ) while also constraining the sugar puckers to agree with the COSY data . |
| 6 | Attendance at these affairs , which involves queueing for the sandwiches , queueing for a glimpse of the Queen , queueing for the lavatories , queueing to leave , is potent evidence of the continuing talismanic influence of the monarchy . |
| 7 | This job also involves assisting in the organisation of promotional events in the UK and overseas . |
| 8 | Such activity is difficult ( even repugnant ) , for it involves struggling with mental symbols which enable the thinker to hold some entity — object , property , proposition , world — in mind . |
| 9 | Whilst discussing Derwentwater he discourages drawing from a boat or small island , ‘ the passion for boat prospects is owing to the delusive fascinations of the water . ’ |
| 10 | The section prohibits canvassing in the sense of the attempt of an applicant or of another person at his instigation to influence a member of a licensing board to support his application for a grant , renewal or permanent transfer of a licence , or for a regular extension of permitted hours before the application is considered by the board ( subs . |
| 11 | My husband and I take turns to sit at the stall . |
| 12 | Tony Brough ( the Principal ) and I sat at High Table , but it was very democratic because the students also took it in turns to sit at High Table — and to be invited to the Principal 's office for pre-dinner drinks ! |
| 13 | We investigated the town with a wheelchair , taking turns to sit in it . |
| 14 | Through Clennam , Cavaletto goes to lodge at the Plornishes , enabling Mrs Plornish ( Sally , except in chap . |
| 15 | Meanwhile a carefree Madonna goes jogging on the beach with her personal trainer . |
| 16 | Erm and it , it was us , I mean not only do we , I mean we develop her a a response , that means , we , we work with Councillor 's we work with Senior Officer 's in other departments and we look at the policy angles , like for example with , with that piece of legislation , when , when we first realised what the impact for that legislation was , it was gon na mean that we were ten million pound short in our housing money basically , that was , that was what it looked like on the surface and you think oh my god how you gon na make up for that short fall , that would mean an eleven pound a week rise in rent , that 's what it worked out as , so , well we ca n't do that , how , and then you have to look at the legislation and you say what are the loop holes here , and erm , and it involves contacting outside organisations and getting there opinion and finding out what other Council 's are doing and responding to things like this , and we did come up with a way , of , of reducing that deficit , but that 's the kind of thing we do . |
| 17 | Soviet Union appears to accept reunification of two states is inevitable Kremlin agrees to plan for German confederation . |
| 18 | Soviet Union appears to accept reunification of two states is inevitable Kremlin agrees to plan for German confederation . |
| 19 | If the former involves drawing on a richness of tacit knowledge the latter is necessarily concerned with reversing this process , ie with making explicit the tacit richness of design activity . |
| 20 | Before doing so all offers received should be examined and explained to the client with a recommendation as to which offers to proceed with . |
| 21 | We now reach the impossible position where if somebody goes to appeal against us and they win , they can claim costs against us , and we actually have that now , we 've got fairly large sums of cost hanging against the council , so if I 'd like to ask Les to erm I 'd like to have his support for stronger planning laws , then we could do the things that he says we ought to do . |
| 22 | Unlike Descartes , who felt the need to prove their existence , and Malebranche , who was certain he could not , Locke simply had no doubt that material things existed and caused our ideas : ‘ The actual receiving of ideas from without … makes us know , that something doth exist at that time without us , which causes that idea in us . ’ |
| 23 | The mowing of cereals for threshing involves binding into sheaves with the grain heads at one end . |
| 24 | We 've just had a golf course defined as a strategic issue and I think that in a way goes goes goes to the heart of what this is what this is all about . |
| 25 | Roman Catholics ‘ should be received with lenity and all meekness , not to quench with delays the feeble smoke of conformity which seemeth to breathe from them , but to build wheresoever there is any foundation ’ . |
| 26 | In Bali , where cockfighting is also a controlled ritual , the cocks have two spurs with honed edges , rather than a single spur with a sharpened point , so the battles differ in style and technique , according to the aficionados , rather as swordsmanship differs depending on whether a cutlass or a rapier is used . |
| 27 | The nature of the basic theoretical argument clearly differs depending on whether the economic analysis is neo-Keynesian or monetarist ( Jackman , 1982 ) . |
| 28 | ( Where sounds correspond aurally yet the concept differs depending on the context , further confusion can arise . |
| 29 | The tempo of speech differs depending on the urgency ( rapid ) or deliberation ( slow ) of the speech . |
| 30 | But there are guidelines for women using tampons : Do n't leave a tampon in for too long ( time differs depending on menstrual flow ) . |