Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , not many business executives or lawyers write satirical novels or plays about their own profession . |
| 2 | He rifles through it , finds the Marks and Sparks bag full of his new underwear . |
| 3 | Although the details of the prescriptions advanced in each case may vary , there is some similarity in the nature of the diagnosis which each offers for what it is that currently afflicts our ailing body politic . |
| 4 | It is essential therefore , that you identify and appreciate the historian 's viewpoint , follow the individual steps in his arguments and pinpoint the specific reasons he offers for his views . |
| 5 | A had no proprietary interest in the farm but had transmitted earlier offers for it to the bank who were trustees of it . |
| 6 | I hoped that Mavis had n't passed on my thoughtless , remarks about his easy-going approach to work and was therefore somewhat self-conscious when he appeared in my office at half past two on the dot . |
| 7 | I also associate myself with his kind remarks about his predecessor , my good friend and colleague George Buckley . |
| 8 | Under fire from referees for his comments as a defence witness at Salisbury Crown Court last week , Kelly retorted : ‘ When someone is facing a prison sentence and all the immediate trauma that it involves for his family , I believe the sensitivities of referees should come second rather than first . ’ |
| 9 | I 'M HERE , BOSS : Bryan 's assistant Julia goes about her work yesterday |
| 10 | Anyway , in the present context , it serves to characterize two different personal via : one achieves its clarities by way of charitas , the other goes about its business blind , achieves its clarities by way of what you might call confusio . |
| 11 | MI6 is still controlled by the Foreign Office but the Foreign Secretary neither admits to this publicly nor asks any questions about how MI6 goes about its daily business . |
| 12 | In general , we seem to be pleased with the way it goes about its work , and many like to feel that we can contribute ideas as well as money . |
| 13 | With their many variants and subdivisions they provide a wonderfully expressive earful for the alert feline as it goes about its business . |
| 14 | In addition to the familiar tail-wagging of a cat in a conflict , there are a number of other tail-signals that indicate the changing moods of the pet feline as it goes about its business . |
| 15 | So when expansion plans were announced several years ago , notwithstanding the restraint with which the library goes about its business , there was some cause for alarm . |
| 16 | But beyond all this , Malham goes about its business of being a living Dales village , with its farms and farmers , its village hall and little shops , very much in the way it has always done . |
| 17 | Some of its members undergo a change of attitude as the team goes about its ordinary work . |
| 18 | The advantage of that would be that if the private sector does have things to offer in the way of better labour practices , better marketing ideas , then these will be copied by the B R system and in Sweden it 's quite evident that although very few franchises have gone to the private sector , it has had a quite drastic effect on the way in which the state railway goes about its business . |
| 19 | She is resting her garlanded head on the fingertips of a red-gloved hand , inserting the large , crystal-clear dildo with the other , her crimson mouth parted and blue-mascara 'd eyes half-shut in rapturous delight as the devoted Koons goes about his business . |
| 20 | A shadow , as the name implies , is someone who follows another person about all day as he goes about his normal work . |
| 21 | Norman , whose scintillating final round wiped out a five-shot deficit , added : ‘ He is great to play with because he goes about his business in his own way . |
| 22 | To get the best out of the situation both sides must try to understand how the other man goes about his work , what his problems are and how you can best communicate with him to your own advantage . |
| 23 | From now on , as he goes about his nocturnal perambulations , he leaves a smelly trail behind him . |
| 24 | During its setup , it detects any sound drivers you have installed — you need Windows 3.1 or better to run it and 286 users will , I 'm afraid , miss out on all of this , since you need a 386sx or better in order to run Windows 3.1 in enhanced mode — so that when Johnny goes about his business you hear his grunts and groans the screech of seagulls , the lapping of the waves and so on . |
| 25 | The West Indian family values education , but the way it goes about it makes it impossible for the kids . |
| 26 | The number of particles in the baby universe will be equal to the number of particles that have fallen into the black hole , plus the number of particles that the black hole emits during its evaporation . |
| 27 | PROUD DAD : Alan beams — but Chloe sleeps through her first public appearance Pictures : HARRY PAGE |
| 28 | Patrol tasks include keeping a particular lookout for flat-bed lorries , which are used by the IRA as baseplates for their inaccurate and random , but nonetheless effective , homemade mortars . |
| 29 | She 's not so sure at first — but then she thinks about what all her girlfriends tell her . |
| 30 | When Glenn thinks about what would have happened if he had needed the transplant now rather than two-and-a-half years ago he says he gets cold shivers . |