Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [pos pn] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I also associate myself with his kind remarks about his predecessor , my good friend and colleague George Buckley . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | I 'M HERE , BOSS : Bryan 's assistant Julia goes about her work yesterday |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | With their many variants and subdivisions they provide a wonderfully expressive earful for the alert feline as it goes about its business . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Some of its members undergo a change of attitude as the team goes about its ordinary work . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | A shadow , as the name implies , is someone who follows another person about all day as he goes about his normal work . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | From now on , as he goes about his nocturnal perambulations , he leaves a smelly trail behind him . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | PROUD DAD : Alan beams — but Chloe sleeps through her first public appearance Pictures : HARRY PAGE |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Now the world 's hottest actress tells SUNDAY LIFE about sex in the movies , sex in real life , and what she really thinks about her leading men : |
| 26 | As Mr Scicluna pointed out , ‘ If you turn a committee into a faculty , it gives it a new lease of life , a breath of fresh air , and it thinks about its role a bit more purposefully , as we have already seen from the Tax Faculty . ’ |
| 27 | But , to return to Shneidman and Farberow 's ‘ psychosemantic fallacy ’ , ‘ We believe that this confusion or ambiguity may indeed occur whenever the individual thinks about his death , whether by suicide or otherwise . |
| 28 | The first is through the ways in which Chas thinks about his parents , often stream-of-consciousness fashion , in their absence . |
| 29 | The historical record over a few cycles of objective setting and reviewing is a means of evaluating the progress of the follower on the sound basis of how he thinks about his job and how he carries it out . |
| 30 | The process of identifying and defining the target group , and the research required to do this , will usually have provided a lot of information , too , about how the consumer thinks about our brand . |