Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I steal most of my ideas for style directly from the Perry Boys of Salford . |
| 2 | Then we tried to link all of this with the strategies the teacher was actually observed to use in her interactions with children elsewhere in the room . |
| 3 | Psychology confines its accounts of socialization largely to interpersonal interactions , and , in the 1960s , concentrated on the primary carer . |
| 4 | Thus , for example , it was excusable for a pretty young girl to avoid wearing a seat-belt because she had been topping up her tan on the sun bed and got burnt , for two middle-class school children to ride their bikes without lights late at night because they were trying to stay up on their last might of the summer holidays , and for lads to urinate in the street because they had three miles to walk home . |
| 5 | Insolvency practitioners were warned to keep their houses in order ahead of a new regime of Department of Trade inspections due to start in Scotland this month . |
| 6 | Other ‘ declinists ’ helped found the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1831 , meeting in different cities each year for lectures and discussions in various ‘ sections ’ ; but Swainson played no part in it , thus avoiding the power struggles in which gentlemen of science usually with Cambridge connections came in effect to direct the organization . |
| 7 | If such crimes really are entirely accounted for by the possession of abnormal motives propelling their possessors into crime regardless of any other considerations , then it does not really possess the features that usually class actions as ‘ crimes ’ ; rather , it would belong in some alternative category , such as mental illness . |
| 8 | Television coverage will probably be shared between BSkyB , who currently hold an exclusive contract , and the BBC , who televised the Sunday game throughout its years of sponsorship firstly by John Player and then Refuge . |
| 9 | It brought her feelings for Alexander sharply into focus . |
| 10 | Taunton Cider , which is physically linked with the West Somerset Railway at Norton Fitzwarren , and Fitzgerald Lighting from Bodmin will now be sending their goods by road instead of rail . |
| 11 | Nothing could better have driven her fears for Benedict temporarily from her mind . |
| 12 | dropped its skirts of branch almost to the lawn , |
| 13 | No aquarium for Loricariids should therefore be without its bits of bogwood possibly for food and certainly to give the fish a base ; if more than one cat is stocked , several pieces may be necessary to give the Loricariids a natural home . |
| 14 | One can imagine the savings in foreign exchange if British people took their holidays at home instead of abroad . |
| 15 | Not many heads would go as far as one who insists that male members of staff must wear their jackets in classrooms even on the warmest of days . |
| 16 | For here was an ordinary average crowd of Air Force youngsters , neither better nor worse than their compatriots in squadrons all over the world . |
| 17 | In this way exhibitors were forced to fill up their screens for months ahead with pictures they had never seen . |
| 18 | But they 'll also give you hours of pleasure just by being there . |
| 19 | He lowered his own head again , allowing his lips to pressure gently over her face , seeking their pleasure over the rise and fall of her face and neck . |
| 20 | He 's always right , of course , and I would n't dream of cluttering his designs with jewellery etc. without his approval . |
| 21 | His expert knowledge of classical history was sharpened by a deep interest in Indian law based upon his years of service there as a senior legal official . |
| 22 | Her slim , nude body , warm in the candlelight , warm by the fire , turning and turning , now this way , now that , against him … the curve of her back … the firmness of her hips … her soft breasts … the grace of her neck and the beauty of her , and of her face , and the dark , desperate eyes , begging now , and entranced — these were the images of her he had only half captured in his years of days away from this house . |
| 23 | Another reason is that Lady de Bourgh , who is the heiress of a large fortune has advised Mr. Collins to get married and he changes his feelings of compassion quickly from Jane to Elizabeth and then from Elizabeth to Charlotte . |
| 24 | Floyd Hunter , in one of the classical community power studies , states his assumptions about power clearly in the form of postulates : |
| 25 | Keep your eyes on Guinness Today for reports on how Helen gets on . |
| 26 | Now before we move further I 'd like to take this opportunity of expressing on your behalf our thanks to Hugh here for the service that he 's rendered our church to this point in time but particularly as the convenor of the Board of World Mission and Unity . |
| 27 | I could n't permit someone of your abilities to moulder away in a backwater . |
| 28 | The official justification is that in Bali the company could work with local performers and learn to ‘ shift our centres of gravity away from the head , down into the centres of our bodies ’ . |
| 29 | You inflict your self-reproaches on people close to you . |
| 30 | All in all , you will find that your chances of happiness together under the same roof will depend very largely upon your ability to respect and accept her individuality , to see that she gets her share of family affection , to make it possible for her to keep usefully occupied ( within her limitations ) in the home , and to engage as far as she can in all the outside interests she has always enjoyed . |