Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pron] [prep] [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , those who hoped that the more flexible regulations would qualify them for grant well in excess of the traditional 75% were doomed to disappointment . |
| 2 | I did not send them to school again for many years . |
| 3 | When I was with him I was in a more or less permanent state of sexual excitement , and I could bring myself to orgasm just by looking at him , without the aid of hands . |
| 4 | They 'll give lots of pleasure indoors for a week or two , and can then be left to their own devices outdoors for the rest of the year ; getting dried out in summer is a positive help . |
| 5 | The object on which an individual expends mental labour is never a ‘ pure representation ’ , any more than he can transform it into knowledge just like that . |
| 6 | Miss McIntosh said it was also essential contractors dredging local channels used the retrieved aggregate on Essex sea walls rather than transport it to coasts elsewhere in the EC . |
| 7 | But in certain circumstances , the defendant may exculpate himself from liability either by raising doubts as to whether he had such an intention or awareness , or by establishing on a balance of probabilities the defence that he lacked mens rea . |
| 8 | Well we 'll add plenty of time just in case , we 've never been there before . |
| 9 | Bungle and guitarist Graham now manage to animatedly throw themselves into proceedings instead of looking like they 're queueing in a pie shop . |
| 10 | Well , as a chemist perhaps you 'll forgive me for dwelling largely on what we as chemists do , but of course it 's not only the chemists in the School of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences who do things for schools — it 's right across the area — but each year , for example , we have a week set aside for sixth form visits , in which parties of sixth formers come to the School and we 're about to talk to them about university entrance , about what goes on in universities , but , most importantly , to show them some of the apparatus which they do n't have at school but which they 've probably heard about . |