Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] and [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If she asks you for money and shows you the letters , you can say that you did n't write them . ’ |
| 2 | I told him all about Marie and showed him the pictures we took in that photo booth . |
| 3 | A most effective means of doing this is through flattery and giving you the status of an innovative thinker . |
| 4 | Struggling to hold back tears , Mr Parry added : ‘ If my son becomes a symbol for peace and gives everyone a new sense of hope after so much tragedy , then that will be Tim 's unique achievement . ’ |
| 5 | Those who ‘ have a way with animals ’ are essentially kind of heart and wish them no ill — a mental vibration to which both animals and humans respond with trust . |
| 6 | Frustrated but secretly delighted that I had maybe caught him out with shoddy workmanship until an old fellow from Bernera stopped to give me a lift on the way past Carlaway and showed me the right ones , just before the main stones of Callanish . |
| 7 | Should you want to do some withy and teasel research for yourself , you might visit their willow and wetland centre in Stoke St Gregory where they grow 50 acres of willow and harvest it every winter , when the plants are dormant and the rods measure 8 feet . |
| 8 | He even made a pot of tea and poured her a cup when she got up for work . |
| 9 | As their eyes met , Yanto sensed a spart of recognition and gave her a broad smile to help her recollect . |
| 10 | From then until his death in 1099 at the age of fifty-six , El Cid fought a series of dazzling campaigns against the Moors , taking the fortified city of Valencia and making it an impregnable fortress against his enemies When news of his death reached the rest of Spain , men and women wept openly in the streets , tearing their clothing and lacerating their cheeks in an extravagant display of mourning . |
| 11 | The bar chart that was the result of the survey we did you need to look at that piece of work and ask yourself a question , is this piece of work the best thing I have ever done ? |
| 12 | elected on the second of May and wish them an enjoyable and fruitful term of office . |
| 13 | MPC is the marginal private cost of films and reflects what the resources could earn for producers if they were employed in the meals industry . |
| 14 | Kopyion poured him a drink of wine and offered him a date . |
| 15 | Charles I was equally well disposed towards Salisbury and made him a privy councillor in 1626 . |
| 16 | ’ Taking its title from this sober standard phrase of the modern obituary column , Norman Rene 's film is an attempt to assess the impact of AIDS on the gay community and at the same time to celebrate the very strong sense of pride and resolve which the disease has paradoxically fostered . |
| 17 | One of the graduate trainees at the time I was there was Alan Williams , son of Emlyn and to become himself a bestselling author . |
| 18 | To head off a tantrum , try squirting a shot of washing-up liquid into a beaker , adding a bit of water and giving her a drinking straw to blow bubbles with . |
| 19 | We are committed to using the resources available to the health service to treat the maximum number of patients and to offer them the highest possible quality of health care . |
| 20 | Such suspicions were reinforced when he made this pampered favourite Duke of Lennox and granted him the revenues of Arbroath abbey . |
| 21 | Managers in a surveying practice must therefore master the art of communication and use its every facet in organising , controlling and reviewing the activities of others . |
| 22 | My plea : give the Hesketh Hubbard society or similar a stand again so that people can escape the hurly-burly to an oasis of calm and do what the like best : draw ! |
| 23 | My plea : give the Hesketh Hubbard society or similar a stand again so that people can escape the hurly-burly to an oasis of calm and do what the like best : draw ! |
| 24 | Things may not be as bad as they seem , and some thorough maintenance work may give your existing windows a new lease of life and save you a lot of money . |
| 25 | We shall treat them as a special type of word and give them the following rule : when a pair of prefix-plus-stem words exists , both members of which are spelt identically , one of which is a verb and the other is either a noun or an adjective , the stress will be placed on the second syllable of the verb but on the first syllable of the noun or adjective . |
| 26 | Jack Carter fumbled a cigarette out of a packet of Players and gave him a light . |
| 27 | You could , of course , get out your trusty copy of PKZIP and shrink it a bit , then flip it onto a disk , then copy it onto your desktop , then unzip it , then delete the ZIP file . |
| 28 | ‘ Then , before I could stop her she got my father out of bed and told him the whole thing . |
| 29 | She could believe that this was the creature that had floated inside her — yes , like a starry astronaut in his liquid capsule , attached to his red life-support cable — she had pored over photographs of embryos and imagined him a hundred times . |
| 30 | I have initiated him into the ‘ Secret Doctrine ’ , opened his centres of vision and given him the means to communicate with the Powers . |