Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [conj] [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 | A most effective means of doing this is through flattery and giving you the status of an innovative thinker . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ What is it about work that gives you the most pleasure ? ’ |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | He even made a pot of tea and poured her a cup when she got up for work . |
| 8 | As their eyes met , Yanto sensed a spart of recognition and gave her a broad smile to help her recollect . |
| 9 | But in a sense it failed through the same sort of determination that gained him the earlier success on April 27th . |
| 10 | They came up with a vision of work that offered them a challenge , was interesting and in which they were in charge . |
| 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 | Kopyion poured him a drink of wine and offered him a date . |
| 13 | The horizon was still invisible , but above the line of mist that hid it the sky was clear , with the promise of a lovely evening . |
| 14 | ’ 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 . |
| 15 | The kind of name that saves me a lot of typing . |
| 16 | Are they merely providers , acting as a resource for local communities , responding to needs and demands which are often based on past experience of education or have they a duty to seek ways and means of broadening the role of education into areas with which it is not normally associated such as changes in family and community life , the problems of poverty , inequality , and the general lack of local control over the formal decision-making process ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | These can themselves be productive of problems for the people concerned , or they may affect the kind of advice or counsel which the social worker should offer . |
| 19 | Though unsophisticated , many of his patriotic songs have a stirring lilt ; on politics he wrote with indignation , rough good humour , and an effective turn of phrase that earned him the reputation of being one of the best political ballad-writers in the kingdom . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ! |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ Then , before I could stop her she got my father out of bed and told him the whole thing . |
| 26 | I have initiated him into the ‘ Secret Doctrine ’ , opened his centres of vision and given him the means to communicate with the Powers . |
| 27 | They calculated the distance around the earth , then took a fraction of this measurement as their unit of length and called it a metre . |
| 28 | I think it 's a question of understanding and perceiving what the meaning of the concept of God is outside a very narrow churchy kind of view . |
| 29 | It was precisely that peculiar combination of laisser-faire rule over the kingdom at large , but absolute personal involvement with all that went on at the centre , in institutional as well as individual and personal affairs , which is the notable quality of kingship in Scotland and explains the high level of prestige and control which the crown enjoyed . |
| 30 | As Taff poured me a good measure of cider and handed me a boiled egg and a chunk of meat I described the situation at No. 4 . |