Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ My mum used to monster me for coming home so late .
2 CBHPs grew in an era of popular organizing by both church and secular organizations which in adopting a structural or liberational approach were clearly anti-government in character .
3 While Jacob was dreaming of Jacob 's Ladder at Beth-El , his head was pillowed on a rock which upon waking he set up as a holy monument .
4 ‘ I do n't want to press-gang you into doing something you 're not happy with , so if you have any reservations just say so .
5 Jameson seems to object to the fall of modernism and the decline of a critical aesthetic , and fails to learn from the quite genuine failure of modernism itself with regard to its popular acceptability .
6 But that wo n't stop the timeshare touts trying to soft-soap you into buying abroad .
7 It 's sufficient to say that Clyde thanks you for saving his family , but then finds out there 's one Demon left .
8 ‘ It appears to me that the whole question is governed by the broad , general , universal principle that English legislation , unless the contrary is expressly enacted or so plainly implied as to make it the duty of an English court to give effect to an English statute , is applicable only to English subjects or to foreigners who by coming into this country , whether for a long or a short time , have made themselves during that time subject to English jurisdiction .
9 ‘ Put into the language of today , the general principle being there stated is simply that , unless the contrary is expressly enacted or so plainly implied that the courts must give effect to it , United Kingdom legislation is applicable only to British subjects or to foreigners who by coming to the United Kingdom , whether for a short or a long time , have made themselves subject to British jurisdiction .
10 This is done within the programme itself by using very restricted examples of language and by recycling these examples through the programme and through the course in a range of different short scenes .
11 I have no intention whatsoever of getting in that car with you , so get that into your head once and for all .
12 ‘ Get out ! ’ she yelled while she still had breath , but , even as she started backing rapidly , she knew he had no intention whatsoever of obeying her orders .
13 It was only as the girl grew older and she realized that her mother was simply mouthing words and had no intention whatsoever of carrying out her threat that she had begun to be able to relax and enjoy what was left of her childhood .
14 I have no intention whatsoever of rejecting any of the designs that you 've just shown me . ’
15 I promised I would n't touch anything , having no intention whatsoever of going anywhere near the bathroom again .
16 She had no intention whatsoever of breakfasting with him , though , and stayed in her room for as long as she could bear it .
17 Because they do not have the trade union structure that we have in this country or the record of trade union militancy that so damaged this country in the 1970s and to which we have no intention whatsoever of returning .
18 I too pondered over making up a few of my own out of spring steel , but decided to try the cheaper option of a note to Warwick themselves before going down this route .
19 ‘ I have no intention whatever of signing away my inheritance , ’ she informed him coldly .
20 ‘ He had no intention whatever of going back to you .
21 I felt helpless in the face of my own infantile bad temper and sulkiness ; I could remember exactly how I 'd felt when I was six , and somebody was trying to cajole me into doing something I did n't want to do … in a minute , I thought in some recess of my mind , I 'll be stamping and shouting , " Wo n't ! "
22 Listen to Blur 's marvellous There 's No Other Way single and you 'll hear not only brilliant young musicians cutting free , but a producer who knows how to encourage his fellow workers and cajole them into producing their best in the studio .
23 Didn't.say nothing about wanting the rest of him , though .
24 It results from a transfer which in bringing the beneficiary 's total of votes up to the quota almost inevitably provides him also with more votes than he needed .
25 The polytechnics , other colleges validated by the CNAA , and the CNAA itself in scrutinizing courses for approval , certainly took seriously the question of employment outcomes for students .
26 Well more fool you for letting him
27 Not only does it hamstring itself by trying to please all nations , it also attempts to appeal to a mythical European consciousness that can not exist in the continent whose countries have spent centuries ever more jealously defining their national characteristics .
28 These signs , it must be said , largely reflect the changing strategies and priorities of management itself in coming to recognise that people have their personal plans and needs .
29 By exerting gentle pressure on the zones of the foot the reflexologist is able to diagnose areas of malfunction in the body and then , by massage of the appropriate area of the foot , to help the body heal itself by improving the functioning of the nervous and circulatory systems .
30 A survey of the wreckage was said to have proved that the helicopter had been carrying combat weapons and armed personnel as well as civilians ; the Georgian side attributed the crash itself to overloading , with 64 passengers on a 24-seat helicopter .
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