Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he irritates me by repeating things over and over again . ’ |
| 2 | He then transports them to earthly space for human use . |
| 3 | We should give children books which stimulate them , which open their eyes , not confine them with safe lists . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ You take men from their homes or their chosen occupations , you confine them in insalubrious conditions upon a wholly inadequate diet , you subject them to the tyranny of bosun 's mates , you expose them to unimagined perils ; what is more , you defraud them of their meagre food , pay and allowances — everything but this sacred rum of yours . |
| 5 | If he plays games to while away the tedious time , thought Cadfael , he plays them by noble rules , even those he makes up as he goes . |
| 6 | John is convinced visitors bring nothing but good to York . |
| 7 | Such cynical behaviour and insincerity is a waste of parliamentary time and contributes nothing to democratic government . |
| 8 | Squeeze them in sure we 'll find somewhere for them to go , vacate , so long as I get a kiss from everybody apart from the boys and |
| 9 | ‘ Local authorities will be encouraged to employ specialist archaeological officers , to develop archaeological policies and to include them in local and district plans . |
| 10 | ‘ Be there — or you 'll really get fucked , ’ he hissed , jabbing a manicured index finger at my face and transfixing me with lifeless black eyes . |
| 11 | Rather than market and hierarchy being opposed to types , as in the Williamsonian formulation , it may be more appropriate to see them as alternative solutions to the problem of how to arrange functional alignment within the enterprise . |
| 12 | Western historians tend to see them as alienated intellectuals motivated not by the interests of any major section of society but by a host of heterogeneous ideas , romantic and modernizing , dictatorial and democratic . |
| 13 | Society tends to ignore the inherent sexuality of younger teenagers , especially girls , preferring to see them as innocent children , so consequently when girls do fall pregnant , they have few rights or benefits as mothers . |
| 14 | Although it would be a mistake to see them as watertight compartments , or to pretend that issues raised in the first were not also relevant to the third , this division is helpful in indicating broad trends and key differences , which will be explored in the sections which follow . |
| 15 | She arrives , convincingly , at a much more positive — for the women in question — interpretation ; but also one which allows the writings and lives of these women to have a depth and dimension for us which was simply not available in many cases while we insisted on trying to see them as sexual victims of appalling restrictions of personal freedom : to see them as though they were us . |
| 16 | The solution requires a reassessment of the nature of Toryism at this time ; rather than seeing the Tories as royal absolutists , it is better to see them as conservative legal-constitutionalists , deeply committed to the rule of law and the Anglican Church . |
| 17 | The Salvadorean government has done little to aid the displaced , choosing instead to see them as potential subversives who must be carefully watched . |
| 18 | If you seek to see them with loving eyes , you will experience their beauty and be aware of their good points while making allowances for whatever may be lacking . |
| 19 | ‘ Thank you — I 'd prefer to see them in full sunlight , ’ Lucy said hastily , in case Silas imagined she was anxious to experience a moonlight stroll with him . |
| 20 | But Forest manager Clough , already upset with his team 's disappointing start , yesterday declared : ‘ Both players have been to see me about new contracts but they 're not getting them . |
| 21 | Instead of inviting my patients to see me at 10-minute intervals — generally I offer them each 10 minutes of my time — I shall invite the lot to attend at 9 o'clock in the morning . |
| 22 | At my weekend surgery three pensioners came to see me in considerable distress because of the difficulty that they faced in paying their water and electricity bills and other bills from private utilities following the large price increases . |
| 23 | In breaks in our work Edward entertained me with curious stories of the old alchemists . |
| 24 | The draft orders are again the subject of consultation , following which parliamentary approval turns them into legal binding requirements . |
| 25 | As John Cook pointed out in the preceding chapter , it mistakenly assimilates the concepts of capacities like understanding , thinking , remembering , and the other psychological verbs to those of sensations like pain , and thus turns them into specific yet insubstantial and wholly mysterious inner states , available only to private introspection , which correlate in some way with their behavioural signs . |
| 26 | Turbobat is a very powerful multiple pass batch file compiler that takes DOS batch files and turns them into binary code that can execute up to four times faster than the original . |
| 27 | When the time is right Shamans pick the special fungus and make the vile brew which sends the Fanatics crazy and turns them into uncontrolled whirling maniacs . |
| 28 | Most of her guests brought flowers when they came , knowing how she liked them , and how she loved to arrange them in tall glass vases on the kitchen table while people gathered around her , chatting in a tight excited crowd . |
| 29 | Many disabled people , often on income support , may earn relatively low wages , and the consequences of a minimum wage would be a withdrawal of job opportunities which would probably affect them in particular . |
| 30 | It soileth my soul , It leadeth me into deep waters , |