Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this sense he is symbolic of the nationalistic cause , either to restore Germany to her former glories , or to justify and inspire territorial ambitions . |
| 2 | He always had to spend ages reassuring Lennie he did want to travel with him and George had to keep on reminding Lennie of their dream , of alfalfa and rabbits , to comfort him . |
| 3 | Thérèse shouted out the Holy Name of Jesus and wiped Madeleine from her mind , wiped her hands on her apron . |
| 4 | Sir John Harvey-Jones , who led ICI to its first billion-pound profit in 1984 , was always going to be a hard act to follow . |
| 5 | I do n't think that that chance will come until your husband retires so , in the meantime , you must learn to see Germany as your home . |
| 6 | ‘ Ah , Mrs Deacon , ’ said Nahum , striding in and drawing Sarah after him . |
| 7 | Or maybe it 's simpler than that , and has to do with them seeing Tod in his natural environment , the doctor , the gatekeeper , his white coat and his black bag . |
| 8 | Overriding these fears , however , was her maternal instinct to indulge Bernard with whatever it was he wanted and she urged him to buy a boat . |
| 9 | He can compare Germany with what it was in the Thirties . |
| 10 | ‘ It was my charter company who recommended Kemp to me . ’ |
| 11 | He says : ‘ You ca n't compare Ian with his counterparts in the Italian side . |
| 12 | The Navajo Tribal Council had on Feb. 17 voted to strip MacDonald of his administrative power in the wake of bribery accusations revealed in Senate subcommittee testimony . |
| 13 | In the evenings , after tea was cleared away and washed up and her aunt had tucked Victoria into her cot , Melanie sat in the kitchen and read her own old books . |
| 14 | ‘ He — I knew what would happen — last time he — he started — he got Gary off me and left him — in his cot , he was screaming , he were scared-he was rough you see he gets rough when he 's drunk , he does n't think — ’ |
| 15 | And your own name , your company , will also not be mentioned until I 've stopped Hauser in his tracks , destroyed him . ’ |
| 16 | Hall guides us through the far more tortuous path that led Newton to his discoveries and explains why not all his many critics can be dismissed simply as benighted traditionalists . |
| 17 | ‘ We had originally planned to sample Burroughs on our next single , ‘ Just One Fix ’ . |
| 18 | He motioned to Jack , who moved slightly away from the door , drawing Alison with him . |
| 19 | It is for this reason that sociologists have often assumed that they must respect the professional psychologists ' judgement in these matters , and so have treated Freud from their viewpoint as unscientific and unusable . |
| 20 | Streat asked MacArthur for his views on trade with China to which the general replied that an increase in trade between Japan and mainland China would not occur immediately but that he was convinced that this could occur within the next four or five years . |
| 21 | When Sir John Anderson ( later first Viscount Waverley , q.v. ) , the former head of the Home Office , was put in charge of a hastily improvised London civil-defence organization during the Munich crisis , he appointed Scott as his chief staff officer ; and when Anderson became minister for civil defence , he made Scott responsible for the urgent task of accelerating London 's civil-defence arrangements , with the title of chief administrative officer for the London civil-defence region , as from February 1939 . |
| 22 | ‘ Our problem was to convert audiences to accepting David in something they had never seen in him before , ’ said Mr Lawrence . |
| 23 | China , which had sharply criticized Gorbachev after his resignation for having caused " political chaos , ethnic strife and economic crisis " , nevertheless on Dec. 27 recognized as independent states the members of the CIS . |
| 24 | I asked Ken about his reputation as a surfing caveman who would bite chunks out of your board if you got in his way . |
| 25 | People were constantly coming to see Ken in his dressing room . |
| 26 | For the Kuwait Oil Tanker Company ( KOTC ) , the news , at a time of generally increasing premiums , that Lloyd 's had decided to include Kuwait in their definition of the War Zone was especially unwelcome . |
| 27 | Turns Medusa on her head |
| 28 | Bring Hector to me when next you come up . |
| 29 | Jack Birkenshaw , back where he has always felt he most belongs , has a hard job ahead in trying to restore Leicestershire to their long-lost glories . |
| 30 | As a result Clare will be helping David with his finances during the next 12 months . |