Example sentences of "[adj] [vb base] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely , however , the women who do make the transition from the grant-aided sector to the mainstream bring with them a history of political and creative experience which must make itself felt in the long run ? |
| 2 | Some concentrate on their experience of the significance of the birth , death and resurrection of Christ as a fully revealed paradigm of human potential , others witness more immediately to an experience of the ultimate and ineffable reality which informs the story . |
| 3 | He is by no means a total social isolate for there are still occasions when work is carried out in groups of two or three , but contact is more desultory and the closely knit relationships developed out of lengthy periods of working side by side have become somewhat attenuated . |
| 4 | The steward was out to extract some squeeze from her . |
| 5 | In any case , as the permanent under-secretary in the Foreign Office philosophically remarked , if the Americans were asked to " underwrite the Empire , they would expect some say in its running " . |
| 6 | She 's entitled to some say in what you do . |
| 7 | it 's your own body and you have got some say in what happens to it , or what does n't happen to it . |
| 8 | It was this solution which was incorporated into the working of the 1885 act in its final form , when the new Conservative government dropped the contentious clauses extending police powers of search and arrest . |
| 9 | He may even have specifically praised the Roman rule over Spain , though the passages from Strabo which are quoted to prove this seem to me simply thoughts of Strabo himself praising the pax romana of Augustus . |
| 10 | 2 Look at what you have written . |
| 11 | 2 Look through your list for words that rhyme . |
| 12 | ‘ I can still hardly believe you made all this happen for me . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ People have said I ca n't take the pressure , but things like this happen to me week in , week out . |
| 14 | You 're here , Francis , are n't you , seeing all this happen to me ? |
| 15 | I ca n't see this happen to you . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I have lived here for years , and I have never had anything like this happen in my home , ’ she said . |
| 17 | He seemed to half choke on her name . |
| 18 | Around half know of someone who uses drugs . |
| 19 | He relishes tackling and few get past him . |
| 20 | They call us Les Rosbifs as it is ( as the English refer to them disparagingly as the frogs ) and may indeed wonder what the students intend to do Ermentrude . |
| 21 | I believe I picked up the tape-recorder in much the same spirit — because I felt that whatever we did here ought to have a rather spontaneous feel to it , and yet at the same time be noticeably hard-wearing . |
| 22 | Not giving dates lets the story have a more relaxed and timeless feel about it . |
| 23 | This feel for his native countryside comes through strongly in his photographs ; person , camera and landscape being in creative harmony . |
| 24 | The Hon Mrs Anderson-Hunt had sent a crisp 10s note for her train fare and expenses , and that sum would adequately cover those . |
| 25 | And there is pleasure in splashing out exorbitantly — a furtive euphoria , which leaves a chalky feel in your hands . |
| 26 | There was an old feel about it . |
| 27 | It had a different feel to it , a different look , a different smell . |
| 28 | It was as filled with rare and handsome things as any other in the palazzo , yet it had a different feel to it , as if its owner had furnished it more with an eye to what pleased him than to effect . |
| 29 | Does the dash have a different feel about it , different to the feel of speech marks ? |
| 30 | Some are the head of the family with husband and children dependent on their salary some are single parents and some rely on their income to provide for the shortfall in their partner 's earnings . |