Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slater was silent for a second , gazing disdainfully at Graham 's snapping fingers , then he said tiredly , " Graham , either concentrate on searching for the title of the book you 're talking about or devote your full energies to practising calling for a waiter ; I 'm not convinced you possess the RAM for doing both at the same time . " |
| 2 | The navy was the guarantee that Great Britain 's interests elsewhere could be looked after and gave her enormous strategical advantages outside Europe . |
| 3 | New tenants , particularly from non-conforming households such as single parents , tend to be given the poorer standard housing and are expected to prove their ability to look after and improve their home before being transferred to a better property . |
| 4 | The serial strategy involved thinking of or placing your finger on an imaginary scale and moving backwards and forwards along that scale as adjectives were successively read out until a final impression was reached ; ‘ after the first adjective I rated the person in my head , then moved backwards or forwards along the scale after each attribute ’ or ‘ 1 . |
| 5 | Much later in the debate , and in time , the same " raw data " were transformed yet again , this time seen as the negotiated outcomes of actors " methods , particularly the police and coroners , for making sense of and constructing their courses of action which are only imperfectly , if at all , reflected in the figures . |
| 6 | b ) Family Membership — Please take note of and advertise our new FAMILY MEMBERSHIP which will be introduced in OCT. 1988 . |
| 7 | The buck thrashed and spat and made a high keening noise I did n't think rabbits were capable of and beat its legs on the ground . |
| 8 | An important factor in avoiding pre-marital pregnancy would seem to be the girl 's own attitudes and behaviour in taking control of and planning her life . |
| 9 | She ends by considering how teachers can create a classroom climate in which children can make use of and extend their own ideas . |
| 10 | In the final instance the golfer could simply refuse to work with his agent , who would then be faced with the problem of whether to sue his erstwhile client — a very expensive , long-winded and unsatisfactory process . |
| 11 | THE question of whether to use our own labour or contractors ' is a tricky one . |
| 12 | Pragmatists maintain that such checks are not merely tricky but also always leave the same option of whether to accept their apparent results . |
| 13 | At this point in the theory , the Nirvana principle is conceived of as deriving its energy from the death instincts , and the pleasure principle serves these too sometimes , and therefore it loses its former primacy in the unconscious life of man . |
| 14 | It would have been thought of as demeaning their authority to have to explain their actions . |
| 15 | The borough council has launched a customer care and quality service programme aimed at giving good service to the people who pay for and use its amenities . |
| 16 | Can we trust in the shed blood of Jesus to fully atone for and cover our sins ? |
| 17 | no minute and I call for and ask your Lordship to order the production of any board minute meeting recording that concern of Mr |
| 18 | After his death , members of the wine trade enabled her to become the first person outside the trade to study for and sit its examinations . |
| 19 | In his third camp , Eichstatt , in spite of the crowded and stressful conditions , he managed with the help of the Red Cross and some accountant brother-officers to study for and sit his final accountancy examinations while actively preparing for his escape . |
| 20 | Cos the walls ai n't gon na be done I 'll get back and get a tub next week and I got ta tenner left over look to get you something for and get your hat . |
| 21 | She went on the skiing holiday he had paid for and accepted his excuse about his daughter 's measles without a moment 's hesitation . |
| 22 | I played for and captained my country so I know how important it is and I would never stop anybody going . |
| 23 | His genealogical lists suggest a need to search for and establish his own identity . |
| 24 | The plaintiffs ' next contention has been described as the proprietary argument to the effect that Mr. and Mrs. Tully are constructive trustees for the plaintiffs of the moneys claimed in the action , that a court of equity will not hesitate to protect and preserve a trust fund in interlocutory proceedings on the principle that , if the trust fund disappears , it will turn out that equity has been invoked to no purpose and that a claim for privilege can not be successfully raised against an order which permits a plaintiff to search for and to seize his own property , including property which is in the possession of the defendant . |
| 25 | ‘ Then you must also realize that for me to do what the Brigadier suggests would be a betrayal of everything my father stood for and gave his life for . ’ |
| 26 | There is less strictly legal work at this stage of your career although the ability to analyse the strengths and weaknesses of a particular course of action and to argue for and defend your authority 's position all require the use of such skills . |
| 27 | Many women apply for and enter our courses and we are keen to see the numbers of women increase still further . |
| 28 | By itself such music would be shattering with its evocation of primordial universality , but the Apolline particularity of the tragic myth makes the evocation bearable by giving us sublime individuals to feel for and to satisfy our sense of beauty . |
| 29 | He imagined for a moment that he was still in short pants , until she turned to him and added , ‘ What I mean is , I would have still recognised you , ’ and as if to soften her first statement she added further , ‘ Of course , you 've grown much taller . |
| 30 | The Prince smiled , as if to soften his sartorial orders , then gestured at one of his Dutch aides . |