Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cowering patrons were pulling silver crucifixes from their pockets and holding them between trembling fingers . |
| 2 | N no nothing about taking lands away from landlords , confiscation |
| 3 | This training was to elucidate the objectives of the study , to familiarise interviewers with the questionnaire , and to prepare them for conducting interviews on intimate and possibly sensitive questions . |
| 4 | On Saturday mornings she took them for riding lessons , waited and took them back , while Norm went out to play golf . |
| 5 | Until this week , they had all their lessons together , but following a governor 's meeting , the school has agreed to segregate them for swimming lessons in the school 's pool . |
| 6 | When Norwich and Arsenal appeared at Lancaster Gate the FA was concerned not only that neither club had condemned the incident immediately but that Norwich had not given any indication that they were going to punish some of their players , apart from fining them for making comments to newspapers . |
| 7 | These include mini-trunking , similar to that used for electric cables , and additional skirting boards and architraves ( in plastic or hardwood ) which have a space behind them for running pipes . |
| 8 | But one of the complaints that I was very bitter about was at that time I cycled to my work and they had paving stones in the bakery with the slits in them for to keep bikes . |
| 9 | Some of the threads will have small drops of sticky fluid on them for trapping insects while some threads will have no stickiness . |
| 10 | There is nothing quite like them for resuscitating spirits depressed by wintry gloom . |
| 11 | We pay them for attending fires . |
| 12 | His herd numbered up to 200 head , including working bullocks used on the estates until local prejudice combined with shoeing difficulties encouraged him to abandon them for working horses . |
| 13 | tell me about taking bearings , what do you do , let's give you an example , of some bearings to take , erm , and then you can tell me what you 're doing , so there 's a point there , and we 'll call that erm , P , just to be awkward , now let's say what we 'll do , this is what we 'll d , this is a typical problem in fact , erm , I 'll even draw that line on for you to start with , yeah , here 's the problem , a ship is sailing due North , okay , and when it 's at the point of A it takes a bearing on the lighthouse , so the lighthouse is somewhere , do n't know where it is , but bearing of L from A is forty five degrees , and the bearing of L from B , which is when the ship has sailed on a lot further |
| 14 | ‘ Tell me about poaching pheasants . ’ |
| 15 | No-one had told me about pulling teeth ) ‘ … this is the emergency kit , that 's the radio operator waving his arms at you , this the X-ray machine you 'll get the hang of it . ’ |
| 16 | He had suspected someone of forging letters from Walter Machin . |
| 17 | A company requiring someone with organizing skills might ask you what skills you 'll be bringing to the job . |
| 18 | The phrase does not indicate that Brahman does not exist , or that we know nothing about Brahman , but that we know that Brahman is so far beyond our understanding that anything we say will be misleading and therefore we must content ourselves with saying neti-neti . |
| 19 | We learn about ourselves by making mistakes , as well as through success ; we learn nothing by staying in a rut . |
| 20 | Women who told me that their partners accused them of using tears to manipulate them agreed that there were times when they deliberately wept , but said that it was often the only way they could get their partner 's attention . |
| 21 | I can not describe anything , any more than you can ever describe or wish to describe a loved person , because that love strips them of possessing characteristics . |
| 22 | Unless of course , you 're accusing them of rigging things ? ’ |
| 23 | In March of the following year , when the feuding between the UDA and the UVF reached the point of tit-for-tat assassination , Paisley called on Protestants to withdraw all support from the paramilitaries and accused them of committing crimes ‘ just as heinous and hellish as those of the IRA ’ . |
| 24 | She knew nothing of Wuthering Heights or Heathcliff . |
| 25 | ‘ Are you accusing me of telling lies ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ McAllister reminds me of scrubbing floors and cleaning ranges . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ It would matter to me if anyone suspected me of taking drugs — not just you . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ You are accusing me of selling fakes ? ’ |
| 29 | He arrived in record time and accused me of bullying tactics . |
| 30 | Far off on the horizon I could make out tiny figures : galloping beasts , scurrying men ; and faint sounds came down to me of barking dogs , irritated bellowings and shrill cries of " Haow , haow ! " |