Example sentences of "[pron] [coord] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At decision point B in Fig. 8.5. we do not know the full scores of the paths , but we can try to look ahead and estimate them or extrapolate from current scores . |
| 2 | So anything that the landlo er the rich peasant owns and works himself or cultivates by hired labour you 're going to allow to keep . |
| 3 | Michael Stroud has been treating himself and Ran with medical supplies on the aircraft . |
| 4 | The war inside himself was a small conflagration compared with the bombardments he saw for himself and read about daily . |
| 5 | The baby had been endeavouring with grim determination to haul himself from the floor on to Alexandra 's knee , gripping handfuls of her skirts to assist himself and heaving with astonishing strength . |
| 6 | They come to me , whining and wheedling , ‘ old Mother , this , make him fall in love with me , ’ ‘ old Mother , that , he 's a good man , I love him , but he beats me and goes with other women . ’ |
| 7 | Then she raised her face to me and said with sad seriousness , |
| 8 | However , women will have to be more alert in future in view of the growing violence against them and increase in sexual attacks . |
| 9 | And so we had discussions with them and I can tell you , you know , it was at least six months before the consultants ever made any specific move to introduce the system as such er because of our overtures to them , because of the fact that we asked regularly to meet them and to consult on various points . |
| 10 | Their wings are often swept forward slightly although they can close them and dive at tremendous speeds ( Figure 9 ) . |
| 11 | These women do not feel called to the seclusion of their sisters inside the enclosure , who never leave their convent , but feel called to serve them and act as essential intermediaries between the cloistered nuns and the world . |
| 12 | One of the reasons we developed a design-led retail business , offering our own unique products , was because we saw we could distance ourselves from other retailers who were just selling manufacturers ' products and discounting them and getting into constant competitive battles . |
| 13 | He made his way through them and turned into steep Hanover Lane . |
| 14 | She made an effort and pulled herself together , drawing away from them and saying with great dignity and a careful enunciation of her words , ‘ You must not q-quarrel , you two . |
| 15 | Magnus and the Alsatian , attracted by the noise , came running over and began leaping up at them and barking in wild excitement , their panting mouths leaving clouds in the chill air . |
| 16 | Their presence is still obvious around the city , in statues and monuments , in buildings used by them and restored for other purposes now , and at the church they attended , St Paul 's in the Jewellery Quarter . |
| 17 | And that is exactly how they look — like things that jump out of the dark and land without a body feeling them and burrow into living flesh , flesh they have numbed with preliminary injections , and … suck . |
| 18 | vitrified materials , such as glass itself or slag from metallurgical processes . |
| 19 | Which is a long and irrelevant preamble to saying it 's an obvious priority , and more congenial , to write to you and acknowledge with warm thanks and much acclamation the copy of Litterära Strövtåg i London , which arrived yesterday and is already much browsed-through . |
| 20 | The research project seeks also to compare court officials ' , creditors ' and debtors ' perceptions of the enforcement system itself and to contribute towards sociological understanding of the nature of enforcement processes as an aspect of the legal system neglected in previous socio-legal research . |
| 21 | This ruling mirrored the previous one but applied to occupational pension schemes as opposed to the then state retirement ages . |
| 22 | The second and third points were taken up by him and expressed in different ways in his pronouncements on political and economic issues . |
| 23 | The contrast between the two men of near-identical appearance is shown in a less formal , more novelistic manner in the character of the King , depicted in The Prisoner of Zenda as a weak , pleasure-loving young man trying to equip himself for his destiny and in Rupert of Hentzau as a man ill in body , weaned by matters of state , gradually coming to resent his obligations to the man whose courage and energy have twice saved his position for him and burdened by jealous suspicions of his wife 's fidelity . |
| 24 | It alleged that Dr Mumby had injected Royan with substances that might harm him and failed to given adequate medical attention . |
| 25 | Palin never says this himself but talking to him and reading through previous interviews , one thing is striking . |
| 26 | Louis leaned towards him and said with enormous venom , ‘ You 're in my way . ’ |
| 27 | Bradley turned to him and said with sudden vehemence : |
| 28 | Unlike many of those who followed him and profited from pirated editions of his works , Russell was not a quack and his treatments were not to be taken lightly , the firm physical and mental regimen he prescribed being not far from the modern practices of hydropathic establishments or the health clubs beloved of overweight executives . |
| 29 | Too late she remembered about the steep bank behind her and stepped into thin air . |
| 30 | The crew nodded at her and yelled in bloodthirsty assent . |