Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [pron] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The exhibition provides a unique opportunity for anyone considering keeping a particular breed to have a good look , talk to the owner and make other helpful contacts . |
| 2 | At the same time the play leaves a key question tantalisingly unresolved : whether , in a repressive state , one can seek freedom for oneself without seeking it for others . |
| 3 | We do n't even take any money off him for keep |
| 4 | We 've got future plans for him like getting him up on his feet and walk short distances with full-length calipers |
| 5 | In Pao On v. Lau Yiu A threatened that unless B agreed to vary an existing contract between them by giving A a guarantee against loss , A would not fulfil his side of the agreement . |
| 6 | During the siege , the majority of prisoners sided with Chavez , who hosted a banquet for them before surrendering for medical treatment . |
| 7 | Jimmy Wilde , our centre-half , made an excellent debut for us in preventing Simpson from scoring but manager Fred Maven and Secretary Edmund Goodman knew immediately that this was a man who could do great things for Palace . |
| 8 | The court was obviously not without compassion , for its judgement was : ‘ to erect some small cottage or Cabin for her in regard to her lothesomenes ’ . |
| 9 | Suddenly , to his relief , Celia herself broke the constraint between them by remarking , ‘ I had an unexpected visitor yesterday . ’ |
| 10 | Conductors could make some money for themselves by selling lists of well-known passengers on their trains to representatives of the Associated Press . |
| 11 | Your teachers will be able to ask Compact employers to help them develop an interesting curriculum for you by planning work jointly and inviting " adults other than teachers " to talk to you and work with you in the classroom . |
| 12 | Thereafter , we allays made a point of asking the culprit , whenever we wanted to use the bucket for anything from watering the flowers to doing the ironing , ‘ Is this water in here or urine ? ’ |
| 13 | What I w what I will say to my honourable , my right honourable friend is that er when I recently visited the United States I did find that the , on which our training and enterprise councils have been based , have provided a very valuable experience for us in learning the lessons that he had indicated of ensuring that the private sector is fully involved in decisions over training and I believe that the figure I gave to my honourable friend early today , combined with over two billion that my department spends on training , forms a very effective public private sector partnership . |
| 14 | But that holding the afternoon off him after loosing a leg I think that was really terrible aye . |
| 15 | It would be nice , for example , to do all your own minor operations … remove cysts , do stitching and all these sorts of , eh well , do a complete work-out for somebody with say cardiovascular problems — but this needs half an hour at least … . |
| 16 | Gavin fished the spoon out , wiped it on his shirt , and gingerly offered it to his master , who gripped his wrist , jerked him forward and clattered his ears for him before letting him go . |
| 17 | In arable districts most usable lad must already have been taken up , and with the commons jealously guarded by farmers to whom they were essential for keeping the animals on which cultivation depended , the landless man stood a better chance of carving a niche for himself by drifting to a less-developed , mainly pastoral terrain . |
| 18 | Under this system of economic production , even though a merchant class was able to find a niche for itself by providing loans and commodities for kings , princes and noble landowners , this class was largely excluded from control over the state , which was dominated by increasingly absolutist kings and their royal entourage of lords and nobles . |
| 19 | Take your mind off yourself by keeping busy . |
| 20 | I tried to take his mind off her by talking about the Norwegian leather industry but he could n't get interested somehow . |
| 21 | But there are also attractions for them in ensuring that neither company links with Jaguar . |
| 22 | Dentan , for example , describes the Semai concept of persusah — to make difficulty or unhappiness for someone by meddling in his affairs — and notes that the prescribed response to such interference is withdrawal or passivity ( 1968 : 63 ) . |
| 23 | Osbern returned to Canterbury , not to make peace by abandoning his efforts to get recognition for the despised saints , but to gain recognition for them by writing their biographies . |
| 24 | In its early days , the Reagan administration made a laughing stock of itself by blaming trees for pollution . |
| 25 | ‘ I see enough of you and Gesner racing around in that appalling car of his without watching you prancing together on a stage . ’ |
| 26 | Naked Gun star Leslie Nielsen is back on another mind-boggling trail in search of no-one-ever-knows-what as bumbling Lt. Frank Drebin in in the latest series of Red Rock cider adverts . |
| 27 | It would have been ridiculous to write about Marilyn Monroe [ he is the author of Goddess ] without covering her sex life , or indeed to write a biography of anyone without discussing sexuality . |
| 28 | Two , three times , I had my pleasure of her before kissing her roundly on the cheeks , slapping her on the bottom and whispering a fond adieu . |
| 29 | They can reduce these factors to mathematical terms and experiment with them by introducing a variety of inputs to assess what effects they have . |
| 30 | Whitlock poured two cups of coffee then returned to his seat with one after handing the other to Graham . |