Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [conj] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their loving was wild and tempestuous , with no time to spare for tenderness or softly spoken promises . |
| 2 | Lennie knew about George 's craving for freedom and often threatened to leave , but George felt obliged to look after Lennie as Lennie could not fend for himself in a cave and Lennie could not cope with going to jail or a home to be treated like an animal . |
| 3 | The downside is that , unlike financial controllers , directors can , technically speaking , be held liable for negligence and consequently sued . |
| 4 | Claim forms for night visits , each containing details of up to 10 visits , are processed for payment and then filed by practice and by the quarter of the year . |
| 5 | He was asking local people for money and also approached local clergy . |
| 6 | However , as late as 1979 a Soviet researcher wrote that no system existed for checking and analysing technical and economic information relating to product quality , and that ‘ present methods of assessing the quality of goods manufactured for export or already delivered to the foreign consumer can not provide an adequate view of how well they are produced ’ ( Gruzinov : 1979 , p. 191 ) . |
| 7 | Opposition councillors supported the so-called Option 3 which earmarked Finchlea and Oakfield for closure as presently constituted but left the door open for the working party to propose further use in the search for improved service for post-19 year olds . |
| 8 | OPPORTUNITY TO REPLY It is the general duty of newspapers to allow a fair opportunity for reply when reasonably called for . |
| 9 | The concept of public interest , so essential to the concept of charity , is an inherently vague and subjective concept , not suitable for statute but better left to judicial discretion within the normal judicial constraints . |
| 10 | It was a terrible time for the Orcs , who suffered defeat after defeat and never found a leader of their own to equal Sigmar . |
| 11 | There was no means of tapping the slag , requiring the furnace to be broken after melting and then rebuilt ( Med . |
| 12 | Notes for this purpose are usually selective and may be discarded ( either after use or once integrated into your permanent notes ) . |
| 13 | The tritium produced is held within the aluminium and released as gas after heating and then stored in metal canisters . |
| 14 | But now that the tour will go ahead , the players will leave for Delhi three days after Christmas as originally planned . |
| 15 | What is disconcerting is that Peters , well-known for his fondness for overstatement but highly valued as the co-author of In Search Of Excellence , is describing a future where the characteristics and skills displayed by men are not only worthless but may even be harmful . |
| 16 | Most of the Pyrenean breeds , originally bred for work and naturally found also on the southern slopes with spanish breeds , are now rare . |
| 17 | He did not ask for independence and never attempted to repudiate the suzerainty of the sultan . |
| 18 | This ethos contributed to the desexualisation of lesbianism and also ignored a whole range of inequalities which erode some lesbians ' choice of lovers . |
| 19 | According to reports from the Romanian capital , the violence yesterday started when President Ceausescu sought to address a staged rally of support that rapidly turned into a huge protest . |
| 20 | She sat down opposite him at the kitchen table and fixed him with the kind of look that usually preceded a full eighteen-round contest . |
| 21 | And when the man had arrived , Luke had offered him a glass of champagne and then shown him through to the kitchen and shut the door . |
| 22 | Because import duty ( 35 per cent on ornamented goods ) and freight charges , had from the start pushed prices up in the US , Peter now decided to make a virtue of necessity and deliberately aimed for an exclusive designer image with corresponding price tag . |
| 23 | Four women then dressed and trimmed the body — i.e. shaved the face and washed the hair — prior to its being wrapped in 8¾ yards of cerecloth and then placed in the anthropoid lead case . |
| 24 | The canon of literature as currently studied has , in some respects , expanded enormously , by the introduction of contemporary literature , of American and other anglophone literatures , and of work by marginalized social groups . |
| 25 | Between £40 and £60 , plus of course that often forgotten cost in petrol to fetch it or choose it . |
| 26 | And er it took us a long time to get the special material because as you will gather , we tend to do everything properly , so we had to have the a cloth specially woven er handwoven of course and especially dyed and for once we had it especially fooled in other words the nap was raised . |
| 27 | The novice teacher will require careful guidance through the option structure of the program with clear explanations and very limited demands in terms of making choices , if he is not to be distracted from the normal demands of teaching or even put off completely . |
| 28 | He seemed to be deeply immersed in thought and was driving mechanically , his skill at the wheel a product of experience and finely honed reflexes , not of intense concentration . |
| 29 | This is usually taken as indicative of contamination as either suspended or soluble matter . |
| 30 | Can I further ask will he join me to congratulate the Chief Constable in an unprecedented move in which he actually formed links and created a an environment of partnership as recently highlighted in the Leicester Mercury . |