Example sentences of "[pron] [to-vb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a compensation scheme and the laibon wishes me to drive one of his sons fifty miles to a small town to collect the papers . |
| 2 | Far better to catch the parent in the playground or corridor and ask them to spare five minutes when it 's convenient just to pop in to have a quiet little chat . |
| 3 | Do n't go into the , this morning when she was doing activity she said ah , she said I I 've got them to spot ten similarities , ten differences , great ! |
| 4 | Perhaps you might even allow me to borrow one of your people as a guide around the city . |
| 5 | And they used to send orders is n't it It was nothing to see fifty items on an order . |
| 6 | This ingenious arrangement has two advantages : it scents the house with an acrid , invigorating smell of frying cloth recalling a tailor shop in the Bronx , and it permits me to tend two kerosene burners , a Franklin stove , and a fireplace . |
| 7 | Why I 've been , it will be ten months that 's all Rita , ten month it took me to lose six stone , you do n't want to lose that much do you ? |
| 8 | Re-reading the Editorial Edict I see I am allowed , if necessary , to stretch my budget to ( say ) £275 , which would enable me to acquire two or three nice pieces . |
| 9 | His financial controller Roger Richardson came up with a system of false accounting , which enabled them to borrow millions of pounds over a three year period and keep the company going . |
| 10 | You can also use them to compare two similar groups or to follow one group through a period of time and observe any change in attitude . |
| 11 | Somebody took me to see one of their pubs in Liverpool it was wonderful ! |
| 12 | The flat roof of our own house was high enough for me to see two summer screens for free . |
| 13 | Phalangist officers of the time insist that he told them to kill 40 Muslims in reprisal . |
| 14 | Marie told me she 'd teach me to swim one day . |
| 15 | He liked them to try one or two of the classics of Christian writing . |
| 16 | As the three hovering green shapes formed a motionless line for me to pass I ‘ red lined ’ the rev counter and left the area as quickly as possible . |
| 17 | I am more concerned about employers who employ only a few people and whose main criterion is the flexibility of being able to take on staff , to change their hours from time to time and , on occasions , to get them to work 60 or 70 hours a week when they are busy . |
| 18 | Thus , for example , persuading someone from position 1 and expecting to convert them to position 5 is unrealistic . |
| 19 | Well you either left the line for me to try two or three mixes for custom purposes . |
| 20 | When Gibson and I left the office , Guy turned on me and bluntly told me the fate that would overtake me were I to steal one of his crews . |
| 21 | We shall here confine ourselves to level II since responding seems the only important category which can be assessed reasonably reliably by detached observation in real-time the other categories all involve ‘ invisible ’ mental processes which can only be probed by substantial intervention through pupil interviews or testing . |
| 22 | 30th November 1980 is the closing date for nominating someone to fill one of the four vacancies on the Executive Committee . |
| 23 | It needed someone to score 150 , and Alec Stewart , who again batted exceptionally well for 74 , Hick ( 64 ) and Neil Fairbrother ( 83 ) all had that chance . |
| 24 | Am I to have two bedfellows again these warm nights ? |
| 25 | The requirement that a candidate must get the support of 20 per cent of the Parliamentary Labour Party in order to stand is like asking someone to collect 13,000 nominations in a constituency before they can stand for parliament . |
| 26 | Campion et al suggested that human papillomavirus infections progress rapidly from grade I to grade III of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia , but their study was methodologically flawed in that grade I lesions were diagnosed by colposcopy while grade III lesions were later diagnosed by histology . |
| 27 | But now M Philippe Maystadt , Belgian Finance Minister , has abolished the system which allowed them to set 100 per cent of the bill against tax as a business expense , she said . |
| 28 | ‘ These big international companies recognise borders only when they want to use them to set one workforce against another , ’ says one . |
| 29 | Their approach led them to choose 17 specific and common situations as the basis of a questionnaire . |
| 30 | Perhaps if you perhaps if you hang on a minute , erm well Jacqueline want wants me to answer one question for her . |