Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you want me to go through this for spellings ? |
| 2 | Erm the following the the last meeting of the committee , erm the matter was er raised by your Chairman and er he asked me to send to all of you er a copy of an extract from the erm Commissions Report relating to Derbyshire and a copy of a Department of the Environment press release of the twenty second of October which refers to one or two things that er David Curry had said about strategic planning and that was sent out to all members of the committee on the twenty second of November and erm n not expecting you to have brought back with you or to have remembered exactly what it said , perhaps I can just erm refer to the , the options for erm strategic planning that were outlined by Mr Curry in that press release and i the er erm er paper that he had delivered . |
| 3 | Neither council wants me to deal with this as a late objection . |
| 4 | In the meantime she has nothing to say to any of you . ’ |
| 5 | Despite its alarmingly boring title , it has nothing to say at all about the Ford Administration : it starts off in the wholly recognisable Updike Couples-land of middle-aged infidelity in New England academia , before broadening into reflections on the way sexual liberation became virtually mandatory in the hot years of the late 1970s ( the Ford years ) . |
| 6 | It has nothing to do with that at all . ’ |
| 7 | I 've already told you Lori is just someone I know , and has nothing to do with any of this , ’ she countered . |
| 8 | It could be , too , that the unusually complex character of Captain Hawkins , an illegitimate son of Peter Simple 's uncle , a man moved by obsessive jealousy , eroded by concealed cowardice and capable of the most intricate plotting against the young hero , has something to do with one of O'Brian 's most impressive studies of character , the officer Lord Clonfert who , in The Mauritius Command , more than once frustrates Aubrey 's plans and perplexes to the point of real suffering the open-minded captain with his extraordinary psychosomatic state . |
| 9 | Some traders expect it to fall to 3,100 within the next few weeks . |
| 10 | This not only allows him to indulge in more of those awkward movements , which make his first solo such a wonderful parody of classical dance , but shows him as the pathetic clown , always the butt of everyone 's laughter . |
| 11 | His work as a paid negotiator caused him to travel through most of New South Wales arbitrating in disputes , taking part in conciliations and talking , talking , talking as industries grew up in the prospering state and workers flooded in from Britain , mostly from Ireland , to claim their share of what were meagre wages . |
| 12 | Erm could we give out the , the handout cos I think I 'd like them to refer to this on the All you 've got to do is write these things down , cos you 've , cos you 've got most of this on the way through . |
| 13 | It 's got nothing to do with that at all . |
| 14 | Perhaps the title led one to hope for more of a synthesis than is possible in the space . |
| 15 | The point is adequately made if we restrict gene values to single figures , that is if we allow them to range from -9 to +9 . |
| 16 | Mind you , Sunderland , of course , could have something to say about that at Hillsborough tomorrow afternoon . |
| 17 | My hon. Friend the Minister of State will no doubt have something to say about that to European Community colleagues this weekend . |
| 18 | ‘ Did n't you have something to do with one of those Maguire girls ? |
| 19 | General Dynamics suggested that the cancellation would force it to lay off 4,000 of its 100,000 employees , while McDonnell Douglas estimated that it would make some 3,000 redundancies . |
| 20 | At her side , introducing her to people , encouraging her to elaborate on some of her ideas for the future , Luke was urbane , expressing only suave approval , and no one could have guessed at the personal contempt he felt for her , not a hint of it — or anything else personal either — allowed to show through his sophisticated public manner . |
| 21 | I would turn the tape recorder on , and ask them to count from 1 to 20 in their best accents . |
| 22 | Rather the role of the Holy Spirit is to heighten their awareness of the problem and enable them to identify with those to whom they are called to speak . |
| 23 | Oh dear , do n't tell me to go to one of those dreary little do-gooding tea groups . |
| 24 | Then he was reaching for his own glass and inviting her to sit in one of the wicker armchairs overlooking the bay while he seated himself in the chair beside her . |
| 25 | Schofield , who had threatened legal action to force Leeds to allow him to play for Manly in the close season , revealed : ‘ Manly have withdrawn their offer in view of the problems . ’ |
| 26 | What we really want to do is to get him to respond to some of our press releases and to comment from his perspective of what the press is actually looking for . |
| 27 | Algy said , sitting on a low tapestry footstool by her mother 's chair and putting her forefinger on Lady Grubb 's big garnet ring as if she were pressing a doorbell , staring up at the implacable old head and thinking of nothing but of how to get her to look at one of the two people in the room . |
| 28 | This is a general facility we might like to write in which we would allow us to work like that on any job there is n't for some reason a job , a good reason why a kick-in procedure ca n't be followed , that we deal with it by having em , in the master job file which states that , states the deliberate erm , position rather than an accident . |
| 29 | Nails was looking out of the window as if he had nothing to do with any of them . |
| 30 | I provided my own float , I had nothing to do with any of the money . |