Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To do that , on May 18th the prime minister , Leonid Kuchma , asked parliament to grant him a range of extraordinary powers : to rule the economy by decree , control the central bank and the state privatisation body and have jurisdiction over the president 's satraps in the regions . |
| 2 | I asked Toby to do me a favour and tell the Fleet Street ‘ dirty mac brigade ’ , who covered crime and other seedy activities , that I had given him an exclusive . |
| 3 | 8.1 Finding the right expert You may need experts to give you an expert opinion in a number of areas : ( a ) accident reconstruction ( road accident or factory accident ) ; ( b ) more specialist engineering evidence ( metallurgists , road construction etc. ) ; ( c ) experts regarding particular equipment ( cranes , boats ) ; ( d ) experts re particular substances ( glues , fixing devices , gases ) ; ( e ) employment consultants regarding your client 's position on the open labour market should they have lost or are likely to lose their employment ; ( f ) medical evidence ; ( g ) nursing and rehabilitation specialists in serious cases ; ( h ) ancillary services in severe cases ( gardening , home help , home improvements ) ; ( i ) accountants ( in complicated future loss/special damage cases ) . |
| 4 | Mum followed them and I too decided to find Frankie to tell him the news after I had cleared away the crocks . |
| 5 | This neatly matches the region 's external debt and , says David Forrest — underwriting director of the London-based political risk insurer EIGA — ‘ we have to encourage investors to give it the ability to earn the foreign exchange to repay that debt . ’ |
| 6 | I just want people to give me a chance to help others . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Has Pyke offered you a part ? ’ he said at last . |
| 8 | Tie in climbing roses to give them the support they need to thrive |
| 9 | For this review I asked the PR firm promoting FAXgrabber to send me a fax so I could demonstrate the program in operation . |
| 10 | The Payment of Wages Act allows employers to make it a condition of employment that new employees should be paid through a bank , but prohibits them from doing this with existing employees ( though of course individual existing employees can agree voluntarily to accept bank-account payment ) . |
| 11 | Mr Morris welcomed the principle of the Farm Assured Scotch Livestock initiative but added : ‘ The scheme guarantees consumers that stock have been produced according to welfare friendly standards but we would welcome steps to take it a stage further , particularly to embrace quality . |
| 12 | Let mummy give you a drop more spray . |
| 13 | ‘ I told Bagshot to give him a chit on my behalf and take his address . |
| 14 | I challenge Councillor to bring me the evidence saying otherwise . |
| 15 | I challenge Councillor to bring me the evidence saying otherwise . |
| 16 | Brynulf Ottar told him the organization , known as XU , involved a secret network based in Oslo , a courier line to Stockholm , and Swedes , Germans and Norwegians in Germany to provide the information from source . |
| 17 | Sell Gill saves you the trouble . |
| 18 | If the Prime Minister really wants to help the British people , he should use Maastricht to give us a system which will promote balanced regional economic development throughout the United Kingdom , attack some of the social ills and divisions which beset British society at present and , finally , enhance not detract from the quality of British democracy . |
| 19 | And I did not like to hear Rupert call me a play-actor . |
| 20 | That night , North telephoned Poindexter to tell him the memo had been found . |
| 21 | We do like people to give us a commitment on the spot on on all of those three counts . |
| 22 | She said : ‘ I suppose selling newspapers gave me the smell for print . |
| 23 | It is understood that the Birmingham-based van operation and Leyland lorry assembly plant in Lancashire have only enough brake and clutch assemblies to last them a matter of days . |
| 24 | Will yi buy me a drink , Jew-boy ? ’ |
| 25 | But I always remember Ruth make it a desk , you see it only came and in she was sitting out there and this desk , all the pieces and parts were going everywhere . |
| 26 | He killed Lily to save her the pain of taking her own life , he had told police . |
| 27 | There were few pedestrians about and the dimly lit pavement afforded him the cover he needed . |
| 28 | A kind , serene girl called June told her the reason . |
| 29 | In fact later on during the flight , when I 'd unravelled myself from this guy and was playing poker with some French people , I asked God to give me the sign then , in the hand I was about to get . |
| 30 | It is clear that the Central Wales Line still has much to offer , even with modern traction , much as we would all like to see BR allowing us the pleasure of an occasional steam run . |