Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pron] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my judgment , this draft having been sent to the plaintiffs by Sir Richard Temple , and retained and cashed by them , we ought to draw the conclusion that the plaintiff , who kept and cashed the draft , agreed to accept it on the terms upon which it was sent … . |
| 2 | Promises quite often concern the actions of others : to consent to be governed by another is to promise to obey him ; to consent to his joining the expedition is to promise to provide him with the facilities and the help made available to members of the expedition . |
| 3 | The orthopaedic secretaries at that hospital should be telephoned to see which of the consultants is happy to do medico-legal reports and how quickly they can see patients . |
| 4 | ‘ You 're gon na gang bang them in the drive-ins , Harry . |
| 5 | ‘ I want to thank you for the roses , ’ she said . |
| 6 | The woodmen never broke up those temporary dwellings which they built to see them through the weekdays of the felling season . |
| 7 | The UNO coalition has distanced itself from the contras , as has the US Administration by ending military aid . |
| 8 | She says we do n't want to destroy children 's innocence on the other hand we want to alert them to the dangers . |
| 9 | We have come to see it through the eyes of the people who take part in it . |
| 10 | Mellowes has assigned me to the duties of the administrative assistants , then to those of the statistical clerks . |
| 11 | The film sped up as Cameron ran out of the building , still in his tailcoat , and tried to lose himself in the streets around the Barbican . |
| 12 | It could also be that for some of you 1988 has also seen some trouble , a bereavement perhaps , that has shaken you to the foundations . |
| 13 | The first argument to scotch is that Britain has committed itself over the years to accepting the single currency and the central bank . |
| 14 | In 1867 Bagehot may have been able to write that ‘ a republic has insinuated itself beneath the folds of a Monarchy ’ ( 1965/1867 : 94 ) . |
| 15 | A dozen policemen rushed into the room and tried to herd everyone into the corners . |
| 16 | The group needs to know which of the proposals we are prepared to compromise on and which we want to fight . |
| 17 | 5.2 Rule 15(a) — Information as to who has conduct of the case The client needs to know who within the solicitors ' office will be dealing with the claim and , if more than one person , who those people are . |
| 18 | I tried to guess which of the women were the Russian wives of men stationed here and which were Latvian girls . |
| 19 | SUN man Paul Welford has reported him to the police , and Flashman said : ‘ If people want to do that , then fair enough . |
| 20 | But coming from a theatrical background has prepared her for the highs and lows of an actor 's life . |
| 21 | Elsewhere , Frank Kermode has applied it to the fictions of Evelyn Waugh and Muriel Spark ( ‘ no matter what the characters say they all speak in some version of her voice ’ ) , while linking it with Bakhtin 's distinction , well-known now both in Russia and in the West , between the ‘ monologic ’ and the ‘ dialogic ’ imagination . |
| 22 | A stone age management opportunity has revealed itself to the Directors of AIB Bank plc in Britain . |
| 23 | John Major has made one for citizens , British Rail has done it for their passengers , the banks have formulated one for their customers and now the JS distribution division has done it for the branches . |
| 24 | A woman who 's devoted more than twenty years to caring for her disabled daughter has made it to the finals of the ITN Carer of the Year Awards . |
| 25 | Kessler , known for his ingeniously mechanised and electrified constructions , this month ups the ante with a piece called ‘ Music Box ’ which has got something for the ears as well as for the eyes . |
| 26 | He has armed himself with the munitions of modernity , not only with ‘ conventional arms ’ , but also with an arsenal of nuclear , biological and chemical weapons . |
| 27 | Ken tried to rid himself of the guests , so that he could get away to the theatre , by telling Pat to call him to an imaginary telephone call . |
| 28 | Adeva needs to extricate herself from the hands of Smack Productions , hardly the dynamic force in garage music they once looked like they 'd become , in order to capitalise on what is still a growing surge of goodwill in America . |
| 29 | Over the last hundred years the proletariat has schooled itself in the pretensions of the bourgeoisie ; while the bourgeoisie , less confident of its ascendancy , has become more sly and deceitful . |
| 30 | The third area I need to take you through is some erm typographical amendments to the resolutions that you have in front of you , so if you just bear with me I proposed to go through those and perhaps if you want to mark them on the sheets as I go through and if I 'm going too fast erm just wave . |