Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wanted desperately to reach out to him , but she knew that she had to wait for him to make the first move . |
| 2 | They were in a minority but were expected between them to meet the sexual needs of the men . |
| 3 | But this business of the missing ship and what lies behind it puts the whole negotiation in jeopardy . |
| 4 | He contests that petty commodity production is a separate mode of production from the capitalist one , but that it articulates with it to facilitate the expanded reproduction of the capitalist mode ( Quijano 1974 ) . |
| 5 | The Henley Faculty — in developing the Programme the Client Director will call upon members of the Henley Faculty and will ensure that those selected to work with you have the necessary blend of subject and industry expertise . |
| 6 | Given the establishment of this joint working party , it would appear both reasonable and sensible for the APB 's Going Concern Task Force to work with it to establish the necessary guidance on what disclosures should be made , and then to incorporate it . |
| 7 | I have been asked to write to you to express the grave concern of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council about the proposed sale of the piece of land adjacent to Wyresdale Crescent Scorton by Wyre Borough Council Land and Properties Sub-Committee . |
| 8 | I have been instructed by the committee and members of Harlow W I to write to you making the strongest possible protest about the increase in the W I subscription to nine pounds . |
| 9 | Preferring to carry only a light rifle , such as a .22 , and ammunition , but unburdened by other supplies , even water , they chase goats from about 7 am until noon , when they have to quit for the day Sometimes they will put down their guns and stalk a goat , leaping on it to deliver the final coup de grace with a knife . |
| 10 | The production of an interesting and informative Journal is going to depend largely on you , the Members , providing items of news , reminiscences etc and we do appeal to you to contact the joint Editors with any material suitable for inclusion in future issues . |
| 11 | We all want to hear our distinguished visitor who has come to us to make the final arrangements with those going to Eretz — and with any others who might want to go , too ; there 's still plenty of time , it 's never too late . |
| 12 | Not every reader of his book can have come to it believing the chauvinistic claims that have sometimes been issued on behalf both of psychoanalysis and of oral history , or prepared to believe that these pursuits could be successfully combined . |
| 13 | A junior spin doctor wandered down the aisle of bus and aeroplane using the language which presumably they drum into them at medical school : ‘ I will certainly convey your request to the Prime Minister for a comment on these polls , but I think you will find him taking the view that after April 9 you will all be writing about him winning the only poll that matters . ’ |
| 14 | He had n't suggested the film might not come out although she could n't have had time to develop it yet and she was n't working through a ‘ friend ’ sent round to sympathise with him deplore the whole thing and assure him it could be stopped if he 'd only tell that terrible woman one little thing … ’ — And since I 'm not married or anything I thought I 'd stick to the personal angle . |
| 15 | Newly independent nations enlisted the aid of British constitutional lawyers and sought with them to translate the special qualities of ‘ the Mother of Parliaments ’ into their local legal vernacular . |
| 16 | The modern tendency to put the airbrake lever , flap lever , trim and undercarriage all on the left side of the cockpit can easily result in you pulling the wrong lever . |
| 17 | Instead , natural selection seems to lead to us adopting the effective theory of free will . |
| 18 | What made the annual gathering even worse was we always had to listen to her recite the twenty-third psalm , standing up there on the stage in her white dress , white socks , black shoes . |
| 19 | er Well it 's very easy to er blame government for not allocating resources , er but er the pure fact is that the health authority has insufficient resources to allocate to us to meet the increasing demands of this area . |
| 20 | 193 the court held that , when exercising the power granted to them to define the detailed rules for the utilisation of their quotas , the member states could determine which vessels in their fishing fleets would be allowed to fish against their national quotas , provided that the criteria employed were compatible with Community law . |
| 21 | Nine o'clock tomorrow okay ? the things that we 've talked about you know the complete of the company worker and you 're happy with those |
| 22 | While waiting for them to reach the outer limit of their seaward tack , we fished for our enormous aviator 's chart which was larger and more colourful , if little more useful , than theirs . |
| 23 | Today the Royals can not relax for a second , can not step one foot outside their own home without being met by a barrage of photographers waiting for them to make the smallest slip . |
| 24 | These authorities seem to me to leave the developing law , if not at the crossroads , at least at the junction of two diverging roads . |
| 25 | I feel no qualms about taking sides against these contributions , nearly all of which seem to me to disregard the Criminal Law Revision Committee Report and to neglect to analyse the meaning in its context of the word ‘ appropriate . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ The world has changed , ’ Lagerfeld says , turning to me to explain the unlikely combination of a Chanel jacket and cycling shorts . |
| 27 | Look at Him , being born in obscurity , in ordinary surroundings in Bethlehem ; growing and working in Nazareth ; look at Him , hot , thirsty and tired , travelling the dusty roads of Palestine ; look at Him healing the sick , raising the dead , forgiving the sinner ; and as you look , you will see God . |
| 28 | And often we would lie together in the sun after a bathe , and kiss and caress each other , and it was a dear , familiar pleasure , associated in my mind and body with safety and mutual delight and no demands made ; his hands were wondering and tender , and his face when I opened my eyes to look at it had the extraordinary beauty it used to have when I had given him even this limited sensual happiness . |
| 29 | Together with the great reservoirs that lie around it typifies the enormous impact of Victorian and later public works on the English landscape . |
| 30 | In the previous chapter we saw how anthropology was sometimes used by them to show the historical particularity of institutions which under capitalism were represented as eternal . |