Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked the doctor who was seeing me in the hospital antenatal clinic whether or not I should stop taking the drug and he said it was OK and that I should just carry on . |
| 2 | I asked the doctor who was seeing me in the hospital antenatal clinic whether or not I should stop taking the drug and he said it was OK and that I should just carry on . |
| 3 | A presidential decree published on May 8 transferred all military formations and property of joint CIS armed forces on Kazakh territory to the jurisdiction of Kazakhstan , incorporating them into the Kazakh armed forces . |
| 4 | He was still trying to find them among the milling blackened faces , when a sudden shout drew everyone 's attention to a flicker of torch light weaving through the trees towards the highway . |
| 5 | Your local Age Concern group may be able to inform you of the help available in the area to assist you with your fuel or heating problem . |
| 6 | He was originally held in Safi Prison , where he developed diabetes in 1988 , but was then transferred to Marrakech where his family lives , and so could visit him regularly and provide him with the food necessary for his diabetic diet . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , the Australian is still likely to preside over the punishment of the opponent who beat him in the World Open final . |
| 8 | He might even have been planning to meet her at the restaurant direct … |
| 9 | Write a birthday greeting on the form below , complete the other details and send it to the Herald Junior Club , 114–115 West Street , Farnham , Surrey GU9 7HL no later than 12 noon on a Monday for publication the following Friday . |
| 10 | He blacked out a couple of his front teeth with stage cosmetics and made his breath smell with chemical — oldest trick in the business to prevent people looking you in the face close to . |
| 11 | Where written pupil work is produced , it obviously contains a great deal of information ; something can be learnt about the general stage of understanding of the class by looking through such work after the lesson , while more is revealed if it is possible to discuss it with the pupil concerned . |
| 12 | No matter how wide the terms of the clause , the courts will limit it and modify it to the extent necessary to enable effect to be given to the main object and intent of the contract . |
| 13 | So I says What we can do is I 'll do an hour for you , we 'll move the piano and other bits , bicycles in this case that he had , we 'll shift them to the house close by , drop two men off , and one man 'll come and do the remainder of the work . |
| 14 | Duncan landed it on the port main wheel with the wing dipped into the strong cross-current . |
| 15 | in the end , Graham decided to donate the tank , equipment and fish and maintain it for the hospital free of charge . |
| 16 | Since the egg can not enter the oviduct , the treatment consists of removing it from the ovary prior to ovulation , fertilizing it in the laboratory , and placing the proembryo into the uterus where it has a chance to implant . |
| 17 | It was going to be a long night , as I also had to finish an already over-due essay on Swedish expansion in the seventeenth century ( it would have to be a goodish one , too ; an earlier remark — made in an unguarded moment during a methodically boring tutorial — ascribing Swedish territorial gains in the Baltic to the invention of the Smorgasbord with its take-what-you-want ethic , had not endeared me to the professor concerned ; nor had my subsequent discourse on the innate frivolity of the Swedes , despite what I thought was the irrefutable argument that no nation capable of giving a Peace Prize to Henry Kissinger could possibly be accused of lacking a sense of humour . |
| 18 | So when he called you for the Comeback Special , was that something you did happily ? |
| 19 | This is very contrary to our traditional view of trying to segment and fragment the information and trying to keep it at the business specific level or trying to keep it at the corporate level . |
| 20 | Plant in late spring , and clip in mid-spring if required to be grown formally as edging , or to keep it within the space available . |
| 21 | He declined to make a decision on whether persons responsible for the shooting should be prosecuted and forwarded it to the Attorney General for the United Kingdom . |
| 22 | Presumably it was both practical and political reasons that led him to the subject working party strategy . |
| 23 | By the time I was fourteen I could n't wait to get away from that place and my mother took me to the hiring fair in the marketplace in Bishop Auckland . |
| 24 | She took me into the first-floor front room , where my father had already been laid out in his coffin . |
| 25 | In the last year of his life Carleton 's connections with the tightly knit Puritan gentry of the midlands involved him in the Puritan literary conspiracy of the Marprelate tracts . |
| 26 | The owners of the 124 foot Silver Cloud are tonight towing her off the bank ready to tackle the famous Symonds Yatt Rapids on Friday . |
| 27 | I ended up chasing her around the house fucking photo . |
| 28 | We saw it on the night Sabine … ’ |
| 29 | In Europe , blue tits collect it from the crown imperial fritillary , the only European plant known to be pollinated by a bird . |
| 30 | Ken kept his sheet music in the one he had constructed in the small back bedroom , so fear of splashing kept it on the whole unused . |