Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been given permission to swim in the pool when the family 's not using it . |
| 2 | The attendant said there was a gentleman already undressing in No. 1 Frederica received no answer to her question about numéro sept , but was given permission to stand in the corridor of the train , which was already sliding away from its platform . |
| 3 | Because of the distance of my journey I had been given permission to come during the morning , and there were no other visitors . |
| 4 | Crosby has been given permission to speak to the player by his French club Metz , who want about £175,000 for the unsettled Serb . |
| 5 | Reports from the country last night said that Shachar has spoken to Souness , and had been given permission to speak to the player . |
| 6 | Declarer obviously did n't appreciate the imminent danger of the club suit and ducked in dummy allowing West to win with the king . |
| 7 | The evil spirits asked permission to go into the pigs that were nearby . |
| 8 | Initially everyone welcomes the idea , but very quickly the organization outgrows the house and goes to the local authority demanding permission to build in the grounds . |
| 9 | Hundreds of parents and teachers have lobbied Parliament to protest about the government 's plan to cut help for pupils whose first language is n't English . |
| 10 | Several times I was given money to go to the chemist 's for bitter aloes or penny royal or a bottle of gin from the outdoor . |
| 11 | Later it was discovered that the council had written to the club months earlier demanding action to deal with the hazard . |
| 12 | If I had any guts I 'd walk out of the front door now , this minute , and I 'd hitch my way to Italy and rent a shack in Tuscany , and I 'd paint trash to sell to the tourists in the Piazza della Signoria , and I 'd paint … |
| 13 | You had to go sit scholarship to go to the county school we call they called it . |
| 14 | Following DPP v Ray , above , a person who goes into a restaurant and orders a meal implies that he has money to pay for the meal . |
| 15 | The last person she needed was fitzAlan , but an attendant of humble rank would n't matter , if it helped her to obtain permission to go into the town . |
| 16 | It took the Croatian archaeologists almost a year to obtain permission to get into the Barbariga military base . |
| 17 | When Joseph Parker urged a radical reorganization of the Congregational Union to create a ‘ Congregational Church ’ he asked pointedly , ‘ What right has Congregationalism to stand outside the law of evolution ? ’ |
| 18 | A good example is intensive work on physical development and mobility and orientation , so essential to increase healthy self-regarding attitudes , to increase capability to cope with the environment and to evoke positive attitudes . |
| 19 | Section 5(4) deems ownership to remain with the victim . |
| 20 | Further , as we show below , the general theory needs modification to allow for the ability of some firms to escape from the average of national industry economics by internationalising their systems of management . |
| 21 | The words of this blessing would most probably be : ‘ Praise to you Lord , King of the universe who causes bread to come from the earth . ’ |
| 22 | A cropped picture should have more impact than an uncropped one but beware of over-cropping , the eye needs room to move round the image if it is to absorb the information . |
| 23 | The cook needs room to get at the cooker , sink and cupboards without hindrance and to move around the kitchen comfortably . |
| 24 | Going from there to , and that 's a sort of history of where things have happened over the previous four mon four months , to expectations about output this is the first survey since the recession began in which all regions , mainland regions of the U K say that they expect output to increase over the coming four months . |
| 25 | He wants OSF to move to the position most companies adopt when bringing new products to market : at the same moment they back their latest technology releases with endorsements and supportive product announcements from across the industry . |
| 26 | The Initiative wants OSF to contribute to the Unix specification for ACE , and sees itself as a possible vehicle for knitting the discordant elements of the establishment together . |
| 27 | For centuries trees were cut at an early stage to encourage timber to grow from the stumps : ash , field maple , hazel , hornbeam . |
| 28 | ( iii ) No other body has authority to rule on the validity of its enactments . |
| 29 | The statement of Dicey above also suggests that no person or body has authority to rule on the validity of Parliament 's enactments . |
| 30 | The teachers ' authority extends to the enforcement of school rules ( which a head teacher has authority to make under the articles of government of school and which may , unless they are unlawful — for example because of sex or race discrimination — be regarded as the ‘ law of the land ’ so far as pupils and parents are concerned ) . |