Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said she did not want any birthday presents unless they could be enjoyed by everyone , so her friends spent £500 on young trees and got permission to plant them around the town . |
| 2 | They want management to trust them at a distance . |
| 3 | However , he is aware that he can seek to find time to raise it in the House . |
| 4 | Thus the education of a king 's son was supposed to include learning to sleep in a hard or badly made bed to prepare him for the rigours of a life of non-stop , and sometimes unexpected , movement . |
| 5 | When he and Johnson got back to their inn , Boswell ‘ begged permission to leave him for a little while , that I might run about and pay some short visits to several good people of Inverness ’ . |
| 6 | We know this because Anthony explicitly excludes information about attainment of the organization 's objectives ; he believes that not enough is known about measuring effectiveness to include it as a user need . |
| 7 | I stress that I understand that the regulations will be general and that highway authorities will be given discretion to interpret them in the most appropriate way . |
| 8 | Certainly , salmon seem to use smell to guide them on the last stage of their journey . |
| 9 | Mummy tell daddy to put me in the hall . |
| 10 | It was a special gift from a famous actor in California who had tried to persuade Sweetheart to join him on a luxury tour of Europe . |
| 11 | I mean just read round for fun yo and see if there 's anything that sticks and if you get chance to use it in an exam , do Okay , then it says develop a stock of gems . |
| 12 | She generates interesting theories , offers stimulating possibilities , makes her pitch for a long exploration , and all but does the dance of the seven veils to persuade Rainbow to join her on a journey of self-discovery . |
| 13 | The world champion may not be worried about the £500 fine handed out for throwing the last game of his bizarre straight-games loss to Jahangir Khan in the final of last month 's Stuttgart Open , but he should be more concerned at the zero computer points assigned him for the Stuttgart tournament , which may enable Jahangir to overtake him in the New Year rankings , plus the fact that any further misdemeanour will probably mean draconian punishment . |
| 14 | ‘ It obviously takes food to keep you in a good mood , Dr Vaughan . ’ |
| 15 | Main thing , get dad to take you to the library tomorrow cos your book 's past its date . |
| 16 | I knew that they 'd still written me a , a second letter , like asking permission to send it through the erm what do you call it ? |
| 17 | In the early part of 1992 you will learn of some exciting developments that will take place to help us through the year and indeed the future . |
| 18 | And if Unix is destined to dominate mainstream data processing , does n't it make sense to run it at the desktop as well — why have two different — and ultimately competing — operating system worlds when the expressed ideal is to have everything working seamlessly together from desktop to the multiprocessor servers that threaten to supplant the monolithic mainframe ? |
| 19 | And when William came back from Germany and a decision had to be made about his education , he argued that it made sense to send him to the state school , the same as Preston . |
| 20 | The deal caused sufficient outcry to force Greiner to refer it to the anti-corruption Commission . |
| 21 | ‘ In this case I 'm surprised that Stella has n't had the sense to allow Bill to take her to a doctor in Hastings right away . ’ |
| 22 | To further complicate matters , it 's sometimes necessary to move blocks to a safe place first , but again taking care to get them in the correct sequence for later use . |
| 23 | I took all these points on board , and indeed took care to explain them to the volunteers before we began work . |
| 24 | Conservationists and locals fear for the future of the island and a trust has been set up to raise money to buy it for the nation . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , I 'll get Mum to send them to the Tower then , how about that ? |
| 26 | If , spontaneously , a system passes from state A to state B , it will require energy to drive it in the opposite direction . |
| 27 | And then , after I 'd gone round to Tesco 's I went to see to collect grandma to take her to the train . |
| 28 | During their hearings , the prosecution had made no reference of any kind to suggest that the authorities had information to connect them with the murders or the alleged meeting to plan it . |
| 29 | ONE of Prince Charles 's closest friends is to undergo surgery to save her from a crippling disease . |
| 30 | He designed and built it specially for his wife because she 'd always wanted to live by the river , but she only had time to enjoy it for a few months before she died . |