Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] [to-vb] 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 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | These authorities seem to me to leave the developing law , if not at the crossroads , at least at the junction of two diverging roads . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ The world has changed , ’ Lagerfeld says , turning to me to explain the unlikely combination of a Chanel jacket and cycling shorts . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The command TIME displays the current time on the screen and waits for you to enter the new time . |
| 19 | If the first furrow was straight , example and actual guidance helped to persuade the ploughman who followed after him to draw the other furrows in the stetch in like manner : if the first furrow was bent nothing could prevent the others from being less than perfect also . |
| 20 | ‘ 'Morning , ’ he said cheerfully , as she walked towards him to take the proffered bottle . |
| 21 | You wo n't get a good one in England unless you bring it back yourself They 're kept too cold , or they have chemicals injected into them to delay the ripening , or something . |
| 22 | She lay still as he stroked her like a cat , and the love juice began to ooze from her to dampen the whole area of her crotch . |
| 23 | The meeting blamed the ANC for the violence in Natal , calling on it to abandon the so-called " armed struggle " ; furthermore , it urged the ANC deputy president , Nelson Mandela " to accept [ Buthelezi 's ] repeated invitation to sit down with him and to talk peace " . |
| 24 | I have told my childhood story because it seems to me to parallel the general evolution of a progressive , child-centred approach to learning . |
| 25 | The golden thread approach , coupled with considerations such as that post-Darwin certain past arguments no longer hold water , together with an element of an a priori ethical stance , seems to me to provide the best concerted argument for the ordination of women . |
| 26 | But it seems to me to have the twofold advantages of first specifying with precision what it is that the parties have agreed , thus avoiding the possibility of misunderstanding or mistake , and , secondly , it enables the justices to define with greater precision points at which they may tentatively determine to depart from the agreed package . |
| 27 | Greenwich was set up as a new meridian which would suit the astronomers ' convenience , and the government relied on them to make the new meridian into a suitable base-line for calculating the longitude . |
| 28 | On the Marley system , the ends of gutters have a notch cut into them to fit the retaining clips at joints . |
| 29 | The news that something was amiss quickly spread to the rest of the group , who gathered round him to hear the latest developments . |
| 30 | If Bloom is every kind of Dubliner it is because it falls to him to transact the unfinished business , to enact it and to get beyond it without dazzling gifts . |