Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I expect England to revert to the front row that has done so well for so long , which means I must play out of my skin against Moore for the chance to face the guy again next week . |
| 2 | Erm , I think Yeltsin 's threat as it were to the Ukrainian is actually a diplomatic move , he wants Ukraine to remain within the Soviet Union , er and if it does so he 's not going to make an issue of the border , but , er , if it does break away completely I think what he 's saying is well there 's a frontier that we 're going to have to reconsider because large Eastern areas of Ukraine including huge industrial towns are predominantly populated by Russians . |
| 3 | It was already Acheson 's custom to meet Franks to engage in a weekly " tour d'horizon " of world affairs . |
| 4 | Thus provisioned , he invited Louise to come to the banqueting hall to celebrate her birthday , though in a very quiet way , he assured her ; he had not forgotten that she must still be suffering on account of her father , who had only recently taken his last dive down the well in the Residency yard in the wake of so many of his former patients . |
| 5 | She stood back , allowing Loretta to step into a wide hall . |
| 6 | By the 1290s the priory 's financial base was secure enough to enable Eastry to invest in the local land market and , after the expulsion of the Jews , to acquire the former Jewish tenements in the city of Canterbury . |
| 7 | He was a member of a working party which caused ICI to switch to a new approach under which each division took direct control of its own sales . |
| 8 | The snag is that a clause in the civil settlement allows Exxon to withdraw from the entire agreement if part of the plea bargain is rejected by the courts . |
| 9 | In fact , Joshua 's retirement to the safety of his estate had freed Dowd to wander until the old man 's demise , when he was drawn back to offer his services to Joshua 's son Nathaniel , only revealing his true nature once he 'd made himself indispensable , for fear he was trapped between his bounden duty and the zeal of a Christian . |
| 10 | This allows Piaget to argue for a direct congruence between the structures of the mind and those of the environment . |
| 11 | The Dow Jones opened thirty points lower in reaction to rising oil prices which called London , caused London to move below the two thousand level . |
| 12 | Jennie then asked Katharine to come across the half diagonal in a nice , steady canter , and to imagine ‘ picking him up and putting him down again on the other leg . ’ |
| 13 | Whether the view of science led Peirce to look for a prior epistemology , or whether the desire for , or availability of , a prior epistemology led him to think of inquiry as he did , are questions I shall not pursue here . |
| 14 | He encouraged Right-Ons to pile into the dilapidated inner-city party machines and replace the ageing right-wing old guard . |
| 15 | They would have preferred England to lose in a genuine climax than to win by such underhand means . |
| 16 | The policeman should have known better than to expect Duncan to fall for a cheap trick like that . |
| 17 | It is believed to be Miss Glover who first encouraged Christabel to embark on the grandiose and obscure epic poem , The Fairy Melusina , a retelling of the old tale of the magical half-woman , half-snake . |
| 18 | A no vote by the Danes in their referendum , due in May or April , would condemn Britain to remain in the slow lane of a two-speed Europe . |
| 19 | Perhaps it was this legal background which encouraged Howard to enter into a formal agreement with Henrietta which laid down that ‘ to prevent altercations about those little matters which he had observed to be the chief grounds of uneasiness in families — he should always decide ’ . |
| 20 | Yes we have obviously got problems throughout the team , and I think it was too much to expect Leeds to put in a real championship challenge . |
| 21 | The cheese presses went into use for the first time in twenty years , Jem attended Bodmin market with butter and lard and eggs to sell once a fortnight , and , with George Langley 's help , a little light trap came , of varnished wood , which Murphy , now beaten out of surprise and disapproval , taught Alexandra to drive with a helpful bay mare between the shafts . |
| 22 | He had this meeting on Wake Island that I described to you when they would n't get out of the planes , all attempts to persuade MacArthur to behave in a reasonable fashion . |
| 23 | Impact ‘ The long-ball game is no good to me and it wo n't enable England to succeed in the 1994 World Cup in America . ’ |
| 24 | Attempts to resolve differences met with little success when Latin American regional heads of state gathered in San Jose , Costa Rica , in October and sought to persuade Brazil to agree to a new price-support scheme based on a reduction of its 30 per cent quota allocation in return for a similar agreement by Colombia to cut exports . |
| 25 | Eire is planning to use its forthcoming Presidency of the European Commission to press Britain to embark on a major upgrading of road and rail links between North Wales and the Channel Tunnel , and the Shadow Irish Transport Minister Gay Mitchell has gone as far as proposing an Irish Sea Tunnel to be constructed using Channel Tunnel equipment and an allegedly largely Irish Channel Tunnel workforce . |
| 26 | Indeed , the Soviet press supported a query by the Indian Foreign Minister , N. Rao , in May 1981 about whether to permit Pakistan to remain in the Non-Aligned Movement with the assertion that ‘ Islamabad 's policy of all possible military rapprochement with Washington and the huge shipments of American arms that have been promised can not help but raise legitimate doubts among many member countries of the Non-Aligned Movement as to whether Pakistan is legally entitled to remain in their ranks ’ . |
| 27 | Erm , if we are asking Mr to look at the long-term viability and the ways of preserving that , those options may be other than option one which was what you moved , and I think it 's rather premature to actually go down a road that says we preserve it in it 's present form with some disposals , when , we are asking for a report for it 's future viability , which may mean complete disposal , or may not , and I think , that , that 's why I 've seconded Mr 's amendment , because it 's right we should wait for that that report to come to property , know the full facts , and then we can make a decision as to which option we want for the County Farms estate . |
| 28 | I rang Transend to ask about a registered copy , but they informed me that they did n't register that game , but that I should just write out cheque for the amount a cross out the £ and pout $ . |
| 29 | The final plan , as it is adapted and developed by Lorestan , has less of a boy 's melodrama in it but it is the Rat 's plan , and it is the Rat who advises Marco to pose as a poor , insignificant boy so that the two of them can reach Samavia without attracting attention . |
| 30 | These change slightly with the music as the plot unfolds and allow Giselle to develop from a simple peasant dancer in love with Albrecht to a tragically distraught maiden and finally to the ethereal Will . |