Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pron] [noun] [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michael Irwin , a director of Hambro Clearing Ltd , says that the exercise was useful , both ‘ to identify what our costs were ’ and to establish ‘ that we were extremely cost-effective ’ in the business of clearing and settling transactions , where Hambros wants to sell its services to third parties . |
| 2 | For many reasons these new arrangements were considered unacceptable and all members were recommended to submit their objections before 31st January 1992 . |
| 3 | For many reasons these new arrangements were considered unacceptable and all members were recommended to submit their objections before 31st January 1992 . |
| 4 | With the ground sorted out , Breeze will now be looking to bolster his team for next season . |
| 5 | Steve Hammond seemed to find his voice at last , but behind his smile , Lindsey could n't help but catch a faint note of desperation . |
| 6 | Try to remember to put your jewellery on last when getting ready ; hairsprays , nail enamels and make-up could tarnish the gold and also you might catch rings on zip fasteners or earrings and necklaces on clothing . |
| 7 | Analysts were rushing to cut their forecasts for next year 's earnings per share , with Stephen Smith of PaineWebber the most bearish — and the most often right : he is going for just $1.75 a share for 1993 . |
| 8 | IBM Corp 's Distributed Relational Database Architecture , rival to the SQL Access Group 's RDA , is beginning to find its way into third party products , and Object Technology International Inc and XDB Systems Inc each announced products to provide access from their database products to IBM 's relational database managers — see page two . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , Wirral schoolchildren are being invited to book their places on next year 's exchange holidays with their counterparts in Lorient , on the coast of Brittany , and Wirral 's other twin town of Gennevilliers , near Paris . |
| 10 | Blue Ridge base … on a small patch of land owned by a member of the miners ' union , 40,000 people have called to offer their solidarity since last spring . |
| 11 | ‘ What I mean , my girl , is that you swanned in here , full of self-righteous anger because a little carpenter had deigned to clutter your space without first consulting you , and quite frankly I was sick to my back teeth with what I saw . ’ |
| 12 | I 'm just saying I 'll have I 'll have to leave me foam to next week and get some glue so er |
| 13 | His sharp question brought a flush to the face of the man who was so insistent upon helping Jenna , and she decided to get her word in first in view of Alain 's forbidding looks . |
| 14 | CEES Koppelaar last night banished speculation that he would quit the Ireland coaching job after failing to steer his squad to next year 's World Cup finals in Sydney . |
| 15 | Tish Reid , who has been in disagreement with the women 's squad chief coach , will attempt to make her point from 374th place . |
| 16 | I have n't had any calls from you , ’ Laura gasped , finally managing to find her voice at last . |
| 17 | The British superstar hopes to settle his drive for next season with team boss Frank Williams this week , and after 176 races said : ‘ I want to defend my title . |
| 18 | We had some two hours sleep that night , then proceeded to align our position before first light . |
| 19 | Lazzards New York managed to maintain their figures of last year in dollar terms and if we take the Lazzard houses as a whole we 're second only to Goldman Sachs now in the erm in the M and A table internationally and that 's on the value of bids on which we 've advised . |
| 20 | They 've started to restore my beauty at last she signed with relief . |
| 21 | But some travellers had been trying to reach their destinations since last night . |
| 22 | So if I start another tape I think I 've to put their names in first right . |
| 23 | Under the Labour plans , property owners who wished to convert their house to second home status would need to secure planning permission first from the local council . |
| 24 | In Wales , the Premier League gets under way with Whitchurch hoping to repeat their success of last season . |
| 25 | Yorkshire are determined to avenge their defeat in last season 's final at Twickenham , and are hoping Atkins ' clubmate Guy Easterby , making his county debut at scrum half , will rise to the occasion in front of a 14,000 capacity crowd . |
| 26 | Helen left her daughter with her mother while she continued to take her A-levels at sixth form college . |
| 27 | He 's a shareholder and a season ticket holder , but he 's so annoyed by recent events he 's already considering not bothering to renew his pass for next season . |
| 28 | This simple account of cattle-raiding followed by an expedition to punish the thieves explains the situation on frontiers all over the world , and of course these punitive expeditions ( which sometimes took the form of pre-emptive strikes by people who wanted to get their retaliation in first ) were carried out without consulting any central government . |