Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] [art] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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1 | Another time , I had arranged to meet him in the Naafi , a popular meeting place on the camp , at 5pm . |
2 | They held him in a detention camp for three months , the Germans , and then the officers had come to see him from the SS . |
3 | He rose to conduct me round the TOM complex . |
4 | ERIC Butler , a charity worker , fought back with his swordstick when a mugger tried to strangle him on the London Underground in 1987 . |
5 | They are lovely to visit — especially when you want to feast yourself on a Dorset cream tea — but it is the rolling countryside and stunning coastline which attract the many lovers of the outdoors . |
6 | I promised to remember her to the Harvey-Beaumonts ‘ over the water ’ , and we set off once more , along a road that ran beside a demesne wall . |
7 | But for UK and Irish holidaymakers who want to combine it with a Florida vacation , it is also an attractive deal . |
8 | He insinuated his right hand under her arm and tried to ease her towards the Bayswater Road . |
9 | Jimmy Richards , 31 , suffocated after the weights landed on his face and neck when he tried to lift them at a Bradford health club . |
10 | If you If you paid it The Co was up on the Tuesday , you had to have it paid Most people tried to pay it for the Thursday and that was the turn of the leaf , on the Thursday and if you paid that then you could go straight away that day and get your new quarter stuff , for the next quarter . |
11 | Dougal had arranged to hire it for the Sunday and the Monday , just to be on the safe side . |
12 | I am writing to thank you for the Morrissey article . |
13 | He had been carried along by his wife 's extraordinary power of making decisions , from the time when she had walked into the offices of Glebe and Pargeter , when his old father was alive , and told him that her great-aunt had left her some money and she had decided to invest it in a London house . |
14 | ‘ His agent came to see us at the St Louis Lollapalooza show , and we talked about the possibility of doing something together . |
15 | Well we wish you luck obviously Simon in all your efforts this year , we hope to see you at the Oxford Stadium at some stage , and hope it goes well for you . |
16 | They were written to proclaim him as the Christ , the anointed of God , the revealer of the Father , and to elicit the appropriate response of faith and trust in him . |
17 | The EC Monitor Mission ( ECMM ) had decided to base itself in the RSK town of Knin , having withdrawn from Sarajevo in May . |
18 | By Christmas 1985 the DoE publicly sought to distance itself from the CEGB video , acknowledging that ‘ the film attempts to minimise the British contribution to acid deposition in Norway when it is much the largest . ’ |
19 | After her marriage attempts were made to unseat her from the London School Board because of the alleged illegality of her name . |
20 | Initially the Australians showed that they were unprepared to be manipulated by quietly but firmly refusing to commit themselves to the ANC 's extra-curricular initiatives for a Boipatong visit and the wearing of black armbands during matches . |
21 | ‘ They are attempting to drive us from the Highlands , but they can not . |
22 | I would like to see them for the Shankill . |
23 | ‘ You said you 'd like to see something of the Cotswold Way . |
24 | Where would you most like to find yourself on a Sunday morning ? |
25 | IBM Corp was scheduled to make an ‘ operational announcement ’ on its Adstar storage business in San Jose just after we closed on Friday , but we have to assume that it was not anything sufficiently dramatic that it would move the share price , otherwise the company would have had to announce it on the New York Stock Exchange before the market opened to prevent a false market operating in the shares ; the announcement was to be made by vice-chairman Jack Kuehler , and was also to include some personnel news ; IBM has been studying ways to separate Adstar from the rest of the company , Dow Jones & Co notes , and earlier this year , it hired Morgan Stanley & Co and the Boston Consulting Group to recommend ways to speed up the process , which could involve outside investors or a new class of IBM share — and those advisors were scheduled to be done with the preliminary work by now ; a first step would likely be the creation of Adstar as a wholly-owned subsidiary — it has kept separate books since last year ; but the IBM spokesman said some observers might be surprised by the announcement , which was to be concerned with Adstar 's ‘ operations as an IBM business unit and its future direction . ’ |
26 | LOYALIST URBAN VIGILANTEES BEGIN TO FORM THEMSELVES INTO THE ULSTER DEFENCE ASSOCIATION . |
27 | Sharon writes , ‘ I would like to contact anyone in the Salisbury area who has recently had a home birth since I am contemplating one myself and would like to hear how it went , authorities/doctors ' attitudes etc . |
28 | There is talk of a film of The Factory Whistle , with Alan Bates , and they are going to read it on the BBC too . |
29 | I used to bring them home and then , well father and me used to slaughter them on the Monday , you see and perhaps a bullock on the Monday and every Wedn every Monday morning the men from the farm , cos he had a farm , you see , used to bring perhaps twenty bullocks up through the street and he used to pick one out to kill , every Monday . |
30 | ‘ I — er — forgot to ask you about the Palmer & Pearson — ’ It was as far as she got . |