Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The writer has to give it these things to make it real for the reader . |
| 2 | He was older , seventy , and his legs began to give him such pain . |
| 3 | We really ought to have noted the various quantities remaining , when Dr Burney offered to tell us this morning . |
| 4 | In fact , the priority of base layers , as most manufacturers prefer to call them these days , is to keep you dry rather than warm . |
| 5 | Their close contact with individual children or small groups seemed to give them some measure of what children can actually do in a foreign language in a relatively non-threatening way . |
| 6 | The following day , Dr John Greg of the Medical Research Council tried to tell us that contact with small quantities of dioxins was harmless when he stated in The Independent that 5,000 ppt is a safe level for bleached paper products . |
| 7 | Fourth , pluralists try to have it both ways when interpreting the power significance of inactive interests and groups : they minimise the influence of the rich when they are inactive , but choose to exaggerate the influence of the poor unless they are inactive . |
| 8 | Apparently Robert went to see you that morning after that operation you did with Dawn to help you . |
| 9 | The driver of a passenger lorry stopped to give me some bread and carrots . |
| 10 | My right hon. Friends have not committed the Government to any position on tax , but I notice that , as usual , the right hon. Gentleman wants to have it both ways . |
| 11 | If someone was looking for The Bar in those days — because there was no name written up or sign for it , no lights at all , and not even a number on the door , Madame liked to keep it that way even when she did n't have to any more — I mean when she opened up we may all have been in a sort of hiding , and not many people knew about The Bar and our life there , but it was n't that way later , and now you know we can have lights and advertising and you see boys queueing up outside every night , very public , and I like to see that — but in those days , in those days if somebody arranged to meet you for a date there , and it was their first time and they were n't sure how to find us , you 'd joke with them , and you 'd say well first there is a wedding , and then there 's a death , and there 's the news , and then there 's us ; meaning , first there 's the shop with the flowers , the real ones , and next door to that is the undertaker 's with the fake flowers in the window , china , all dusty ; and then the newsagent 's and magazine shop , and then right next door to that is The Bar . |
| 12 | " You certainly gave him your version of how your aunt came to leave me this property , " Matthew said bitterly . |
| 13 | The man 's tone was dismissive , and Jaq had to allow him more credit for flexibility than he would have supposed . |
| 14 | Nurse Buckle intends to visit you this afternoon to advise you further . |
| 15 | As always , the Liberals try to have it both ways , but they are up against canny farmers . |
| 16 | The old men in Beijing may not be sure of how to respond to the tactics that such behaviour makes possible ; certainly , previous governors chose to give them little experience of them , preferring the old , almost hallowed , practice of kowtowing to them . |
| 17 | ‘ Monsieur Tollet at the sports centre had to leave me several times to deal with queries . ’ |
| 18 | For phenomenalists such as Ayer tended to take it that observation statements report the nature of the observer 's sensory states . |
| 19 | If Portia Forbes wanted to consult them this morning why did n't she ask him before the funeral . |
| 20 | Then last night the police called to tell me that Mum , Dad , Pet and Wee Charlie were missing , but that you were safe . |
| 21 | Except that he d like to see you some time . |
| 22 | The ISPA plans to pay him this money later in the week but is also to discipline him . |
| 23 | As Bourque and Grossholtz put it , ‘ that politics is a man 's world is a familiar adage ; that political science as a discipline tends to keep it that way is less well accepted , but perhaps closer to the truth ’ ( 1984 , p. 103 ) . |
| 24 | I think the family managed to find him some kind of posting in a province in the north-west , towards the Land of the Twin Rivers . |