Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately these proposals only exemplify the muddled thinking which seems so often to lie at the heart of Edinburgh 's traffic policies . |
| 2 | With the profits from their books they made enough finally to buy Old Vicarage Farm , with four others , as an organic co-operative , in 1987 . |
| 3 | Having seen all of this , Stoker , they say , told Irving he wished not only to administer Irving 's theatrical affairs , but to write for the great man . |
| 4 | The activities which seem most obviously to have their point in themselves are what we regard as typically leisure activities — art , playing games , joking . |
| 5 | When he came back on deck she tried once more to make conversation . |
| 6 | erm when I first started working in Harlow eighteen years ago one evening I came up just to see what the playhouse was all about . |
| 7 | When I was nine and they were out for the evening I stayed up late to watch a horror movie and had nightmares . |
| 8 | Worth an incredible £1000 million a year , the trade brings substantial rewards to dealers who are permanently trying to weaken CITES controls , and anguish to wildlife conservationists who try equally fervently to add species to the protected lists . |
| 9 | After a while I calmed down enough to rest myself . |
| 10 | ‘ I have to speak of things I wished so often to forget — of my guilt , of my shame . ’ |
| 11 | In Britain the inner city provides an analytical empty vessel which serves well rhetorically to provide a rationale for a disparate set of political projects , not only those of racial subordination but also far fetching social reforms . |
| 12 | The name which springs most readily to mind in connection with our Embassy in Paris ( the Hôtel de Charost ) is Lady Diana Cooper , wife of the first post-war ambassador , Sir Alfred Duff Cooper . |
| 13 | There are also indirect impacts of silviculture which relate not only to forest management but to the construction of roads and the effect of forest removal on watershed management . |
| 14 | It is Christian Lacroix who seems most acutely to express the spirit of the age . |
| 15 | Ballymena and Antrim had more good wins through John McAdorey in the 100m and Eddie King who finished very strongly to take the 800 in one minute 52.65 . |
| 16 | Because of this , we surrender to God our self-knowledge and our self-significance , all the things we struggle so desperately to hold on to in our egoism . |
| 17 | Fru Gertlinger , the young wife of the gardener at the Villa , recently become housekeeper , made them picnic lunches and every day they rode out early to check their notes and make sure that they had missed nothing . |
| 18 | His formal meeting with the US delegation ignored the pledge he made then only to meet ‘ old friends ’ from abroad privately and not to discuss politics . |
| 19 | Then of course there 's a there 's a chain which hangs on there to prevent this this c |
| 20 | The next week she came in especially to tell us she had joined our special club . |
| 21 | I noticed that the panel of ordinary people you gathered together recently to give Norman Lamont the benefit of their wisdom recommended ploughing more cash into public services . |
| 22 | ‘ There are people who feel strongly enough to lie down in front of bulldozers , ’ she said . |
| 23 | ‘ Breaking down old traditions , he was the first club manager who set out methodically to organize the winning of matches , ’ observed the Daily Mail . |
| 24 | To understand the specific nature of the abnormality experienced by disabled people we have not only to document a general failure to provide for needs . |
| 25 | This family comes from a long line of fishermen … now unable to float their boats in the silted up harbour except at high tide they catch hardly enough to feed themselves . |
| 26 | ( ‘ There 's an old man who comes in sometimes to show them how to make musical instruments . ’ |
| 27 | So one word we came down here to talk about , and hey , here 's a whole lot things . |
| 28 | Under de Gaulle they opted almost unanimously to do so . |
| 29 | He supported himself by painting the portraits of the distinguished people he met on the way , and in Japan he went off alone to live among the aboriginal Ainu . |
| 30 | Several times he swung round suddenly to see if people were turning to stare at him from behind . |