Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On my third day of freedom I managed to steal some coins and sent a note to my master in Ipswich . |
| 2 | I felt very sorry for her by now and for want of knowing how to express my sympathy I offered to make another pot of tea . |
| 3 | In some cases I had to accept that information given to me to help me understand problems of academic publishing was to remain confidential , but once credibility had been established the publishers were very helpful . |
| 4 | And of course I had to get another lens , a piece of glass about the same size , in order to grind it , because you grind the glass with another piece of glass with a grit in between . |
| 5 | He said that if in future I needed to sell oriental porcelain I should go to M. Bourget , in the rue de Berri , and mention Helmut 's name . |
| 6 | When it 's like pancake mix I tend , or omelettes I tend to use two bowls and even though I only really need to use one . |
| 7 | If that is the case , and bearing in mind I intend to ignore such advice , then surely all moments are of equal suitability . ’ |
| 8 | As a result of this programme I wish to ask two questions ; |
| 9 | The South Devon of the period , in South Africa , was still able to provide milk and draught power as well as beef and proved a good match for the local Africanders , especially the lighter-coated animals which tended to develop dark muzzles ( disliked at the time by English breeders who preferred a dark red , woolly type with a light muzzle ) . |
| 10 | Figures 7.2 and 7.3 are examples from a prospectus printed on A3 good quality sheet card which tries to combine visual appeal , meet legal requirements and at less than 20p per copy has relatively low cost . |
| 11 | A GLIDER club which wants to develop full-scale gliding activity on an abandoned wartime airfield has put forward a compromise package . |
| 12 | In this sense all socialist parties are revolutionary , since their objective is to replace a capitalist form of society by a socialist one ; so also are nationalist parties which seek to overthrow colonial rule , and perhaps in a more limited sense right-wing parties , such as fascist parties , which attempt to restore a more hierarchical and authoritarian type of society . |
| 13 | On April 22 Rauf Denktash obtained 67.5 per cent of the vote to be re-elected President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus ( TRNC , recognised only by Turkey ) , with relatively few voting for candidates of opposition parties which wanted to offer more concessions to the Greek Cypriots . |
| 14 | It is crime which serves to create this reaction . |
| 15 | Over 300lbs of oscillating blubber held modestly together by a taffeta jock-strap which serves to keep one cheek from slapping the other — the whole lot topped by a hairstyle which looks like a Sainsbury 's Catherine Wheel . |
| 16 | The plan is to market the Chaser alongside the French AX3 , a two-seat side-by-side aircraft which promises to offer good value and sparkling performance . |
| 17 | The right-angled Swastika symbolizes the centrifugal force which strives to release all things from the gravitational pull and propels us towards mental activity , growth and evolution . |
| 18 | Bickford himself fell seriously ill before his fuse could be manufactured in any quantity , and it was only after his death in 1834 that a factory was established in Tuckingmill which continued to make various types of fuse , seldom departing very far from the original specifications , for almost 130 years . |
| 19 | But there are some phonetic sequences which seem to have semantic value of a sort , yet they do not correspond to grammatical elements : there seems to be a direct pathway from sound to meaning , bypassing grammar . |
| 20 | For once , it was the losing side who seemed to have fewer reservations about the performance of the referee . |
| 21 | It takes different people different styles who like to do different things to different meanings to be part of the rest . |
| 22 | Lord Mayor , I would be the last person to criticise either Councillors or offices who attempt to represent this district on foreign shores , whenever and wherever such trips are perfectly legitimate . |
| 23 | Mr Bailes ' little place was situated about half way along Highburn village and to get into the farmyard you had to walk twenty yards or so between five-foot walls . |
| 24 | Sinead is just a rock'n'roll chick who forget to write any songs . |
| 25 | They have clients who wish to sell certain products and services and their task is to enable their clients to reach as many potential customers as possible and at the lowest possible cost . |
| 26 | Think of missionaries who attempt to reach another group of people . |
| 27 | Whatever kind of mix you use to facilitate rapid dispersing when it sinks , thrown bait will not spread anywhere near as efficiently as a loose feed which can be spread accurately from a boat . |
| 28 | " Too many ill-presented , ill-written and extremely long-winded scripts are seen from candidates who seem to have little idea even of the basics of sentence construction . " |
| 29 | The Express and the Mail saw the Empire Crusade as a means of uniting the Empire by encouraging free trade within it and both newspapers gave publicity and financial support to those by-election candidates who promised to uphold that line in Parliament . |
| 30 | Pairs of syllables carefully synchronised were then presented dichotically to subjects who had to report both syllables on each trial . |