Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several of the actresses make plucky attempts to inject it with a semblance of artistic integrity : proper name Diane Whitley is convincing as Karen , the girl who is the subject of the lovelorn quest , and Paula Wilcox , as the veteran competitor , has enough experience and talent to gauge the scale of this production and perform accordingly . |
| 2 | If possible try to frame them in a dramatic way — because this is a further pointer for the children showing how you are going to work together . |
| 3 | By then she felt that she had seen enough paintings , churches , marble floors and medieval palaces to last her for a long time . |
| 4 | Ten painful operations to turn me into a picture |
| 5 | John and his team have already extracted considerable concessions from the Inland Revenue , which means that the majority of us will be able to continue as before , i.e. we will be able to satisfy the Inland Revenue that the majority of priests do not have the liability to tax on their income from the Church , without the need for the Inland Revenue to meet us on an individual basis . |
| 6 | A writer who went on a police-escorted tour of Los Angeles 's red light districts to help him with an alleged magazine article is now wanted on suspicion of strangling three prostitutes in the city , police said yesterday . |
| 7 | But , while these points may be reasonable , and some of them may be true , this attempt to embed them in a general theory or schema seems unhelpful . |
| 8 | The village hall is run by an energetic committee who have raised sufficient money over the past few years to convert it from a wooden building to a brick one , and to refurbish the interior . |
| 9 | His child-like enjoyment of the new equipment and gadgetry he came to be able to afford in later life gave warmly affectionate amusement to his friends especially when they found him camping in his own front garden in the latest tent and sleeping bag , or were asked to take him , when he was stone-blind from glaucoma , to the locations of his favourite plants to photograph them with an auto-focus camera . |
| 10 | Her welding torch has been applied to an old mini to turn it into a Pink hippopotamus . |
| 11 | Like the ecu note Europe has never had , the CFA-franc note can be used anywhere in the zone , and the French guarantee to convert it at a rate of 50 CFA francs to one French franc . |
| 12 | She felt a pang of gratitude , remembering his generous offer to provide them with a month-long Sardinian holiday , not only on their anniversary this year , but every single year to come . |
| 13 | We 'll have another message to send them in a minute . ’ |
| 14 | The company had not made a proper effort to place her in a comparable position in another store . |
| 15 | He told the reporter , who was driven blindfold to meet him at a secret location , that gangsters doused one of his two sons with petrol and threatened to kill them both if he did not co-operate in the theft . |
| 16 | He would take frustrating and puzzling journeys on the serpentine British railways to see her for a snatched fraction of a weekend in a provincial rep . |
| 17 | He had started the Venturers ' Society in 1945 , when he was asked by some boys to take them on a visit down a coal mine , and on Mr. Horn 's retirement in 1959 had taken over the Railway Society too . |
| 18 | And 47-year-old Peter , who models himself on rock legend Elvis Presley , reckons he has the perfect record to make him into an all-round star — Bhingi Bajee Boogy . |
| 19 | The governing bodies of other sports such as the Royal Yachting Association ( RYA ) and the British Canoe Union ( BCU ) operate similar awards to qualify you as an instructor of their own particular sport . |
| 20 | On the one hand it is evident that the old order is collapsing of its own accord , so any attempt to subvert it would be pointless ; and on the other , none of these authors portrays a main character secure enough in his own moral beliefs to propose them as a new global framework . |
| 21 | Fortunately , Kathleen Kenyon took pottery a little more seriously than her mentor , and her Jewry Wall report ( 1948 ) is one of the first serious efforts to use it on a large scale to date the main sequences . |
| 22 | It does not take too much distortion to see it as an anti-abortion tract . |
| 23 | Robbie could scarcely believe this was the same man who was at such pains to keep her at a safe distance , until she reflected that in Fen 's eyes Miss Taylor would present no threat to his reserve . |
| 24 | So it becomes a relatively straightforward matter to list them as an inventory . |
| 25 | These tiny grooves , over time , redeposit accumulated bone minerals in concentric layers to release them in a fluid state into the bloodstream when needed in a hurry , say when a violent spurt of activity is needed . |
| 26 | This year to mark the 10th anniversary , a call is made to all anti racists and anti fascists to join us in a March through Southall . |
| 27 | It would take at least another seven or eight years to turn her into a recognizable human being . |
| 28 | Tory plans to sell it for a small shopping mall were scuppered when Labour seized control last year . |
| 29 | As he snipped several inches off the length of Aimee 's hair , he pointed out why he encourages all his clients who have fine hair to keep it in a short style — or at least above their shoulders . |
| 30 | It took the jury at Nottingham Crown Court less than three hours to convict them after a two-week trial . |