Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 7 It 's terrific to see her without the bars between us. 8 She sits eating the treat food at the opening to the door and looking at me. 9 How does she know to look into my eyes and not at the huge finger next to her . |
| 2 | Humpage had been chosen as wicketkeeper and started the game behind the stumps , but with Gloucestershire finding little to worry them in the efforts of Warwickshire 's regular bowlers , Humpage removed his pads and gloves , with Chris Maynard , playing as a batsman , taking over as wicketkeeper . |
| 3 | Solly was prepared to try it in the days when Napes Needles was still ‘ a rattling good ‘ un ’ and you took photos of your mates with plates in a Thornton-Pickard Folding ruby camera . |
| 4 | If he put up a scheme , you would be willing to follow him to the ends of the earth to ensure its fulfilment . |
| 5 | For example in one school we asked the head of French to show us on the shelves the books she had ordered under the project . |
| 6 | I feel it is appropriate to provide you with the details of our costs to date and to give an indication of the likely costs to the conclusion of the heads of agreement . |
| 7 | As Giles Worsley explains in Architectural Drawings of the Regency Period , the term ‘ Regency ’ is technically understood to cover the period from 1811 to George III 's death in 1820 , but in matters concerning architecture , decoration and furniture , it is more appropriate to apply it to the years from 1790 to 1837 with the accession of Queen Victoria . |
| 8 | Some fabric wall coverings — ranging from hessians or burlaps , felts and flannels to suedes , wool , silk and moiré — come with a paper backing which makes it easy to stick them to the walls . |
| 9 | What Aristotle had seen as the vice of the pharaohs , Cardinal Richelieu raised to a maxim of policy for Louis XIII , whom he advised ‘ all politicians agree that when the people are too comfortable , it is impossible to keep them within the bounds of their duty … |
| 10 | For there was little to differentiate them in the policies which they espoused during the campaign . |
| 11 | ‘ I was glad to see her at the pictures with you , ’ Anne said . |
| 12 | It is perhaps not inappropriate to compare them to the astronauts in our own day : they had broken into an uncharted region , blazed a new trail to God and to the depths of the self and had returned to earth like the heroes of antiquity , bringing news of a hitherto unimaginable realm which gave an entirely new perspective on the human condition . |
| 13 | Would n't be very hard to find them on the streets would it ? |
| 14 | Norris may well be right that Derrida deserves such attention , but he is not often likely to receive it in the conditions of actual pedagogy , or in the random public exchanges of higher cultural life , which put a premium on the simplifying and the reductive . |
| 15 | And they 're glad to share it with the visitors : |
| 16 | Plumbers refer to these as ‘ fifteen mil ’ , ‘ twenty-two mil ’ and ‘ twenty-eight mil ’ , but are equally likely to call them by the names of the premetrication pipes they replaced : ½in , ¾in and lin . |
| 17 | He did not enumerate them , but it is not hard to reconstruct them from the records of over half a century of Masai administration . |
| 18 | We 've got certain rules that say all children must sit certain exams at certain times , it has n't been possible to do it in the labs |
| 19 | The Home Secretary had previously informed the Cabinet that he would have included a provision to this effect in the Bill if he had not thought it preferable to leave it to the Lords to take the initiative . |
| 20 | In this issue it was great to see you on the streets , showing people united in the fight against growing racism . |
| 21 | The King was much intrigued to see them in the Dolls ' House and enquired who gave her permission . |
| 22 | Also , keeping band accounts is useful to familiarize you with the practicalities of money coming in and going out . |
| 23 | Sometimes , when he thought about that day , as he did occasionally , it occurred to him that this was the first instance of railways being able to distract him from the pains of life . |
| 24 | If confirmed transport is cancelled , changed or delayed by more than six hours or hotel is changed or if we are unable to provide you with the services as confirmed to you by us at the time of booking due to war , threat of war , riot , civil strife , industrial dispute , terrorist activity , disaster , fire , flood ( including fire or flood in hotels ) or bad weather we can not accept liability or responsibility and compensation is not payable but provided the holiday has not begun we will offer alternative travel routing or alternative travel date or alternative hotel and advise additional cost if any or you may elect to cancel and we will offer a full refund of monies paid . |
| 25 | Mary had been brought up with her story which , for many in the valley — except her own generation , increasingly unable to visit her on the heights she chose for her seclusion — had gone cold long ago . |
| 26 | The cement was freezing before we were able to apply it to the bricks . |
| 27 | Hereford beef is best and now the consumer will be able to identify it in the shops . |
| 28 | She wanted to say , ‘ I 'd be more than happy to leave it to the experts . ’ |
| 29 | She was the one sister who was sympathetic to him ; that is , when he was able to detach her from the others . |
| 30 | Regulation is an option , but creates additional problems of its own , which are unlikely to commend it to the authorities except in exceptional circumstances ( e.g. as part of a privatization programme involving natural monopolies ) . |