Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I put him back in his stable again , complete with an enormous amount of bandaging and went home to wait for my vet to phone with the results of the x-rays . |
| 2 | I may modify my behaviour to conform to the expectations of the group , and I will do so in a much shorter time than I would in a one-to-one relationship . |
| 3 | He replies : It 's not the type of car I 'd want my wife to take to the shops . |
| 4 | ‘ I had already tried in my youth to enlist in the Forces as an officer cadet , which would have allowed me to enter the arsenal and precede Lortie in a rampage . |
| 5 | There are so many sick in the village , February is a wicked month , and it seems to take me all my time to get round the cottages and then when I am back , I am extremely tired and I fear I 'm not as patient as I should be , poor little creatures and the baby still in his petticoats . |
| 6 | The question that must be answered is : will the exercise of curriculum review be a hollow one , resulting in schools simply justifying what they currently do , or becoming frustrated by their inability to follow through the consequences of their thinking ? |
| 7 | The regime became increasingly draconian in its attempts to deal with the problems it was confronting ; the society , in turn , began to establish public associations of all kinds , most notably the workers ' defence committee ( KSS-KOR ) , which were independent of party and state control . |
| 8 | Christine had to bend her arm down by her side to get her fingers to connect with the keys . |
| 9 | The Board instructed their clerk to communicate with the governors of the infirmary on the matter , and in his reply a week later , the house surgeon there ( who acted as hospital secretary ) said that he had thought the case capable of being treated as an out-patient . |
| 10 | Delegates agreed to resume negotiations on March 21 , or earlier , provided that the Soviet Union signalled its willingness to comply with the terms of the accord . |
| 11 | Six months ago six major E C Health and Safety Directives came into effect covering workplace safety , machinery , protective equipment , manual handling , work with computers and word processors , they 've built on a framework directive giving workers new rights to consultation and the right to stop the job and the union has been watching the government and the H S E and me as well , in their attempts to water down the requirements of these directives and we might well lodge a formal complaint with Brussels that could land the Tories in Europe 's Court of Justice . |
| 12 | In 1989 , she headed south from her birthplace to settle in the forests east of the Värmland town of Arvika . |
| 13 | Underlying much working-class opposition was a hostility often born of an older moralism : it was their willingness to interfere with the workings of God , Providence or Nature that made the suggestions of the birth controllers sometimes appear even more shocking than those of Malthus . |
| 14 | It is seen that the programme was only of small benefit to the people of Bangladesh , owing to its inability to cope with the conditions of this developing country . |
| 15 | Many general practitioners feared that non-fundholders would be forced to restrict their referrals to hospitals with which their district health authority had contracts , which might inhibit their freedom to refer outside the boundaries of their local district . |
| 16 | In fact Mrs Hylton , in her turn , forbade her musicians to fraternize with the dancers , but at least two Girls married her boys . |
| 17 | Egypt and Syria already have strategic gains to show for their decision to rally round the Saudis . |
| 18 | She sat in a chair with a shawl over her shoulders to keep off the draughts . |
| 19 | The prosecution have said Tanya was killed by Probyn the day before a court hearing for custody of their two children , and he caused her car to drop beneath the waters of the River Severn . |
| 20 | ( The Australian Conservation Foundation and the Wilderness Society , the country 's two main environmentalist groups , called on their supporters to vote for the Democrats — the centre party which held the balance of power in the Senate but which possessed no seats in the House of Representatives — but to direct their second preferences to the ALP . ) |
| 21 | Certainly I can not deduce which goals to pursue from the facts to be faced ; but will it not be a causally necessary condition of obeying ‘ Face facts ’ that I let myself be moved , at least incipiently , in the direction in which the facing of the facts would cause me to move ? |
| 22 | He knew from long experience that a kidnapping usually meant the involvement of the Sardinian shepherds who had , over the past twenty years or so , been steadily leaving their island and bringing their flocks to graze on the hills around Florence . |
| 23 | Only a maniac , he said , would think that the wretched pittance of the industrious poor should be wrung out of their pockets to pay for the follies and profligate expenses of anyone . |
| 24 | Family Groups are a major preventive approach , strengthening families in their capacity to cope with the stresses of financial difficulties , urban living , family life and child-rearing . |
| 25 | The Special Branch knew everything about Claire Fraser because it was their job to dig around the politicians and their families , especially with an Irish connection like hers . |
| 26 | However , John Magill , national director of accounting and audit at Touche Ross , said : ‘ We have already given the Department of Trade and Industry access to all our papers because , in our view , it is their job to investigate on the investors ' behalf , not the liquidators ' … |
| 27 | In the meantime , Norwich Union had made it clear that they were not exercising their right to appeal under the rules of Lautro . |
| 28 | The Dutch , still reluctant to act without Britain , reserved their right to withdraw from the talks if they disliked the outcome . |
| 29 | It eventually capitulated days before the Panel was due to exercise its right to apply to the courts for a forced restatement of the accounts . |
| 30 | In other words , the ideology of limited intervention which the current Conservative administration espouses sits uneasily with its need to respond to the demands of industrial and property production and to those for environmental conservation and local control over land policy . |