Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [to-vb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , the unruly people of Rome , currently opposed to the Pope , suggested that it would suit them better to confirm the imperial crown upon Barbarossa . |
| 2 | It seems to me better to consider the particular relationship in hand , and see whether or not , as a matter of policy economic loss should be recoverable . |
| 3 | Perhaps Christian 's ownership of the farm depended in some way upon the manor , or the Fettiplace family , and Christian had called them together to break the bad news to them . |
| 4 | Compared with Mitroff 's earlier paper , there is much more emphasis here on linking stakeholder analysis with research into cognitive schemas , and a greater recognition that there may be problems both in identifying the schemas , often held unconsciously , and in bringing them together to inform the corporate debate about strategy . |
| 5 | With the leave of the House , it remains for me only to thank the Select Committee on Energy for allowing us to hear the Government 's reply . |
| 6 | I water I usually to clean the bloody thing |
| 7 | But somehow Leconte pulled himself together to take the second set and the decider became a rout . |
| 8 | I mean now , the erm the social workers erm are care managers in a lot of cases , in other words it may be contracted out to somebody else to do the actual caring and you look at the package which the client is getting , you know it might be I du n no some old dear who needs meals on wheels and visits every week or something |
| 9 | She did n't need Maggie to remind her of the odds against a baby 's survival in the alleys , and she loved this one enough to make the ultimate sacrifice . |
| 10 | Nor , however , did you see the river , and Willis would have to find something else to fill the great gap which would be left in his life when it was no longer possible to see the river traffic , passing and repassing . |
| 11 | Use one half to extend the other log and place on a serving platter . |
| 12 | One Sunday evening they were missing at bedtime , and Hindley ordered me angrily to lock the front door . |
| 13 | It did not suit her now to observe the emotional turmoil inside Rose . |
| 14 | He would lie , exhausted among the twisted sheets , his head buried under the pillow , urging her silently to switch the damn thing off . |
| 15 | Nor is it so regular that we can trust to it altogether to fix the exact date of any given work . |
| 16 | Are there any circumstances in which the Home Secretary would feel it right to take the honourable course and resign from the office which he discharges so inadequately ? |
| 17 | Therefore they find it just to overthrow the Northern statelet by whatever degree of force proves necessary . |
| 18 | I felt it best to keep the main report to matters of … of science , let us say . ’ |
| 19 | She clicked it and took it away to reveal the red drop of blood that the tiny lancet 's pin prick had produced . |
| 20 | I 've got ta have it now to sort the bloody money out ! |
| 21 | Ayer , Alfred Born in 1910 , he did more than anyone else to familiarise the Anglo-Saxon world with the twentieth-century school of thought known as ‘ logical positivism ’ , particularly through the best-seller , Language , Truth and Logic . |
| 22 | He had done more than anyone else to make the new Government . |
| 23 | Since we are only concerned with a point of law , the precise facts do not matter but I should indicate them briefly to show the limited scope of this decision . |