Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then she added with an air of responsibility , ‘ It 's my job to keep them in order . |
| 2 | At least the President saw enough sense to agree to my request to put you in charge of the unit . |
| 3 | The exact circumstances are forgotten , but I do remember serving as baby-sitter for the Menuhin infant while Papa Yehudi took his violin off to the concert , and I recall walking up and down with the child in my arms to keep it from crying . |
| 4 | I would n't let is pass without thanking you which is the reason for this note because at the moment I have n't got that much spare time on my hands to thank you in person . |
| 5 | I scrunch up my face to stop myself from crying . |
| 6 | But he had blocked all her attempts to anoint him with love and sympathy . |
| 7 | And she had gritted her teeth to stop them from chattering . |
| 8 | They did pressure me quite a lot about how I looked , but I never gave in to their attempts to convert me to pink ; I wanted to look different , and in the main I was quite happy with my image . |
| 9 | What Margaret had n't known were the twin reasons for her decision to immerse herself in work : her need to occupy each waking moment with creative thought so that she had no time to dwell on Marcus 's sudden vitriolic departure from her life , and the struggle for economic survival which was facing the advertising agency where she was employed . |
| 10 | The Bank has declared its intention to restrict itself to reafforestation projects , bringing degraded land back into production , developing secondary forests and financing the policing of ancient forests . |
| 11 | Although the Chevalier de Boufflers was highly successful , with fifteen editions published , her attempt to place it in context in The French Revolution was harshly treated by some historians . |
| 12 | Murphy swung the horses round and headed them towards Bishopstow , and in the carriage , in her crumpled finery , Alexandra sat and pushed her fists against her mouth to stop herself from crying . |
| 13 | He persuaded her parents to give her in marriage to a friend of his and by constant threats and ill-treatment she was forced to consent . |
| 14 | The whole workforce turned up outside the Bentley Piano factory at Woodchester as part of their battle to keep it in business . |
| 15 | Traditionally Convocation had met whenever Parliament assembled , but the institution had been largely dormant after 1664 , when the clergy relinquished their right to tax themselves in return for the vote in Parliamentary elections , and had met only once since then , namely in 1689 . |
| 16 | ‘ Yes , ’ she breathed , her desire to keep him at arm 's length dwindling to nothing . |
| 17 | Why should I let society off the hook by accepting rubbish when it 's more than within their means to treat me with dignity ? ’ |
| 18 | One branch of the cartilaginous fish has adopted this position more or less permanently , abandoning the energy-consuming labour of perpetually beating their tail to maintain themselves in mid-water . |
| 19 | A proclamation was issued in 1718 against " unlawful Clubs , Combinations , etc. " of wool combers and weavers : … which had illegally presumed to use a Common Seal , and to act as Bodies Corporate , by making and unlawfully conspiring to execute certain Bylaws or Orders , whereby they pretend to determine who had a right to the Trade , what and how many Apprentices and Journeymen each man should keep at once , together with the prices of all their Manufactures , and the manner and materials of which they should be wrought ; and that , when many of the said Conspiritors wanted work , because their Masters would not submit to such pretended Orders and unreasonable Demands , they fed them with Money , till they could again get employment , in order to oblige their masters to employ them for want of other hands . |
| 20 | Victoria was not one to yield up the authority of the Crown too readily and continued throughout her reign to assert it on occasion , such as objecting to the appointment of the nominee of a Prime Minister to a Ministry where she found him personally objectionable . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's been very nice to meet you , Mr Burns — Adam , ’ she said , about to hold out her hand to shake his in farewell , but changing her mind midway . |
| 22 | On the parade ground soldiers often have to shout out their numbers to help them in drill work . |
| 23 | More strictly , this effort is simply that essence itself which precisely is its effort to keep itself in existence in its own distinctive way . |
| 24 | The Customs and Excise , with all its ancillary departments , were forced to re-structure their systems to bring them into line with European countries and this reorganisation took place over the next few years . |
| 25 | In addition , some Compact employers may wish to invite parents to visit their premises to see them at work . |
| 26 | He had made her promise to keep him in touch with developments . |
| 27 | In an interview in Hello ! magazine , Alison is asked whether Fergie should have allowed her daughters to see her on holiday with ‘ financial adviser ’ John Bryan . |
| 28 | Not that it had done Oliver Rattrie any good , since he 'd been caught the day after by those same Chartist women who had marched into Halifax singing the One Hundredth Psalm ; sheep no longer but howling Furies who had seized him , puny little thing that he was , and thrown him in the canal where , in his struggle to keep himself from drowning , he had lost every last shilling of the blood-money in his pockets . |
| 29 | Now evidence shows that it 's more than the fact that he has something on his mind to distract him from sex — it 's an actual physical phenomenon . |
| 30 | He had desired to go to his homesite just once , not because he expected his parents to greet him with pleasure — he knew they would long ago have forgotten him in the act of rearing many other young even if they were still alive — but because it was there he had first been caught . |