Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was my privilege to present with a satellite dish as a retirement gift from his colleagues , customers and the company . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ I could n't close my fingers to pull on the water after an hour . ’ |
| 4 | BELVILLE : I stepped out of my chariot to walk across the meadow and whom should I spy but your humble servant , Mr. Williams . |
| 5 | This , maybe , was my opportunity to escape from the torpor into which I had sunk . |
| 6 | I seek leave this morning to hold my recommendation to adopt for a day as per Bungay bypass , tending member discussions which need to be held with representatives from both Suffolk County Council and Norfolk County Council . |
| 7 | Craned my neck to look for a way up to the high high bridge , saw a rocky overgrown path over the other side of the road . |
| 8 | Colleagues it 's now my pleasure to call upon the deputy General Secretary , Tom to move his section of the report and to address conference . |
| 9 | Fortunately , Ewen and myself had remembered to bring along the Trophy as well as the cheque for £500 which it was my pleasure to present to The Crofter of the year — Donald Murdo Macleod , 1 The Gress , Back , Lewis . |
| 10 | Allowed my eyes to wander over the whole of it , he wrote , and almost with satisfaction . |
| 11 | These words of Monsignor Guardini , written nearly thirty years after my early musings , expressed a growing need in my thinking to account for the Buddha in the providence of God . |
| 12 | ‘ Mr Lockwood , ’ he said finally , brushing a tear from his eye , ‘ you can go into my bedroom to sleep for the rest of the night . |
| 13 | I try to convince my acquaintances to join in the action of the Czechs and Slovaks , but I fail … |
| 14 | Water is often a symbol of emotion ( or the subconscious ) , and my desire to go through the flood symbolised my conscious willingness and desire to delve deep into my emotions . |
| 15 | As I have never been interested in argument , he must often have felt frustrated by my silences , my refusal to rise to the bait . |
| 16 | This has not prevented accusations that Bantam shamefully exploited my illness and that I cooperated with this by allowing my picture to appear on the cover . |
| 17 | It is not my job to comment on the policy of the County Council . |
| 18 | They will then be framed , as fit companions in my drawing-room to hang by the side of a pair by my friend Audubon . |
| 19 | The Institute of Investment Management and Research ( IIMR , formerly the Society of Investment Analysts ) has set up a sub-committee under my chairmanship to decide on the calculation of an earnings figure which can be used for the per-share calculation and for price/earnings ratios . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It was from there that I began my efforts to enquire into the operation of the judicial system in the area . |
| 22 | I was bending my brains to think of a way of introducing Brian Harley into the conversation when the television monitor in the corner of the tent gave me the ideal opportunity . |
| 23 | After you 'd totally devastated me by saying you did n't find me remotely attractive , I was left racking my brains to think of a way to change your mind . |
| 24 | He replies : It 's not the type of car I 'd want my wife to take to the shops . |
| 25 | I got my staff to check on the Charlotte T. , and found that she had sailed the day after Andrew Stavanger wrote his letter . |
| 26 | His argument was that it would free my father to return to the States , but Ron is never so simple . ’ |
| 27 | Both left school at fourteen : my father to work as a butcher 's messenger boy , my mother to learn machining in a shirt factory . |
| 28 | We closed rapidly and I opened fire at about 800 yards sighting a little high at first to allow for the distance and then dropping my bead to centre on the machine . |
| 29 | After three weeks it was my turn to go to the delivery ward at Fulmer . |
| 30 | It was my turn to go to the bank for the wages and I remember going back to the shop saying King George VI had died . |