Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pye eventually agreed to lease me a small factory in Watford , in which I set up my new company . |
| 2 | But Wilson had been immeasurably kind to him , found a place for a very square peg in his government and , in 1967 , when he no longer had room in his government for Wigg , created him a peer and was at pains to find him a suitable job as chairman of the Horserace Betting Levy Board . |
| 3 | Again she found herself responding to the fever of his passionate desire , and as her own need rose to meet it a small cry of yearning left her — a cry that was accompanied by a totally different cry that echoed from downstairs . |
| 4 | The subtitle is ‘ Making Feminist Sense of International Politics ’ , which itself should be striking enough to secure it a decent sale in alternative bookshops . |
| 5 | Researchers in this area are likely to find it a useful entry to the literature , and a source of ideas on research needs . |
| 6 | Next month Guinness Today will give you a chance to find out , with a competition to guess what a whole host of strange and enigmatic terms mean . |
| 7 | To find myself a Good Career to Travel and |
| 8 | Please do not ply me with biscuits ; I have no desire to set you a bad example by pigging myself . ’ |
| 9 | Later he agreed with a sub-purchaser to sell him a similar cargo at 19s. per ton . |
| 10 | Hastily she sat down , and was relieved when the tall doctor took a seat safely distant from her own and reached to the table that separated them to pour her a long drink of the invitingly iced fruit juice . |
| 11 | Corbett agreed , allowing the Lady Prioress to serve him a full cup of malmsey whilst chattering about everyday matters and his recent trip to Woodstock . |
| 12 | ‘ Something has happened to cause her a great deal of distress . |
| 13 | If , furthermore , you wished to sell us a narrow strip of your garden to allow the shelter to be set back a little from the pavement , we could consider providing a fence along your full frontage as part of the accommodation works . |
| 14 | I 've asked Forbes to issue you a formal warning of expulsion from the union if you touch work which is in anyone else 's job description . |
| 15 | I 'd gone through three packets of tissues from the canteen , and a flunkey had been dispatched to Underwoods to buy me a large box of Men 's Size . |
| 16 | And there , amongst the dung-coloured window envelopes , and the throw away journals , and the solicitations from financial experts offering to procure me a tax-free income for life come my death , was a card from one of my many dear daughters wishing me ‘ yet another happy birthday ’ . |
| 17 | Indeed , they are likely to win him a new reputation as a man for whom the boom never ended . |
| 18 | Plus Thomas 's wedding an'all and I 'd like to buy him a decent present like considering His flat 's nice . |
| 19 | If you have a really warm relationship with your elderly parent and the two of you communicate well , you may also be able to help her a good deal by occasional discussions on attitudes generally in bereavement and the more positive aspects of what has been such a tragic and painful experience for her ; steering her tenderly towards the realisation that what she now has is not only what Dylan Thomas 's wife described as ‘ left-over life to kill ’ , but left-over love to give , which is a very different thing . |
| 20 | When you start to discover this one actually does travel through walls , the sound of it does actually does travel through walls , but as I say , it 's only a temporary measure to buy yourself a little bit of time she says . |
| 21 | ‘ It 'ud do to buy us a few drinks with , Sam , ’ a woman called from the far end of the smoke-blackened room . |
| 22 | ‘ There is something , though — you would hardly ring me up this early just to wish me a happy birthday for tomorrow . ’ |
| 23 | In so doing , they will increase our chairman 's profit margin and this in turn means he will be able to give me a three-figure budget with which to entice quality players . |
| 24 | He said he 'd noticed that our Mini was getting a bit down at heel , and in the light of Ken 's injuries he thought the least he could do was to give me a better means of transport . |
| 25 | time to give me a wee shot at my blood pressure as well Doctor . |
| 26 | The first , to give me a legitimate excuse for doing this . ’ |
| 27 | There were some weekends when he would phone me up and ask if he could come round because he 'd thought of something new for me to do , and he 'd jump into his car and come all the way just to give me a new inflection on a word ! ’ |
| 28 | ‘ One of these days you 're going to give me a straight answer to a straight question , ’ she explained , ‘ and the roof will fall in . ’ |
| 29 | When I was making my mind up about the new housing development I also looked into the possibility of putting some money into that project as well , to give me a bigger commitment in the area , which would help allay people 's fears about it all being a get-rich-quick scheme . |
| 30 | I was then a disciple of Herbert Read 's and his " education of the senses " , but it was Basil , ill the no-nonsense power of his belief , who did much to give me a life-long conviction about the place of art education . |