Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [pron] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er we used to try and them in the garden just to get the odd one or two for somebody you know . |
| 2 | He wants to know if anyone in the Darlington area has any information of the whereabouts of Mr Whitbread . |
| 3 | The biographical sources for this period are neither detailed nor accurate enough to allow a close analysis of the degree to which the system had become elaborated in the first half of the sixteenth century , but the broader outlines may certainly be perceived and seem to confirm that something like the provisions of the Kanunname were operating by the early years of that century . |
| 4 | The Minister will have to agree that nothing in the Bill would stop whoever buys Eastern Scottish from selling the St. Andrews square bus station a fortnight later for El 5 million or thereabouts . |
| 5 | ‘ BAII has no knowledge of the circumstances leading to his arrest , and accordingly can make no comments , other than to state that nothing in the course of his employment has given rise to any question . ’ |
| 6 | Thus to honour the first of the Roman emperors an orderly arrangement was reduced to an illogical jumble that many people find difficult to remember but which in the course of 2,000 years has been successfully imposed on most of the world . |
| 7 | A quick look round to see if anyone on the faculty might be listening and then , traitorously , raising her glass almost to her lips , ‘ In fact , I sometimes wonder if we are n't all dead . ’ |
| 8 | Well if you rung you could always say oh I 'll have to go cos somebody at the door if she starts going on a bit long . |
| 9 | Not a snigger to suggest that anybody in the audience even knew this was a joke . |
| 10 | A little outside Saint-Jean to the north-east , in fact , near the village of Ostabat , three of the main pilgrim routes across France met up , to advance as one towards the mountain passes , so that through Saint-Jean there went the pilgrims who had travelled from Paris , from Vézelay in Burgundy , and from Le Puy and Conques further to the south ; only those who had come through Provence took a different route into Spain , over the Col du Somport . |
| 11 | As part of the Minister 's continued opposition to settlements , can he say how the British Government , as a member of the troika , will discharge their responsibilities under the recent protocol signed with Israel and the European Economic Community to ensure that none of the money will go to any Israeli projects with any connection with settlements on the west bank or Gaza ? |
| 12 | And in 1958 , when over eight million households had television licences , the various trade associations formed the Film Industry Defence Organization ( FIDO ) in an attempt to ensure that none of the nation 's producers sold their films to television . |
| 13 | As we saw in Chapter 2 , many people find it hard to believe that something like the eye , Paley 's favourite example , so complex and well designed , with so many interlocking working parts , could have arisen from small beginnings by a gradual series of step-by-step changes . |
| 14 | ‘ She 's sixty if she 's a day , ’ said Camille , who found it difficult , in her more regressive moments , to believe that anyone over the age of about twenty could find much reason for living . |
| 15 | ‘ It is unreasonable for us to accept that it is commonplace for people like our Cabinet Ministers to have affairs , and yet to consider that someone like the Prince of Wales is unfit for the job . ’ |
| 16 | While we firmly believe that " a little of what you fancy does you good " , you need to understand that none of the drinks or foods in this group are good , when taken in excess , for the human body . |
| 17 | He referred to the Unemployed Electrician , but it was his habit never to concede that anyone in the team had a personal name . |
| 18 | He was trying to figure if anyone along the road or up on the ridge had been hurt . |
| 19 | All the knowledge needed to make decisions is stored in a separate knowledge base ( Fig. 4 ) therefore the program is much easier to understand and anything in the knowledge base can be changed without a knock-on effect on the reasoning process . |
| 20 | THE ECHO 'S reply to Tom Roberts ' recent letter forgets to mention that lots of the criminals ' victims are deprived of their freedom — pensioners too frightened to go for fear of being mugged , young girls afraid to walk the streets at night in fear of being raped . |
| 21 | They are entitled to do that in a free European democracy , but we are entitled to hold our ground and to argue that we as a nation were never committed to a united states of Europe in 1973 , that we are not committed to it now and that we do not intend to pre-empt that decision . |
| 22 | I like to think that we in the Met Office did our little bit towards keeping up the boys ' spirits . |
| 23 | ‘ It is wonderful to think that someone in a government ministry may be paying attention and trying to help us , ’ he said last night . |
| 24 | ‘ I have to say that we in The Office put the highest , the very highest priority on acquiring this proof — if it still exists . ’ |
| 25 | To be fair , the C E C have not tried to say that everything in the garden is rosy , they 've also highlighted a number of problem areas that still exist . |
| 26 | The group 's publicity suggests that the issue being dealt with is mental illness , which led a therapist in the audience to say that none of the characters seemed to him to be mentally ill . |
| 27 | Nor is it to say that none of the Webbs ' criticisms of Owen is valid . |
| 28 | And then we had the er the battledress was issued , the khaki , and erm we was had our head headquarters were started , the headquarters were started in an office at , one of the office rooms at the at the Bloxwich Lock and Stamping Company by the , the top offices we used to call them , by the gates , we had one of the rooms there for and it eventually became the armoury when we got some equipment because rifles etcetera was in very short supply after Dun Dunkirk So eventually we had a few rifles and er when the er we got a few rifles and er the sirens went it was the practice at the beginning when the sirens went in this area for everything to stop and everyone down the shelter but it happened four or five times , everybody realized how non-productive this was , that the time that was lost and there was nothing happening in this area so it was decided by the R T B that we , the , the people off the shop floor would n't stop work until the attack was really imminent or it had started because if this , this was happening all over the Midlands area and of course if you , if you multiply that by the number of people at work you can imagine how much production was lost erm and also when the sirens went Major at the factory used to get the chappies out from off the shop floor , get the few rifles we 'd got , take we in to King George 's playing fields there was a , a brook running across King George 's playing fields then , it had n't and a trench which was extended to stop er aircraft from landing in King George 's cos it was just a big open space . |
| 29 | It is important to note that none of the clauses we have so far dealt with have introduced a PAR construct ( SEQ , on the other hand , was introduced by ALT and CAR ) . |