Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When bidding farewell to Porua , I tried to extract from him some word of praise for my activities on behalf of his paper . |
| 2 | At the same time , the Spanish regime was not actively hostile to the Allies , for it needed to obtain from them vital supplies of rubber , petroleum , cotton and wheat . |
| 3 | ‘ T was to stop you becoming completely distraught , but I was afraid to look at you , afraid to come to you that night in case I saw fear or revulsion in your eyes . ’ |
| 4 | In the event of any Related company ceasing to be so related then ( unless the requisite rights are duly assigned to it by such Party by agreement ) each Party undertakes on request to grant to it continuing rights of a similar nature on fair and reasonable terms . |
| 5 | The Masai were elusive , even when constantly told they had nothing to fear , and consequently the British administration found itself engaged for fifty years in a ceaseless struggle to impose on them some measure of control . |
| 6 | He was diligent in visiting the sick and distressed , supposing this to be ‘ the fittest time to discover to them those errors to which health and prosperity had blinded them ’ . |
| 7 | I do n't think we need to type an enquiry , I think that the people who realise that , the fact that you had got there is meant to indicate to you that name of the firm was Mallard , and therefore by using by using Mallards , sausage skins , they 're expecting you to use apostrophe s . |
| 8 | It is not difficult to find among them ample illustrations of Ruskin 's dictum that architecture reflects the life of the society around it . |
| 9 | It was hardly surprising that kings wanted solemn oaths from their servants , the bishops , that they looked upon bishoprics as income and that , in line with the symbolic ceremonies of society , they expected to " invest " their appointees and to receive from them solemn oaths of fidelity . |
| 10 | As soon as you shall have considered the whole subject the First Commissioner will be glad to receive from you probationary sketches of the Plans and Design generally , and he will then give you further instructions with reference to the future preparation of detailed plans , specifications and estimates . |
| 11 | As Silvia continued to inflict on her that look of pained horror , Ronni folded her arms and assumed a school-teacherish expression . |
| 12 | In the early studies we chose to look at them twenty-four hours after training on the grounds that any structural change would take time to build up , ; more recently he has pushed the earliest time at which changes can be found back to as little as an hour after the bird pecks the bead . |
| 13 | Can we start to look at it this time from the benefits to some people in terms of travel and a quiet environment ? ’ |
| 14 | Right from the outset Wales looked in a mean mood , determined to put behind them poor performances in winning their previous five games . |
| 15 | Right from the outset Wales looked in a mean mood , determined to put behind them disappointing performances in winning their previous five games . |
| 16 | It is now necessary to draw some of these strands together and reach some general conclusions about the merit of the Essex project , and to derive from them some prescriptions for action for anyone seeking to enhance library provision in similar ways . |
| 17 | Alternatively , the vendor may require the purchaser to assign to it all rights against third parties but the purchaser will wish to restrict the vendor 's ability to commence proceeding against customers as this may affect the goodwill of the business ; ( h ) to limit some of the warranties to the best of the vendor 's knowledge , information and belief . |
| 18 | Gradually it began to dawn on me that while in the celluloid world all things were possible , in the other world it was quite a different story . |
| 19 | As well as the above , John Wylie would like you to be available to share with him two sections on Saturday , 11.20–12.45 : ‘ Ending sufferings ’ page 3 , and 7.00–9.00 : ‘ Welcoming diversity ’ page 6 . |
| 20 | I even tried to read to you that night at the end of last September . |
| 21 | I recall those things because of their typicality : this is what the English and Welsh grammar schools were like , and ( more surprisingly ) were still like when I began to teach in them ten years after the 1944 Act . |
| 22 | She found it most distasteful to think of him owing money to the bingo-playing woman in the basement . |
| 23 | Dialogues are carried on to tell the reader something he must know , or to infuse into him some explanations of a writer . |
| 24 | I do n't believe in the God the parson used to present to us three times on a Sunday . ’ |
| 25 | A generation later , another , bound for so great a centre of civilisation as Paris , still found it necessary to take with him sixty boxes of household goods and twenty of food , seven or eight dozen chairs and armchairs , a coach , a chaise and twenty horses . |
| 26 | The result is of that is not fortunate that they 've been delayed but that in fact we have as much money to spend on them next year from the capital receipts as we will have spent this year , so in a sense we , we 're not going backwards there either . |
| 27 | there is an issue and clearly if we are not in the sixteen double O four six eight O seven business we are going to lose share , we may not lose total volume , I am confused about that , but do n't try and sort it out now , but those are the issues that need to be tackled , and you need to produce between you some sort of projection paper which lays out the way that you see this bit of the steering business going in the future , and recommends what we should be doing , and what the volumes are to support that , and what the volumes are likely to be . |
| 28 | Climbers attending the briefing will need to bring with them some form of identification , preferably a passport ! |
| 29 | ‘ I had intended to speak to you this morning on the Holy Father 's encyclical ‘ Lamentabili ’ . |