Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's torn it , thought Lydia , swallowing the smile , extinguishing the sexuality which she knew she had caused to flicker about her like burning brandy round the Christmas pudding , and adopting instead a workmanlike , country-walking air . |
| 2 | We shall make the necessary arrangements to meet with you in due course . |
| 3 | My friend , who has stayed at the cottage before , is going up 24th or so for about a week , so there will be her rent @ £7 per day and electricity @ 10p per unit ( to cover standing charges etc ) to come to you in due course . |
| 4 | There may be no alternative to leave-of-absence or annual leave but the nurse should be given the opportunity to resolve her difficulty by seeking the help of colleagues who may be prepared to substitute for her at short notice . |
| 5 | I shall be in Leicester at any rate , and I may very well come and join you , to talk with you about healthy eating . |
| 6 | Perhaps God in his wisdom has told us only a little about the nature and personhood of Satan so that we are not tempted to dwell on him with morbid fascination . |
| 7 | There was a wood in the school grounds , and we were allowed to walk in it in fine weather , keeping to the paths . |
| 8 | Jenna drew back to look at him with stormy disbelief and he grinned down at her , gathering her close again . |
| 9 | I am simply flagging those issues ; I do not want to go into them in great detail . |
| 10 | The gang forced the four to go with them to remote farmland calling the woman ‘ a black whore ’ who was ‘ fooling about with white trash . ’ |
| 11 | Christian Barman , who had written of Britain 's country stations ‘ No country in the world has a collection of minor stations that can begin to compare with ours for sheer quality ’ , prepared for the Great Western Railway just after the war a detailed prospectus for the modernization and transformation of the company 's image , operations , and buildings after the lifting of wartime restrictions . |
| 12 | Conversely the under-confident person may be hesitant to predict danger or to react to it with sufficient purpose or determination . |
| 13 | Jessamy wanted to shout at him in sheer frustration . |
| 14 | The Prime Minister 's formulation is that it is for the other 11 member states now to demonstrate to us in watertight treaty terms that the right of all member states to determine their own foreign policies is not being abandoned or abdicated . |
| 15 | Or simply told the truth — told them there and now that it was n't Syl 's smile that repelled me but that I had an intuitive conviction that there was something unsound in him , something unwholesome by virtue of being undeveloped , something that would , sooner or later , cause me to turn on him with bitter cruelty as Nour had turned on me . |
| 16 | It would be tedious and is not , I think , necessary to examine them all but I must seek to trace the development of the law through the main decisions and I intend to refer to them in chronological order . |
| 17 | That you would continue to lie to me after every- thing — ? ’ |
| 18 | The real argument is not how a doctor 's conduct can be characterized , but whether under the circumstances he has fulfilled his duty to the patient to care for him in good faith . |
| 19 | It 's a rather bad analogy , but I like to think of them as first-division football teams with their own particular qualities . |
| 20 | ‘ You know , Frome , it gives me a great deal of pleasure to think of you as head boy here next year . |
| 21 | It will take something special to get past him in current form and Newcastle team-mate David Kelly could be one of those trying . |
| 22 | He seems also to have had the right to appoint deputies to act for him in individual duchy lordships . |
| 23 | He seems also to have had the right to appoint deputies to act for him in individual duchy lordships . |
| 24 | and Tim Kennedy said they were off , though ; maybe they 'll have something to say about it in due course . |
| 25 | But if we are to understand it , and , particularly , if we are to distinguish within it between cynical accommodation and genuine playfulness , we are going to have to go beyond the embarrassingly inappropriate assumption that it has something to do with ‘ Brechtian ’ distanciation or ‘ modernist ’ self-reflexiveness . |
| 26 | It was a delight to travel on them through exciting scenery that would otherwise have been out of reach . |