Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Acknowledgement of the fact of this fundamental need for a ‘ god ’ , and the need to provide for it in any social order , can be the vital factor in finding a way to ease the sufferings of the world . |
| 2 | I mean , er the thing is if you 've got a name and you want to that 's the time to work for it in that little |
| 3 | Virginia had crept up to her several times trying to be friendly , but each time the house repelled her advances , do n't you dare to come near me with those nasty creepy little fingers she smiled , preventing the new young tendrils finding a hold on her walls . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm thrilled that the board have shown faith in me by giving me the chance to work with them for another 12 months . |
| 5 | When Kevin Woodford , owner and chef of Woodfords restaurant on the Isle Of Man asked viewers of ITV 's This Morning programme to write to him about any culinary problems , the letters simply flooded in . |
| 6 | I know that the Minister may not be in a position to respond in detail to the comments made on this subject by the hon. Member for Cardiff , North and me , but I hope that he will take them on board and I ask him to write to us on these important local issues . |
| 7 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , something happened recently which has prompted me to write to you in this unsolicited way , though God knows we were once . |
| 8 | I think his pleasure was merely to talk about it in that calm way to a completely ignorant young girl . |
| 9 | I did not then have a chance actually to converse with him until that second evening after the return of his illness . |
| 10 | He had n't dared to dwell on her in those aging arms lest his rage should drive him to deeds he might regret for the rest of his life . |
| 11 | Well , Adolph , it certainly was a real pleasure to hear from you after all these years . |
| 12 | Well I think it 's not helpful to look at it with such stark divisions , I think everybody 's clear |
| 13 | A wife who was entitled to a lump sum on the ‘ clean break ’ principle was not obliged to deal with it in any particular fashion . |
| 14 | She took a shaky step back , mentally berating herself for continuing to react to him in this inexplicable fashion . |
| 15 | It can also order the Chief Constable to report to it on any particular matter ( s.5(4) ) . |
| 16 | I 've to call for him at half ten . |
| 17 | I 've to call for him at half ten . |
| 18 | He reminded North that it was possible for an American to disagree with him on that particular , ‘ and still love God , and still love this country just as much as you do ’ ; although He was regularly asked to do so , ‘ God does not take sides in American politics . ’ |
| 19 | The last thing she wanted , she said , was to live with him in some godforsaken bog , cut off from relatives and shops . |
| 20 | but they 're gon na taxed so heavily that they ca n't afford to live in it under this new tax ! |
| 21 | She makes no acknowledgement of their affair in public and he understands that he is not to refer to it with these new acquaintances . |
| 22 | It was here , at the BCHC that I first began to hear the dictionary of cancer , to see the effect of the disease and to learn about it in any useful and positive way . |
| 23 | ‘ To think of him in any other role , to plot and connive for his affections — even to think of his putting his own desires and inclinations before his duty to God and the realm , is treason of the highest order . |
| 24 | ‘ I was doubtful myself , ’ Maureen admitted , ‘ but I hate to think of you in that awful room . |
| 25 | The yearnings which I used to have towards it in those unfledged years ! |
| 26 | Both features resembled their names to a baffling degree but , despite this , Abu was moved to expound upon them with such fervent body language that we nearly plunged into the ravine and terminated our lives at the very lip of the sacred symbol of where we had begun it . |
| 27 | The relief must have shown in her face , as she caught his brief little smile of amusement drifting in her direction , and when she thought back on their encounters lately she realised that he often seemed to glance at her in that same lightly amused way , as if he found her mildly diverting — the way he might feel , perhaps , about a pretty child . |
| 28 | ‘ If you continue to speak to me in that cold manner , ’ she answered , ‘ I shall say nothing at all . |
| 29 | She would so like to speak to him of all that was inside her . |