Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our eyes met and all the while we were sitting down discussing what we had to do and how we were going to go about it over the four days of the course , my gaze kept returning to the sour-faced buzzard . |
| 2 | ‘ Here , ’ she says thickly , handing me a joint while she rolls the ice cube round in her mouth and tries to breathe through it at the same time . |
| 3 | But the fact remains that twenty seven months after legislation to allow clients to choose solicitors to appear for them in the higher courts came into effect , the Advisory Committee has been unable to advance the process . |
| 4 | ‘ It would n't be wise to communicate with him in the usual way while he 's there . ’ |
| 5 | These planks he marked A , B , C , etc. , and all the man had to do was to sight along them in the proper order and he could not help getting the line right . |
| 6 | I was put to work with him on the same bench and he not only taught me toolmaking , he also taught me about the trade union movement and the kind of society he wanted to see . ’ |
| 7 | He has always had a high reputation in England and the Covent Garden Orchestra were obviously eager to work with him in the 1950s . |
| 8 | I would like and I feel humble for asking , for anyone to write to me about the above . |
| 9 | And naturally his only means of getting in touch would be to write to her at the one address he knew : Elise 's cottage . |
| 10 | I have been asked to write to you about the restricted availability of the public toilets in Scorton . |
| 11 | At their recent meeting Nether Wyresdale Parish Council asked me to write to you about the following : |
| 12 | I therefore feel qualified to write to you about the French electronic machines.l |
| 13 | After some thought he said ; ‘ Well , I have a daughter your age , and if she were to come to me with the same question I would advise her to terminate . ’ |
| 14 | That conflict of views has its fierce advocates on both sides , and I am neither well informed nor dispassionate enough to comment on it From the presumed perspective of John Howard , the Ellis-Beto administrations overall emerge with credit , because they did insist on the publication of official rules , and that was a big breakthrough . |
| 15 | These ledgers can be easily subdivided , enabling several clerks to work on them at the same time and it is also easier to withdraw old accounts and insert new ones in their place . |
| 16 | Despite its boulevards in the north , the city was never as monotonous as the centre of Paris after Baron Haussmann had really got down to work on it in the 1860s . |
| 17 | Early in February 1726 Montrose instructed his commissioner in Scotland to organise his friends to support the plan of a reduction in emoluments for the collector , believing that this would discourage the new candidates and ensure Kirkton 's re-election , for the duke was determined ‘ to stand by him upon the above terms , I mean of a smaller sellary for the future ’ . |
| 18 | Cup in hand , she was about to sit opposite him at the small kitchen table , but the unwelcoming look in his deep blue eyes changed her mind , and she wandered aimlessly through to the living-room . |
| 19 | God raised us up with him to rule with him in the heavenly world . |
| 20 | I went to listen to him at the methodist church at er Newark about Oh quite a few years when |
| 21 | you might be able to do it off that , you wo n't be able to listen to it at the same time |
| 22 | It took many months more for me to feel safe enough to talk to him about The Fat Controller , but there came a time , when the memory of our last vertiginous encounter had dimmed , that I became prepared to risk it . |
| 23 | She was living with her boyfriend as she had for the last eight years and the hospital team were quite happy to talk to him about the proposed care plan for her . |
| 24 | I understand you want to talk to me about the late Mr Hatton . |
| 25 | I wanted to talk to you for the whole journey , but I could n't let you know that , so I just sat there thinking , I 've got to touch her … |
| 26 | Baldwin saw Chamberlain and said , ‘ Austen , when Sam has gone I shall want to talk to you about the Foreign Office . ’ ’ |
| 27 | It may therefore be necessary to proceed against him under the latter section , supposing that the requisite intention can be established , or under section 5 . |
| 28 | Of course , that is what we have to look for , and , of course , there are inevitably going to be occasions when we are compelled to look for it outside the four corners of the language that the draftsman has used . |
| 29 | As well as coaching many of Britain 's leading international crews , Spracklen is a key member of the Oxford University team , and he will be returning from Canada in March to look after them for the last fortnight before the Boat Race . |
| 30 | But I think there 's also the other end of the scale which is , which is what , you 've slightly amended this year , is the fact of elderly people erm , I know recently that myself have gone through the fact of my gran had er , was going through a very sick period , and if she 'd have come back home , it would have been very difficult for me to have had to look after her at the same time as trying to attend my council duties , and this would have been the same for my dad , and the additional income which this would have brought , to have paid someone to be able to look after her whilst we were at council meetings , and you can remember that these meetings sometimes go on , you can say well , this meeting should be over by one o'clock then it goes on till three o'clock or whatever , and then peop , the problems mount up for that person left on their own , and I think that those things have to be taken into consideration , and I believe that this is the first step forward in trying to recognise that people have responsibilities outside of the council chamber . |