Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [noun] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After moving to England , he fought for over two years without being defeated and reckoned : ‘ Ninety per cent of the public wanted to see me win the British title . |
| 2 | IF the BBC wants to secure its future the first thing it should do is cut down on the huge fees it pays to presenters . |
| 3 | He would doubtless provide if a commission was to come his way a superb set of illustrations to Dante Alighieri 's The Divine Comedy . |
| 4 | If so , he will often need to know what action the local authority has taken before the matter came to court and whether this complied with the requirements of the Act . |
| 5 | You would probably need to pitch your voice a certain amount , but without shouting , and slow down . |
| 6 | Arrangements were carefully made so that Lunia would not be compromised and Modigliani came to paint her portrait the following day in the Sunny Hotel on the Boulevard de Port-Royal , the little lodging house where Zborowski was living with his handsome and somewhat forbidding common-law wife , Anna ( Hanka ) Zborowska . |
| 7 | " To-morrow I 've promised to take Lizzie to see her niece the other side of Bridgeborough , " Sara said quickly , glad of the genuine excuse . |
| 8 | Miss Bedwelty had said she would come over to see their horses the following week . |
| 9 | Hari knew it was mostly done to help Craig and yet Edward Morris seemed to like her work a great deal . |
| 10 | Where there is strong evidence of guilt , defendants given the benefit of the doubt by a jury in a criminal trial will be reluctant to chance their luck a second time by bringing a libel action . |
| 11 | as if to signal their displeasure the Dutch parliament passed a constitutional amendment in 1952 incorporating West New Guinea into the Netherlands and closing off further discussion of the issue . |
| 12 | Bolivians prefer to choose their governments the democratic way , but this is not to say that they admire the means at present available for doing it . |
| 13 | When the Queen came to visit her grandchild the following day her comment was typical . |
| 14 | The NLA passed a new political parties law on Dec. 27 , requiring political parties to state their assets every four months . |
| 15 | In the year I had skippered Wavebreaker at least half of our married male charterers had either offered Ellen a job or pressed her to visit their offices the next time she passed through their city . |
| 16 | To widen its support the Communist Party sent representatives to a meeting with the National Unemployed Workers Movement and the ILP . |
| 17 | In a bid to regain his machine the unemployed roofer climbed to the top of a building , ripped off tiles and threw them into the street , it was alleged . |
| 18 | STEFAN EDBERG 'S bid to regain his World No 1 ranking got off to a stuttering start in the IBM ATP World Championships in Frankfurt last night , writes Giles Smith . |
| 19 | When Carco 's concierge came to clean his room the next day , she almost fainted at the sight of the nude picture hanging over his bed . |
| 20 | One of my objectives was to buy my wife a little car . |
| 21 | They had set off on a sunny morning to paddle their canoes a short distance along the Dorset coastline from the St Albans Centre , Lyme Regis . |
| 22 | In defence , the dismounted men-at-arms and archers ( the archers being either in ‘ wedges ’ or set out before the men-at-arms ) provided density of resistance , giving each other support , the men-at-arms being all the better protected , since the archers were able to fire their weapons a considerable distance against an advancing enemy , thus disrupting them before they reached the defending men-at-arms who , with their own cavalry , could then mount a counter-attack . |
| 23 | ‘ He 's askin' for a chair , ’ the carrier motioned his partner , the back half of the sedan chair pair , to help him corner the hapless Ingram 's custom . |
| 24 | Would we commend Bob Cratchet if he had used his credit card to buy his family a lavish Christmas lunch ? |
| 25 | and her voice trailed away , as she simultaneously managed to imply that Brian had the Town Hall in the palm of his hand , and that he had enough money to buy his father a comfortable bungalow in a nice suburb whenever he felt like it . |
| 26 | I did manage to give my hands a quick rinse beforehand and nobody has mentioned food poisoning so it must have been ok . |
| 27 | I had failed miserably to give my readers a true picture of the visual delights awaiting those who followed in my footsteps . |
| 28 | Association director Richard Insoll warned : ‘ The Wine and Spirit Association will be reviewing this and other instances of apparent abuse of authority by EHOs in order to give its members the best advice . |
| 29 | In this issue you can read about Auvers-sur-l'Oise where many of the Impressionists lived and painted , which has decided to give its tourists the hyperreal experience of walking through ‘ Dejeuner sur l'herbe ’ and travelling in the padded compartments of a nineteenth-century train with Monet landscapes outside . |
| 30 | The bird rolled over , but on righting itself managed to give its attacker a sharp peck on its wing tip as it tried to escape . |