Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway today we had the scene where Matt had to hit me with the paddle sort of semi-accidentally . |
| 2 | When questions , for example on morbidity , had been validated in the General Household Survey , it would be possible to include them in the Resource Allocation Survey . |
| 3 | They have received it in the shape of detailed educational theory carefully worked out to see them through the maturation process from infancy to adulthood . |
| 4 | ‘ I went over to see them in a tea dance one Friday and they said it was like they were being auditioned . |
| 5 | I hope you manage to see everyone during the holiday period , as I know how much that means to you . |
| 6 | The ground was largely excavated by hand , and shovelled into small tipping trucks , which were then hauled on rails by horses.4 ; Excavated material from the lower level was raised to form the top of the planes and a stretch of embanked canal to connect them with the summit pound . |
| 7 | In December 1757 he tried to excuse himself ‘ as my abode is at such distance from the place where the Royal Society hold their weekly meetings as to render it not only inconvenient , but unsafe for me to attend them in the winter season. , A month later Ellis countered with , ‘ I scarce think it possible that Mr. Miller should have no one friend in the Society to send him word and , indeed , I had told Rivington to tell Miller I would be glad to discuss the matter at Fulham , and Miller ignored it . ’ |
| 8 | There were commercial laundries in the 1920s and the large linen hampers that took two people to carry them to the laundry van show that this was a luxury enjoyed by the inhabitants of the Dolls ' House . |
| 9 | The King of this country ( which was called Lilliput ) had ordered his people to carry me to the capital city , about a kilometre away . |
| 10 | They acquired a wider notoriety five months later , when de Gaulle decided to champion them in a press conference ( 4 February 1965 ) . |
| 11 | Pupils should be well prepared , and it is advisable to issue them with a guidance sheet that can be shown to the staff . |
| 12 | I doubt whether the working party will get any further than recommending the status quo , because I 'm absolutely sure in my own mind , that it is a duty that this council has to support village schools , where the parents support them , and where they 're educationally beneficial , to support them in the village communities , because they are , they have other importance than just education . |
| 13 | But a final word of caution : venturis are temperamental , and to enclose yours within a blockwork wall , only to find that it did n't work properly , would be frustrating . |
| 14 | I had needed to break our journey north int he capital to see someone in the tourist board 's head office . |
| 15 | That is , unless you happened to be about to meet them across a conference table . |
| 16 | On that Sunday evening Lady Eleanor was instructed to meet them outside the Galilee Gate . |
| 17 | Fairly detailed criterion statements are considered in order to relate them to the test questions used , which themselves are derived from the foundation list topics . |
| 18 | Blind , deaf , but able to smell ; able to find them by the food smell , even in this raging , wind-swept , rain-driven night … |
| 19 | So I would , I and a couple of the fellas went to pull them to the aeroplane graveyard . |
| 20 | They all looked blowsy , lipsticky and desperate , locked in a fight with a life set to trample them into the barroom floor , a series of no-account boyfriends too free with their fists and guns , and an incipient obesity that would limit their later careers to shrill mother roles . |
| 21 | Would n't like him to catch me under the kissing bough . ’ |
| 22 | Since my dramatic arrival on the fishkeeping scene , I have been constantly troubled by reporters hiding in my filter , dustbins , and under the coal in my bath , all seeking to catch me with a fishkeeping grouper . |
| 23 | Once again it is up to the pilot to insist that this wing is held and not to accept someone on the upwind wing-tip . |
| 24 | Following a visit to London and Paris in 1849 he returned to Aberdeen to establish himself as a portrait miniaturist . |
| 25 | He Anglicized his name and a few years later he was being described as an accountant or merchant 's clerk ; a subsequent attempt to establish himself as a commission agent apparently failed . |
| 26 | The Scottish selectors , however , rated his prime potential value to Scotland as a prop and the genial giant is in the process of seeking to establish himself in the tighthead position . |
| 27 | Mr Attlee was careful to position himself with the majority view in Cabinet . |
| 28 | This message is displayed to inform you of the mail identifier for the preceeding transaction . |
| 29 | The PC is also beginning to establish itself as a consumer item , as demonstrated by its appearance in high street retail chains like Dixons , Wildings and John Lewis . |
| 30 | With all of its efforts to establish itself in the Unix marketplace , DEC has sometimes been in danger of convincing its own VMS customers that the traditional VAX lines have not been keeping up with Unix in the price/performance race . |