Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You used to have to rub all your clothes and on this rub board or get a little brush and and scrub the s collar and your cuffs and then in the salt water and get all them in and then you used to have to ponch them with a ponch or a dolly peg , what used to go round like that you see . |
| 2 | Practical theories and theoretized practice meet somewhere in the middle , and it may be more fruitful to see them as a continuum than as a dichotomy . |
| 3 | The Jungle Book was not mentioned again by any of them , as if they were n't ready to see me as an actor but preferred me in my old role as a useless boy . |
| 4 | No well we used to kill them with a stick but of course they used to lay the rabbits out at that time to see how many they caught cos that was a little bit of perks for the farm labourers they used to buy a rabbit for sixpence , then they go up to ninepence for a rabbit . |
| 5 | When planting species of this group , it is better to plant them in a cluster or bunch . |
| 6 | When transferring animals between cages it may be found easier to coax them into a bottle than to handle them . |
| 7 | to provide me with the reference , would you be kind enough to provide me with a reference and send it via oh my God ! |
| 8 | The other 140 had to rely in varying degrees on transferred votes to provide them with a quota or something approaching it . |
| 9 | Three-quarters of all Germans now believe that the government has a duty to provide them with a job and a house . |
| 10 | I truly feel that somebody 's going to pinch me in a minute and I 'm going to wake up . |
| 11 | To provide everyone with a voucher that can be used instead of money to purchase a minimum amount of that particular service . |
| 12 | Judith Masterman , whose daughter Alison works in the orphanage , said : ‘ We are not aiming to provide everyone with a mattress but whatever we can get helps . |
| 13 | Associative and cognitive theories present two major examples of different approaches to the study of learning , and although they differ in very many respects it is possible to synthesise them in a way that offers guidance for teachers . |
| 14 | You want the papers you 've yet to find someone with a painting and |
| 15 | Her eyes flew up to meet his in a panic until she screwed up sufficient courage to put her fear into words . |
| 16 | The Divisional objectives are twofold , one to establish ourselves in a market that only two years ago was completely new to Rentokil , and the other to help our customers and prospects through the current minefield of legislation related to water and air systems . |
| 17 | Your doctor may be able to recommend an osteopath or chiropractor , or you may be able to find one through a friend or in the Yellow Pages . |
| 18 | She seemed about to launch herself into a speech but then thought better of it . |
| 19 | In 1980 , the owner approached a local architect , John Wharton , to provide him with a design that could be easily executed by direct labour and it was immediately apparent that exploitation of the high volume of the main east-west wing of the building would be the best way of obtaining the maximum accommodation . |
| 20 | But he drew back , and taking her hand , forced her to caress him in a way that revolted her . |
| 21 | I should like to inform him of an exercise that is being carried out by Doug Bulmer , the president of the British Association of Colliery Management . |
| 22 | The trustees may refuse to accept her as a beneficiary or may require any benefits to be divided with other individuals . |
| 23 | She had known William as a boy and as an adolescent ; she was beginning to know him as an adult and as a lover ; but between the two blocks of knowledge was a ten-year gap . |
| 24 | Either he can at once accept the anticipatory breach as a repudiation and immediately claim damages or else he can refuse to accept it as a repudiation and wait until there has been actual failure to perform the contract ( as opposed to an anticipatory one ) . |
| 25 | Well that shows us what a dramatist was lost to the English stage when Milton finally decided to write it as an epic and not as a play . |
| 26 | Indeed , the identification of meaning with the material form of language ( words , sentences , speech ) is a precondition of ordinary language use ; to use language is to trust it as a tool that expresses meaning . |
| 27 | I had one repaired for Susannah , it had been left to her by an aunt and she had managed to smash it against a post or something and broke the shank and knocked out one of the erm , stones , so on and so forth , and eh , together with some repairs on a charm bracelet I had to pay thirty seven pounds for the whole jolly lot . |
| 28 | When the studio system collapsed , many of the directors who had flourished within it found themselves unable to impose themselves on a process that too easily slipped out of their control . |
| 29 | So Alfred had laced his own brandy and taken it to the little hut which had youthful associations , there to kill himself in a manner that was almost ceremonial . |
| 30 | To be recognized for some achievement in life lifted Dad immensely ; before Eva he had begun to see himself as a failure and his life as a dismal thing . |