Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [noun sg] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ask you , Mr. Speaker , to grant my request to allow the House to consider this serious matter . |
| 2 | I am disappointed that my right hon. Friend was not able to accept my invitation to attend the concert of the Royal Choral Society on a European theme at the Festival hall on 7 March , particularly as I hope to take part in it . |
| 3 | The Government moved swiftly to meet their requirement to introduce the landlord and tenant legislation . |
| 4 | A technical flaw in her papers invalidated her nomination , but the fact that the returning officer was prepared to accept her candidature ended the controversy about women 's eligibility . |
| 5 | The trial judge found against the wife on her contention that the husband acted as the bank 's agent to obtain her attendance to sign the charge , but made no finding whether the husband had exerted undue influence upon her . |
| 6 | Britain is not in debt to the IMF , so the advice is entirely optional , but there are unpleasant echoes of the mid-1970s when Denis Healey had to borrow from the IMF to support the pound and was publicly forced to accept its advice to control the money supply and raise interest rates . |
| 7 | Traditional current affairs departments have n't quite figured out how to adjust their agenda to meet the shift . |
| 8 | Someone will have been murdered , and the reader , like your private-eye , will want to know whose hand held the gun . |
| 9 | Only that perhaps he had manufactured some reason so that she would be able to overcome her own personal fears of being alone with him ; given her an excuse to accept his invitation to re-enter the apartment where he 'd previously abused her both physically and verbally . |
| 10 | They move immediately to the pragmatic therapeutic approach and try to find what action restores the child to normal . |
| 11 | He does n't have to pass our door to get the bus stop , he does n't have to pass our door to get to the schools |
| 12 | But protestors vowed to continue their fight to close the plant . |
| 13 | If this leaves the gripper too far from the desired point , the robot tries adjusting each joint a little in turn to see which adjustment moves the torch 's image most quickly towards the point I. It selects the most significant joint and keeps moving this one until the torch 's image is as close as it can get to I ; then it tries adjusting another joint , and so on , until the gripper is close enough . |
| 14 | In so deciding , he had to take into account the fact that it was plain that Wickes would , unless restrained , continue to act in contravention of section 47 of the Shops Act 1950 ; and that , in practical terms , proceedings by way of injunction were the only means open to the council to perform its duty to enforce the provisions of section 47 . |
| 15 | The University Labour Federation failed to carry its motion to reject the report . |
| 16 | Observers speculate that its decision to issue the ban now is connected with a desire to demonstrate adherence to international treaties , in an effort to bolster its bid to host the Olympics in the year 2000 . |
| 17 | His mother , Jean , had paid £30 at a charity auction to enable her son to visit the quarry . |
| 18 | Do I appreciate that I have to lead my group to see the story as symbol ? |
| 19 | It had been bought by a middle-aged nursing Sister who 'd had to sell her car to raise the deposit on the place . |
| 20 | Special considerations : the appellant 's counsel had informed the sentencer that the appellant was prepared to sell his house to raise the funds to pay compensation , and that the house was subject to an offer to purchase which would leave the appellant with an equity of almost £17,000 . |
| 21 | It 's a big setback for Molby , who faces a fight to regain his place following the arrival of Paul Stewart to bolster Liverpool 's midfield . |
| 22 | The grandmother of a Cornish smallholder 's family would stay the first three days of each week ‘ to help my mother to do the washing and buttermaking … and to help to do the mending ; ’ and when the children were not at school they would walk the mile and a half back to granny 's own ‘ little thatched cottage . ’ |
| 23 | There is no date set for the retirement , and Mrs. Rooney is happy to stay on to help her successor learn the ropes . |
| 24 | It even seems to justify the way in which the United Nations has been hijacked by the United States and Britain to legitimise their decision to eliminate the Saddam Hussein regime . |
| 25 | Major and minor shows alike have been forced to broaden their appeal to keep the turnstiles clicking and cover rising costs . |
| 26 | SALMAN RUSHDIE made a dramatic television appeal yesterday for a meeting with the Prime Minister to fortify his campaign to end the fatwa sentence of death imposed on him by Iranian fundamentalists . |
| 27 | A ‘ worst ’ scenario could include the creation of our document , in individualistic form by a user who chooses to exercise his/her ability to keep the document ‘ personal ’ , only accessible to those to whom it is directly mailed . |
| 28 | A POTTERY firm chairman has returned a £236,000 bonus to help his firm beat the recession . |
| 29 | The patient 's first experiences of standing up , in the early stages after his stroke or head injury , aim to help his body regain the tonus needed to hold itself up against gravity ( pp.9 , 115 ) . |
| 30 | The Special Commissioner was therefore entitled to exercise his discretion to exclude the testimony under s 5(3) of the Civil Evidence Act 1972 . |