Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [pron] [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 | Having watched television documentaries about life in East Germany , Becker was keen to see for himself for the first time . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ It would n't be wise to communicate with him in the usual way while he 's there . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | He has always had a high reputation in England and the Covent Garden Orchestra were obviously eager to work with him in the 1950s . |
| 9 | You 'd be stupid to go across the stepping stones if you did n't have the power to jump from one to the other , pretty big , but the , so are the distances between them and at that time of the year the river was pretty high too and r rather boisterous , so it would n't be very pleasant if you had fallen in , but you 've got to have that but you 've also got to have stamina as you said , but it would n't have been any fun if you 'd got halfway across and your stamina had run out , then fire brigade called out , the fire brigade or something . |
| 10 | This can be expressed in Hume 's terms of the tendency of the mind to pass from one to the other , but one must be careful how one interprets such a tendency . |
| 11 | I would like and I feel humble for asking , for anyone to write to me about the above . |
| 12 | And naturally his only means of getting in touch would be to write to her at the one address he knew : Elise 's cottage . |
| 13 | I have been asked to write to you about the restricted availability of the public toilets in Scorton . |
| 14 | At their recent meeting Nether Wyresdale Parish Council asked me to write to you about the following : |
| 15 | I therefore feel qualified to write to you about the French electronic machines.l |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Her instinct is to relate to everyone in the same way . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I move away as I would prefer to talk with someone from the same planet . |
| 24 | God raised us up with him to rule with him in the heavenly world . |
| 25 | Since the insect and the scorpion are 30 genetic units distant from one another , it takes only 30 generations to evolve from one to the other if you never take a wrong turning ; if , that is , you know exactly what genetic formula you are heading towards , and how to steer towards it . |
| 26 | I went to listen to him at the methodist church at er Newark about Oh quite a few years when |
| 27 | you might be able to do it off that , you wo n't be able to listen to it at the same time |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I understand you want to talk to me about the late Mr Hatton . |