Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [det] [noun sg] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 He will not have long to wait for another diet of his own words .
2 Captain Mark Phillips had been expected to remain for some time in his cottage on the estate , where he has lived since the marriage broke up three years ago .
3 The only concession forced through before the critical days in September was on the tax allowance to foster parents who were now able to claim for any child in their care under the age of sixteen or in full-time education .
4 The University 's overhauled financial systems allow it to plan for another year in which income and expenditure will at least balance and may perhaps allow some restoration of the reserves it needs to cope with unexpected problems .
5 Erm , I know that over the last few days you 've gone through the process of writing prioritised notes , so I 'm not going to go through that process with you .
6 The court discussed the example of a solicitor 's clerk and said that in such a case it would be improper for him to work for another solicitor in his spare time .
7 Erm they can then feel that their family 's being looked after as well , so it helps them not to worry about that side of it .
8 In using a symbolic device , such as a pointing gesture , to communicate with another person about something — for example , an object — it is clear that the child has learned many of the social skills necessary for linguistic communication .
9 Although it felt like a miraculous coincidence for us at the time , it was more that we were all ready to grapple with this issue in our lives .
10 If one accepts this , even if only for the present and not as an inevitable fact for the future , then a responsibility lies with hearing society to meet not only the communication requirements of deaf people but also to understand and be able to work with this group in their language .
11 Oh you wo n't be able to come in any day with me next week will you ?
12 Apart from these five officials , the other members of the political executive committee were to work in that body alongside their regular jobs .
13 They were the North Riding Authority , er the East Riding Authority , the West Riding Authority , all of which converged on the on the city of York , and as you read through the files , er you will see that even then the D O E were trying to get erm those er those predecessor authorities in the late fifties , early sixties er to come to some view about what ought to be better for Greater York , so for many years the idea of Greater York ha has been current er in one guise or another .
14 There 's a special job Preston 's engaged on and I want to come to some arrangement with him — there should be room for both of us — if you would be good enough to tell me when your husband is likely to be back — "
15 And then if er you want a so solicitor with you on that day we 'll have to come to some arrangement with you privately about the costs .
16 Well , we 're anxious that there is n't an escalation of this crisis , that it may be dealed with as Brigadier Harbottle has written in a letter to the Guardian today , dealt with , er more through first of all an attempt by the Arab nations to come to some agreement amongst themselves and agreement which will satisfy them and be a more long-lasting one .
17 Haydon failed to come to any agreement with his creditors .
18 In an effort to make life more interesting for our younger members of staff and our graduate element , I have been inviting past students back to lecture on any aspect of their current work .
19 Being the owner , if he sells the goods he will be able to pass on that ownership to his purchaser .
20 It was like turning the man inside out , to pass to that view of his features in his liveliest mood , and see how calculating and intent they were . ’
21 ‘ If we was into that shit , you would n't be able to stand on this corner with us like this , you 'd get killed , ’ points out one former member , who declines to identify himself .
22 For all her encouragement to them to come at any time to her house , Rose herself was wary of calling at Great Meadow .
23 At recent rates about 80 per cent of married women can expect to work at some time in their married lifetime ( Martin and Roberts 1984 ) .
24 If the formation and acquisition of knowledge has the character of a conversation , then students must be accorded an appropriate measure of freedom to engage in that conversation in their own way .
25 " It 's just a trick , really , it 's easy , " said Clara , and she took back the egg , and found that she could not put it together again either , so they decided to abandon it , and left it in little pieces in a glass dish on the mantelpiece with some dry and coloured gourds , and then they went downstairs and out into the park , and walked towards the bus stop , and Clara explained , lest the gourds and the egg should be thought to reflect in any way on herself , that they had been given to her by a friend the week before , to celebrate her twenty-second birthday .
26 He does n't answer because his press officer has told me beforehand that he does n't intend to talk in any detail about it .
27 It seemed as if everyone was going to conform to this funeral except him .
28 It helps if couples can think in advance about what retirement will be like-to think individually about what they 'd like to happen , and even more importantly , to talk to each other about what they 'd like to happen .
29 This is one very good aspect of such projects , I think , that the interesting work is to be done at the interface between one discipline — medicine in this case and another discipline — computer science — where both people just have to learn to talk to each other in their own language .
30 Many people will have experienced the relief of being able to talk to another person about their feelings and difficulties .
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