Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ask this council to ignore the recommendation from the housing committee and to support me in passing this amendment . |
| 2 | The assembler does not directly offer these facilities , but it is possible to implement them by using other features of BBCBASIC(Z80) . |
| 3 | They tried to attract me by offering tempting morsels — one offered me a Rolls-Royce with a personalised number plate — but my loyalties belonged to John . |
| 4 | Greenfield herself provides some evidence that the test situation was not entirely culture-free although she does not allow this to restrict her from making large inferences from the results . |
| 5 | Then he told me to wait for him after I had visited my father , and said that he would try to think of a way to help me without arousing any suspicion . |
| 6 | If Spunk had been hoping to rattle me by picking this place for a venue , then Spunk was out of luck . |
| 7 | Techniques have been devised by Operational Research scientists to enable organizations to work out the Economic Order Quantity ( EOQ ) for individual stock items , and to aid them in setting optimum re-order levels ( ie the levels at which stock needs to be replaced ) . |
| 8 | We 're saying , we 're trying to help you by raising this money , erm it 's not sort of lecturing them or anything , we 're trying to focus on communities and empower them by giving them money for projects they want to happen , it 's not anything we 've decided . |
| 9 | Thus , if the body clock is delayed then one tries to advance it by giving bright light in the morning , and if it is advanced then the light is given in the evening to delay it . |
| 10 | We shall also be asking centre co-ordinators to help us in collecting important information about candidates ' first destinations after taking general SVQs . |
| 11 | No , I must say that things have now gone so far as to justify me in feeling considerable uneasiness about his continued absence . ’ |
| 12 | Jitters had his gun back , with just one bloody buggering round left in it , so he would jolly well have to put it to freaking good use , would n't he , by jove . |
| 13 | This loss is an empty gap in the characters ' lives and both Celie and Ponyboy try to fill it by installing great love and understanding into their friendships . |
| 14 | Software biggie Software AG is putting in an internal Industry Standards Program Office to guide it in implementing such things and communicate same to its customers : its initial focus will be on applications development , database and repository management , networking , GUIs and operating systems . |
| 15 | NEWSAGENTS will today be urged to back calls for a change in the law to protect them from becoming innocent victims of the law which prevents tobacco being sold to under-age youngsters . |
| 16 | Central was a commitment to the universality of natural rights and the need to protect them by maintaining balanced systems of government in which concentrations of power were avoided . |
| 17 | Help to protect them by following these rules : |
| 18 | The Hammonds had placed Luddism as the resort to violence by traditional workers who had failed in the face of a growing laissez-faire |
| 19 | She did n't think she would ever be able to forgive him for keeping that information from her . |
| 20 | In practice the trailblazers lack international support to assist them in developing serious education tools to further information and debates which would provide the right climate for social change . |
| 21 | But he repeated his promise that there would be extra help for poor pensioners and families on income support to assist them in meeting increased heating bills . |
| 22 | If the legislation could only help Catholics , West Belfast Protestants who too lack a supporting network of friends and relations able to assist them in obtaining well-paid employment , could complain . |
| 23 | referred to a statutory predecessor of Ord. 62 , r. 24 and said : ‘ Where an account consists in part of a bill of costs , the judge may direct the taxing master to assist him in settling such costs . ’ |
| 24 | ( When he became Chancellor of the Exchequer this practice caused consternation at the Treasury , when he used only a page of notes to assist him in moving complicated resolutions on wartime finance ; he relied successfully on his memory to provide details and figures . ) |
| 25 | The Zambian leader , currently facing serious internal unrest [ see p. 37523 ] , had previously used international statesmanship to assist him in solving domestic problems . |
| 26 | She spun round to face him with blazing blue eyes and then her head fell as the blue became blurred with tears , and pity for herself , for her mother and for the man she scarcely remembered came flooding with the tears that fell down her cheeks . |
| 27 | At issue is the FBI 's ability to wiretap in future … the FBI is not only asking the industry to dumb down existing software , it wants to prohibit it from developing new technologies that might interfere with the government 's ability to intercept various oral and electronic communications . ’ |
| 28 | This is elementary contract law , because , obviously , once the contract has been formed it is too late to try to change it by adding additional terms ( see Olley v Marlborough Court Ltd [ 1949 ] 1 KB 532 ) . |
| 29 | For example , they may force the potentially inefficient firms either to join them in adopting cost-saving innovations which involve some disruption of current working practices , or to go to the wall . |
| 30 | TODAY launched a campaign after customers claimed high-pressure selling techniques were used to push them into signing misleading agreements . |