Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] a [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She began to mince them into a fragrant green hill on the board in front of her . |
| 2 | She felt a pang of gratitude , remembering his generous offer to provide them with a month-long Sardinian holiday , not only on their anniversary this year , but every single year to come . |
| 3 | They threatened that , if he did not co-operate , the Northern Ireland emergency powers of detention would be used to intern her as a dangerous subversive . |
| 4 | Gently , he began to massage her with a greasy perfumed oil . |
| 5 | ‘ You have already received some of the precious germ-plasm of our blessed Patriarch to kindle you as a true Imperial Fist … ’ |
| 6 | Another good lesson came in the shape of a small bent old lady , with moth-eaten woollen gloves , who always singled me out to serve her with a dozen cracked eggs that were extremely cheap . |
| 7 | And the recreation committee yesterday agreed to replace it with a new wooden one costing £9,500 . |
| 8 | The plan , agreed in 1989 , was to replace it with a purpose-built dental hospital and postgraduate institute . |
| 9 | It is difficult to combine them in a valid mathematical relationship . |
| 10 | As more people choose to enjoy the horse for leisure and sporting activities , the Event will bring together everyone with a serious interest and involvement in horses , and those with the land and resources who may wish to utilise them for a new equine business . |
| 11 | All we want to do is go along and put forward our policies to discuss them in a well-mannered reasoned way . |
| 12 | The ideal is to coat them with a good flexible roofing compound while still sound , which can extend the life of a roof by up to 20 years . |
| 13 | If they are purchased through a large department store , the shop will send an expert to fix them for a small extra charge . |
| 14 | There are four key ideas in that sentence , and I want to underline them for a few more minutes . |
| 15 | Having made a sequence of images , ask them to put them into a different running order . |
| 16 | Wahono , general chair of Golkar ( the ruling Functional Group Centre or Golongan Karya Pusat ) , announced on Oct. 20 that President Suharto had agreed to Golkar 's plan to nominate him for a sixth five-year term as president . |
| 17 | This is how to do it with a few extra explanations to help you understand why you are making the movements — realising why levers move often helps to set the method in the mind . |
| 18 | You can do it , you do n't have to do it in a great long line , you can do it in a sort of cube or something . |
| 19 | I intend to do it in a proper English accent ( You can do it ) . |
| 20 | It 's very much the last attempt — not er , not for , from the point of view of negotiating or er , but , but simply a matter of fact , er we need erm we need to move , we need to have additional sources of , sources of income , that er the type of facility that we 're looking to build will give the club to put it on a firm financial footing , and at the same time to give the local people of the City and er the , the surrounding County er tremendous new facilities . |
| 21 | If you keep your leading fist slightly to the correct side of the centre-line , then you will be able to use it in a direct thrusting action . |
| 22 | When you are pre-recording the music , remember to record it at a constant high level so that you can make all the downward level adjustments when the final transfer is made onto the video tape ; this minimises tape hiss . |
| 23 | On the one hand it is evident that the old order is collapsing of its own accord , so any attempt to subvert it would be pointless ; and on the other , none of these authors portrays a main character secure enough in his own moral beliefs to propose them as a new global framework . |
| 24 | Despite this , my parents found the wherewithal to send me to a cheap fee-paying dayschool . |
| 25 | If he is taken to court , detectives can apply for permission to question him for a further 24 hours . |
| 26 | The labour group have now agreed to reduce it to a hundred thousand . |
| 27 | To reduce it by a further 20 per cent would seem to be the height of idiocy . |
| 28 | AT FIRST listen there was little on The Black Crowes ' first LP ‘ Shake Your Money Maker ’ to separate it from a hundred other rock'n'roll records which were desperately trying to get their sound across after the Guns N'Roses media boom of the late '80s . |
| 29 | Well our company decided to send us for a fucking first aid course and this , it 's er most embarrassing on this particular night we 'd stopped in er in the Chapel Hill in Lisburn |
| 30 | Our white 's qualities would certainly tend very much to preserve him to a good old age , and yet he would not suffice in any number of generations to turn his subjects ' descendants white … |