Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | They refused to leave on request and attempts to eject them failed on account of the sudden arrival of reinforcements from the local station . |
| 2 | This money was to be handed out to things from athletic clubs and the poor of the South Teheran slums to encourage them to demonstrate in favour of the Shah . |
| 3 | To inform teachers and academics of the work of Amnesty International and in particular to encourage them to campaign on behalf of colleagues around the world who are victims of human rights abuses . |
| 4 | To inform teachers , lecturers and other academics of the work of AI and to encourage them to campaign on behalf of their colleagues around the world who have become the victims of human rights abuse . |
| 5 | Helen had taken over the ‘ Returned Books ’ counter temporarily from one of the juniors and looked up to find him standing in front of her , smiling . |
| 6 | I refer to your fax of 24 May 1993 asking for comments/answers on various questions to enable you to reply on behalf of the Convener to correspondence he has received from Council Tax payers . |
| 7 | One possible way of getting round the problem of the ‘ doorstep ’ explanation is to write a letter to people in the sample to let them know in advance of the survey and the coming call by an interviewer . |
| 8 | It is specially important not to let him vegetate in front of the television for long periods . |
| 9 | I was able to let him know in advance of my possible visit by giving a short letter to someone in Fontanellato , a patient of Dr Sambataro 's , who was going to visit a very ill relative in Lagrimone . |
| 10 | If Britain gives us all those billions , to keep us going in spite of all the trouble , might not the cash dry up if we had peace ? |
| 11 | And if you happen to see him sitting in front of the television , dressed in a plain white vest rather than one of his talkative T-shirts , why assume that he is being a slob ? |
| 12 | In the circumstances , he must already have sufficient evidence to enable him to proceed by way of summons , and could also arrest if the general arrest conditions of PACE are satisfied . |
| 13 | Only Sinead O'Connor would have the courage , the reckless spirit , to take on songs made famous by the greatest singers — Ella Fitzgerald , Billie Holiday , Peggy Lee — to sing them live in front of a 47-piece orchestra , then take on organised religion and blame it for child abuse , and damn the consequences . |
| 14 | He 's bowling with considerable pace there , did Lawrence , that wicket 's cheered him up and he was rushing in , he 's got his line right , round that off stump and plays a bit of a open face anyway , so those in the slip Gordon beware and the one that did get an edge , it flew through , both Ian Botham who 's at second and Graham Gooch , they both stand pretty close , they work on the theory that it 's better to drop them then to have them bouncing in front of you , but they could have been about five yards deeper in that , the one , that , that went flying through with the character . |
| 15 | Gemayel was also a good friend of Israel and the CIA was hoping to get him elected as president of Lebanon . |