Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] a [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gypsies themselves are puzzled by the apparant determination of the council to evict them from a site well away from public view . |
| 2 | We got about six sentences too deep in our conversation for her to institute personal questions about my background , without appearing offensive ( she had to treat me as a person now and not a peon ) , even for Asians who delight in asking pertinent questions as to age , income , etc. , unthinkable for more backward Europeans . |
| 3 | You 've been clever enough to catch me in a honeytrap partly of my own making ! |
| 4 | ‘ They tried to pull me into a scrum once and they invited me into the showers with them ’ — GAIL PARKER ( a lady referee ) on problems encountered when trying to control men . |
| 5 | If someone was looking for The Bar in those days — because there was no name written up or sign for it , no lights at all , and not even a number on the door , Madame liked to keep it that way even when she did n't have to any more — I mean when she opened up we may all have been in a sort of hiding , and not many people knew about The Bar and our life there , but it was n't that way later , and now you know we can have lights and advertising and you see boys queueing up outside every night , very public , and I like to see that — but in those days , in those days if somebody arranged to meet you for a date there , and it was their first time and they were n't sure how to find us , you 'd joke with them , and you 'd say well first there is a wedding , and then there 's a death , and there 's the news , and then there 's us ; meaning , first there 's the shop with the flowers , the real ones , and next door to that is the undertaker 's with the fake flowers in the window , china , all dusty ; and then the newsagent 's and magazine shop , and then right next door to that is The Bar . |
| 6 | The staff would n't arrive to set them for a while yet . |
| 7 | She was going to edge him into a situation where it would be openly discourteous to refuse her , and nothing in his education or his upbringing had prepared him to be discourteous to anyone , least of all a woman . |
| 8 | However , what is most interesting is that a deliberate attempt was made to sell it as a concept rather than as what might have hitherto been seen as a package of infrastructural measures . |
| 9 | Toilet seats are propped up against the wall , in the unlikely event that someone might want to buy them in a country where hygiene is pathological . |
| 10 | Because you only have to identify them by a name not not a |
| 11 | If you buy green bananas a handy tip for speeding up their ripening is to put them in a bag together with some apples or kiwi fruit . |
| 12 | We regret having to disturb you at a time when you are busy , but the matter is important . ’ |
| 13 | Things like that they ought to put you in a room together , you 'd be fine would n't you ! |
| 14 | He 's a fabulous guy and very funny , but it took a long time , and I do n't take credit for it , but it took a long time to put him in a situation where I felt that he was at maximum ‘ comfortableness ’ , so that his shyness — and he was very shy — was overcome . |
| 15 | He had hoped to make her apologize humbly and promise never to use him in a story again . |
| 16 | Her cruel circumstances conspired to put her into a remand home at 14 — and from there she went to an adolescent unit , until the age of 17 . |
| 17 | Few of us have the time , training , or expertise to do this job properly , even if it were possible to do it for a population as small as 10 000 people — which it is not . |
| 18 | are n't you supposed to put it into a conversation though ? |
| 19 | so , so then Anita goes , no I go tell him to put it in a letter then , yeah , and he was gon na put it in a letter and then he changed his mind and he said he was gon na ask me after school , but then he did n't ask me after school and Kate gave him my phone number and then he phoned me |
| 20 | It made it impossible to use it as a building never mind as a church . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ It made it impossible to use it as a building never mind as a church . ’ |
| 22 | Updata is aimed primarily at users in the financial world ranging from business executives and private investors at home , to large trading organisations wishing to use it as a back up system . |
| 23 | if possible you want to avoid that , so you do n't want to , and , and you certainly do n't want to leave it until a time when you have been taken sick and you ca n't do anything about it . |
| 24 | I just asked in , to give it in a note actually . |
| 25 | If it did not exist , would anyone trouble to invent it at a time when , from the Atlantic to the Urals , socialism in all its manifestations is losing the argument to liberal capitalism ? |
| 26 | I said she 's tried to keep you on a string just in case she did n't land the next fish . |
| 27 | I said she , she might well come back to you I said she 's tried to keep you on a string just in case she did n't land the next dish he looked horrified , you know , as far as he 's concerned its all love and glamour . |
| 28 | They have to run it as a business now . |
| 29 | By way of illustration a factor of 10,000 indicates that one cubic metre of odorous gas as sampled will require 10,000 cubic metres of clean air to reduce it to a level where the ‘ average , , nose will not detect it . |
| 30 | " All I want is to see her in a place where she 'll be cared for . |