Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pos pn] [noun sg] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doreen went on , ‘ Is there a porter or a steward to carry my bag from the car ? ’ |
| 2 | While I am proud to acknowledge my sponsorship by the Union of Shop , Distributive and Allied Workers and my commitment of faith as a Methodist , I address the House today as merely one voice in a large and growing all-party coalition ranging from all the Churches to trade unions and consumer groups , all seeking a genuine consensus solution to the Sunday trading shambles . |
| 3 | I am fed up with French plaits and ponytails and refuse to wear my hair in a bun . |
| 4 | Recently , I tried to cancel my appearance at a benefit as my pianist was ill . |
| 5 | ‘ You know I can not abide to light my Woodbine from the campfire . ’ |
| 6 | It is for this reason , following on from Freud and Szasz , that I propose to treat my patient as a text . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , I felt dreadful about it , and one morning I went to see my godfather at the Admiralty and begged him to get me into the Navy . |
| 8 | I would turn down an Oscar to see my boy at a baseball game or my girl at a song recital . |
| 9 | The Luciferi of France ( I 'll come to those bastards later ) would like to see my head on a pole . |
| 10 | Because , if not , I 'm going to see my solicitor in the morning , cos if you wo n't speak to me , you can speak to him instead ! |
| 11 | The limit to which the RCM was prepared to go in this matter was revealed in March 1939 , when Grunpeter was told that his salary was to be held to £2 a week , a sum ‘ which will make it impossible to continue my work at the camp as resident minister ’ . |
| 12 | And that we actually op adopted a b a modern sensible er , reasonable attitude towards all living creatures and that we do today vote to ban fox hunting it is anachronistic as I said earlier , it is not necessary it actually causes harm , not only does it cause harm to foxes , but at least in one case , which is sufficient for me to continue my support for the ban damage to the people in my area . |
| 13 | I did not know Salisbury well enough — Wendy did not know it at all — to grope my way to an hotel ( and , anyhow , we feared we had not enough money for a bed ) . |
| 14 | My eyes gradually became accustomed to the gloom , and I managed to grope my way to the station . |
| 15 | When I lived right on the job it used to drive my wife round the bend — I 'd be at home on a weekend , perhaps in the garden , and I 'd think about something in the greenhouse across the road so I 'd go over there and disappear for an hour whereas perhaps I should have been giving more time to my family . |
| 16 | I was told to enjoy my life on the dole and they slammed the phone down . ’ |
| 17 | I 'm trying to work my way to the end . |
| 18 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , it has taken me longer than I had at first anticipated to work my way through the manuscript you . |
| 19 | I did n't have any more whiskey as I needed to think , so I made even more tea and settled on the chair again by the fire , lit a cigarette and started to work my way through the file again . |
| 20 | In Harrogate I was to meet my editor for a pep talk . |
| 21 | I had arranged to meet my husband in a department store . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've had enough and I 'm going to try my luck in a country I can actually understand . |
| 23 | It gave me an appetite for working over there , so after Nick and I split up I decided to try my hand across the Pond . |
| 24 | I wanted to make certain I was leaving the jeep with Kaptan — I wanted to establish my connection with the family , give a hint of trouble I could solve ( without making it look like a threat ) , and put myself into the frame without a hint of asserting myself . |
| 25 | So it was that on a golden autumn evening , towards mid-September of 1937 , I came to write my -30- to a career of journalism cum radio , and sat watching the flatness of the prairies give way to rising foothills as the twin-engined CPR ‘ Dominion ’ crawled westward up the slopes of the mountain . |
| 26 | ‘ No , I was trying to find my way into the garden . ’ |
| 27 | I used to be frightened to fall asleep at night sometimes , afraid I 'd stick my head out from under the clothes while I was asleep and wake up to find my head in a dragon 's mouth , before I died . ’ |
| 28 | A steady pressure tries to pull my finger to the rod , so I go along with the movement for a few inches and then strike . |
| 29 | I WOULD LOVE TO MASSAGE MY WAY TO A BODY BEAUTIFUL BECAUSE ( no more than 12 words ) |
| 30 | Er the other rule with well method of procedure , most of you know about it , but if you want to attract my attention during the course of the discussion simply put your name board up on end and we can see who wants to speak . |