Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That we sit down with the figures and it might be another thing like we did with the bridal magazines , that we go to somebody and say , look we would like to do this to increase our turnover , will you fund us for half a year ? |
| 2 | Her girlfriends , particularly her former flatmates , would have rallied round but she did not feel that she could inflict them with such a burden of responsibility . |
| 3 | Jane continued her career — if you can dignify it with such a name — on Vogue , where the personnel manager fiercely shot at her the rhetorical question : ‘ You 've got a private income , of course ? ’ |
| 4 | The only certainty is that those nations that are victorious will write what is later termed ‘ history ’ , and will do it in such a way as to justify their actions . |
| 5 | We 've got ta be careful that in er using that sheet , we do n't do it in such a way as to bully and turn off the customer by saying , by the way , you 'd better make sure you 've done this , this , this , this and this , cos I 'm not doing it . |
| 6 | Many of us will remember their enthusiasm for the work of the Lord and the joy that they had in the fact that God should use them in such a way . |
| 7 | I 'll see you in half an hour at the end of the session . " |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll see you in half an hour . |
| 9 | I 'll see you in half an hour , then , ’ Travis said , and left . |
| 10 | ‘ Good heavens , ’ she flew , feeling outraged that he could suspect her of such a thing , ‘ I would n't dream of asking him questions about you ! ’ |
| 11 | And if you can think of that , you can repackage your particular thing not in terms of your own interests and ideas and so forth , but you can package it in such a way that it 's intriguing , or at the very least , the people who are going you hope will use it can actually see how they could use it . |
| 12 | In the case of a building society mortgage , it may be useful to ask for a " daily interest rate " in case there 's some slight delay in completion ; this will save writing another letter , and will enable you in such a case to disburse and account for the completion monies as soon as you receive them . |
| 13 | I 'll meet you in half an hour . ’ |
| 14 | It appears to be that an agency which has an explicit power or duty to achieve a certain end , ( e.g. good race relations ) , can not exercise it in such a way as to disadvantage a person , unless that person has committed an independent breach of the common law or statute . |
| 15 | The fourth stage involves sifting through the data and evaluating it so as to collate and analyse it in such a way as to provide useful information rather than a mass of unrelated facts or figures . |
| 16 | He wondered if they 'd ever find husbands or boyfriends who would take them on such a holiday as this and rather doubted it . |
| 17 | And they either say go and read the paper mum , I 'll call you in half an hour . |
| 18 | Yeah but what are we gon na word it in such a way as they 're not gon na give it ? |
| 19 | Can you make it in half an hour 's time , you know . |
| 20 | And this is a way for to fill up our purse Although we do get it with many a curse And the poem ends : Then hay for the Clothing Trade , it goes on brave ; We scorn for to toyl and moyl , nor yet to starve . |
| 21 | You do n't get it with half a Jaffa Cake . |
| 22 | He 'd put it in such a way that she could n't argue . |
| 23 | The earth is fast becoming an unfit home for its noblest inhabitant , and another era of equal human crime and human improvidence … would reduce it to such a condition of impoverished productiveness , of shattered surface , of climatic excess , as to threaten the depravation , barbarism , and perhaps even extinction of the species . |
| 24 | Yes , to give him the chance to find the right one , the one that would stir him in such a way that he felt he could n't do without her . |
| 25 | Insurance is available quite cheaply which would safeguard you in such an event . |
| 26 | And how can I say it in such a way that it is of interest to the people that are likely to listen to it ? ’ |