Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has come to tell them about the opportunities which await them if they are prepared to make the long journey to Oregon . |
| 2 | As Craig slowly recovers one thing that really upsets his parents is that no-one from the council has bothered to see them about the accident or to ask how craig is : |
| 3 | The machine can completely fail to work because no-one has bothered to test it before the day . |
| 4 | And you 'll be pleased to know that Frank Dobson has agreed to meet us on the fourteenth of June and we will make sure , to the best of our effort , that that policy will be endorsed . |
| 5 | It came forward with these proposals , and it has attempted to bludgeon them through the House . |
| 6 | Where an application under the Act for a grant or renewal of a licence or extension of permitted hours , etc. , is submitted too late for consideration by a board at a particular meeting , and the applicant has been rejected by the clerk , who has refused to place it before the board for their consideration , that decision may be subject to appeal under either 5.39 ( see M. Milne Ltd. v. City of Glasgow District Licensing Board , 1987 S.L.T. ( Sh.Ct. ) 145 ) if the particular application was subject to an appeal under 5.39 or to a judicial review if the type of application does not allow of an appeal under 5.39 ( see Main v. City of Glasgow District Licensing Board , 1987 S.L.T. 305 ; Tait v. City of Glasgow District Licensing Board , 1987 S.L.T. 340 ) . |
| 7 | Already in The Black Riders , though , he has begun to grow up and Violet Needham has begun to equip him for the role of teacher and mentor even as he is still meeting the challenge of danger with the eager opportunism of a boy . |
| 8 | One of the great regrets , I am sure , of all hon. Members is that because the hon. Gentleman has chosen to leave us at the next election he will never have the opportunity to be a junior Minister . |
| 9 | From the later period of canal cutting to the early one of railway building there was clearly a link in the inheriting of a core of toughened labourers and foremen who , even if posterity has chosen to present them as the antithesis of skilled , at very least knew what they were doing when it came to tunnels , cuts and embankments . |
| 10 | It 's an antique and that bloke 's an antique dealer , he 's come to nick it off the line and flog it for thousands . |
| 11 | He 's gone for the narrow side he 's tried to squeeze it in the in the near post when he 'd got all the far post to go for . |
| 12 | Said she 's guaranteed to phone me before the next council meeting , so that we know what we 're doing , so I 'll keep at her . |