Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To , to make contingency plans to hold it on a day when we do n't need the cooperation of the employers in terms of time off |
| 2 | The courses consist of specially written course books taking you through a programme of work , mostly practical activity . |
| 3 | Should they attempt to influence the bishops , Archbishop Felici warned them on the first day of the new session , they would lose their privileges , a threat that caused considerable resentment as much among the fathers as among their advisers . |
| 4 | Ken particularly liked the story Orton told him about a man he had picked up in a lavatory and asked him if he did it often . |
| 5 | One banking employee told me of the demise of her bank branch . |
| 6 | Farmers will be offered money to cut the use of pesticides and fertilizers , and those who choose to convert to organic methods of cultivation will receive support premiums to assist them during the lean transition period . |
| 7 | ‘ The Daleks ’ , however , took the show up into the rarified heights of peak viewing , prompting programme schedulers to see it as a very useful keystone in grabbing audiences for the whole of Saturday evening — which had been Donald Baverstock 's prime intention all along . |
| 8 | To make matters worse , the college authorities interpreted it as a reflection on the conduct and organization of the society , which they accordingly ordered to be disbanded with immediate effect . |
| 9 | When Michele had retrieved the crutch from the back seat Luce followed him into the bare concrete building and waited while he knocked at the door of one of the ground-floor flats . |
| 10 | The formalist critic dismisses her as a serious contender for the mantle of ‘ modern artist ’ due to a perceived lack of innovation and refusal of the essentialist mandate of formalism . |
| 11 | They now spontaneously assemble into rods which press against the membrane of the red blood cell deforming it from a rounded into a sickle shape . |
| 12 | Daughter Helen , 25 , needed constant attention after whooping cough left her with a mental age of just two . |
| 13 | The police were called to resolve the dispute , and although Mr Levy did not make a formal complaint he contacted Arsenal Football Club to inform them of the incident . |
| 14 | ITN has recruited American investment bank Lehman Brothers to steer it through the restructuring . |
| 15 | I am also writing to at the South Side Association to notify her of the developments . |
| 16 | Bloom et al. " s study of how to is acquired in infinitival complement constructions led them to the clear conclusion that " the children learned to with the meaning " " direction towards " " and not as a meaningless syntactic marker " ( 1984 : 391 ) . |
| 17 | And — funny — my tender breast of chicken filled with garlic butter and herbs sauteed in sunflower oil with savoury rice and side salad reminds me of the chicken Kiev we occasionally buy in the supermarket . |
| 18 | The neck button disappeared — but not the buttonhole — and today a wedding boutonnière reminds us of the sporting ancestry of the coat . |
| 19 | Only the reflective coating of her suit had prevented the enemy weapons identifying her as a target . |
| 20 | Sponsors of each of the ten identical yachts have had to come up with a £220,000 entry fee to get them to the start line in September . |
| 21 | The frontier post spotted him from the photos we rushed to the western frontier . |
| 22 | ‘ What am I supposed to do ? ’ he said in an aggrieved tone but ( fortunately , Nutty thought ) a misguided girl in puce trousers hit him over the head with a handbag and he launched himself instantly at his aggressor , being no respecter of the female sex , and thereby deflected a fair amount of Jazz 's opposition on to himself , the girl 's screaming indignation making her plight quite plain . |
| 23 | Does she agree that haemophiliacs and others who are given contaminated blood transfusions receive them from the national health service ? |
| 24 | On our way home via New York , some ‘ dear ’ friends ( as in generous ) , fixed us a stretch limo to take us to the airport . |
| 25 | Post-GLC and with Third Term Thatcherism staring it in the face , Labour did , in a sense , revert to type . |
| 26 | Straw Dogs managed to attract enough blood seekers to put it into the black at the box-office , but this disturbing tale of rural atrocities can scarcely have done much for the Cornish tourist industry . |
| 27 | The heron 's special neck vertebrae provides it with the speed to spear fish and donates to the neck a broken ‘ S ’ shape which is very dynamic . |
| 28 | From the village , a 10-minute cable car ride delivers you to the slopes . |
| 29 | What I was trying to say was , if you 're really bored with him and he 's doing is , any form of bio-chemistry start asking him about the correct names , what are they ? |
| 30 | The same goes for diving in front of a seal pup to protect it from the sealers . |