Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [pers pn] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The coffee is strong and sweet with a glass of tea accompanying it to drown the sweetness . |
| 2 | I got ta make a dozen mince pies for the , she said can you make a dozen mince for the , I said no Sheila , she said pardon , I said no , I said I 'd buy twelve I will not make twelve , so after that she 's , then went round everybody could make twelve mince pies , it 's a bit of a nerve is n't it ? , seems a bit of a nerve asking us to buy the wool and make |
| 3 | I tried to marry this judgment with the memory of the sturdy young woman I 'd seen joking in the glade ; who had come breezily into The Pightle telling me to water the plants and daring me to a duel of wits with Edward ; who had seemed so certain of me over against his cautious vacillation. fragile was not the first word that would have occurred to me , unless I had overlooked something vital — something which , I remembered , Bob had noted . |
| 4 | The process is made all the easier by the Cel Editor allowing you to animate the cels you have produced , within the editor itself , so you can see how it looks , and make any alterations you think necessary . |
| 5 | At a public inquiry in March , Mr Fenney appealed against three enforcement notices issued by Warrington Borough Council requiring him to reduce the size of the driving range . |
| 6 | I have no information with which to write to the Chairman of the Committee asking it to investigate the sale . |
| 7 | As the week went on I got more and more anguished telegrams from home telling me to conclude the deal and come home . |
| 8 | The Queen gave Mr Major an urgent message on Tuesday night asking him to tell the nation . |
| 9 | The MS Rousse will make an excellent base for the week allowing us to travel the Danube . |
| 10 | For the first time a British government has established a mechanism enabling it to determine the content and purposes of education along broadly similar lines to other Western European democracies . |
| 11 | These photographs — ‘ my life 's blood ’ — are pinned to his bench enabling him to check the size and configuration of the newly-carved elements . |
| 12 | We recently joined with other organisations to write to the Secretary of State for the Environment urging him to change the rules set out in Minerals Planning Guidance Note 3 . |
| 13 | In such cases the affected owner can serve a notice on the local authority requiring them to purchase the property at an ‘ unblighted ’ price . |
| 14 | Furthermore , an owner of a building who is refused listed building consent can , in certain circumstances , serve a notice on the local authority requiring it to purchase the property . |
| 15 | He gets cold feet and phones his bank manager asking him to stop the cheque . |
| 16 | All that hit the floor was a glossy leaflet inviting her to discover the magic of Christmas at the local hypermarket . |
| 17 | The violent scene ended with his father telling him to leave the house , ‘ so decidedly that I actually left the same day . ’ |
| 18 | Colin Liddle , of Wylam Road , Shield Row , Stanley , has contacted every county councillor urging them to reconsider the closure of Hustledown House in Stanley , home to 38 pensioners including his 81-year-old mother Florence . |
| 19 | She says it slipped and set off the magic eye which set the baler off which crushed the bottom part of my leg causing me to lose the tissue and muscle from my ankle up to my shin . |
| 20 | Before the passing of the 1980 Act certain decisions of this court , in particular Wallis ' Cayton Bay Holiday Camp Ltd v Shellmex and BP Ltd [ 1974 ] 3 All ER 575 and Gray v Wykeham-Martin [ 1977 ] CA Transcript 10A were thought to have established a general doctrine that in one special type of case there would be implied in favour of the would-be adverse possessor , without any specific factual basis for such implication , a licence permitting him to commit the acts of possession on which he sought to rely ; the effect of implying such a licence would , of course , be to prevent the squatter 's possession from being " adverse " . |
| 21 | You must be an assessor of the DC to register your decision ( you will have been sent a mail message asking you to assess the DC ) . |
| 22 | No special LIFESPAN privileges are required to use this option but you must be an assessor of the DC to register a decision ( you will have been sent a mail message asking you to assess the DC ) . |
| 23 | A debtor appears unable to pay a debt if the debt is payable immediately and either : ( i ) the petitioning creditor has served on the debtor a statutory demand in the prescribed form requiring him to pay the debt or to secure or compound for it to the satisfaction of the creditor , at least three weeks have elapsed since the demand was served and the demand has been neither complied with nor set aside ( s 268(1) ( a ) ) ; or ( ii ) execution or other enforcement action on a judgment has been returned unsatisfied in whole or in part ( s 268(1) ( b ) ) . |
| 24 | Alfie Hall , 44 , telephoned and wrote to Lloyds Bank asking them to check the mystery money . |
| 25 | Listen , listen so you may have a right to defend at any cost which you think is privileged society the fact of the matter is people out there I received twenty seven letters in support against the fox hunting I did not receive a single letter asking me to support the fox hunting . |
| 26 | In the former , instructions are sent by airmail to a correspondent bank requesting it to credit the exporter or his bank with an appropriate amount in the exporter 's domestic currency . |
| 27 | ‘ Contrary to impressions created publicly by Addamax and others , the lawsuit was not the simple effort of a small , independent software house ’ , claimed the Foundation , which won a court order allowing it to reveal the information . |
| 28 | In term he usually lectured continuously three mornings a week , often to an audience of one , an ancient alarm clock reminding him to change the subject , perhaps from the Paston letters to the Puritans or from Greek epigraphy to the Oxford Movement . |
| 29 | Willy De Roose may have struck a lucky year enabling him to make the voyage from the Atlantic to the Pacific without having to winter in the Arctic but he did do an enormous amount of preparation and historical reading beforehand for his planning of the voyage so that he was able to snatch opportunities whenever they came . |
| 30 | The sellers got the rice completely ready for collection and were requested by the buyer for a delivery order enabling him to collect the rice . |