Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several times I was given money to go to the chemist 's for bitter aloes or penny royal or a bottle of gin from the outdoor . |
| 2 | A Ask your teacher for permission to go to the Matron 's Room . |
| 3 | Participants will be given the opportunity to meet with the Company 's management , inspect its facilities , and review relevant internal documents . |
| 4 | Yet Mrs Molina becomes the first Latino to sit on the county 's governing board since 1872 — and the first woman ever . |
| 5 | The proposals were given a cautious welcome by politicians on the left , but the right-wing parties decried them as an attempt to distract from the President 's and the government 's current unpopularity . |
| 6 | The text of the new treaty was substantively identical to that negotiated with the Soviet Union in 1991 , dropping the 1948 commitment for either side to come to the other 's assistance if it were attacked . |
| 7 | Leave five minutes before each interview to look at the candidate 's application form/letter , and any particular questions noted down while first reading it . |
| 8 | Pat Bliss , the Reading co-promoter , said : ‘ After our success in 1990 , we had to weaken the side to comply with the sport 's restrictions . |
| 9 | A married couple taking in lodgers will be able to decide whether they prefer the whole of the rent to count as the husband 's or as the wife 's for entitlement to the full relief . |
| 10 | A Boeing 707 belonging to the Colombian national airline Avianca crashed on Long Island , New York , on Jan. 25 , during a second attempt to land at the city 's John F. Kennedy airport , causing the death of 67 people and injuring some 80 of the remaining 91 people on board . |
| 11 | After one or two early passages of arms , when Wheeler had first come into the post , in which it became apparent that Wheeler was prepared to be a good deal nastier to Ian than Ian was to him , Ian had settled for a civil service manner in which he made no attempt to contribute to the department 's thinking . |
| 12 | ONE of the firms approached by Monktonhall Colliery about forming a partnership to stave off the pit 's financial problems has pulled out of talks with the consortium , writes Graeme Wilson . |
| 13 | I cut a path through the rushes which allows enough space for two rods , and room each side to wade to the water 's edge . |
| 14 | The fire was discovered at 3 a.m. by a master working late , and together with two boys — one of whom climbed a waterspout to get to the juniors ' bedroom via the roof and the other operated a hand-pump in dense smoke — managed to raise the alarm . |
| 15 | Of course , this involves a departure from the general subjective principle of criminal liability , since it involves imposing a duty on the defendant to ask about the victim 's consent before continuing with his conduct . |
| 16 | An attempt to interfere with a Member 's freedom of action . |
| 17 | Up to nine people were killed in violent disturbances in the capital , San'aa , on Oct. 19 ; the next day there were a number of arrests at a demonstration to protest about the authorities ' failure to find the killers of opposition figure and rural development official Hassan Huraibi , who had been murdered on Sept. 10 . |
| 18 | The official of the Board concerned , G. G. Williams , sounded almost regretful when he said , ‘ It is not our practice to interfere with an Authority 's discretion when the scales are not over-generous in our opinion ’ . |
| 19 | The call for a day of action to protest against the government 's security policies in the wake of the murder of the Revd Robert Bradford , MP for South Belfast , in 1981 , is an example . |
| 20 | I telephoned a man who sells cocoa shell mulch to enquire about the material 's acidity . |
| 21 | Loss of the nuptial pads is usually assumed to be a consequence of mating on land because , in other frogs and toads , their function appears to be to help the male to grip onto the female 's slippery back while mating in water . |
| 22 | We regret though that it will not allow the defence to make an early submission of no case to answer in the magistrates ' court . |
| 23 | Current Manager George Thomson said the celebrations had given staff an opportunity to reflect on the Branch 's long history during which it had played an important role in providing financial services to the community . |
| 24 | With 80 per cent of the seats in the arena again empty , it might have been a good opportunity to bus in the LTA 's young hopefuls to see for themselves what success in the game requires . |
| 25 | During a quick wander round the accessible parts of the ship at the end of the evening I noticed a wonderful old binnacle , preserved from the former Royal Yacht , Victoria and Albert , and before leaving I rested by the quarter deck rail to listen to the ship 's Royal Marine Band play classical selections on the quayside . |
| 26 | To equip future students to sit for degrees in music made newly available at London University after 1879 , Hunt now arranged an ‘ arts ’ class at the college to prepare candidates for matriculation , while broadening the music curriculum to conform with the university 's new syllabuses . |
| 27 | You will have the opportunity to participate in the students ' learning processes , for example , through acting as a consultant to a Mini-Enterprise , or through working alongside teachers on the production and delivery of materials and lessons . |
| 28 | Such paranoia probably derives from an unconscious recognition that in such a collaborative medium , the director as sole auteur is an artificial concept , a labelling convenience , the confection of French theorists : and , who knows , the hand that slips from behind the shadow of the throne to reach for the director 's crown most likely belongs to he who first dreamed the kingdom . |
| 29 | The model presented here of working with parents enables the clinician to progress at the parents ' rate of change and understanding . |
| 30 | He said that he much preferred the money they could afford for clothing to go onto the boys ' backs , and onto her . |