Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Is it in order for them to continue clearly to deceive the House , when the chairman of Ford of Britain has said that their policies amount to economic suicide ? |
| 2 | I 'll bet he made them rope up to do the dishes . |
| 3 | I devoted my twenties to my family but I intend now to achieve the career that I never had before . |
| 4 | We complete if five degrees nose-down , still hammering along at 250 knots , but I push harder to increase the speed to 3400 , brace my stomach , and ease back until the g-meter reads a steady four . |
| 5 | I agreed not to tell the police , and said goodbye . |
| 6 | But when I got back to work the people that was in the observation post on the factory , they saw this aircraft , it came down low over the King George 's playing fields and they could see the markings on it and they 'd sounded the alarm but but course the aircraft went straight over . |
| 7 | When we eventually reached the Taj , I bent down to examine the inlay on the tombs more closely . |
| 8 | ‘ My partner made the original booking , I know , under our company name , and I phoned yesterday to confirm the apartment . |
| 9 | She and I separated ( it was like trying to unpick a mangled shoelace ) and I staggered through to take the call . |
| 10 | But in the end , I learnt how to use the fat of dead animals to make a light . |
| 11 | Once the drip was up and the monitor was on I was much less mobile but as I gained confidence I learnt how to put the monitor back on if it stopped working when I moved . |
| 12 | I learnt how to change the break pads and a wheel . |
| 13 | I woke up to find the doctor lifting me very carefully into my own bed . |
| 14 | I came here to see the installation of an air-conditioning unit , not to be involved in your personal life ! ’ |
| 15 | So I came here to return the jade to you before going home . ’ |
| 16 | That I am living in Britain in the first place has everything to do with the fact that I came here to start the magazine you are reading , a magazine for men . |
| 17 | ‘ I suspected there had been an intruder so I made Mrs. Bonnard wait in the car while I came in to check the place out . |
| 18 | Most days I 'd go without food till I came home to cook the evening meal . |
| 19 | I came home to find the adults in a different tank ( salted for Mollies — but they 're fine ) as the wee Angels were slipping through a ″ gap at the bottom of the divider , to get eaten . |
| 20 | When we stroll past the front of the van I peep up to check the reaction , and I guess that the two cops hunched inside see these two anxious faces glancing nervously , and they decide it is n't worth climbing out the van for , and I reckon that if I was them I too would lock the doors and stay inside . |
| 21 | Amazingly , we arrived unscathed in Wenceslas Square and I set off to find the Čedok offices to arrange accommodation . |
| 22 | Causation or some of it might have come to an end just when I set out to snuff the candles , or never existed . |
| 23 | In my early career , I set out to meet the demands of my peers and fulfil the necessary qualifications for assessment as a ‘ real polis ’ ; although there were few opportunities to flirt with any real forms of marginality ! |
| 24 | It is urging me on over the years bidding me neglect those that were without Cathenne , where as I set out to tell the story of my life , the dull with the bright , the gray with the green , all the Sundays Mondays and Tuesdays of it at least sufficiently to suggest them . |
| 25 | In 1980 I set out to change the face of political presentation in the UK and to use some of these new concepts and techniques in business and industry as well . |
| 26 | So now I know where to find the rest of the Unit 's papers . |
| 27 | I know how to program the software that activates the Goddess . ’ |
| 28 | I arranged initially to meet the doctors and once again found myself confronting ‘ the dreaded Grabham ’ , as Barbara Castle described Anthony ( now Sir Anthony ) Grabham , the distinguished surgeon who was the backbone of the doctors ' resistance and the most recalcitrant in reaching any compromise of his firm belief that the state had no concern in directing their destiny . |
| 29 | Sometimes I wake early to beat the clock . |
| 30 | I can see the land is in good heart , and I remember enough to know the extent of the estates . |