Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adj] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their women , far from being grateful , turned on them , snarling , in late night conversations telling them to shut up ; far from setting them free to work for the Revolution , their women demanded that they take emotional responsibility and also clean the loos . |
| 2 | ‘ It leaves me free to concentrate on the show and anyway , I 'm not there just to play my favourite records . |
| 3 | Am I right to write to the others saying I or should |
| 4 | What am I supposed to do in the meantime ? ’ |
| 5 | I thought you were definitely gon na show me up today and say , how the hell am I supposed to get into the garage ? |
| 6 | Not only was I unable to help with the work , I could n't even care for the family 's tools . |
| 7 | Not only does it set you free to live in the present but you had better start enjoying it , because — at the age of 40 or 50 or whatever — this is it , the future has arrived ! |
| 8 | ‘ How are you supposed to get up the stairs , then ? ’ |
| 9 | And did you , was you able to get round the world much ? |
| 10 | How far were you able to travel from the edge of the world ? ’ |
| 11 | And from the caller 's voice were you able to come to the view as to his age ? |
| 12 | Like this , rimmit , rimmit , rimmit , go on have a go at doing with me , rimmit , rimmit , come on , rimmit , rimmit , oh my god and then you 've got to leap into the pool , are you ready to leap in the pool like this , you 've got to rimmit , can you do that ? |
| 13 | Q When are we likely to hear about the Bill ? |
| 14 | Sir Allen Sheppard , GrandMet chairman , said the disposal leaves him free to focus on the group 's main strategy of ‘ developing highly branded businesses . ’ |
| 15 | How are they likely to fare in the GCSE ? |
| 16 | It was published , he said , for the support of the weak and tempted people of God , and dedicated ‘ to those whom God hath counted him worthy to beget to the Faith , by his Ministry in the Word ’ . |
| 17 | It had left him alone to think about the problems he had to face and how he would overcome them . |
| 18 | As numerous fitted-up Irishmen can bear witness , and not to mention James Hanratty and others , were they able to speak from the grave , hallowed British justice is a myth . |
| 19 | Law consulted Lansdowne on all matters of importance , kept him informed of the progress of negotiations over Ulster , but found him difficult to convince of the merits of compromise . |
| 20 | Neither institution is regulated by an outside body , nor are they obliged to comply with the Children 's Homes Regulations . |
| 21 | This does not automatically mean that the provision will be made , but it does make it possible to plan in the light of solid knowledge rather than guesswork . |
| 22 | The assumption here is that if the pound had been devalued earlier on this would have made it possible to adhere to the growth path of the plan , but in the light of the comments made above this view is open to doubt : it gives the plan more credibility than it merited . |
| 23 | Or , further , is it possible to incorporate in the framework of the state itself some provision or institution by which a governmental act or command ultra vires may be declared to be such , and subjects therefore exempted from its operation and released from any legal obligation to observe or obey it ? |
| 24 | As well as making it possible to see in the dark , thermal imagers penetrate mist , smoke and the lighter fogs . |
| 25 | talk you know there was the Notts County Council on the erm gully problems that we get in , is it possible to write to the County Council to ask them what sort of maintenance programme they 're going to give us now , as regards this cos I 've not seen this wagon going round so frequently as it used to . |
| 26 | Not only did it make it possible to conceive of the settlement , a succession of trusts , where a trust was set up in favour of a beneficiary who was himself charged with a trust in favour of a further beneficiary , but it also allowed trusts to be set up on intestacy , which led to the growth of an advanced system of property disposition on death which had absolutely no connection with a will . |
| 27 | Is it possible to travel through the network visiting each of a specified set of nodes only once ? |
| 28 | Only very occasionally is it possible to read between the lines , as in one instance at South Luffenham , where Henry Bonytt , as the sole tenant of freeholder Edward Sapcote , presumably held a lease ; he also had 10s. a year in land and a subtenant called William Clark , who must mutatis mutandis have held from him by lease , if not from year to year . |
| 29 | Mme Guérigny shouted to Jean-Claude who , for one reason or another , had found it preferable to escape into the bathroom and shut the door . |
| 30 | These are perhaps best illustrated by the workmen who , for example , seem to be incapable of doing anything without 20-minute tea breaks , management which seems uninterested in providing proper supervision , or boards which seem more interested in finding ways of jacking up their remuneration package irrespective of performance , or complaining to Government about interest rates , rather than wondering why they are not making some of the flood of goods which our continental competitors find it profitable to sell to the UK . |