Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite apart from my visitors and my new friends , some of whom whisk me away to stay for the weekend , there are what you could call my ‘ professional engagements ’ . |
| 2 | This enabled me still to compete in the Hammersmith and London Schools . |
| 3 | If all this excites you enough to shout from the rooftops , then why not try Print Partner — a shareware utility for printing signs and banners . |
| 4 | I would like you please to refer to the county secretary in the recommendation on page seventy three with the county surveyor . |
| 5 | ‘ What did he call you then to do with the rags ? ’ |
| 6 | Now there are savings and investment schemes which allow you either to put in a lump sum or tuck away regular savings . |
| 7 | This can be seen in : ( 211 ) Have I not bidden you never to look upon the face of woman ? |
| 8 | What are we then to make of the 41% of LAWER that took place without discussion or the patient 's previous wishes being made known ? |
| 9 | ‘ We did not bring them here to sit in the stand , ’ Roxburgh said , although he would not commit himself as to whether either was considered a starter against the French . |
| 10 | She had encouraged him rather to work as a translator , this seemed to be a safer activity . |
| 11 | But when Zanuck returned and found Preminger at his studio , he promptly fired him from directing Laura , allowing him only to remain on the film as its producer . |
| 12 | It 's Iris 's turn to call us really but , but I , I did think about Iris earlier and I should really phone just to see how your dad is , Bobby because it 's really up to her just to see about the weekend and much times that I 've phoned the hospital recently . |
| 13 | When she was younger and thoroughly impatient with her mother she had sometimes entertained a fantasy that Constance would kidnap her and take her away to live with the gipsies : now she felt that she might not have liked it as much as she thought . |
| 14 | The perception of social advantage in general abstention from collective bargaining is too remote from the circumstances of the individual worker for him ever to support through the ballot box a general prohibition on trade unions , let alone to abstain privately from their immediate protection in a world where there is no reason to expect other workers to confer a reciprocal advantage on him by similar abstention . |
| 15 | He went to live among the Nuer of the southern Sudan as a vulnerable outsider , relying on their goodwill and friendship to enable him gradually to merge into the background of their everyday lives . |
| 16 | of the world 's largest media group , Time Warner , died on 20th December at the age of 65 after a battle with cancer which had forced him increasingly to withdraw from the business over the past year . |
| 17 | When she asked him if they had really been as beautiful as angels , he had told her abruptly to look at the portraits , just as now , sensing that she had been hounded out of the house , he had given her something to do , a task to occupy her hands and head . |
| 18 | He chased the customer down the road and told him never to come in the shop again — that was the way Ron was ! |
| 19 | He said the CSM did feel it right to act at the end of 1981 as there was not enough information available . |
| 20 | I presume that the hon. Gentleman thought it right to return to the matter in the House having notably failed to achieve the result for which he hoped by an overheated press release to the same effect which he issued at the end of last week . |
| 21 | I thought she was going to hit me : her hand which was already formed in a fist , went up — but she used it only to swipe at a cat scuttling from under a bush towards the door . |
| 22 | Reports from the OECD and NATO 's science committee have come to similar conclusions , but so far no one has quite got it together to act on a Europe wide scale . |
| 23 | ‘ Is n't it enough to look at the work I 've produced and leave it at that ? ’ |
| 24 | For example , what definition of money is taken and which financial asset(s) is it best to use in the investigations ? |
| 25 | Was it best to interfere with the cat 's instinct to play with its catch — or should I have left nature to her cruelty ? |
| 26 | Others find it best to work in a revision group . |
| 27 | He 'd put it between slabs of bread then take it away to eat in the streets . |
| 28 | Armstrong continued , ‘ Actually on account of the personalities involved , I think it might be better to take no action about the Palestine Committee but allow it gradually to sink into the limbo of forgotten things ’ ( emphasis added ) . |
| 29 | If anything , they would have been better off contributing less prize money ( which they tried to do in 1991 but were not allowed to reduce what they had already promised ) and used it instead to go into the appearance money pool , which will still have to be funded . |
| 30 | He had put in an appearance , perforce , at the ceremony at the Tower , to appoint his proctors , but returned to Chester as soon as he decently could , and had not left it again to come to the council at his own manor of Kennington , sending only one of his esquires with a report on the situation — admittedly an admirably full and expert report — to lay before the assembly . |