Example sentences of "[pers pn] [to-vb] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they 'll actually sit down and work that out for people and encourage them to go for a job and give them all the forms they need to claim Family Credit or whatever . |
| 2 | They invited them to sit at a table and were joined by an unusually tall , thin man who was extraordinarily blonde for his age which was thirty to thirtyfive . |
| 3 | No I 've made , it 's made an awful lot of difference to me the New Town I mean we 've got and the Council are very , very good to us , I mean we ca n't say they 're not , they 've had a , I 've had the gas central heating put in , I 've had a shower put in since I 've been here and I mean they do they look after us well , the only thing I 'm upset about that I 've put off the ambulance to go to Leah Manning on a Wednesday because they want me to go on a Tuesday and I can not go on a Tuesday because I have my friend come down which does all odd jobs for me you know , on a Tuesday dear and I just can not so I had to see Mr is it ? |
| 4 | You want me to go in a garage and ask for , have you got a flick on band ! |
| 5 | Leaving me to cope with a situation that is way beyond me ! ’ |
| 6 | But when we ask children to write , we often ask them to work in an atmosphere where all sorts of noises compete for attention . |
| 7 | I no longer vociferously challenge those who insult ; instead , I may casually invite them to come for a coffee and see/meet some students . |
| 8 | ‘ People would expect me to come into a room and crack them up , ’ Rowan , 36 , told Cosmopolitan magazine . |
| 9 | Closer to home , in their statement of educational principles , for example , a group of teachers from Wigan included the following : ‘ Education has the responsibility of operating within a democratic system ; of respecting and nurturing democratic principles ; of being open to change by democratic process ; and , perhaps , most importantly , of encouraging within the young those qualities and skills which enable them to participate in a democracy and ultimately to develop or change it ’ ( Department of Education and Science , 1983 , p. 27 ) . |
| 10 | So for example if you 're normally aggressive , we 'd actually like you to go with a syndicate that 's passive and work passive . |
| 11 | Then they frisk you and give you a dressing-gown and tell you to go into a cubicle and strip off and wait . |
| 12 | If you 're normally passive , we 'd like you to work in a syndicate that will be aggressive . |
| 13 | I do n't want you to imagine for a moment that I do n't believe every word of what you tell me . |
| 14 | The teacher will ask you to lie on a table or to sit on a chair while he gently moves your head and limbs around . |
| 15 | They trust you to get into a panic and err wildly on the side of generosity . ’ |
| 16 | Voice writers allow you to speak into a machine and the text will then appear on the screen . |
| 17 | I try and make women 's history clearer , because obviously they 've done history A level so they 've probably learnt about wars and all the male sort of things , so what women were doing and thinking and the way in which that has been suppressed ; as much as possible I like to teach by not putting very much of what I think across but trying to get other people to produce it … also encouraging them to share as an experience and personal responses and talking about things one would n't normally talk about in the department , the emotional side of things , in quotes ‘ irrational ’ , ‘ intuitive ’ and all of that , and valuing that … try and make it a space where people can say whatever they want to say ; I suppose value things that would not be valued elsewhere . |
| 18 | When he had finished his chores he sat down at the table and copied out ‘ I am William Beech ’ over and over again until Tom , after much effort , finally persuaded him to go for a run and exercise Sammy . |
| 19 | And then you will tell him to come to a place that I will tell you of and at a time that I will tell you . |
| 20 | The only permissible course is to issue a subpoena for him to come as a witness or to produce the documents to the court ’ . |
| 21 | Father had , apparently , told her she was ‘ too stupid ’ to take a degree in maths , told her she could n't do a joint degree in physics and German because he could n't afford to pay for the year out , and had influenced her to apply for A university because that was where he had taken his degree . |
| 22 | ( 143 ) Something of this can be learned from " The Way to the Churchyard " ( 1901 ) , an anecdote about an old failure whose fit of anger at a passing cyclist causes him to die of a stroke or seizure . |
| 23 | Instead of this he left her to think of a solution and then rejected it as an inappropriate translation . |
| 24 | He 'd hoped that it meant no more than that she was growing up and had become aware of herself as a young woman ; that as a consequence it was not quite the done thing for her to rush across a room and hug him like a kid sister , or trip him up in the haybarn and fling herself on top of him like a puppy spoiling for a game . |
| 25 | Now we 're obviously even split two in each three so aggressive group So remember want it to work in a group that a normal style so volunteers for groups ? |
| 26 | She wanted it to use as a desk and gave £5 for it . |
| 27 | On this occasion , however , shame compelled me to travel in a helicopter since the Lieutenant-Governor of Newfoundland and his wife were also taking this short trip — his wife , if I may say , a most attractive lady . |
| 28 | Christmas is a good example of this : ten weeks before Christmas arrives , the shops start to fill up with goods which obviously encourage us to dwell on a day that is far ahead in the future . |
| 29 | ‘ The grant ’ says Strinati , ‘ will enable us to complete within a year or two some important and very urgent restoration programmes ’ . |
| 30 | All kinds of conditioning causes us to act in a way that we know is contrary to what we really want . |