Example sentences of "[pers pn] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I wonder if the , the director plans to talk about the cri criteria we will work towards with the independent erm living fund and I wonder if we could possibly accommodate something within the criteria because I think the number of people involved needing adaptation to their home over about five thousand is fairly small but for those people it will make the difference between them being able to remain in their own home or within the community care package , a vast sum of money being needed to be spent on them to accommodate them within residential accommodation .
2 " Thank you , Mrs James , we should like you to confine yourself to first-hand evidence … you wrote to your husband , of course , to explain the arrangements you had made in his absence ? "
3 She had n't expected him to greet her with ecstatic joy — his emotions were n't extreme like Lowell 's thankfully — but neither had she expected a degree of embarrassment .
4 Parliament was thus taking the marital exemption into realms uncontemplated even by Hale , who believed that it was one thing for a man to have sexual intercourse with his wife without her consent , quite another for him to force her into sexual intercourse with others .
5 With the agreement of Tony 's parents , Tony would follow a partial timetable for between two and three weeks , allowing him to phase himself into full attendance at the school .
6 It would be madness for me to refuse you through hurt pride when all I want to do is be with you , as I have just found out . ’
7 ‘ Holy Cross played very hard and spread the floor well which made it difficult for us to trap them in open play .
8 ‘ It is easy ’ , he says , ‘ in retrospect to see this spirit as naive or ‘ utopian ’ but there is nothing in it which entitles us to regard it with academic superiority . ’
9 Would you like us to take it in roman numeral order .
10 Every man , woman and child holds the possibility of physical perfection ; it rests with each one of us to attain it by personal understanding and effort .
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