Example sentences of "[pers pn] [to-vb] [prep] the new [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | You see , Great-Aunt Jane was a skilled dressmaker and made clothes for quite a number of young ladies in Baldersdale , and it was usual for them to try on the new clothes and have the final fittings in the kitchen . |
2 | Many health policies in Third World countries are based on at least the vocabulary of this approach though the political climate does not always encourage such radical rethinking of health care nor does the training of most health workers prepare them to work in the new ways implied in the PHC philosophy . |
3 | I called you over because I want you to look after the new lady . |
4 | The next step was to explain the programme to health visitors , giving them the material Better Shoe public relations team wished them to place with the new mother at the time of their first home visit . |
5 | Now distance receptors provide information about a possible event in the immediate future such that , through neural connections to innate movement controllers , an animal may make ‘ precurrent ’ reactions enabling it to adjust to the new information , for example , by approaching prey , or by preparatory behaviour for escape in relation to possible alarming stimuli . |
6 | This , Corris calls the ‘ North Sea Gas Option ’ after the massive conversion exercise in the 1970s when UK Gas Board had to replace or convert every domestic gas cooker to get it to work with the new fuel . |