Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [verb] [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At about nine o'clock I start putting Mum to bed . |
| 2 | I decide to do the washing-up before I start putting Mum to bed . |
| 3 | Be it one way or the other , and I prefer to give credit to Barbara , her headstone deserves to be preserved as an item of great interest in Ayrshire 's heritage . |
| 4 | " I 've said good-bye to Lizzie . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've got Ransom to Venus and through his first conversation with the ‘ Eve ’ of that world : a difficult chapter … |
| 6 | ‘ I have to move furniture to lines , ’ Crawford said at the time . |
| 7 | As you know , for many years I have devoted time to families in my parish who foster babies for the charity , but now I feel I can do more . |
| 8 | I have to confess that on many occasions I have had recourse to Hansard , of course only to check if my interpretation had conflicted with an express Parliamentary intention , but I can say that it does not take long to recall and assemble the relevant passages in which the particular section was dealt with in Parliament , nor does it take long to see if anything relevant was said . |
| 9 | I have put pen to paper sparingly , aware that pictures speak louder than words . |
| 10 | If you want to manage access to LIFESPAN files using Access Control Lists , please refer to Appendix C for guidance . |
| 11 | Any course you choose to undertake before updating is made mandatory may not later satisfy the Boards if you decide to delay return to nursing or health visiting in the meantime . |
| 12 | I see here you er say you 've done door to door canvassing |
| 13 | The Forest Race Course and Queens they 've all got plenty of space while in the centre of Mansfield you 've got room to pork park even at the Walkden Street car park . |
| 14 | ‘ But you have to give credit to Mark and the others . |
| 15 | If you have paid money to Midland Life before the commencement date and the offer is then withdrawn your money will be returned with interest . |
| 16 | Longer term we hope to distribute software to researchers at the beginning of their data collection so that documentation can be produced in standard format and in machine-readable form . |
| 17 | We 've given money to organisations like the RSPB , Greenpeace , the Woodland Trust and Working Weekends on Organic Farms . ’ |
| 18 | Which is why we prefer to work face to face . |
| 19 | Christou now appeals by leave of the full court after refusal by the single judge and we have granted leave to Wright . |
| 20 | We have given advice to Departments on drawing up environmental housekeeping strategies for themselves — another first which every Department must complete by the end of 1992 . |
| 21 | I suggest that in future Councillors and concentrate on engaging their brains before they start putting pen to paper |
| 22 | Rather , they prefer to bring coal to Scunthorpe by rail from the new deep coal mines about 25 km to the west . |
| 23 | Other recent changes have generally restricted access to unemployment benefit ( Atkinson and Micklewright , 1989 ) and , in particular , they have denied benefit to women who had been eligible to at least some benefit in their own right . |
| 24 | The ca n't get onto the southbound carriageway … so they have to go north to Peartree before turning round and coming back . |
| 25 | The Wedding Present violently oppose most rock 'n' roll ethos , but perhaps one of the few areas where they have shown loyalty to tradition has been their gluttonous appetite for live work . |
| 26 | Some religious groups have uplifted people 's ethical conduct , but at other times they have allowed brutality to others in the name of the religion . |
| 27 | It means they have improved access to information on what holidays sell best and what the customer wants . |
| 28 | The plight of the rural poor does not tend to loom large in the minds of businessmen , but even they need to pay attention to Thailand 's educational shortcomings . |
| 29 | Computers do not have the knowledge and experience of the average human reader , so for them to cope with the ambiguities shown above they need to have access to repositories of the different sorts of knowledge . |
| 30 | Analyses of a number of them have drawn attention to government constraints on investment through holding down prices [ Ashworth , 1986 ] , imposing unfavourable borrowing terms and , in some cases , outright refusal to sanction borrowing [ Pryke , 1981 ] . |