Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [prep] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it be a duty imposed by law upon a party regularly subpoenaed to attend from time to time to give his evidence then a promise to give him any remuneration for loss of time incurred in such attendance is a promise without consideration . |
| 2 | Rekhi says Novell tried to work with SCO on Unix back in 1990 , and later approached Sun to help with its Intel-Unix effort , but both efforts came to nothing . |
| 3 | When he tried to talk to Bella in bed at night , there were passing moments of ease and sweetness that made it seem almost possible to recover what had been lost . |
| 4 | If he tried to return to Earth in defiance of his oath he strongly suspected that he might never be allowed to reach the homeworld … |
| 5 | Bearings may thus be chosen and inserted to conform to changes in shaft diameter , bearing length for declared loads and speeds , etc . |
| 6 | On inflation , the Conservative Party seemed to fall into line with television , the other parties , and the public . |
| 7 | I think it must have been out of doors , because what I recall most is the way she seemed to dwindle on planes of blue . ’ |
| 8 | And Adimov seemed to look for admiration from Holly when he told his story . |
| 9 | With her glossy curls and ripe-peach skin she seemed to glow from top to toe . |
| 10 | His Aunt Lucy came to live at Howfield in order to look after Ramsey 's father and the family after Agnes Ramsey was killed . |
| 11 | Greco-Macedonian governors , soldiers and traders came to live in Palestine by right of conquest . |
| 12 | In the next house , Miss Goulding seemed to toil from morning to night at top speed to ensure that the laundry she worked on was ready for delivery by Fred Cotton . |
| 13 | That children and young people , particularly those who are instrumentalists , be welcomed and encouraged to contribute to music in worship ( 606–609 ) . |
| 14 | A Kenyan chartered accountant threatened to sue for loss of business . |
| 15 | Now , slowly I began to come to terms with guilt . |
| 16 | It also began to look at proposals for MA courses , and at its November 1966 meeting , for example , it expressed the view that a proposed MA in Business Administration at Portsmouth College of Technology did not meet the CNAA 's criterion that the content should be substantially postgraduate in character : too much of it was introductory work , insufficiently rooted in the basic disciplines . |
| 17 | Oxford 's bluff worked for some time , but when by late 1713 the Jacobites finally realised they had been taken for a ride , they began to look to Bolingbroke for support . |
| 18 | So I began to sleep with men in order to discover myself , to see , through their unknown , hitherto unmet eyes , the self that I really was at the same time as the self that I really might be . |
| 19 | When , by Thursday , Helen had heard nothing from Giles the words that rang in her head began to turn from music to mockery . |
| 20 | As soon as the French war in Vietnam started the US began to think about forms of intervention . |
| 21 | One began to think in terms of wasp stings . |
| 22 | But John Redwood , the brash corporate affairs minister tipped to transfer from Trade to Treasury , bringing regulation with him , has been shunted to the new Trade Secretary 's old environment department . |
| 23 | Enterprises began to close for lack of fuel or materials , and officials warned that 35,000 people could be laid off work by the end of the month . |
| 24 | Piphros ' head began to move from side to side , the entire body shaking , and oozing moisture . |
| 25 | People began to complain about feelings of sickness , vomiting , diarrhoea and headaches . |
| 26 | The doctors have recently agreed not to buy women 's eggs anymore after they were exposed by two feminist journalists whom they threatened to take to court for libel . |
| 27 | At a meeting in Edinburgh earlier this week of the cross-party European Movement , its Scottish Council agreed to campaign for PR in line with the system operated in Northern Ireland , even if England and Wales retained the first-past-the-post system . |
| 28 | Hopes that the increased use of aluminium in motor cars to meet new mileage standards required by clean-air legislation in 1990 would encourage greater demand , failed to materialise amidst fears of recession in the car industry following the outbreak in August 1990 of the Gulf crisis . |
| 29 | After completing his national service in the Army , the youthful Dawson decided to go to Paris in search of literary inspiration . |
| 30 | Yes , Elizabeth Howell of Exploring Parenthood , certainly that is the case , both with parents and with people like teachers or child care workers , who are in locus parentis for many hours of the day , and our sense is very much that if the adults around children can feel supported and confident that they can acknowledge their own fears and anxieties that they will then be better be able to transmit that measured response to the children in their care and it was very interesting last week , I heard from an educational psychologist in the north of England who said that a group of teachers had asked from several schools to come together to think about the resources that they needed to set in place in order to deal with the children 's behaviour , and after the meeting , at which they were able to express their anxieties , they then returned to their various areas and when the psychologist contacted them a couple of days later they said we felt sufficiently supported by knowing that others are struggling with the same issues and that we could acknowledge our concerns about it , that we now feel able to get on with the job of helping the children , and I think that was a very good example of adults finding a way to acknowledge their own anxieties and thereby to increase their effectiveness in dealing with the children that in whose care they have . |