Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sneha , ( not her real name ) an Asian girl of eighteen living with her family near Birmingham , wrote me a long letter , but with the strict proviso that I did n't ring her at home or try to contact her at all . |
| 2 | But schools often under-use the talents and energies of their teachers , or fail to develop them in any consistent and systematic way . |
| 3 | He ( among others ) perceived adolescent labour as an obstacle to efficiency not only because it lacked knowledge of employment opportunities and the ability to distinguish between the merits of different occupations , but also because its inherent ‘ adaptability ’ was ‘ wasted ’ ( always a key notion in National Efficiency circles ) by the ‘ haphazard ’ nature of the transition which left too many youths in dead-end jobs and failed to enrol them in any form of further education . |
| 4 | The steep-sided valley of Stroud-Water in Gloucestershire must have presented much the same kind of picture , but Defoe does not attempt any description of it beyond saying that ‘ the clothiers Iye all along the banks of this river for near 20 miles ’ ; and Celia Fiennes passed along the high road over the uplands from Gloucester to Bath and failed to notice it at all . |
| 5 | So if you find a good Irish joke and want to tell it about another local or ethnic group you could do so . |
| 6 | But all of them endorse one or the other of the principles of political neutrality mentioned above and seek to implement it by some variant of the following principles of restraint which limit the political relevance of ideals of the good . |
| 7 | I wonder whether you could define the circumstances in which it is appropriate for the Government to introduce a law reform Bill and seek to push it through all its procedures in a day without it going to a Standing Committee to be considered carefully as to its detail , when it happens that there is no particular circumstance of urgency and when the reform concerned could lead to considerable difficulties for the courts if the measure is not fully considered ? |
| 8 | Then she took out a comb , and began to set it into some kind of order . |
| 9 | He took hold of her by the shoulders and began to shake her with all his strength , forcing her back through the hall towards the staircase . |
| 10 | When Mr Prescott first backed off standing against Roy Hattersley for the deputy leadership last year , and then changed his mind and decided to contest it after all , Neil Kinnock expressed unrestrained irritation . |
| 11 | The vendor 's and the purchaser 's accountants were then to review the sales figure and try to agree it with each other : and , if they disagreed , which they did , a third accountant was to determine the figure . |
| 12 | It is quite reasonable for someone to draw on specific groups and try to understand particular pieces of action , to use a wider theoretical framework in which to place these actions and try to understand them in this way . |
| 13 | Yet again the official syllabus and scheme of work may recommend the purchase and use of local materials gathered from the local environment when official administrative regulations preclude the headmaster from purchasing these and fail to provide him with any facilities for storing them once he has obtained them . |
| 14 | And learned to associate you with that smell |
| 15 | He could be quite maddening at times , but I had my own concerns and had to leave it at that . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , he does n't sound like anyone I know , ’ I said , ‘ unless he 's a caddie who happened to be passing nearby and wanted to quiz me about any work available . ’ |
| 17 | But try to implicate me in any way — or use me as a trade-off- and it 'll be added to the police clear-up rate faster than the eye can follow . |