Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs A. W. wrote : ‘ I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for the time and effort you have put into compiling this diet which has made a bigger difference to my weight and dimensions than any other diet I have been on … . ‘ |
| 2 | I hope you will not be too disappointed and would take this opportunity to thank you for the interest which you have shown . |
| 3 | I hope you will not be too disappointed and would take this opportunity to thank you for the interest you have shown . |
| 4 | I would like to take this opportunity to inform you of the high standard achieved by your service engineer , Dick Churcher [ Healthcare Atherstone ] for his attitude and appearance whilst working at our depots . |
| 5 | The Prince is also very keen on deer stalking , another pull to keep him in the Highlands for as long as he can manage . |
| 6 | But neither should we enable this sympathy to blind us to the greater truth that more persons suffer , many fatally , from corporate crime than ‘ conventional ’ crime . |
| 7 | There is a need to recognise and further consider the position of male carers , while not using this issue to deflect us from the more general issues which arise for women through entrenched assumptions that this is their ‘ natural ’ role . |
| 8 | Several influences combined in this period to help him in the search for an alternative theological approach . |
| 9 | This has led some writers to place him within the interpretative tradition . |
| 10 | The telephone rang at 8a.m. this morning to alert me to the fact that you were to be broadcasting on Radio 4 … 't was a friend of mine to whom I had mentioned your future plans … |
| 11 | Er I 'd like to i ask our presenters this morning to join me on the stage to take any questions from the floor and ask if you could er fill in your er y y your sur your sheets on the on today 's events before you leave please . |
| 12 | They get some man to do it at the moment . |
| 13 | So I want to , first of all , in presenting this report to remind you of the importance of that link and for us to encourage its development . |
| 14 | It would give the American parent group a chance to examine his potential at close quarters and at the same time he would be able to undergo some training to prepare him for the more elevated positions he was destined to occupy in future . |
| 15 | It is one thing to draw money from the public in terms of council tax and it 's another thing to spend it in the way you intend to do it . |
| 16 | The same information will help members of a project team to understand what is going on , and why , strengthening their contribution and going some way to prepare them for the project management role when it comes their way . |
| 17 | Yinka , a World Championship Finalist twelve months ago , overcame glandular fever earlier this year to make it to the Olympics . |
| 18 | So the bet is that the prime minister now has two years — with luck , much calmer than the past one — to start putting a programme into law , followed by another year to sell it to the people in the run-up to re-election . |
| 19 | The commission now has the task of finding another country to take him in the next five days , and it is not optimistic . |
| 20 | Midge Ure was playing for nothing , just a few beers to see him through the evening . |
| 21 | I call on such people to give it to the police in confidence . |
| 22 | ‘ I call on such people to give it to the police in confidence . |
| 23 | The Turks might try to tax , or offer administrative salaries to Zuwaya who were willing to participate in government ; but Zuwaya always resisted these attempts to bring them into the reach of government . |
| 24 | Within 24 hours , NIH security police were given the list of names and told to call each person to tell them of the theft . |
| 25 | In the Preface he described the superstitions of the Irish peasantry and the rigid hold on them of the Roman Catholic priests , who used all means to confine them to the Irish language , lest if they learnt English they might converse with members of the Church of Ireland or attend its services . |
| 26 | This was made up by the Head Girl mixing together oxide of zinc , glycerine , rosewater , a touch of yellow ochre and methylated spirits , the latter helping to dry it on the legs . |
| 27 | It was , as Steve Hammond said , all there , but there was nothing , she realised , in all those pages to tell her of the particular hell this couple must have been through . |
| 28 | Mr Jim Woolsey , a member of Scowcroft commission and one of the Democrats ' leading missile experts , says it makes much more sense to put them on the vast military bases of Nevada and California , where they could be continually on the move . |
| 29 | He gave it a few more seconds to get him through the next traffic signals and then killed it again . |
| 30 | A number of initiatives are planned to contact more women to encourage them of the benefits of involvement . |