Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She hopes ( ‘ in a money sense ’ ) that he will ‘ get the Civil Service post : Nice to have a little money to spare above the necessaries of life . ’ |
| 2 | Younger workers living in company dormitories have little opportunity to escape from the affairs of their firm and from an early age their leisure time is dominated by work colleagues . |
| 3 | He told me to be a good girl for Mum , and that he would give me some money to go to the pictures . |
| 4 | These comprised a pork pie and some salami to stave off the munchies while I drove , a toothbrush and some toothpaste , and then a bottle each of tequila , lime juice and Asti Spumante for which I had plans . |
| 5 | Brundle chose this moment to come into the pits . |
| 6 | It is not possible in a text of this nature to go into the details of security interests in any great depth but a number of questions arise with respect to the creation of such interests by a company . |
| 7 | ‘ So many runners are depending on this race to qualify for the Olympics , especially the Portuguese , who have been in invincible form in half-marathons , and I would not be surprised if the winner is someone no one has heard of . ’ |
| 8 | The ordinary canons of construction require this court to look at the words of the section and to give them their plain and natural meaning . |
| 9 | Then you came into this library to look at the books , spending perhaps twenty minutes here . |
| 10 | H3 is hard to study under trial conditions since any school agreeing to help with trials is making some commitment to look at the materials beyond the norm . |
| 11 | 88open is trying to pull together a meeting of consortia chiefs this month to mull over the kinds of business , customer and anti-trust issues they all share . |
| 12 | Since then we have been steadily searching for another prize to go with the vouchers . |
| 13 | And she told this maid to go with the letters to post them . |
| 14 | But club chairman Stanley Reed warned last night there was still some way to go in the negotiations . |
| 15 | He does n't have to pass this way to go to the shops . |
| 16 | It is understood it has budgeted for around £75m this year to deal with the terrorists bombing campaign . |
| 17 | The consequences strike at the right of the people of this country to live under the laws made and altered by their representatives in Parliament . |
| 18 | It does well at the lower temperature , and will take some time to adapt to the temperatures above 70°F . |
| 19 | Bob quelled her with a look , but I noticed slightly later and indeed all evening that she stuck very closely to his side , which could have been interpreted as her own insecurity if I had n't remembered Mackie saying that meek little Ingrid never gave Bob much chance to stray with the likes of Angela Brickell and God help him if he did . |
| 20 | I have n't had much chance to run in the mornings since you arrived . |
| 21 | Many people who were not needed were leaving Liverpool each evening to sleep in the woods at Huyton or at various halls and cinemas on the outskirts of the city , but Julia was too frail to be moved . |
| 22 | The drama might be unfocused , but we can now ask each group to look at the others ' work as examples of what 's going on elsewhere in the street . |
| 23 | This allows the output for each motor to depend on the inputs for all three joints . |
| 24 | If the community itself becomes prosperous , the people living in it will have more money to spend on the goods and services being provided by the companies . |
| 25 | For instance , in choppy water it is worth sacrificing your angle to the wind for a little more speed to punch through the waves . |
| 26 | Last month , for example , the ministers of the Länder stated that ‘ some WIPers need to make much more effort to integrate into the universities ’ . |
| 27 | When you cook with the Debut you will realise that such benefits will give you better cooking , an easier time in the kitchen and more time to indulge in the things you enjoy in life . |
| 28 | This would enable the men on the bank to keep her head up and give more time to spend on the attempts to raise her from the quagmire . |
| 29 | Back on the country roads there was more time to play with the switches , and wonder how we might stop the heated seats giving us sticky shirts ( no luck , though Swedish efficiency doubtless means that this was our fault ) . |
| 30 | Cristiani had earlier given the impression that the government had accepted a proposal by UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on Oct. 23 to extend the deadline ( currently Oct. 31 ) for the completion of the UN peace process , to give both sides more time to comply with the details of the accord . |