Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [pron] [noun pl] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But try to channel your activities to the canine crowd so as to avoid a show-down which could prove to be a great embarrassment . |
| 2 | But eh , we use to , he use to at weekends , he use to take his horses to the hunts you see . |
| 3 | Among the reasons mentioned are that enterprises fail to pay their debts to the banks , and that they fail to deposit dinars when they purchase foreign exchange . |
| 4 | When you 've made your gifts to the various museums , you have given them with the stipulation that none of the works of art may ever be sold . |
| 5 | To each his fun in his own way , of course , but I much prefer to use my ferrets to the full , clearing each burrow in turn as I come to it . |
| 6 | Another obstacle facing Irish film-makers is the probability of pigeon-holding once they 've nailed their colours to the mast of gay politics . |
| 7 | Over the years my thoughts as well as my eyes have roved and as Jimmy Carter once said ‘ Ah have lusted in mah heart , ’ but as the car leaves the party and we 've waved our goodbyes to the other guests , it 's a rare night indeed that I have n't looked over and thought ‘ Thank God I 'm going home with him . ’ |
| 8 | If you wish to donate your goods to the NCT anyway just write NCT on the labels . |
| 9 | If you wish to donate your goods to the NCT anyway just write NCT on the labels . |
| 10 | I WISH to add my experiences to the complaints which you have published about the poor service provided by Northern Ireland Railways . |
| 11 | Since Food Giants are spreading so fast around the country — they 've opened more than one store a month since they started last year — we 've put their claims to the test . |
| 12 | Does he agree that that is a pretty poor way in which to treat people who have given their lives to the service of their country ? |
| 13 | In nineteen eighty six treat people as if their labour is worth nothing you know those men have given their lives to the quarry industry and there 's no doubt that there is money to be made from slate at the moment and people are people that have the money to invest are making a lot of money okay they 're inves they 're risking the money but er people are risking their lives as well and giving their lives . |
| 14 | We have overcome numerous technical problems and it is thanks to the commitment and expertise of all our people and those who have supplied their services to the PFR that this has proved possible ’ . |
| 15 | Men who have sold their souls to the darkness . |
| 16 | And we have geared our bills to the kind of thing they are used to . |
| 17 | I know have to give my conclusions to the resolution of that conflicting and often very , very massive evidence as to how the plaintiff 's care routine will change , when it will change and from where the carers will come . |
| 18 | If we have hoisted our colours to the mast and deliberately ignored a lot of evidence our research , as well as our views , will be hopelessly biased . |
| 19 | And they will also know , that the more often they have to subject their students to the selective , norm-based assessment , the more some of their students will lose confidence and motivation and be reinforced in failure . |
| 20 | Some of those unhappy about the strong claims of Kandel 's cellular alphabet metaphor have pinned their arguments to the assumed differences between Aplysia , as an invertebrate , and vertebrate learning . |
| 21 | For children , it is too short a time during which they have to build their bodies to the strength and size of an adult and learn all the skills they will need to survive without help . |
| 22 | However , in order to discover whether the history of the longue durée , and of structures and conjonctures , can be couched in the strongly counterfactual form spelled out , for example , by Miller , and can thus qualify as an example of concessive holist explanation , we need to consider its relations to the actions and intentions of individuals much more carefully . |
| 23 | Like private limited companies , plcs have to send their accounts to the Registrar of Companies each year . |
| 24 | The author makes it seem as if in this euphemistic world , tradesmen , dealers — men of the flesh — have refined themselves out of existence , and have imparted their qualities to the shop itself , its furniture and fittings , in a general ambience of discretion . |
| 25 | SIR John Harvey-Jones knows his business but I ca n't stomach the self-righteous attitude of some managers who have taken their companies to the brink of disaster . |
| 26 | I have taken my children to the battlefields of north-east France as a result of which their grandfather died because of the foolishness of politicians . |
| 27 | The Netherlands , Britain and many other countries have switched their preferences to the big Holstein and the rate of the changeover is even more phenomenal than the old Friesian 's remarkable spread to dominance in so many countries during the present century . |
| 28 | It is gratifying that the initial residents have built up a very happy family atmosphere , and have expressed their thanks to the Association for providing them with what they now regard as their home . |
| 29 | Since joining the Community , Britain has made a consistently disproportionate contribution to the budget ; her consumers have largely subsidised the Common Agricultural policy ; her fishermen have lost their stocks to the Common Fisheries Policy ; her trading partnerships with the rest of the world have suffered ; and she has subsidised the exports of the other member states with a cumulative trade deficit of £86 billion . |
| 30 | They have extended their protests to the legal process and judges ' behaviour in court . |