Example sentences of "[subord] [noun prp] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both coxes were warned again at the Crab Tree , where Cambridge began to show in front . |
| 2 | Although Diro continued to cling to office , by mid-1991 his position looked increasingly untenable ; in September he was convicted on 81 charges of corruption , and he resigned in October [ see pp. 38534-35 ] . |
| 3 | This is not to suggest that all , or indeed any , should be discarded ; if England have to go for maturity and hope for the best , so be it . |
| 4 | If Nisodemus wanted to stand in front of a car then that was all right by them . |
| 5 | If Olwyn managed to go to bed without having to be forced then a reward from the menu was given to her . |
| 6 | If Gloucestershire wants to stay within Government spending limits the council must find a way of saving sixteen million pounds — or risk being charge capped . |
| 7 | But while Bush continues to campaign with country music stars , the spectre of John Major at a tarted-up hoe-down here remains elusive . |
| 8 | Yet while Iago had to start from scratch , foment hatred , poison sight , and invert reality to set his chosen enemies against each other , all that Goneril and Regan have to do to get a third of Britain is to make the kind of noises Lear expects to hear ; indeed , since Cordelia wo n't flatter , they get her part too , and even her coronet as an unlooked-for bonus , Lear 's only ‘ free gift ’ , to use the language of modern advertising promotions ( ‘ This coronet part between you ’ ( King Lear , 1 . |
| 9 | This poses an interesting problem ; while Marx appears to deal with ideology as so much irrelevance ( e.g. the work of idealist philosophers ) , Engels suggests here that the material process that is the object of study in Marx 's later work , can be affected by ideology . |
| 10 | While Viola tended to boom under stress , Hilda 's voice became higher and more satirical . |
| 11 | In 1853 Mrs Stowe came to Britain to be lauded while Calvin came to lecture on Teetotalism . |
| 12 | WHILE Terry had to stop at home , brother John soaked up the Spanish sunshine in a luxury holiday home on loan from an old friend . |
| 13 | Brian Mulligan , the managing director of Toplog Ltd in the UK , said the reason for the parting was that Toplog wanted to capitalise on its Unix software while Metrologie wanted to concentrate on hardware . |
| 14 | But England manager Geoff Cooke was forced to make a dramatic change late last night after Hunter failed to respond to treatment following a soccer injury sustained in club training on Tuesday . |
| 15 | When Khmara refused to appear in court , an order was issued for his appearance , and on July 18 , 30 OMON troops and militia broke into his hotel bedroom and rearrested him . |
| 16 | In May 1314 they maintained that they could be taxed only in their own assemblies ; when Edward tried to proceed through parliament he often found himself thwarted — as in January 1316 — by the inadequate attendance of the clergy . |
| 17 | When Elsie had to retire for health reasons , we were once again without a teacher but Hilda Lodge and Eleanor Pitman helped out and then Joan Gatfield , a leader in training , decided to do some training with us . |
| 18 | I was ‘ over the moon ’ , as Joe liked to say in imitation of his working-class friends ' picturesquely idiomatic Cockney . |
| 19 | As Burton loved to live in opposition — it made him feel most alive and it could be argued that he lived in serious opposition to his own body for long stretches of his life — it is interesting to speculate whether the homosexual network gave yet another spin to his heterosexuality . |
| 20 | Joe waved his fork in the air so much , and dropped so much more than he ate , that I was glad when Herbert left to go to work . |
| 21 | The family called him when Clare started to complain of chest pains in the late afternoon but he did n't come out ; told them she 'd just strained something ; rest and painkillers . |
| 22 | The others pulled away from the window into the centre of reception , watching in horror as Pearce continued to scream in panic at them . |