Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [verb] a [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , the manager in charge of a local authority department may need to give a lead to others in defining the role and objectives of that department . |
| 2 | A solicitor for the Robinson family said that the staff at the hospital should have made a call to the Southern General . |
| 3 | Last week 's article ‘ What 's wrong with German Science ’ ( p 277 ) should have contained an acknowledgement to the generous help of Dr Christoph Schneider now at the Wissenschaftsrat ( Science Council ) in Köln . |
| 4 | I should have put a stop to it . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ You should have put a stop to it ! ’ said Florrie accusingly . |
| 6 | Since he did not have the physical strength of most of the others , this was important for him and must have contributed a lot to his effectiveness . |
| 7 | Indirectly this must have represented a challenge to the influence of Aethelred of Mercia in the East Saxon region . |
| 8 | Such tough independent people must have posed a threat to both central and local government . |
| 9 | Nor do I think this matters because , since the decision of [ the House of Lords ] in Hedley Byrne & Co v Heller & Partners Ltd [ 1964 ] AC 465 , it is clear that quite apart from any contractual obligation , the respondents must have owed a duty to [ both shareholders ] to use reasonable skill and care in making their valuation . |
| 10 | From Major Erickson 's viewpoint it must have seemed a blessing to be rid of him . |
| 11 | He must have taken a shine to the jacket because he turned the corner — and never came back leaving the police red-faced . |
| 12 | This will necessitate turning off the water supply at the main stopcock , and opening all the cold taps to drain the cold water cistern ; then you 'll need to attach a hose-pipe to the draincock next to the hot water cylinder to drain this . |
| 13 | Similarly , we might claim to have a right to private property on account of having interests which crucially depend on private ownership . |
| 14 | She suggested I might like to write a letter to head office . |
| 15 | And most importantly to you , I 'm the one who 'll have to put an end to all this nonsense . |
| 16 | ‘ You 'll have to wear a skirt to the office . ’ |
| 17 | I think erm we 'll have to have a trip to St Ishmal 's for that . |
| 18 | We might try to approach an answer to this question by first looking at some specific features that characterise the identifying references to different kinds of topics of discourse . |
| 19 | This suggests that the clients themselves might have provided an impetus to itinerance . |
| 20 | Although it is clear that these changes were made in order to admit light to the new , deep-plan living accommodation , it is conceivable that the judicious use of ranges of standard reversible and ventilating roof windows might have provided an answer to this requirement which would have been less erosive of the original external appearance . |
| 21 | The only Italian she might have got an introduction to — and though elderly he might have had a son — had dropped down dead in the Vatican Square . |
| 22 | Oh I 'll tell my wife about that and that 'll that 'll that 'll put put a stop to that piece of nonsense . |
| 23 | Some men from Muftah were descended from Sidi Hasan , the saint whose tomb is at the centre of the cemetery in Ajdabiya , and they might intervene to bring a quarrel to an end . |
| 24 | Only the expert eye of their Capellan adviser could tell where , in all that wilderness of basalt and shale , might lie hidden a clue to the world that had been lost . |
| 25 | Or they could 've got a plane to Paris , nobody would have stopped them . |
| 26 | The jurist could consider holding a trust to be valid where the beneficiary was the same , although the trustee liable had in fact changed . |
| 27 | And they 'd need to hold a gun to Piggott 's head to keep him in hospital a day — no an hour — longer than strictly necessary . |
| 28 | I 'd like to give a copy to the school library . ’ |
| 29 | And I 'd like to give a challenge to either er Michael Allison or any of the other MPs to come and live in my little bungalow for And exist on that rate for a week . |
| 30 | I 'd like to pay a tribute to the courage of our people there , both the indigenous er workers for the fund and the ex-pats who 've gone out there to lead that work . |