Example sentences of "a [noun] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps this was merely a ruse to trick them into a crossing at Forteviot . |
| 2 | ‘ That guy 's going to need a submarine to scrape him off the bottom . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ It would simply be a formality to renew it on a long-term basis . ’ |
| 4 | The historical interest of the collection and , indeed , of the palazzo itself has led to a decision to open it as a museum . |
| 5 | ‘ We had a bit of a struggle to get them for the wedding , but you can pull various strings to hold things back . ’ |
| 6 | There was always a scramble to obtain them after the meeting . |
| 7 | Ferdinand believed Godoy was scheming for a regency to exclude him from the throne ; Godoy knew that Ferdinand was intriguing against him with the French ambassador . |
| 8 | For such old people one has to ask whether acceptance of their professed wish to stay at home carries with it a responsibility to protect them from the consequences of their infirmity . |
| 9 | ‘ It would have been a privilege to have you as a student … ah , but your French is already of so excellent a quality … and you are occupied with your researches . |
| 10 | I tied a tarpaulin over the car and paid a farmer with a horse to drag it through the streets of the city and out to the Plainpalais gate . |
| 11 | Mr Yeltsin 's aides have said he would ignore a vote to remove him by the Congress , which was elected before the collapse of the Soviet Union . |
| 12 | " Frith could have killed El-ahrairah at once , but he had a mind to keep him in the world , because he needed him to sport and jest and play tricks . |
| 13 | How much better it is to remove trees carefully rather than wait for a gale to do it in an uncoordinated way . |
| 14 | The blow came at a meeting on Saturday when members voted not to let him stand as an election candidate — despite a recommendation to accept him by the executive committee . |
| 15 | I 'm not very sure it 's prudent if you 're indicating your own incorruptibility as a poet to put it in the future tense in the first place , and when you continue as Pope does ‘ Envy must own , I live among the great ’ as he starts to describe his own life and you realise he 's bringing in touches about himself which really have very little to do with the particular role as poet , it becomes quite clear that that depersonalisation process has not taken place in the case of Pope . |
| 16 | It was a pleasure to meet you at the Scottish Taxi Federation exhibition at Riccarton last week . |
| 17 | It is always a pleasure to meet you in the field and I appreciate your commitment to creating a better housing business and providing greater satisfaction for our customers . |
| 18 | Thus in the case referred to by Holt C.J. , in Philips v. Bury , Appleford 's Case ( 1672 ) 1 Mod.Rep. 82 , the plaintiff sought an order directed to the master and fellows of a college to reinstate him as a fellow , the visitor having already adjudicated that he had been rightly removed . |
| 19 | For the last six months the managers brought into the firm by Robert Maxwell have been trying to strike a deal to wrench it from the quagmire of his estate . |
| 20 | The hotel to stay in is the Victoria , a handsome pile run by the genial Platzer family ; they send a minibus to fetch you from the little airport at Berne — one hour 's drive away — and Herr Platzer then shows you where to hire ski equipment ( roughly £24 a week ) and organise lessons . |
| 21 | A ceremony to swear him into the post was to have been held tomorrow . |
| 22 | Oh he might be away for thre , cos I know he had golf at the Belfry this week , and then when he comes back he 's being picked up by a car to take him to the Belfry again , cos we 're entertaining there for a weekend 's golf . |
| 23 | Frenchman Alain Prost has come out of retirement in a bid to steer it to a fourth world title next season . |
| 24 | ‘ And now — and again because of my wife 's insistence , because of her concern for your health — I have hired a conveyance to take you to the railway station at Skipton . ’ |
| 25 | She had also found herself a sponsor to support her to the tune of £100 a year . |
| 26 | In 1973 the Ladies ' Committee concerned itself with this seat reporting ‘ It was a pity to leave it in the wet even if only there for the time being ’ . |
| 27 | Then he organised a coach to bring them to a new life in Britain . |
| 28 | It is only 12 months old and I now wish to purchase a modulator to convert it to a colour monitor for use with a domestic TV set . |
| 29 | EXPLORER Gerald Kingsland , 62 — who inspired the film Castaway — has had scores of replies to an ad for a girl to join him on an island . |
| 30 | IRELAND , bottom of the Five Nations ' Championship last season , may turn to a Welshman to lead them in the 1995 rugby union World Cup in South Africa . |