Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Luce agreed to marry me and — ’ |
| 2 | — for information and advice on government and EEC grants to help you develop your business , please contact our Grants Advisory Service via your local branch or Business Centre . |
| 3 | Acorn says that major shareholder Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA is wholly supportive of its strategy and the plans developed to implement it . |
| 4 | ‘ Yes , the porter agreed to take us there , ’ Corbett lied . |
| 5 | Several new types of homebuilt are on the way which will tax the minds of authorities expected to certify them . |
| 6 | The White Lion in Bala agreed to accommodate us , and over dinner I was glad to realize that Nigel 's fantasies were equalling mine , though of a different nature . |
| 7 | Being willing to talk after your board agrees to sell you is different to requesting a move . |
| 8 | LIKE BEAUTY , tawdriness is in the eye of the beholder , and on their country 's 40th birthday East Germans tend to see it through the cruelly unblinking eyes of thoroughly Westernised consumers . |
| 9 | We have teamed up with Phonogram records to fly you and a guest to the States and put you up in a swanky hotel for a week 's luxury holiday . |
| 10 | The buyer failed to collect them and they were stolen from the seller 's warehouse . |
| 11 | It was released in space on Oct. 19 to begin a six-year 2,500-million-mile voyage to study the planet Jupiter , on a gravitationally assisted trajectory planned to swing it once past the planet Venus and twice around the Earth . |
| 12 | Northumberland failed to take her into his personal custody , but their exchanges of letters during her incarceration in Carlisle were to contribute largely to the disastrous Rising of the North in 1569 . |
| 13 | This chapter is concerned with the ways in which the results of these techniques are reported and more particularly with the legal and professional attempts made to standardize them . |
| 14 | Though her outstanding achievement is undoubtedly the composition of the first original poetry by a woman to be published in the seventeenth century , a volume of religious verse entitled Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum ( 1611 ) , she has become notorious as a result of attempts made to identify her as the ‘ dark lady ’ of Shakespeare 's Sonnets ( 1609 ) , on the conjectural grounds of her racial colouring , musical ability , and promiscuity . |
| 15 | When in the late 1960s wages and unemployment began to move together and then to accelerate rapidly the Phillips curve became somewhat discredited , despite various theoretical attempts made to rescue it . |
| 16 | It argued that , following normal legal procedure , Mr Roache should have to pay the costs incurred from the date of the settlement offer because the jury 's award failed to top it . |
| 17 | In 1336 , as on earlier occasions , a tax of 20s a sack had been agreed by an assembly of merchants , and in 1338 the merchants agreed to increase it to 40s . |
| 18 | The E-Type Mortgage is a special low cost endowment designed to give you as much help as possible once you have fought your way out of the jungle . |
| 19 | A man with grey hair rose to meet him , courteously . |
| 20 | Middlesbrough were stronger defensively in the second half as , surprisingly , Swindon tried to upset them with a long-ball game rather , than with their usual slick passing style . |
| 21 | The awful truth of Penny 's childhood and young womanhood is that the abuse never ended — and someone with the right counselling skills has to help her to unburden herself . |
| 22 | He is one of nine players given winter contracts designed to prevent them seeking employment elsewhere during the close season . |
| 23 | The bill was strongly opposed by the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) , whose members walked out of the Lok Sabha when Chavan rose to introduce it . |
| 24 | Shall we have just a quick Lisa and Dean want to tell us what 's going , cos they 've had you , had the first meeting now , have n't you ? |
| 25 | Franca , of course bidden to join them , sometimes did so , but soon withdrew to various ‘ tasks ’ . |
| 26 | The acquirer needs to ensure it is adequately protected . |
| 27 | They 'll use their experience to try to nurse them back to health . |
| 28 | He flung out his other hand towards them in a desperate plea , and Cardiff moved to take it . |
| 29 | Cardiff moved to join them … and at last he could see what the others were seeing . |
| 30 | Several Cabinet ministers were reported to be outraged that she had failed to consult them , depriving them of the opportunity to try to persuade her to step down in favour of a more plausible ‘ unity ’ , or ‘ stop Heseltine ’ , candidate from within the Cabinet . |