Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [pers pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the reserves were playing next day at Guildford : an opportunity to see them play was too good to miss . |
| 2 | EC commissioner Frans Andriessen , the EC 's chief negotiator , has said he has no immediate plans to meet US negotiators but developments could come today after a meeting of EC foreign ministers in Brussels . |
| 3 | But it took 5 months to find them accomodation after she was told to … |
| 4 | So in this area , the attempt to impose US guidelines on competition were reversed . |
| 5 | Besides , adds Damon , he does n't need an agent to find him scripts , because he 's planning to write his own . |
| 6 | Press reports suggest that the new DOS will include a revised boot procedure , allowing you to bypass CONFIG.SYS to process it line by line . |
| 7 | It 's hard to turn the key to lock me door . |
| 8 | Andy went to see Peter and the final conclusion was that what I really needed was a car to help me travel to training and meetings . |
| 9 | Inventing farfetched excuses , she left me trapped in her flat and made no attempt to help me look for work . |
| 10 | They offer to come on board the party boat to help me find Tamsin , but I say no : they might scare her . |
| 11 | Most of the climbers are equipped with Oxygen cylinders to help them breath at high alititudes . |
| 12 | In a friendly atmosphere look around at leisure and allow our experienced designers to give you advice and original ideas . |
| 13 | There is not enough space in this chapter to do them justice and standing orders vary from one committee to another . |
| 14 | ( " Is groundsel nice , mother ? " ) and Hazel , touched to think that he must be dreaming of old days , rolled over on his side to give him room to settle again . |
| 15 | These had been used to good effect by the PRD in the presidential elections of July 1988 , when the PRD candidate Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano had accused the PRI of indulging in blatant electoral fraud to deny him victory [ see pp. 36367-69 ] . |
| 16 | This one had understood that Aurae Phiala was dead , and immense , needing no meretricious human yardstick to give it proportion . |
| 17 | There was then a nervous wait for Ray Younger who finished in 35th place as fourth scorer to give them victory by two points over North Belfast with Albertville a further two points adrift . |
| 18 | He had already blown out in the first two matches yet still went for a practice to give me information on a different stretch for which I was grateful . |
| 19 | President , with a very heavy heart and bitter disappointment for all our people out there , who are depending on the Social Chapter to give them dignity , safety and a reasonable standar standard of living , I reluctantly withdraw this motion , but I will say this , we live to fight another day . |
| 20 | We need words to keep us human . |
| 21 | Of course , she should have somehow found the nerve to divorce him ages ago . |
| 22 | Took her months to call me Ken and she says Mister Reynolds when she 's got company . |
| 23 | it 's a misnomer to call it Europe |
| 24 | He 's mad on polo so he takes me to the Hurlingham Club to watch him play . |
| 25 | DRUG prices were criticised as ‘ shocking ’ yesterday by the US president , Bill Clinton , as he launched a $300 million programme to get US children immunised . |
| 26 | But when the whole sum is due , by no intendment the acceptance of parcel can be a satisfaction to the plaintiff ; but in the case at bar it was resolved that the payment and acceptance of parcel before the day in satisfaction of the whole would be a good satisfaction in regard of circumstance of time ; for peradventure parcel of it before the day would be more beneficial to him than the whole at the day , and the value of the satisfaction is not material ; so if I am bound in £20 to pay you £10 at Westminster , and you request me to pay you £5 at the day at York , and you will accept it in full satisfaction for the whole £10 , it is a good satisfaction for the whole , for the expenses to pay it at York is sufficient satisfaction . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ The powers that be in MI5 , by the way , believed enough in Mills being a KGB agent to offer him immunity from prosecution in exchange for confession and cooperation . |
| 28 | Quite innocently , Meik made his temper worse by returning to Holmsly Manor to bid him farewell . |
| 29 | WHETHER today 's Greeks do better than poor Sisyphus and Tantalus will be decided chiefly by the success or failure of the attempt to stop them being tax-dodgers . |
| 30 | I put my hand round the child 's neck to stop him shouting . |