Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [noun prp] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | During the first half of 1992 , a plan was developed to restore Waterford Crystal to acceptable profitability . |
2 | After work that day , 13 September , I went to the hospital and asked to see Suor Eusebia , the Mother Superior , a truly saintly woman . |
3 | She settled the squirrel evening cape that had belonged to her mother on top of her light summer coat , then walked in and asked to see Mrs O'Dare . |
4 | Herbert Cranko asked to see Dulcie Howes and discussed John 's training with her . |
5 | Ken asked to see Robert Bolt and demanded the speech to be cut . |
6 | If you are desperate for a splash of hard-core realism this month you wo n't want to miss Martha Mayer Erlebacher 's Old-Masterish allegorical figure paintings at Fischbach ( her first show in New York since the demise of Robert Schoelkopf ) or the recent narrative works of Vincent Desiderio at Marlborough ( both from 6 to 27 February ) . |
7 | The law , originally intended to combat Ku Klux Klan members intent upon harassing freed slaves , had also been used in the 1960s in support of civil rights campaigners . |
8 | This has now developed to include Henley members and has become an official club fixture , the winners rewarded with the Jayemdoubleyou Cup which the late Jack Webb presented and which cup had in fact been his father 's rowing trophy ! |
9 | Mr Gould said he did n't resign last Wednesday because he did n't want to overshadow John Smith 's impressive Commons debut as Labour leader . |
10 | ‘ For another , if it is n't too far ahead for you to enquire into this , Harry , then I might take up an invitation I 've received to attend Newmarket races at the beginning of October . |
11 | ‘ I 'll have to risk contacting Arthur Beck , Chief of the Federal Police in Berne . |
12 | It is business as usual for ENGLAND U21s , although it is saddening to see Martin Turner , a wonderful servant of English ( particularly English junior ) rugby , retiring as chairman of the England U21 panel in favour of Malcom Phillips with John Elliott continuing as team manager . |
13 | Mr Midgley said the spillage had been traced to near Lartington treatment works , but there were no reports of wildlife or fish being affected . |
14 | ‘ I keep hearing people say they do n't want to see Ovett running 3:58 because they want to remember him running 3:48 . |
15 | I do n't want to see Mr Jackson tomorrow , but I did n't tell him that . |
16 | I do n't want to see Mr Jackson again neither . |
17 | ‘ Do you want to see Miss Rose before we have lunch or after ? ’ |
18 | The only ones who do n't are those who do n't want to like Philip Larkin , and there is a sense in which poems have — probably since I started writing — have been lifted off the page much more in the absolutely literal sense , that people are used to hearing them and can read them afterwards . |
19 | It is certain the board would prefer to see Mr Weir re-elected as it tries to keep a united front over the next few months when it has to produce new proposals for its future which are acceptable to the Scottish Office and the Office of Fair Trading . |
20 | The Short construct , containing Ea DHS I-II was a 9kb fragment obtained from restriction enzyme digests using Bgl I ( Figure 1d ) . |
21 | For each subgroup a Wilcoxon signed rank test was used to compare before and after treatment concentrations of gastric juice ascorbic acid and total vitamin C , plasma total vitamin C , and the ratio of gastric juice to plasma vitamin C. The estimated median within subject before to after treatment differences and their approximate 95% confidence intervals were calculated using Minitab procedure WINT . |
22 | They will be used in research by the Mass Section of the NPL , into the effects of vacuum on such standards aimed at offering better traceability to the national standard of measurements made using Pt-Ir weights in vacuum . |
23 | In the morning , she agreed to see Winifred Shalcross . |
24 | Reluctantly we had to stop as it was time to go to see Mr Hopkin , who made us most welcome . |
25 | I expected to see Dr Mortimer , as I knew nobody else in the village . |
26 | It was the day before we expected to see Treasure Island . |
27 | First we got to see Joey B. Where is he ? ’ |
28 | Until Mr Kempton died in May 1989 , the inspector made a number of unsuccessful efforts to arrange to interview Mr Kempton and his wife . |
29 | MALCOLM ALLISON was back in managerial business last night when Dennis Rofe quit struggling Bristol Rovers after a row over the man brought in to guide him through troubled waters . |
30 | The appointment of Mrs Brooks is intended to enable Michael Ainslie to focus on developing auctioneering activities in new market areas such as South America and the Far East . |