Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I therefore continued to stand there awkwardly , waiting for my employer to give me permission to undertake the motoring trip . |
| 2 | Dad paid over the four shillings and while he was entering it up in the book said , ‘ Mr Priest , I was wondering if yer could give me permission to build a small wooden shed facing the house ? ’ |
| 3 | Many such contracts are not sale contracts as such but are licence agreements ; this is particularly so with respect to computer software where the owner of the rights subsisting in the software grants licences to customers , giving them permission to use the software in return for a licence fee . |
| 4 | Three years ago — the day after Under Secretary Lehmann had been killed in the House by Tolonen — he had summoned the leaders of the House before him , and there , in the Purple Forbidden City where they had murdered his son , had granted them concessions , amongst them permission to build a generation starship . |
| 5 | We 're negotiating with the polytechnic to give them permission to build a hostel on the John Boscoe playing field . |
| 6 | It also gives me pleasure to rehearse a story clearly that I have thought about . |
| 7 | What about my freedom to eat a canteen meal in relatively clean air , to wear clothes that do not reek of stale tobacco and to breathe air as clean as is reasonably possible . |
| 8 | ON Saturday 4th January 1992 I took three of my sons to watch the Harlequins v Bath match at the Stoop Memorial Ground . |
| 9 | Is there anything I can use on my hair to add a bit of life to my curls between perms ? |
| 10 | ‘ And my dad might cut my hair to match the others . ’ |
| 11 | And I had a bit of tulle in my hair to match the dress … |
| 12 | We arrived back at my cabin to watch a private video called Sierra Nevada starring a vixen called Kym . |
| 13 | Conscious that it would be very much to my advantage to have an ally within Alison 's gates , I replied warmly , ‘ Me too . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ It has been my privilege to see the best of England over the years , sir , within these very walls . ’ |
| 15 | It is my privilege to open the debate on the report of the Select Committee on Social Services into the financing of private residential and nursing home fees . |
| 16 | I knew he 'd fought James on it tooth and nail , and though in all honesty I felt I 'd won him round to some extent since , the prejudices remained beneath the surface of benignity , waiting only for some unwary blunder on my part to crack the surface and let them burst through . |
| 17 | If I do not get the chance later in my response to answer the comments of the hon. Member for Caernarfon ( Mr. Wigley ) on students with special needs in further education , I say now that I attach great importance to those students . |
| 18 | Other sorts of things can constrain my actions too , of course ; I may not be able on my income to afford a Ferrari . |
| 19 | I then started to put my foot to get the next rung down . |
| 20 | Certainly it was the view adopted , for example , when we had a 6 month interregnum in Dublin , and it was assumed it was my responsibility to hold the fort . |
| 21 | I do not know what purpose the meeting served in persuading Wapping of the merits of our plan , but it did enable me for the first and only time to see the terrain on which we were working and reinforced my enthusiasm to kill the committee at the earliest possible moment . |
| 22 | A month ago my bank informed me that it had been obliged to arrest £250 of my money to satisfy a court order obtained by sheriff officers . |
| 23 | However , my decision to back the new development came first . |
| 24 | I do n't know if it ever occurred to me to regret my inability to have a child by Jean-Claude . |
| 25 | The men asked my permission to open a case of tea and a case of tins of sausages from the stores brought by the two planes . |
| 26 | It 's against my rules to use a calculator ! |
| 27 | That man used my sister to obtain a visa . ’ |
| 28 | Interviewed on BBC Radio 4 , Andrew Lees of Friends of the Earth declared , ‘ I have been given clearance by my Board to seek a judicial review … we are very serious about this issue and are going to go for it . ’ |
| 29 | Perhaps my attempts to undermine the managers credibility are coming to fruition at last : - ) ) ) |
| 30 | I felt that I might be able to apply what I learned — if indeed I learned anything — to my attempts to reconstruct the life of Elsie . |