Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes , the porter agreed to take us there , ’ Corbett lied . |
| 2 | Being willing to talk after your board agrees to sell you is different to requesting a move . |
| 3 | The buyer failed to collect them and they were stolen from the seller 's warehouse . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A man with grey hair rose to meet him , courteously . |
| 8 | Franca , of course bidden to join them , sometimes did so , but soon withdrew to various ‘ tasks ’ . |
| 9 | The acquirer needs to ensure it is adequately protected . |
| 10 | They 'll use their experience to try to nurse them back to health . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Several times the cottage tried to throw me from the scuffle boards , one night she succeeded , I got a badly twisted ankle . |
| 13 | The stewardess tried to comfort her , but the woman waved her away without looking up . |
| 14 | That truck driver tried to kill us — and he knew where to locate us exactly . |
| 15 | He had the bottles placed under his bed , and when the ward sister tried to interfere he fended her off with the crook while he produced medical certificates , all signed by army doctors , stating his need for regular supplies of the stuff . |
| 16 | The Sister tried to tell her that all new mothers went through something of this sort for a short time after childbirth ; but Harriet knew , when she fetched Liza and her baby back to Four Winds at the end of the week , that what her daughter was suffering from was not the ordinary ‘ blues ’ which she herself had experienced after Liza was born . |
| 17 | The question was one of site , and the Health chairman proposed to build it near Huaiwiri , the small outlying Mannaia oasis close to the route of the new road destined to link Kufra to the Mediterranean ; also close to Hawari , the larger Jlulat oasis . |
| 18 | When William Marshal was dying a clerk tried to persuade him to sell about eighty fine robes in order to spend the money for the salvation of his soul . |
| 19 | The clerk tried to stop him going up , but according to his tale , he 'd had too much to drink . |
| 20 | When he 's with my dad , last night my dad 's , they were playing a game , she said you should 've heard him , she said laughing all , mum loves to hear him happy . |
| 21 | An upbringing designed to carry him through changes of regime and frontier , possible loss of every worldly possession , and , in the event of crisis , protracted stays with distant relatives ensconced wherever the aristocracy was tolerated , from the Polish border to Hyde Park Gate , in short , a good European background , had made him totally self-contained and able with sunny smile and the formal handshake of the gymnase to set almost anybody at their ease , even the flustered Nenna . |
| 22 | The Long Parliament tried to have him restored in 1641–2 , but without effect , and from 1644 onwards Sir Edmond Prideaux [ q.v. ] , later attorney-general under the Commonwealth , was somewhat precariously ensconced as postmaster-general . |
| 23 | The writer has to give it these things to make it real for the reader . |
| 24 | ‘ Every time the ad comes on TV my mum has to tape it and she tells all the neighbours . ’ |
| 25 | At the beginning of the year , the drivers make application for their super-licence , a recently introduced , sensible measure designed to make it more difficult for the totally unqualified to buy themselves drives . |
| 26 | This is the outer layer of the tent designed to protect you from the elements , usually wind and rain , but it could also be from heat . |
| 27 | When she sat on the chamberpot to try to relieve it , the blood came . |
| 28 | Mum tried to calm her but Mary was not impressed by the thought that the money for hiring the hall had been saved . |
| 29 | It also means that they can not feel the contractions , so the midwife has to tell them when to push , which can take longer . |
| 30 | Well all we had was Broadfield School and that 's where my boys had to go to Broadfield , they went into Broadfield School and erm , they all got on alright you know , they got on well there and then from there they went to when the new school was built they went to Netteswell school you see , but two of my sons are electricians and unfortunately the eldest one , one of the electricians I could n't put him to apprentice because I could n't afford it cos I had a hard to struggle to bring them up you know in those days , we did n't get erm any family allowance or anything those days , and erm , so therefore he could n't go , but he sort of got on and got his own factory , but my other son who 's an electrician , one of the twins he 's erm , he 's got his City and Guilds he passed , he went , he was able to go to the school when the new schools were built you see , when Netteswell school was built he was able to go to night school and er learn all you see , then there was the one at Burnt Mill was n't there , down the bottom ? |