Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is the agency 's responsibility to find you the type of work you have indicated that you are interested in . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's not on at all for a brother-in-law to treat me the way you treat me . |
| 3 | The frictions grew steadily worse , and in an attempt to accommodate them the 1897 Vienna Congress resolved that the party become a federation of six national parties . |
| 4 | A note from Bartram in 1745 seems to imply a slight difference of opinion as his account of some American pines had been questioned : ‘ But as I have great opinion of Miller 's learning and judgement , I am engaged in duty and friendship to inform him the best I can . ’ |
| 5 | And the dam is turf Ed on the land ward side to give it the appearance of a gently sloping field . |
| 6 | The report , for the local authorities reports mentioned in the committee item is an attempt to give me the subject of car boot sales a fairly wide airing . |
| 7 | The Chancellor of the Exchequer , Kenneth Clarke tells the programme how she once asked : ‘ Why do I have to do everything in this Government ? ’ and no-one had the nerve to give her the obvious answer — she did n't have to do everything . |
| 8 | All you have to do is answer five questions and write a short tie-breaker to give you the opportunity of winning the title and prize of Sainsbury 's Wine Taste Challenge Winner . |
| 9 | The Discovery is the first ever gas cooker to have a hotplate with ‘ Gas Powered Discs ’ a revolutionary new concept developed by Moffat that actually places a Disc above the flame to give you the controllability you expect from gas plus an unheard of level of cleanability . |
| 10 | Jacqui gurgled something incomprehensible , as Kattina 's tongue shot into her mouth to save her the embarrassment of replying . |
| 11 | But when he had leapt off his horse to approach it the chest had sprouted legs and had gone trotting off into the forest , stopping again a few hundred yards away . |
| 12 | Three are commonly identified i.e. national , local and school , and in an attempt to clarify them the following paragraphs examine each in turn . |
| 13 | Ask your parish priest to show you the scale of charges and to explain the fees to you . |
| 14 | And we have more plans for the future to make it the ultimate private leisure club . |
| 15 | Well , rightly or wrongly we 've come to arrangements with the Liberals , not because we like the Liberals , not because we wanted to , but we , we were fed up with be being in opposition to tell you the truth . |
| 16 | Montag 's speech is a desperate attempt to show her the reality of her life . |
| 17 | It would n't do any good to tell her the truth — if it was the truth . |
| 18 | Finally he 'll decide to go and tinker with his terminal to tell him the tally to date . |
| 19 | He drew out a sturdy transparent plastic inner bag and held it up to the light to show me the contents . |
| 20 | We are committed to it and it is our intention to make it the centre of a big programme of tennis in the city . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ My husband is n't well , ’ I said , having no mind to hand him the truth at that moment . |
| 22 | I would expect the right hon. Lady to give us the answers , because she still has time to absorb what her civil servants have to tell her . |
| 23 | The first flowering plant I saw was a familiar one — the purple mountain saxifrage , Saxafraga oppositifolia to give it the scientific name . |
| 24 | Now that you are completing the preliminary studies and will shortly be embarking on the more complicated part of the syllabus , I feel that , at this stage , it would be of benefit to give you the following lessons in an endeavour to press home to you the importance and value of your continued perseverance . |
| 25 | Daisy said , ‘ He told Sister he 'd like our Charlie to stay in the Hall to give him the chance to get his nerve back in easy stages . |
| 26 | Because they are required by law to give you the best investment advice , and unless they find out your personal details they ca n't do that . |
| 27 | They are required by the Law Society 's Training Regulations to provide experience in articles in a number of recognised areas of the law to give you the training necessary to qualify as a solicitor . |
| 28 | He had been angered by her obvious , if unspoken , suspicion that he had persuaded the old lady to leave him the half share of the house . |
| 29 | I 've been on the other side of things often enough — guitar in hand , waiting for someone behind a mixing desk to give me the word to start playing — but they 'd never actually let me touch anything ! |
| 30 | His determination to deny them the ‘ improved living and working conditions , proper social protection , dialogue between management and labour ’ aspired to by the Maastricht social chapter suggest he may have had a different community in mind from the sort outside the gates of Timex . |