Example sentences of "[pers pn] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All I know is that I think it 's a safe distance for me to drive behind that car at any given time . |
| 2 | And there was cotton gingham at two shillings a yard , you 'd have a smashing blouse out of that at six shillings , maybe four of them to go with each of the skirts . |
| 3 | PLEASE — look our for any potential people in YOUR classes and do encourage them to go to this day . |
| 4 | But it 's important that they get abroad and see these because they also imbibe a lot of feeling from just walking around these places and seeing what the ladies are wearing so it 's very important for them to go to those places . |
| 5 | And we 've educated them to go onto next day , and if we 're not performing we lose them . |
| 6 | When the children grew up they had a restricted freedom because the ‘ little people ’ did not permit them to go beyond certain points on a piece of land so the giants rebelled against this , thus starting a war . |
| 7 | In these schools , while national legislation will nudge staff to introduce procedures for involving and informing parents where this is required by law , it will not encourage them to go beyond such procedures to establish the kinds of voluntary open dialogue and day-to-day collaboration which can do so much to enhance the quality of a child 's education . |
| 8 | Why ca n't we could , as I suggest it would be slightly vague and , and the fact that the , the report shows the collection date , we could say the date it 's going to be collected cos you 'd get them to go through all |
| 9 | One of ACE 's claims is that members will be able to develop systems based upon the same building blocks which are sufficiently differentiated to enable them to go after separate market niches . |
| 10 | ‘ Tickets for the concert evening at the King 's Hall will be going on sale soon and we can expect them to go like hot cakes . |
| 11 | ‘ You do n't honestly expect me to agree to that idea ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ And you expect me to agree to all that ? |
| 13 | It was their personal frustration which led them to indulge in wild self-deception , to embrace with fanatical conviction the most extreme and fanciful ideologies . |
| 14 | Although many areas still recommend that 65 is the upper age limit for basic training for advice work , and 70 is the recommended retirement age , new NACAB membership requirements now allow bureaux the freedom to take a more personal approach to advice workers nearing retirement , allowing them to continue beyond 70 if the management committee and bureau manager agree . |
| 15 | Natural selection will therefore favour adaptations in males that enable them to mate with more females ; but it will favour discrimination in females , if males vary in their quality as mates . |
| 16 | My definition of harmful treatment would embrace not just treatment that exposed me to risk without any hope of compensating benefit but treatment of unproved efficacy that diverted me from having other treatments that were of proved value . |
| 17 | The vulnerability of minor revenue officials to demotion or removal made it imperative for them to remain on good terms with men of influence able to mar their careers , and shortly after his clash with the provost of Inverkeithing Main made his peace with the Cunningham family . |
| 18 | As we have seen , horses have basic physiological and psychological needs which must be met for them to remain in good health both physically and emotionally . |
| 19 | They therefore consulted their solicitor to see if it was necessary for them to remain in this country for the purpose of attending the hearing in August . |
| 20 | I have no record of having received a reply and since everything is beginning to move again with the local authorities applying to the Secretary of State for him to lay Orders under the Transport and Public Works Act to enable them to proceed with public consultation on their scheme , the matter is becoming critical once again . |
| 21 | Newspapers and television stations had no standing to apply to the trial judge to lift the order , and there was no avenue open for them to appeal to any other court . |
| 22 | I returned to my men and told them to unload under some fig trees on the steep river bank . |
| 23 | There were big baskets of flowers everywhere and waitresses were giving everyone sparkly drinks and asking them to sit at long tables in the dining room . |
| 24 | The Peerage Act 1963 now enables them to sit for all . |
| 25 | On the glass is drawn the triangle , and also some of the biomorphs whose genetic formulae entitle them to sit on that particular flat plane . |
| 26 | When Jancey persuaded them to sit in next door , none of them were too sure how heavy these guys would turn out to be . |
| 27 | Stress tends to move , or strain , the fibres , crystals , granules or molecules and cause them to slide over one another into a deformation of the material . |
| 28 | Nerves got the better of me and only when Les Cox stopped me to go for another take did I realise I 'd got my letters mixed up and had inadvertently said : ‘ Will you switch these sans off please ? |
| 29 | " He has never asked me to go at this time of night before , " she whispered . |
| 30 | They wanted me to go on casual . |