Example sentences of "[noun prp] [to-vb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One wonders just how furious : last week , back in Moscow to see her three-year-old son between performances , Semenyaka was having difficulties getting a visa to come back for her next role here , Cinderella , in only three weeks ' time . |
| 2 | George Bush yesterday drafted in Secretary of State James Baker to bolster his flagging bid for re-election . |
| 3 | When Gertie brought Victoria to see her new brother , she leaned over the crib shaking with excitement . |
| 4 | She had hoped her life might be completely happy and perfect , and expected Vronsky to sacrifice his whole life to love her entirely . |
| 5 | Instead , he destabilized his own government by selecting totally inadequate ministers and , deferring to his hysterical wife , allowed the depraved ‘ holy man ’ Rasputin to tarnish his own popular image and that of tsarism itself . |
| 6 | While their romance cooled-off , Charles still asked Sarah to attend his 30th birthday party at Buckingham Palace in November 1978 . |
| 7 | Difficult or not , Hermés went ahead and told Ross Lovegrove to write his own brief and design whatever he wanted . |
| 8 | Hermés told Lovegrove to write his own brief and design whatever he wanted |
| 9 | The first onslaught came with the ambitious attempts of Cardinal Wolsey to found his new Oxford college , financed from the seizure of the property of smaller monasteries and convents . |
| 10 | Although written with unquestioned partisan commitment to the WEA , the letter reflected some of the fundamental weaknesses redolent of the earlier dissatisfaction which had prompted Mansbridge to write his historic articles in the University Extension Journal in 1903 . |
| 11 | The People 's Liberation Army was told at the National People 's Congress in March to meet its financial needs by making a profit out of business operations … it sounds close to privatising the armed forces . |
| 12 | For Sultan Galiev , the picture was dominated by the need of the Islamic peoples of the Russias to secure their own liberation , not by the self-emancipation of the industrial working class of Europe . |
| 13 | It took me nearly twenty minutes to talk her out of the loo , finally having to promise that Nevil was not a friend , that he would n't call the police and that there would be no need for Mr and Mrs Binkworthy to know anything untoward had happened that afternoon . |
| 14 | Powell 's conversion gave the Welsh students the lead , only for Mardon to find his kicking rhythm in the 81st minute . |
| 15 | We have been campaigning with CPRE to encourage their proper management and protection . |
| 16 | On the return journey up the incline from Coombe the engine ran out of steam , causing passengers for Plymouth to miss their last connection . |
| 17 | Rachel knew , however , there was no point trying to explain that she was merely going with David to see her new friends from Conway House , because it looked as if her mother , together with Nina , Greg and all the others , had jumped to conclusions and were ready to believe that what was a perfectly innocent friendship had developed into something more . |
| 18 | I 'll be taking Lucy to see her honourable aunt . ’ |
| 19 | Boudiaf had gone to Annaba to promote his new National Patriotic Rally [ see below ] . |
| 20 | Senna , 33 , in a Marlboro McLaren Ford , won by more than 52 seconds from 32-year-old Hill 's Canon Williams Renault to claim his sixth Monaco triumph . |
| 21 | The Employment Department took the view that the TEC wrongly paid money to employers who had been running their own training schemes outside the Youth Training orbit ; this enabled the TEC to meet its government-imposed target of training weeks . |
| 22 | It was Peter Ustinov , who shared a number of key scenes with Laughton , who persuaded Douglas to allow him and Laughton to rewrite their own scenes , thus placating the larger-than-life Laughton . |
| 23 | Its sales success in 1992 helped Renault to increase its total European sales by 5.9% in 1992 to 1.432 million . |
| 24 | He redeveloped Luxor , formerly Thebes , raising one of history 's most renowned temples , and erecting the Colossi of Memnon to guard his own mortuary temple on the Nile . |
| 25 | IN AUGUST 1962 , Sam Goldwyn packed the Beverly Hilton to celebrate his 80th birthday . |
| 26 | Taylor has already pencilled in Gazza to play his first match for England in the World Cup qualifier against Norway next month . |
| 27 | A State as an artificial entity can not act except through its agents ; the full powers doctrine which enables States to exercise their treaty-making power rests upon agency . |
| 28 | Get Mr Harbinger to help you if- ’ |
| 29 | The court heard that a desperate financial crisis and debts of more than £40,000 drove Shooter to hatch his unsuccessful plot . |
| 30 | Carlton Books has appointed Ian McLellan to handle its worldwide sales activities in conjunction with Jonathan Goodman , managing director . |