Example sentences of "[noun prp] [to-vb] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thomas stopped and gestured Corbett to do the same . |
| 2 | ‘ We expected Uri to bend a few spoons but we did n't expect the viewers to bend the truth , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Tim Moulds will ask Leo Bashyam to do the same . |
| 4 | A Salvation Army officer friend had arranged for Ann to spend a few days away from home to help her resolve her feelings about the crisis before starting to tackle the difficulties in her marriage . |
| 5 | Mr McNeil said the region had tried but failed to persuade the CRE to conduct the same inquiry on a nationwide basis , and regretted its decision to proceed . |
| 6 | Would it not be nice for the SRU to encourage the latter course and pick a full Scotland team to meet them , treating the match as a full ‘ capped ’ game ? |
| 7 | Scheduled to begin on Aug. 30 , the talks had been delayed due to North Korea 's refusal , at an unofficial contact between foreign ministry officials prior to the talks , to respond to Japan 's repeated call for information about a Japanese woman known as Li Un Hye , who had allegedly been kidnapped by North Korea to tutor the former North Korean agent convicted of the 1987 bombing of a South Korean passenger plane [ see p. 35905 ] . |
| 8 | ‘ Ron wants Ray to do the same sort of job , and there are definite similarities between the two , ’ he said . |
| 9 | For the time being Macmillan advised the cabinet that Britain should try to conciliate Egypt and persuade Washington to do the same . |
| 10 | It marks a change of heart for Scorsese , who once swore he would never make a film about the Mafia , and led De Niro to break a few rules of his own : ‘ I was in the middle of filming We 're No Angels when we started to discuss GoodFellas and began working on my role , Jim Conway , together . |
| 11 | I amble over to Odd-Knut to ask a few dumb questions . |
| 12 | When would the fourth pall-bearer arrive , because , although the labouring side of his assignment was being carried out , he was the first to be called by Alan to say a few words , and also why was the organist playing in such a muted fashion ? |
| 13 | Will he encourage members of the Church of England to show the same fervour in their own churches and to keep them open by watching them and looking after them ? |
| 14 | Albert Schweitzer appealed for the same cause the following year , and in January 1958 Professor Linus Pauling , the Nobel prize-winning chemist , presented the signatures of more than 9,000 scientists to the United Nations secretary-general , Dag Hammarskjöld , warning the world of the genetic dangers of tests and calling for their immediate end — it was this which immediately influenced Sakharov to make the same appeal to Khrushchev . |
| 15 | The tri-Service commands in the Middle and Far East were working well , and so he tasked Thorneycroft to apply the same principles to the Service ministries in Whitehall . |
| 16 | Not quite a woman — because I wanted to do things with Gittel that only a man was supposed to want to do ; not quite a man — because I wanted Gittel to do the same things back to me . ’ |
| 17 | When we got into the studio , I got Gibson to send a few guitars down for a try-out and I ended up using them the whole way through the album . |
| 18 | ‘ I do not suppose , however , that you will be applying for the position so I shall wait for Alain to send a few people here for me to see . |
| 19 | It is the unique experience of rail travellers on the Gotthard to glimpse the same , unmistakable baroque-domed village church three times in a few minutes as the train passes it at different levels above and below . |
| 20 | The Prince wanted BitC to try the same idea in Britain . |
| 21 | A few weeks later John asked the notorious rock manager Allen Klein to do the same . |
| 22 | Henry himself marched into Anjou to carry out a similar policy and sent Geoffrey to do the same in Brittany . |
| 23 | If children become bilingual by being immersed in French in Canada , then perhaps all we need to do is to immerse Chinese-speaking children in English in Hong Kong to achieve the same effect . |
| 24 | Tosh McKinlay , who scored once and forced Taylor to concede an own goal , Gary Mackay and Derek Ferguson all made a creative contribution to an enjoyable match . |
| 25 | The instruments available in the shop will range from budget beginners ' guitars right up to custom-made guitars and basses , all set up and adjusted by Hugh Manson to give the same service previously offered to Jeff Beck , Andy Summers , John Giblin ( Simple Minds , Kate Bush ) , The Sisters Of Mercy and Led Zeppelin 's John Paul Jones , to name a few . |
| 26 | Expect Chelsea to name the same side beaten at home by Sheffield United , which means under-fire keeper Kevin Hitchcock plays . |
| 27 | This kind of thinking has n't featured in election campaigning , so though friends warn me that I 'll be submerged in a great placid pool of meditation , I 'm off to Dartington to gather a few hints on the ideas that ought to guide our future . |
| 28 | The blue-rinsed grandmother from Iowa — ‘ just passing through Lunnun to catch a few shows ’ ( like anglers collect trout ) — I had drawn as a dancing partner clapped louder than anybody . |
| 29 | Cecil urged Asquith to do the same , but , Chamberlain said , Asquith ‘ would not allow ( him ) to develop this idea , which he rejected with indignation and even with scorn . ’ |
| 30 | On the night hemisphere much of the surface is at about 100 K. Were Mercury to keep the same face to the Sun then the night hemisphere would be close to 0 K. The higher temperature that actually exists has been known since 1962 . |