Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adj] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think Sam accidentally kicked Hannah , or kicked Hannah I do n't know I was n't there , but he came flying down , really got to curb that child he said , I said I beg your pardon , he said you 've got to curb that child kicking Hannah , I said if I 'd seen him kick her , he said that well I 'm not sure that he actually kicked her it might have been an accident |
| 2 | Say no I 'm alright and I must 've lifted my head , all I could hear was this old scraggy voice like a witch , ah serve the fucking bastard right , the fucking honest to fuck , so I must 've sat for another half an hour and I knew I had to go that way to get home . |
| 3 | In any case , there was not enough time left for me to go that way to look for him . |
| 4 | The Comintern worked predictably but with difficulty to establish control over the recalcitrant comrades in both factions but was faced with firm opposition from those who did not wish to see Korean communism become a minor branch of the world communist movement directed by Moscow . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , President Roh Tae Woo of South Korea welcomed the recent progress in relations between the two states , and on July 6 suggested that he expected to see Korean reunification achieved within five years . |
| 6 | A floral competition designed to promote European harmony has ended in claims that the judging was unfair to the British entry . |
| 7 | For him the house was filled with suffering and fluffed attempts to pretend that suffering did n't exist . |
| 8 | I had applied to continue full-time research following my degree course , but this had been turned down by my chief officers ; however , I had been told that assistance for part-time study would almost certainly be approved in view of the national policy of encouraging officers to extend their educational qualifications . |
| 9 | Luckily the leverage required to induce that deceleration has decreased as stopping power has increased . |
| 10 | The interruption gave the two kneeling men a chance to look up , and to see each other looking up . |
| 11 | And before too long the students will be able to see each other using a new video-phone link . |
| 12 | Market economics clearly makes a number of effective criticisms of demand management , and its emphasis on the limited competence of government to promote economic growth provides at least a valuable corrective to what became the orthodox political economy of the post-war period . |
| 13 | It is wisest to treat each variety according to the details and information that will be contained in the better kind of catalogue — the sort of information which will also influence your decision where to order . |
| 14 | Van Laue is willing to acknowledge progressive development listed by an united opposition , economic expansion , and advance in education , and the improved peasant status . |
| 15 | On the basis of this argument , however , were Labour to win the next election on the numerical strength of MPs returned from Scotland , he would then have to agree that Labour have no mandate in England ! |
| 16 | Tacograph readings are used to enforce European safety limits on the length of time a driver is behind the wheel without a break . |
| 17 | Tachograph readings are used to enforce European safety limits on the length of time a driver is behind the wheel without a break . |
| 18 | An injunction was granted in that case to enforce that duty ordering the owner to maintain a hoarding around a vacant piece of his land or find some other way to prevent trespassers from using and depositing filth and refuse there , which amongst other things , gave rise to foul odours . |
| 19 | Is it possible to see private affluence co-existing with corporate poverty ? |
| 20 | A majority of OPEC members agree to support Saudi plan to increase production . |
| 21 | How easy it is to allow life to be swallowed up by the daily round and so to miss that pause to reflect and to take one 's bearings . |
| 22 | On the surface the man seemed to be part of the backbone of the community , but she had only to remember the marked reluctance shown by those of his employees she had tried to interview that afternoon to realise that all was n't as it seemed . |
| 23 | Nobody wants to see that flow become a trickle . |
| 24 | A vote for a Party B candidate may simply indicate , with no ulterior motive , a wish to see that candidate elected — once all of the Party A candidates have been either elected or eliminated . |
| 25 | To see that child lying in a cell out of her head on drugs was like having a knife twisted somewhere in your bowels . |
| 26 | I love to see that sun go down . |
| 27 | I I 've been coming here for forty years so far and and provocative statement I think in your programme this Autumn is the best that you 've had for years it 's a very good combination of classical and and modern plays and I really congratulate you on this programme and I would like to see that standard maintained . |
| 28 | ‘ Put me down , you lecherous old goat ! ’ she said with a laugh , and , pushing him away , she straightend up in time to see That Man emerge from Jim 's old office with Ben Bradshaw , the senior registrar . |
| 29 | So I think it 's easy to see that religion fulfils this civilizing socially controlling role , but of course , this has been a popular theme in sociological writing in the course of the twentieth century , indeed , you could go so far as to say this , it is has become a cliche , in twentieth century social science . |
| 30 | I was not prepared to see that record put in jeopardy . |