Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [subord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It therefore seems most appropriate to treat them as cases of underlexicalisation , together with terms like " log " or " picture " discussed above . |
| 2 | The barriers are clear enough , what remains unclear is why some people are able to surmount them when others fail miserably . |
| 3 | But it 's a problem accentuated in a white ruled society that for decades regarded migrant blacks as temporary sojourners in urban areas , and little was done to accommodate them until influx control laws were removed four years ago . |
| 4 | Cadfael went to meet them as Sulien lighted down to speak hurriedly to the porter . |
| 5 | He was beginning to get to know them as individuals and to glimpse their relationships but he could never be more than the outsider looking in . |
| 6 | Already a decision had been made , sometime in 1964 , to hive ‘ Planet of Giants ’ and ‘ The Dalek Invasion of Earth ’ off from the first season — in whose block they had been recorded — and to graft them as openers to the second season , thus giving the overworked Production Office a bit of a breather . |
| 7 | Everyone used to know me as Sheena Rawlinson , but now I 've got my name back : Martia Miller . |
| 8 | You see , Mr McKillop , although I 'm reasonably happy to accept you as Elsie 's brother and I appreciate that you 've put a great deal of work into tracking her down , I 'm bound to say that I respect Elsie 's wishes to start life afresh and leave her old life behind . |
| 9 | ‘ Tom was a fairly astute captain in many respects , but to me he was a typical fighting captain and was always prepared to try something if things were not going the way he thought . ’ |
| 10 | His grandfather had been one of the Competitors for the Throne ; but Edward the First had chosen John Balliol , as sufficiently weak to accept him as overlord . |
| 11 | Rik Mayall , confirming that he is only capable of playing one character , is Phoebe Cates ' imaginary childhood friend who comes back to pester her when insecurity afflicts her in adulthood . |
| 12 | There is also the question of what will happen to the nuclear waste if the client country does not have the facilities to accept it when Dounreay is ready to return it . |
| 13 | they 're not allowed to repair it because safety regulations because the whole expanse and then supposedly the actual puncture comes off . |
| 14 | I mean to take another example er and this illustrates Mary-Jane 's point about it , it can be conscious , is is n't there a tendency would n't you say John for Clinton to see himself as Kennedy returned ? |
| 15 | I want you to serve me as Tolonen served my father . |
| 16 | To view them as members of a gentlemen 's club , whose rules are predicated upon principles of service and public interest is to ignore the power structure of which they are a part . |
| 17 | It was easy enough to spot them in the distance if they were in a clearing on the mountainside , but extremely difficult to detect them as Abdullahi and I approached through a tangle of giant heath that rose far above our heads . |
| 18 | Back at Talland Bay our Officers let the smugglers do the heavy work of loading the huge two and a quarter ton cargo of cannabis resin ( street value £2,500,000 wrapped in Christmas paper into vans before moving in to arrest them while cottages and a cafe in the area used by the UK based gang were also raided . |
| 19 | I only said that to annoy her as Fenella was leaning over the staircase banister to fix some tinsel with double-sided tape and one more inch and she need n't have bothered wearing a skirt at all . |
| 20 | I was helping Catherine to arrange her hair , as she had invited Edgar Linton to visit her while Hindley was absent . |
| 21 | IDC says 8% of the corporate sector is now using C++ in some form , a further 20% plan to purchase it whilst 33% are in the evaluation stages . |
| 22 | She would not have gone so far as to define it as softness . |
| 23 | I was back to visit it because Ben Tee , via the falls , was one of a series of outings I was proposing for a book of Lochaber walks , and despite all my nosing about I was not prepared to describe things without another visit . |
| 24 | I wanted so much to put into words , in a novel or a play , all that you and I felt for one another , not just to love love but to inscribe it as George Eliot and Willa Cather had done . |
| 25 | At Fourstones , north-east of Haydon Bridge , a wheel house adjoins the engine house built to replace it when steam engines came into use for threshing . |
| 26 | He added that there was no point in trying to sell it because noone wants defence activities any more . |
| 27 | ‘ Do you mean to say the fellow is going to besiege us because Guy hit one of his men who was about to … ? |
| 28 | It would be better to play them while Chloe is distracted ( eating or playing ) initially . |
| 29 | In the belief that it is better to abuse himself than others , he gets his kicks from watching his own videotaped interviews with women about their sexual preferences . |
| 30 | ‘ I shall do my best to avoid him when hounds are running ! ’ |