Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [to-vb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You let them in to have a laugh at them or you let them in because you want to listen to what they 're saying . |
| 2 | What about getting those children as they go out a voucher that their parents can bring them along to see a show at a reduced rate . |
| 3 | ‘ These service industries can provide a better short-term financial return but real sustainable growth must be founded on manufacturing industries which add real value to raw materials by combining them together to form a product for which people are prepared to pay a premium , ’ he added . |
| 4 | ‘ To do that , you take a lot of identical molecules called amines and join them together to form a chain . |
| 5 | You wired them together to make a kind of pyramid . |
| 6 | ‘ Promise me only to stay a week . ’ |
| 7 | Selina 's next move might have seemed an odd one for someone out to make a name for herself . |
| 8 | He wished there was someone else he could trust , someone else to form an alliance with instead of this comic figure of a Russian policeman . |
| 9 | Although urged by his party to remain , he thought , like a decent democrat , that it was time for someone else to have a go , and he retired at the time of the 1987 General Election . |
| 10 | Interviewed on BBC Radio Four 's Today programme , Swales said : ‘ I would love to keep going , but I realise it is probably time for someone else to have a go . |
| 11 | Batty 's other great strength is controling the ball , no matter how fast or high it is he brings it down with his chest or foot so he can lay it off for someone else to make a defence splitting pass . |
| 12 | He was shaken , but unhurt , and merely ordered me not to say a word . |
| 13 | Saying this to me was like holding a red rag to a bull : the more anyone told me not to do a thing , the more I tried to do it . |
| 14 | ‘ Promise me not to wear a switch again , ’ he said , after a fool 's pause . |
| 15 | Then I remembered Stephen Roskill telling me not to believe a word Mountbatten said or claimed unless it was corroborated from other sources . |
| 16 | She told me not to make a fuss over such a small thing . |
| 17 | And they used to go to Belgium , they , they er walked them through to get a boat at Newcastle and they used to got to Belgium for |
| 18 | By section 12 , the senior police officer is empowered to impose conditions on the proposed march if he reasonably believes that it may result in serious public disorder , serious damage to property or serious disruption to the life of the community , or alternatively that the purpose of persons organising the march is to intimidate others ‘ with a view to compelling them not to do an act they have a right to do , or to do an act they have a right not to do . ’ |
| 19 | The wording of section 12(1) ( b ) is , however , slightly unfortunate in requiring the intimidation of others ‘ with a view to compelling them not to do an act they have a right to do , or to do an act they have a right not to do . ’ |
| 20 | The grounds upon which the powers to impose conditions may be exercised are very similar to those which are available in relation to processions ; section 14 provides that if the senior police officer believes that a public assembly may result in serious public disorder , serious damage to property or serious disruption to the life of the community , or that the purposes of the persons organising it is to intimidate others with a view to compelling them not to do an act they have a right to do , or to do an act they have a right not to do , he may impose conditions as to the place of the assembly , its maximum duration or the maximum number of persons who may constitute it as may appear to him necessary to prevent the disorder , damage , disruption or intimidation . |
| 21 | George Williamson and three other men did not hesitate to launch to the aid of Ralph Pottinger , even though the coastguard had advised them not to attempt a rescue , and they cast off from Scalloway Harbour at 2138 , aboard Challenge , a steel-built 36ft salmon work boat . |
| 22 | Only on his way home at lunchtime did he at last rouse himself enough to make a detour , and stop by at his brother 's apartment and invite Franco to come home with him for lunch . |
| 23 | The door was flung open before Rincewind could collect himself sufficiently to make a dash for the window . |
| 24 | I mean , there again , you 're seeing these players doing it , when you say , oh what , and you know they do n't call somebody over to have a look at . |
| 25 | Er just make it available , if somebody asks for it , they 'll go and drag somebody up to have a look at you , and they will keep er er they 've made it so they keep an independent arm , but it 's not the major part of their business . |
| 26 | at night cos there 's nobody here to have a conversation with . |
| 27 | An agreement whereby a shareholder of the target company binds himself irrevocably to accept a bidder 's offer . |
| 28 | His mouth opened and closed while portraits of notables revolved on some sort of belt contraption behind him and my mind strayed to Phil Collins 's story about the time he went up and asked Steve Davis for an autograph : ‘ He did n't even glance at me , just sent me off to get a pen , and then signed his name , still without looking at me . |
| 29 | There are others who never will , and you 'll have a constant battle to establish you right to have a share in making decisions , and knowing where the money goes . |
| 30 | This is Death 's Head Hole , the name itself enough to cause a shudder . |