Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I therefore continued to stand there awkwardly , waiting for my employer to give me permission to undertake the motoring trip . |
| 2 | Many such contracts are not sale contracts as such but are licence agreements ; this is particularly so with respect to computer software where the owner of the rights subsisting in the software grants licences to customers , giving them permission to use the software in return for a licence fee . |
| 3 | Three years ago — the day after Under Secretary Lehmann had been killed in the House by Tolonen — he had summoned the leaders of the House before him , and there , in the Purple Forbidden City where they had murdered his son , had granted them concessions , amongst them permission to build a generation starship . |
| 4 | We 're negotiating with the polytechnic to give them permission to build a hostel on the John Boscoe playing field . |
| 5 | It also gives me pleasure to rehearse a story clearly that I have thought about . |
| 6 | What about my freedom to eat a canteen meal in relatively clean air , to wear clothes that do not reek of stale tobacco and to breathe air as clean as is reasonably possible . |
| 7 | Is there anything I can use on my hair to add a bit of life to my curls between perms ? |
| 8 | And I had a bit of tulle in my hair to match the dress … |
| 9 | Conscious that it would be very much to my advantage to have an ally within Alison 's gates , I replied warmly , ‘ Me too . ’ |
| 10 | It is my privilege to open the debate on the report of the Select Committee on Social Services into the financing of private residential and nursing home fees . |
| 11 | I knew he 'd fought James on it tooth and nail , and though in all honesty I felt I 'd won him round to some extent since , the prejudices remained beneath the surface of benignity , waiting only for some unwary blunder on my part to crack the surface and let them burst through . |
| 12 | Certainly it was the view adopted , for example , when we had a 6 month interregnum in Dublin , and it was assumed it was my responsibility to hold the fort . |
| 13 | I do not know what purpose the meeting served in persuading Wapping of the merits of our plan , but it did enable me for the first and only time to see the terrain on which we were working and reinforced my enthusiasm to kill the committee at the earliest possible moment . |
| 14 | A month ago my bank informed me that it had been obliged to arrest £250 of my money to satisfy a court order obtained by sheriff officers . |
| 15 | I do n't know if it ever occurred to me to regret my inability to have a child by Jean-Claude . |
| 16 | The men asked my permission to open a case of tea and a case of tins of sausages from the stores brought by the two planes . |
| 17 | That man used my sister to obtain a visa . ’ |
| 18 | Like when I used to play a seeded player , I did n't think ‘ OK , I 'm going to lose to a seed ’ but ‘ All right — this is my opportunity to beat a seed ’ . ’ |
| 19 | I looked at my watch to maintain a show of dignity and began to move . |
| 20 | I made up my mind to broach the issue over lunch . |
| 21 | I had it in my mind to seek a time and place where I should meet with a man called mad by his fellows , for if such a man spoke strange things of me , none would heed him . |
| 22 | Colleagues , it 's my pleasure to make the award to Catherine on behalf of your , your union . |
| 23 | It was my pleasure to chair a meeting between all interested parties at village hall . |
| 24 | How could I get to my study to take the drug ? |
| 25 | Give them my command to let the boy win his spurs , for if God has so ordained it , I wish the day to be his and the honour to go to him and those in whose charge I have placed him . ’ |
| 26 | His body rolled away and uncovered the blood-spattered broken body of my poor dead sister , and even as I raised my hand to my mouth to stifle the scream , I saw the vicious green lizard dart into her hair . |
| 27 | This history should be looked on as my attempt to explore the history of the College so as best to understand why it has become what it is today . |
| 28 | My attempt to make a bicycle chain run more smoothly on an expensive light alloy racing crank by hitting the pedals with a large axe probably summed up my adolescent mechanical bent best . |
| 29 | Your analogy would be more accurate if you 'd talked of a mechanic saying he was going to the boot of my car to check the battery , having of course meant to say the bonnet . |
| 30 | Three years passed , and I had not lost my ambition to become the headmaster of a grammar school . |