Example sentences of "[pron] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In many households it is conventional for everyone to retire at the same time , and to re-emerge simultaneously in the morning , with scant toleration being shown to individuals who do not conform . |
| 2 | Christian Democrats voted by 66 to 28 to accept the Tories as ‘ allied members ’ , allowing them to sit in the same group as the Christian Democrats in the Strasbourg Euro-parliament from May 1 . |
| 3 | But even if we did have some such reason — even if we thought it slightly more natural for right-handed people , who form the majority , to drive on the right — our reasons for wanting everyone to drive on the same side would still be much stronger . |
| 4 | We might , therefore , expect them to work in the same sort of way as the visual system . |
| 5 | Cooking procedures : most of the meals do not need cooking , just add hot water and leave them to stand for a few minutes . |
| 6 | How can he have the nerve to stand there calm and composed and expect me to behave in the same way ? she thought angrily . |
| 7 | Just before they reach the flowering stage — earlier if you need the land for another crop — chop them down , allow them to wilt for a few hours then plough or dig them in . |
| 8 | So erm I 've got a bit of time also in which to apply for a few things and go and see a few people erm |
| 9 | Tony said he would not allow himself to get into the same state and that he would talk to someone about how he was feeling , probably his father or even his mother , and that he would try to do something active about his problems , rather than just giving up . |
| 10 | It was some time before the detective found your address ; you 've been very clever in not meeting here , but it was careless of you to go to the same hotel every time , even if you did sign in as Mr and Mrs Smith . |
| 11 | We have provided an access fund to the institutions to enable them to deal with the few cases of hardship that genuinely occur . |
| 12 | So I got Peggy up from Somerset , on the same farm you see , and that was much better , and erm we 've been cycling to Stroud , to the pictures you know , 8 miles there and 8 miles back , and erm but the awful job he gave me to do for a few days was along , there was a young lad there and he was going to drive the old heavy fords and tractor and I was going to walk behind , and he 'd got converted horse drags I suppose they call them |
| 13 | Are we to continue with the same inadequate medicine for the same old obstinate sickness ? |
| 14 | She allowed herself to read for no more than half an hour a day . |
| 15 | As one jaundiced critic put it in 1733 : " A set of brocaded tradesmen cloathed in purple and fine linen , and faring sumptuously every day , raising to themselves immense wealth , so as to marry their daughters to the first rank , and leave their sons such estates as to enable them to live in the same degree . |
| 16 | And it raised the question of whether , if he plays again , Syd 's body will allow him to bowl with the same rampaging style . |
| 17 | But Rostov 's experience of the Empire had not prepared him to find at the same time a complete absence of the poor and underprivileged . |
| 18 | Unfortunately I ca n't imagine any chairman introducing measures that would make it harder for him to flog of a few prised assets in order to raise some hard cash . |
| 19 | He said : ‘ I need him to play in the same role as Mick Tait , who starts a suspension after Tuesday 's game against Stockport . |
| 20 | The eagerness with which the boy sought for knowledge , however , so impressed his schoolmaster that he continued to teach him without a fee ; then , through Hooker 's uncle who was Chamberlain of Exeter , he persuaded John Jewel , Bishop of Salisbury , to pay for him to study at the latter 's old college of Corpus Christi at Oxford . |
| 21 | They had declared at his accession , they had repeated often since , that they desired him to reign upon the selfsame terms as his predecessors ; and yet they made him aware , whenever it was needful to ask for a grant of money , that in fact he stood upon ground subtly changed , and must ask as a favour what had been Richard 's unquestioned right . |
| 22 | She sets out the details of how she feels the patient should be handled , so that the carers and everyone else involved will all help him to move in the same way . |
| 23 | He said that the dummy stimulated her to produce in the same way that the sight of the living calf should have done . |
| 24 | ‘ And I want it to go on the same way till I 'm free to offer you more . ’ |
| 25 | If the choice facing us were legal , clean , decently performed abortion or none at all , no doubt many of us would be hard put to it to vote for the former ; but in fact the choice is between the legal , clean sort and backstreet self-induced efforts of the Ottey 's Pills variety . |
| 26 | It has become a practice of mine to return to the same sight and work throughout the seasons . |
| 27 | The way I think of the band is kind of like puzzle pieces ; to me the secret of an effective arrangement is not for everyone to push towards the same kind of sound , but for everyone to play something that 's contrasting but interlocking , so that when you listen to the song , all the pieces fall into place around each other . |
| 28 | But he was overruled by the others ; one judge said ‘ you had better appoint them judges ; and then I will retire , because I see no use in having them to act in the same capacity in which we are acting ourselves ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ I then wrote to Gwen , inviting myself to stay for a few weeks . |
| 30 | While the Capital Guarantee Bond may be a fairly simple product it more or less requires us to go through the same process as all other new products . |