Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She told him about the secretarial course at the technical college and her plans eventually to go to London , perhaps to model . |
| 2 | A local dental surgeon , Mr. Williams , was kind enough to attend at Dr. Prior 's request and he administered the gas gratuitously . |
| 3 | On the one hand generality is built into the account : the normal justification of authority is that following it will enable its subjects better to conform with reason . |
| 4 | One sees the pleasure Bill Deedes will have got , pleasure enough to last for months . |
| 5 | Thirty year old Robin , thirty two year old Paul and twenty three year old Darren , left their homes in to travel to Turkey to support England last March . |
| 6 | Basically , however , it is our practice only to paddle on Sundays in the fishing season and not even then on certain rivers when the salmon are running . |
| 7 | The council has asked for nonperishable food and basic medicines to add to the convoy of aid soon to depart for Russia . |
| 8 | It is adaptive for animals not to mate with members of other species . |
| 9 | The new Army Commander , Gen. Vimol Wongwanich , promised to unify the Army and on Aug. 7 ordered commanders of all army units not to intervene in politics or do anything to help or hinder any political party . |
| 10 | Ruud Gullit is injured and Ronnie Koeman , the Barcelona libero , has been ordered to rest for a week , and Milan , having won the World Club Championship in Tokyo , have advised Rijkaard and Van Basten not to play in Rotterdam . |
| 11 | Because er most of the year we tell our kids not to talk to strangers , and then one day a year you send the little so and sos out to knock on peoples doors to ask for money er and sweets and things like that . |
| 12 | ( 8 ) Where the prospective parliamentary candidate has been selected and subsequently intimates his or her intention not to stand for parliament in the constituency as the Labour Party candidate at the next election , the procedure set out in section ( 3 ) of this clause shall ( subject to section ( 4 ) of this clause ) be forthwith set in motion again . |
| 13 | On June 17 Roman announced his intention not to stand for President . |
| 14 | This was not , of course , just a Protestant response , although it benefited the Protestants that the great Catholic powers of France and Spain should tear one another apart ; their temporary truce in 1556 had been regarded as a significant reversal to the cause of reform , and when the war was renewed one of the leading English preachers , Christopher Goodman , was to urge the English not to fight for Spain , just as Knox urged the Scots not to fight for France . |
| 15 | Skol 's sales were up by 4% , thanks largely to demand from couch potatoes . |
| 16 | This allowed Philip Neill through to win from Stephen McCreery and Jess . |
| 17 | And , once he had taken three months off to play for England in Australia , the rumour seemed to have died the death . |
| 18 | Timber is the fastest growing import underlined by the arrival last month of the largest timber carrier ever to dock at Sharpness . |
| 19 | But , although they nearly ran out of steam and were forced to settle for a less than emphatic 27–24 margin of victory as the ‘ Boks came back at them , Sean Fitzpatrick 's side — with the Jones boys Ian and Michael , Zinzan Brooke and Frank Bunce outstanding alongside their skipper — were worthy of being the only New Zealand side ever to go through South Africa undefeated , albeit on an abbreviated tour . |
| 20 | PROTESTORS gathered at a Merseyside dock yesterday to campaign against coal imports and pit closures . |
| 21 | As regards the public perception of the term ‘ antique ’ , I think it would be fair to say that a great many of today 's most eminent collectors , particularly in America , and public institutions , are definitely beginning to interpret the word far more loosely than its previously accepted definition of ‘ a hundred years old ’ and , it is clearly a great shame that two of the most original and internationally influential artistic styles ever to emerge in Britain are almost entirely excluded from the Fair : the Arts and Crafts Movement and Art Nouveau , on the basis of age . |
| 22 | Mr Kenneth Clarke , the new Home Secretary , was faced with demands yesterday to release from prison a campaigner for Sikh independence who has been under threat of deportation to India . |
| 23 | The disabled lobby in the arts must take credit for the work they have done in making galleries more accessible , but there is a great deal more to do in order to encourage and demonstrate the creative talents of older people that undoubtedly exist . |
| 24 | Steps up to exchange of contracts |
| 25 | Baldwin contemplated all this at Aix , and made up his mind both to go for protection and to put at risk the first independent Conservative majority for two decades . |
| 26 | You can introduce him as the guy you and I appointed some months back to work with Sanders on the preparation of the Business Plan . |
| 27 | I inquired after my brother , Max , who had finally agreed a few months ago to work for Dad 's firm , and I established that he was in Paris for a few more days . |
| 28 | He studied in every spare moment he could find , not because he wanted to but because , in the absence of parents who would pay , he needed to win a scholarship even to get to school . |
| 29 | WE 'VE GOT SOMEONE COMING TO THE CLUB TOMORROW TO TALK ABOUT AIDS . |
| 30 | But they must beat Edinburgh Royals at home at the Jewel & Esk Valley College tomorrow to stay on top . |