Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [verb] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing could reduce its probability , and hence there could be no reasons for supposing it false . |
| 2 | That is why in this manifesto we set out a clear analysis of Britain 's problems and our proposals for putting them right . |
| 3 | Indeed , all parties except ours seemed reconciled to this collapse of the public finances , though some had proposals for making it worse . |
| 4 | ‘ Thanks for lending me this , Christina . |
| 5 | Much love to you both — and renewed thanks for including me last week . |
| 6 | But thanks for telling me all this . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Thanks for telling me all this ; it 's what I wanted to know . ’ |
| 8 | Thanks for seeing me this evening er |
| 9 | Thanks for putting me straight . |
| 10 | Thanks for giving me this stuff . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , thanks for explaining it all to me , but I 'll have to be going too , I 'm afraid . ’ |
| 12 | Sonia Heywood , assistant director ( child care ) for Wiltshire SSD , expressed some of her staff 's worries about getting it wrong and mishandling the whole issue . |
| 13 | He felt a certain gratitude to Eleanor for giving him this idea . |
| 14 | I had never imagined the usefulness of teaching him English for this particular trade . |
| 15 | The usual way of coping with their father had been to make no reference to anything untoward that might have happened , for fear of bringing it all upon them again . |
| 16 | Tim had no intention of telling her that . |
| 17 | Penda had taken Eadfrith , son of Eadwine , into Mercia with him after the battle of Hatfield , possibly with the intention of restoring him one day in Deira as a dependent ruler , but perhaps ill-advisedly put him to death during the reign of Oswald ( HE 11 , 20 ) — though conceivably prevailed upon to do so by Oswald . |
| 18 | In an effort to sharpen the ‘ business nose ’ , Heath has been shunted sideways , to become deputy chairman , while Don Seymour , a businessman , has been installed at the head of the company with the intention of making it profitable by 1984 . |
| 19 | I had every intention of doing it this morning . |
| 20 | Within the past hour has announced that a review is being launched into the future of three pits in Yorkshire with the intention of closing them all down . |
| 21 | I had taken Miss Senga into Hyde Park with the intention of showing her some of the winter birds , and the park is so beautiful at this time of the year , what with the snow piled up . " |
| 22 | It appeared that Josh Cohen had no intention of giving them any trouble — just as Hardy had predicted . |
| 23 | She tried to calculate the effect of telling them all . |
| 24 | The effect of making them arrestable is that it gives the police certain powers of entry and search under section 17 and 18 while investigating the offences in question . |
| 25 | We are now 7 degrees within the tropics and if the trade winds in which we got off Madeira continue we may expect to cross the equator in a week or ten days , about which time our Captn. informs us that we may expect to fall in with some homeward bound vessels which will enable me as well as the rest of our passengers to forward letters to our friends … bad weather had the effect of making us all good sailors and now we are enjoying fine weather and a fair wind . |
| 26 | The hypothesis is that , when there is no formal communication structure to ensure that the symbols used trigger the same reaction everywhere , differentiations such as those above have the effect of making it probable that they will trigger quite different responses in different people . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm afraid you wo n't have the pleasure of seeing me onstage . |
| 28 | The fences hold no fears for this big fellow and he has a marvellous chance according to his trainer of making it two in a row and thereby join a small but privileged group . |
| 29 | The report blamed police incompetence for the tragedy , and said that the official obsession with keeping it secret had even extended to withholding news from relatives of the dead . |
| 30 | ‘ Dear sweet Lord above , I do thank Thee for Thy kindness in showing me this lovely woman before I died . ’ |