Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Personally , I am rather too fond of my sanity to risk it in this way . |
| 2 | You never knew when your luck would turn — another mean Taibach slogan to see him through these dazzling fields of honey and clover . |
| 3 | Give the customers plenty of opportunity to see you from all angles and let them feel the cloth if they want to . |
| 4 | This is Brando 's first film since 1980 and it 's good that his old campaigning fire was still sufficiently there under the millions and the sloth to pull him into this . |
| 5 | You see , I did n't know her for long and it was a privilege to meet her at all . |
| 6 | While Helen 's day was filled by the demands of her young charges and the vain attempts of Mrs Webb to train her in some orderliness in domestic affairs , Edward continued to tend her father 's grave . |
| 7 | My heart , to love him ; my will , to do his will , my mind , to glorify him ; my tongue , to speak to him and of him ; my eyes to see him in all things ; my hands to bring whatever they touch to him ; my all only to be a real ‘ all ’ : because it is joined to him . |
| 8 | Out of the corner of my eye I noticed how the prioress kept sending him frowning glances at being ignored , interspersed with coy smiles in an attempt to provoke him into some loving conspiracy about the events of the previous night . |
| 9 | It is highly probable that by early in the next century it will require no more than ten per cent of the labour force to provide us with all our material needs — that is , all the food we eat , all the clothing we wear , all the textiles and furnishings in our houses , the houses themselves , the appliances , the automobiles , and so on . |
| 10 | Harold Wilson probably underwent the most disagreeable experience of any Prime Minister in that it was regarded as respectable political tactics to traduce him on any grounds other than political . |
| 11 | We were soon to discover that Masha might be in no condition to set us on any track . |
| 12 | They had to walk right past the tramp to enter the church and they made absolutely no attempt to help him in any way . |
| 13 | Since English people are also stereotyped in Ulster in various ( usually unfavourable ) ways , it was probably equally important that my mixed , but mainly Scottish , accent made it extremely difficult for subjects to fit me into any clear popular category . |
| 14 | If there is any attempt to bypass me in this matter , you shall all know of it ! ’ |
| 15 | This year we are asking a selected sample of readers to help us with this process . |
| 16 | The Commission may also require the parties to notify it of any other events which may be symptomatic of this operating in a restrictive manner : for example , any refusals to meet export orders , the joining of another party to the agreement or the supply of any trade information under an agreement . |
| 17 | Jezrael wondered whose memory was being replayed inside her mind to guide her through this metal rat-run . |
| 18 | I 'd like to wish you well , Hazel , but there 's no good to wish you in this place . |
| 19 | Where there is nothing to show that the parties have used language in any other than its strict and ordinary sense , and where the words interpreted in that sense are sensible with reference to extrinsic circumstances , it is an inflexible rule of construction that the words shall be interpreted in that strict and primary sense even though they may be capable of some popular or secondary interpretation and even though the most conclusive evidence of the intention to use them in such popular sense is tendered ( Enlayde Ltd v Roberts [ 1917 ] 1 Ch 109 : obligation to reinstate property destroyed by fire included an obligation to reinstate where the destruction was caused by incendiary bombs ) . |
| 20 | There 's no reasson to keep it at all . |
| 21 | Genius of Picasso to recall us to this , with his combinations of life-class drawing , cubism , collage , lettering , etc . |
| 22 | When the opportunity to acquire Mothercare arose , the Dutchman encouraged Conran to seize it with both hands . |
| 23 | Brazil 's pro-privatisation rhetoric needs to be supported by much further change in policy and practice to turn it into more than a minor curiosity in its history . |
| 24 | See I hoped wi David to ring me before half past three before he sets off , and he has n't done yet . |
| 25 | That is absolute rubbish and I expect the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook to condemn it as such . |
| 26 | Got Walker to deflower her under this ancient fucking yew tree in Perthshire . |
| 27 | ‘ They are pruned back and wire can be attached to the branches to shape them into any design you want . |
| 28 | Why should I require animals to join me in some mutual admiration society or even make them honorary members ? |
| 29 | He released a hundred quintols of amyl to remind him of that . |
| 30 | Nurses claimed she had waited most of that time for an ambulance to take her to another hospital . |