Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The group left , reportedly after being told by Papua New Guinea officials that the Indonesians would be given permission to remove them by force . |
| 2 | The way I would see it is that there is a need for a broad consensus between government , IDB , LEDU , DED and all the various government agencies and community groups , economists and experts and the people on the ground themselves , because I do n't think the government has it within their power to solve the problem and I do n't think experts have it within their power to solve the problem . |
| 3 | He asked permission to leave it for her the following day . |
| 4 | Pink flowers like willow herb clustered along a dried-up river bank , circling birds reminded her of the vultures in westerns . |
| 5 | Peter was a pianist , had a job as a pianist , and always seemed to have money , which made Cecilia see him as a potentially good husband . |
| 6 | She hardly ever read it herself now , preferring Alexandra to read it to her , but some mornings , when she felt stronger , she would be propped up on extra pillows and given the paper and her glass . |
| 7 | Spokeswoman Sue Heyslop said : ‘ Pupils will be encouraged to become as independent as possible and develop skills to help them on their way . ’ |
| 8 | She said she did not want any birthday presents unless they could be enjoyed by everyone , so her friends spent £500 on young trees and got permission to plant them around the town . |
| 9 | He caught the wide , levelled eyes watching him with the first faint shadow of doubt and disquiet , almost distaste , and laughed shortly . |
| 10 | He asked Ken to walk him along the Rue Dante . |
| 11 | Holberg asked Marie to take him across the water and he left a note about that meeting in his eighty-seventh Epistle . |
| 12 | That evening she expected Edward to join them for dinner at the house . |
| 13 | After his show yesterday we asked Fluff to tell us about the most memorable records from his 32-year career . |
| 14 | I even got Ken to try it on us . |
| 15 | Mr Hutchinson , who said wallabies would be able to live in the wild in Britain on their diet of grass and fruit , appealed to anyone seeing Wally to call him on 0207521133 . |
| 16 | In 1915 Modigliani asked Lipchitz to introduce him to the small group of Jewish artists living in La Ruche , the beehive-shaped building with small studios in Le Passage Dantzig . |
| 17 | That Bernard had broken noses defending her to his chauvinistic schoolmates . |
| 18 | Battling clans and pursuing Redcoats cursed them for presenting huge obstacles denying fast military movement around the Highlands , whereas the Victorians regarded them as sporting playgrounds and background subject matter for romantic oil paintings of the fat , unattractive aristocracy and their useless families . |
| 19 | During the early months of 1990 Avril 's response to the growing opposition had included attempts to suppress it through the imposition in January of a " state of siege " , followed by efforts to defuse it through the promise of free elections [ see p. 37182 ] . |
| 20 | ‘ I ca n't believe all this , ’ Ruth breathed as she let Fernando lead her to a table by the lakeside . |
| 21 | I talk to them about the choices they 've made which led them to offend , and help them to find strategies to avoid it in the future , ’ she explains . |
| 22 | Her plot is high-flown twaddle : dazzling romantic novelist with immense fortune has difficulty dividing it between three even more dazzling and successful granddaughters ; devilishly attractive villain and many scenes in many beds . |
| 23 | The present owner has plans to convert it to a travelling theatre . |
| 24 | After losing power and suffering a humiliating defeat in the 1988 elections , he had little more than a spoiling role , thwarting attempts to dislodge him from the presidency of the Pakistan Moslem League , Pakistan 's oldest political party . |
| 25 | But now the Forestry Commission has decided to end the uncertainty by announcing plans to turn it into a wood . |
| 26 | Culdrose Radar cleared us through the inactive low level danger area and agreed that we would follow the coastline through the combined MATZs . |
| 27 | So Schaffer sat with a stack of paperback books from Hamilton 's corner rack , and occasionally tried to catch Hennessy to pump him for information . |
| 28 | It has sunscreens to protect you from the sun 's harmful rays , and a unique bio-collagen complex to nourish and moisturise . |
| 29 | ‘ New ’ animals may be subject to ‘ new ’ disorders , and ‘ better ’ , more disease-resistant animals may tempt AgriBusiness to keep them in worse conditions . |
| 30 | ON A BILLBOARD : Rally drivers do it in stages |