Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They fear plans to widen the availability of alcohol licenses could see off many traditional pubs . |
| 2 | ‘ I will want Parliament to see the report the Government has got . |
| 3 | A number of attempts to sue experts reached the law reports in the years before 1975 , but they invariably met the answer that the experts were " quasi-arbitrators " and therefore could not be sued . |
| 4 | When they were blindfolded Zack entered the cellar , with two men behind him . |
| 5 | His death-warrant bore 58 signatures , headed by that of John Bradshaw who , born in Marple in 1602 , may have attended the School in his youth ; however , if he did , it seems to have made but little impression on him , for in his will he made bequests to increase the Masters ' salaries at his other schools , Bunbury and Middleton , and to found a new school in Marple , without mentioning Stockport . |
| 6 | Since then we have redirected plans to ease the burden on schools , given recognition to the increased work load for clerical staff and to the importance of the work they do . |
| 7 | ‘ Is your contact who reported seeing Manescu board the Travemünde ferry for Helsinki reliable ? |
| 8 | Its mission was to provide a detailed relief map of the surface by using radar to penetrate the atmosphere , which was 90 times thicker than the Earth 's atmosphere and had a temperature of 900 degrees Fahrenheit . |
| 9 | During pilgrim rushes , surging , struggling crowds filled the platforms and the waiting halls , and while the masses changed from one train to another the station was a Babel . |
| 10 | But I think we must be given freedom to choose the time and not commit ourselves to any timetable . |
| 11 | The Bundesbank can forgive the government for allowing recession to widen the deficit . |
| 12 | Pupils in state schools were given permission to wear the jilbab headscarves that are the badge of good Muslim women . |
| 13 | But a Birmingham SSD spokeswoman said that , far from absconding , Cattell had been given permission to leave the community home with education to visit her mother . |
| 14 | JINXED Ian Loughran was given permission to change the number of his house yesterday in the hope of changing his luck . |
| 15 | They made plans to spend the day together . |
| 16 | Conscious of our lack of truly integrated teaching sessions , and freshly inspired by a successful ‘ joint ’ activity weekend at a local Outward Bound Centre , we made plans to change the structure of one particular curriculum area . |
| 17 | In short , the phylogenetic basis of the id seems most definitely to be a set of basically egoistic and anti-social sexual and aggressive drives which cause all men to see each other as sexual rivals and which make sons desire the death of their fathers for possession of the mother and sisters . |
| 18 | The programmes concentrate on such visual tasks as pattern making and matching , perception of symmetry , perspective and discrimination of detail and describe materials to use in each area , besides suggesting activities involving the interpretation of communication through facial expression and body gesture . |
| 19 | The applicant sought permission to enter the United Kingdom as a visitor for one week . |
| 20 | Today we have less confidence than before in the power of more external , socially oriented ideologies to change the world . |
| 21 | On the plea that she feared others might intrude , she asked permission to lock the door and promptly did so from the outside . |
| 22 | He asked permission to evacuate the whole of the Woevre Plain , now menaced by the rapid German advance on the Meuse Highlands . |
| 23 | He simply asked permission to visit the pope to consult him about his troubles . |
| 24 | He asked permission to make the tea , which he did — and brought it in to them with the air of an old family retainer . |
| 25 | Force 136 asked permission to arm the AFO . |
| 26 | In 1929 he asked permission to introduce the semi-circle at Highbury , but was refused . |
| 27 | HEIGHTENED tension in Natal province forced the ANC leader , Nelson Mandela , to cancel plans to attend the funeral of six children killed in an ambush ten days ago , African National Congress officials said yesterday . |
| 28 | His mistakes usually make Lukic pick the ball out of the net . |
| 29 | Had we but known that money was so scarce , RW&P would willingly have sent round the collection box to gather money to compensate the RFU in return for keeping the England jersey white ( or , for that matter , the WRU for keeping the Welsh jersey red ) . |
| 30 | So the differential gesture which constitutes literature excludes the speaker from the very outset ; the object of literary science is an authorless literariness . |