Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [art] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They asked to see a doctor and Zahira was taken to another part of the building where , she says , she was superficially examined by a doctor and a nurse . |
| 2 | He asked to see the horse and they took him to the stable . |
| 3 | So I said well I 've never been in the situation but I said if it , if it was , if I was in that situation I , asked to see the manager or person in charge , make an offer to pay for any damage that was done and if that did n't suffice then I would say well I am the care officer for a Mencap home and the only thing I can do is say will you er get in touch with my boss and it 'll have to be sorted out from Head Office and she said perfect , you could n't do anything better , then she give me all different things that we 've gone into the next day and the patient 's done everything down the bed , what would you do ? |
| 4 | Check beforehand if you intend to wear a badge because , if the rules are being strictly interpreted , only a single national or association badge will be permitted . |
| 5 | But we would not want to miss an opportunity or to court a refusal , ’ he said . |
| 6 | And he added , ‘ This will be the first time Ah 've visited the country , but havin' read Prescott myself Ah do n't think Ah 'm goin' to like the Spaniards and what they and the mestizos have done to it . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ It would be wrong to anticipate the conclusions of the inquiry but I do want to assure the public that this matter is a cause of great concern to the Prison Service and that all aspects of the escape , including the role played by prison staff , will be very carefully examined . ’ |
| 8 | Do you want to borrow the car and return it later ? ’ |
| 9 | Having said that , if you do have top-quality black and white photographs , then include one with the press releases to the national newspapers ; they may want to carry the story but have no time to find a photograph themselves . |
| 10 | Frodo the Ring bearer does not really want to carry the Ring and offers it to the elf-queen Galadriel . |
| 11 | No point making a fuss ; plenty more women with young kinds anxious for work , as Mr Silver will explain to silence the muttering that occasionally drowns even the machines . |
| 12 | Visual inspection of sieve residues should be undertaken to confirm the presence or absence of substantial proportions of strongly non-spherical particles in the sediment . |
| 13 | These rights included not only an ability to continue using the property as before but also the right to rebuild or extend it , provided the original building was not exceeded by more than ten per cent . |
| 14 | They resorted to terror and adventurism , for which there was no justification now that a powerful Social Democratic movement had taken shape , and they failed to acknowledge the leadership that must be exercised by the proletariat over the peasantry and the democratic movement as a whole . |
| 15 | He again failed to acknowledge the part that he could play in reducing the odds which are stacked against women and shackle them in the way that he described . |
| 16 | For a time the company failed to acknowledge the problem until the numbers began to be serious , at which time the management decided to ‘ regroup , become leaner , and work differently . ’ |
| 17 | I am inviting you to consider some of the steps which have been developed to promote the level and quantity of language skills which are needed to sustain and develop the social infrastructure in relation to the public services in a multi-lingual Britain . |
| 18 | But I intend to drive the strategy that is already in place and leave my successor to drive it even further . ’ |
| 19 | Alternatively , however , you may want to emphasise the point that actual readers are unlikely to respond all in the same way , especially readers differing in gender , class , age , ethnicity or some other aspect of social identity . |
| 20 | He failed to realize the difference and his blank expression made her smile . |
| 21 | People have always travelled to see the world and to find out how other people live . |
| 22 | A Trust has been formed to preserve the beauty and safeguard Harewood and its grounds for the public benefit , and to encourage the arts and sciences . |
| 23 | ‘ Woman with a heavy period , demanding to see a gynaecologist before she bleeds to death . |
| 24 | Over half of the 45 heads of state or government , including King Fahd of Saudi Arabia and President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt , failed to attend the gathering and were represented instead by deputies . |
| 25 | But at last with your help I 've conquered the cut and sew , I could give you all a hug . |
| 26 | Likewise seeing involves a seer and a person or thing seen . |
| 27 | The BPDAL Emergency Response plans were activated in Melbourne and a small group within BP Exploration , headed by general manager Greg Bourne , was formed to monitor the situation and offer advice . |
| 28 | ( Please note that it is not intended to issue an agenda or further papers for the presentation . ) |
| 29 | To neglect these questions and concentrate instead on the ‘ environment ’ of learning , however important that might be , is to risk encouraging the belief that teachers are judged and advanced on the basis of how their classrooms took rather than how and what their pupils learn ; consequently , some may feel that it is strategically sensible to concentrate on surface at the expense of substance . |
| 30 | Elliott agreed to mount the operation and , as is often the custom with intelligence agencies when engaged in hazardous operations , decided to use a freelance agent so that , if anything went wrong , MI6 could distance itself from the affair and deny any knowledge of it . |