Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pers pn] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although there 's been a lot of interest in the Bath exhibition , Roles has found that his radical approach to the medium has made it hard to get his work established in this country . |
| 2 | Over the last 2000 years the Church has thought it right to make many changes : in patterns of ministry , in liturgical forms , in ethical emphasis , in doctrine . |
| 3 | Courtiers who had come to expect her barely to acknowledge them were suddenly treated to radiant smiles and cheerful banter . |
| 4 | Nobody has told me before to pack up , why are you bringing it up today ? ’ |
| 5 | I have ordered you about , Devlin has ordered you about and even Ana has dragged you here to please a man . ’ |
| 6 | He has called them here to listen to his news . |
| 7 | Knowing Christopher , she has judged it right to leave him to make his own attempts , though had he not succeeded she would probably have joined him and discussed the solution with him . |
| 8 | The Secretary of State has asked me specifically to clarify the principles which underlie the administration of ECRs within the reformed health service . |
| 9 | It adds that , although he lives in Macclesfield , he still makes a weekly trip to his flat in North London ‘ to keep in touch with the seamier side of life which often inspires his work ’ — a habit which has qualified him uniquely to illustrate Mr Boot 's Unauthorised Returns . |
| 10 | She was also mustering troops , and planned to lead them northwards to join up with her son . |
| 11 | Maybe he 'd brought her here to act as some kind of pawn in a game he played with Marianne , she realised dully . |
| 12 | You 'd sent him upstairs to make some sort of excuse to Nicky Kai ? |
| 13 | They 'd sent us home to see if I could live with me mam and dad , but it did n't last long . |
| 14 | And so his words , ‘ Bless those who persecute you ; bless and do not curse ’ sound like a counsel of perfection only if we fail to realise the process of transformation which is needed to enable us realistically to respond in this way to aggression from others . |
| 15 | The low contrast between the ‘ on ’ and ‘ off ’ states of the crystal mixture and the precise viewing angle needed make them hard to read . |
| 16 | Worry about finding his half of the mortgage must be getting to her , she realised as she left the kitchen , knowing that just thinking of her brother was not going to conjure him home to pay his dues . |
| 17 | I 'd like to try it straight to see how it looks and I 've heard there is a shampoo that temporarily smooths out the perm . |
| 18 | I dared not tell Mamma , or she would begin to badger me again to give up my job … |
| 19 | There was no way he was going to trap her here to solve his problems . |
| 20 | got to pay it again to go and collect it back off him ! |
| 21 | Well actually , if you have more to say on this topic fine , I was actually going to change it slightly to discuss his apparent classlessness . |
| 22 | I was always very interested in how things operated and used to take them apart to see how they worked , but I was not so good at putting them back together again . |
| 23 | She may fall ill , or have an accident while you were out , or set the house on fire and herself , so that you would not want to leave her even to go shopping . |
| 24 | ‘ Apparently they like to see you once to begin with . ’ |
| 25 | We still do not have a proper address for Nanking , but I 'll try to sent it to you soon , as I understand a comrade from Nanking is coming to see us here to make arrangements for our visit there . |
| 26 | By nature he is very much ‘ one of the boys ’ , which must have made it hard to assert himself , he does not find it easy to take advice and is readily upset by criticism . |
| 27 | If it had been any other soldier , he would have told him sternly to pull himself together and be a man . |
| 28 | ‘ My dear child , how many times can I have told you never to split a pair ! |
| 29 | There was a sense of the primeval about the place , and it would not have surprised me unduly to see a pterodactyl alight clumsily , or a dinosaur emerge from behind the rocks . |
| 30 | Sir Anthony Browne reported from Surrey that he would have thought it hard to get the money in so quickly had he not experienced the goodwill of the people ; and Sir Thomas Darcy claimed that men were actually saying , ‘ if this be too little his Grace shall have more ’ . |