Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I will want Parliament to see the report the Government has got . |
| 2 | Also known as ‘ mass clocks ’ they offered a means of telling the time for church services : an appropriately placed stick cast a shadow on the hour-scale . |
| 3 | Archaeologists are using radar to survey a city 's historical past . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But I think we must be given freedom to choose the time and not commit ourselves to any timetable . |
| 6 | The Bundesbank can forgive the government for allowing recession to widen the deficit . |
| 7 | Pupils in state schools were given permission to wear the jilbab headscarves that are the badge of good Muslim women . |
| 8 | He had just been given permission to take a post in West Germany . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | If a person is given permission to enter a building at a particular time , then entry at another time may render him a trespasser . |
| 11 | JINXED Ian Loughran was given permission to change the number of his house yesterday in the hope of changing his luck . |
| 12 | In many areas of social policy , local authorities have been given permission to provide a service , then , when the need for the service has been clearly demonstrated and resources for it are more widely available , the provision has become mandatory . |
| 13 | On May 20 he sought permission to raise a loan of EC$20,000,000 from local commercial banks to meet immediate commitments . |
| 14 | The applicant sought permission to enter the United Kingdom as a visitor for one week . |
| 15 | On the plea that she feared others might intrude , she asked permission to lock the door and promptly did so from the outside . |
| 16 | He asked permission to evacuate the whole of the Woevre Plain , now menaced by the rapid German advance on the Meuse Highlands . |
| 17 | He simply asked permission to visit the pope to consult him about his troubles . |
| 18 | He asked permission to make the tea , which he did — and brought it in to them with the air of an old family retainer . |
| 19 | He asked permission to build a retirement home for him and his 63-year-old wife Mary on land two miles from his home near Ponteland . |
| 20 | Force 136 asked permission to arm the AFO . |
| 21 | In 1929 he asked permission to introduce the semi-circle at Highbury , but was refused . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | So the differential gesture which constitutes literature excludes the speaker from the very outset ; the object of literary science is an authorless literariness . |
| 24 | How naive he was , thought Penelope , trying to see Ianthe bearing a portion of oxtail up to his door . |
| 25 | She does n't want Loulou to want the things he wants : for her it 's a weakness , Therese is a moralist — ’ |
| 26 | ‘ We decided , huh ? ’ interrupted Danjit , his greasy , crinkled hair hiding no tower . |
| 27 | So poor that he had to borrow money to buy a horse , he found Mehmed II on the road from Istanbul to Edirne and was introduced to the sultan by the vezir Mahmud Papa ( Grand Vezir 858–72/1454–68 and 877–8/1472–3 ) . |
| 28 | THE winner of the jackpot prize of IR£418,000 in the Republic 's midweek lottery draw had to borrow money to buy an airline ticket to fly to Dublin from London to collect her prize . |
| 29 | It 's like people who eat marmalade has no peel in it . |
| 30 | The perceived advantages and disadvantages of using assessment to control the curriculum hinge on one main and two linked subsidiary issues . |