Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did not want Eleanor to talk to any of his fellow patients and suss out what sort of hospital he was in . |
| 2 | ‘ I want David to look at another skin rash . |
| 3 | 236 for 2 overnight became 296 for 7 next morning as England bowled themselves back into the game , but Lloyd and Garner put on 83 for the eighth wicket and then Holding and Croft an unbeaten 67 for the tenth as the bowlers tired , enabling Lloyd to declare on 468 . |
| 4 | By 1990 , industry observers expect Japan to account for 30 per cent of world sales of computer-related goods , compared with 11.2 per cent in December 1980 . |
| 5 | School was over for the day and Sara had expected Jenny to arrive before this . |
| 6 | A break of 80 helped O'Neill to recover to 3-3 but a 50 sparked a two frame roll that swept Rowing to victory . |
| 7 | It took only a micro-second , but it told Jezrael to prepare for some movement from Kandinskaya 's left hand . |
| 8 | While a point puts City closer to safety , a point slows Wednesday down and allows Arsenal to move within three points of them in fourth . |
| 9 | At the same time they intensify their economic attack and cause Cuba to fall into economic difficulties . |
| 10 | I got Ashenden to collect in all their passports this morning . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I never expected Maurice to die in such a way . |
| 12 | But it would be a mistake to believe that from the beginning Baldwin exercised all the power and merely allowed MacDonald to sit in impotent glory in 10 Downing Street . |
| 13 | He also allowed Salan to remain in sole possession of military and civilian authority , and treated him with ostentatious respect and cordiality . |
| 14 | After the decline of the port , largely as a result of the abolition of slavery , this modernization once again allowed Bristol to compete with other great commercial docks such as Liverpool and London ( qq.v . ) . |
| 15 | There were nervous moments in the grand slam match for England as with two minutes left , they allowed France to pull within two points when Camberaberaux converted a try . |
| 16 | Anya , possibly by waving her gun again , has finally persuaded Riva to change into drier clothes . |
| 17 | Bob Kimmins heaved open the floodgates and Mike Fielden , Hesketh with a second , Brendan Hanavan , Allan Wyllie and Charles Cusani allowed Lancashire to pour through unopposed . |
| 18 | Another prerequisite therefore may be a closer matching of political and military strength which would oblige Israel to think in new ways . |
| 19 | The development of a form of representative democracy in the nineteenth century led Dicey to distinguish between legal sovereignty , which continued to reside with the triumvirate of the monarch , Lords , and Commons , and political sovereignty , which he deemed to rest with the electorate . |
| 20 | Hrawi asked Hoss to continue as Prime Minister in a caretaker capacity until a new government was formed . |
| 21 | Office is the transport mechanism that down the road will enable Uniplex to break into mail-enabled process automation , the true definition of groupware . |
| 22 | But doctors said yesterday the knee was still inflamed and ordered Platt to rest for several days . |
| 23 | The British realized during the war years that they could never reap the benefits of the expected postwar boom in international civil aviation without a coherent national programme that would enable Britain to compete on equal terms with the United States . |
| 24 | His misfortunes spurred Galt to write with renewed vigour and until near the end of his life his output was voluminous . |
| 25 | tell Annette to get off that bloody phone |
| 26 | EC ministers continued to press Switzerland to raise above 28 tonnes its weight limit on lorries in transit [ see also p. 38493 ] . |
| 27 | There was one resignation from the committee in June , Elise felt she could not longer continue as publicity officer and we asked Rosetta to step into that office . |
| 28 | If France remained without an ally who could force Germany to fight on two fronts she would find it impossible to match German numbers because of the difference in the birthrate of the two nations . |
| 29 | Be asking Sue to respond to that debate and to put the C E C point of view . |
| 30 | A government spokesman said Professor Guido de Marco , Foreign Minister , had received a letter from his Libyan counterpart informing him that the two bomb suspects had asked to be tried in Malta , and asking Malta to accede to this request . |