Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [pron] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recognizing the value of promises from the British government , the community has organized itself locally to block BP Coal 's operations . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 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 | But on closer investigation it turns out that she has trained herself only to like healthy food . |
| 9 | Primary infringement means that someone has copied your work and made such copies public , or has authorised someone else to do this . |
| 10 | The Secretary of State has asked me specifically to clarify the principles which underlie the administration of ECRs within the reformed health service . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | This is where some fault or other has manifested itself sufficiently to affect the flight , though the critical event might have happened quite a long time before and been ‘ cooking up ’ until the divergence took place . |
| 13 | And that was when her conscience , which because she 'd got something else to think about had stayed quiet , suddenly started to get to her about the way in which she was deceiving the man she loved . |
| 14 | Normally I 'd wan na come off when I 'd run outa money and I 'd got nothing else to do 'cos I 've never gone robbin' or anythin' like that . |
| 15 | Ooh , I thought I 'd got someone else to give me some money ! |
| 16 | Maybe he 'd brought her here to act as some kind of pawn in a game he played with Marianne , she realised dully . |
| 17 | ‘ No , but after what you told me I have a suspicion you kissed me that night at Ib 's Club deliberately in an effort to convince her you 'd found someone else to replace her in your heart and in your bed . ’ |
| 18 | You 'd sent him upstairs to make some sort of excuse to Nicky Kai ? |
| 19 | They 'd sent us home to see if I could live with me mam and dad , but it did n't last long . |
| 20 | All this thinking and doodling will have done nothing physically to change the view outside the window , but it is a vital part of the gardening process . |
| 21 | Yes it is , it 's , it , it will be a bit frightening but like , I 've , I 've waited this long you know , so er anything they 're throwing up at me wo n't , wo n't be wo n't daunt me in any way because I 've been , like I went to a charity shield this season with Liverpool and they were playing Manchester United , there were sixty thousand there , and er I 'd have done anything just to get on there . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | If it had been any other soldier , he would have told him sternly to pull himself together and be a man . |
| 24 | If she had n't been Mrs Arbuthnot , he 'd have told anyone else to stop spoiling her and give her work to do around the house . |
| 25 | ‘ My dear child , how many times can I have told you never to split a pair ! |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 ’ . |
| 28 | He 'd have got someone else to write it for him . |
| 29 | They 'd have terminated me just to get rid of a nuisance . |
| 30 | ‘ Kathleen may have found me somewhere to live . ’ |