Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Liberal Democrat candidate Peter Bergg said : ‘ We have made it perfectly clear that we intend to invest lots of money in training . |
2 | When the council sought to evict him for non-payment of the extra rent he pleaded in defence that the resolution was invalid . |
3 | Almost twenty years alter the incident Coleridge was persuaded by Byron to publish the poem , and he then made the sensational claim that he had been able to remember 200 to 300 lines of perfect poetry when he had awoken from a drug-induced sleep , and was busy writing them down when he was interrupted by someone from Porlock demanding to see him on business . |
4 | I had just received a telephone call from the barracks which informed me that officials from Horseferry Road magistrates court had phoned demanding to see me about nonpayment of fines . |
5 | D' you want to see me in prison ? ’ |
6 | In the case of Alan Charlton , he has these six very fine grey panels , by very fine I just mean they are handsomely proportioned , they are very carefully coloured to a very precise , not just colour but also weight of colour and brightness and so on , but the way they 're shown in the Royal Academy Exhibition , and this is part of it 's stupidity , is , well I got the feeling it was intended to kill them to stone dead by putting them next to something very loud , very elaborate , very expressionist , a vast canvass by a very good painter by Mutter . |
7 | You are lucky enough to have Bella here to teach you , and your mother also , and as you know , I have undertaken to instruct you in history , since I am the one who has seen such a lot of it , as it were face to face . |
8 | I was able to go to see her in hospital . |
9 | Perhaps she had intended to restore it to working order but with increasing age had n't been able to summon the energy or enthusiasm to cope with the disturbance . |
10 | First , top scorer Dalien Atkinson missed the starting line-up after revolutionary oxygen chamber treatment failed to heal him in time to face his old club . |
11 | It sought to steady itself amidst plasma and shellblast … |
12 | He failed to provide me with information which I had requested . ’ |
13 | We did not want to exclude ourselves from membership ; but we could not accept such an automatic commitment . |
14 | Finally she agreed to meet him for lunch the following week , and they agreed a time and a place . |
15 | He finally agreed to meet us for lunch at the Mayflower Hotel , but nothing happened between them . |
16 | There are two types of Head Hugger available — the 0–9 month variety which fits all 0–9 month car seats , and the Universal Head Hugger , which fits all car seats , using velcro fastening to secure it into position . |
17 | Vivien had some friends still up at Oxford and had arranged to meet them for lunch at the Randolph Hotel . |
18 | You want to see me in gaol . |
19 | We want to see them in action against South Africa . |
20 | I want to see you before lunch . ’ |
21 | If your appliance is dangerous , the engineer has to disconnect it by law . |
22 | In the afternoons fishermen in small skiffs laid nets along the low island of reeds which lay between us and the main channel , returning to gather them at night . |
23 | ‘ Sometimes I was in the depths of despair , but the other inmates helped to carry me through prison . ‘ |
24 | In view of the complaints of the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the virulence of Leese 's propaganda , the government tried to silence him through recourse to the law . |
25 | If you want to use a mirror on a wall that is n't flat , you will need to mount it on blackboard , chipboard or plywood about 9mm thick . |
26 | I can not want a man who wants to see me in gaol . |
27 | I agree wholeheartedly , with what we were saying , what we do n't want to see is a whole one house block in the countryside , he wants to see it as part of a farmstead and order to prove that it 's going to be part of a farmstead , the buildings should be prerequisite to go up first before the house does . |
28 | ‘ Have you … tried to see him in hospital ? ’ |
29 | But then I tried to seduce him with poetry . |
30 | I have n't spoken to Mr Boldwood since the autumn , when I promised to see him at Christmas , so I 'll have to go . |