Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The team played better but failed to profit from their many spells of domination . |
| 2 | The team played better but failed to profit from their many spells of domination . |
| 3 | Such animals may appear magical to us because we tend to cling to our own heavily filtered reality . |
| 4 | But once you 've experienced the peace of mind that this insurance gives you , we 're confident you 'll want to continue with your valuable protection . |
| 5 | At the moment computer manufacturers and disc drive makers who do not want to invest in their own design are uncertain about whose bandwagon to jump on . |
| 6 | Third party test facilities are another option for manufacturers which do not want to invest in their own facilities . |
| 7 | And since the rich tend to sit in their own gardens , public parks help redistribute enjoyment towards the poor . |
| 8 | In practice , this may mean that old people are exposed to risk in their own homes and that there will be , on occasion , tragic consequences . |
| 9 | Eurotunnel , the company financing and overseeing the construction of the rail tunnel between France and the UK [ see p. 35469 ] , announced on May 28 , 1990 , that it had secured additional finance from the European Investment Bank , which had agreed to an increase in the project 's borrowing commitment from £1,000 million to £1,300 million , and that the majority of the 210 international banks supporting the tunnel project had agreed to allow the project to continue to borrow on its prevailing £5,000 million funding capacity . |
| 10 | He said she could come with him if she did n't want to go on her own and she did n't know how to say no . |
| 11 | Or do you want to go on your own so you do n't have to get a sitter ? |
| 12 | And so she said oh I want to see that , d' ya mind if I come with you cos I do n't want to go on me own , so and then we arrived , mum arrived first and , I said you do n't mind Naomi coming do you ? |
| 13 | If you needed a non-urgent operation say a hip replacement or something , and you did n't want to go into your own savings er you know then you 've obviously given away part of your assets . |
| 14 | But Preston did n't want to go into his domestic problems . |
| 15 | and do we find that in fact on the other brochures , for instance at page fifty two , I do n't want to go through them all , I 'm only giving an example or two , page fifty two there you see , a sticker unfortunately er obscured in part , same words , bottom of fifty two , while these particulars are prepared with all due care for the convenience of the intend purchasers , the information contained therein is intended as a preliminary guide only |
| 16 | ‘ I had been rowing with my dad since I was little , so I did n't want to go to his new family with my brother . |
| 17 | Since then my ( now ex- ) girlfriend was really good mates with the two of them cos she was in their year ( Yes I know I 'm a paedophile ) so that was how I got to go to their 18th birthday parties and Al 's leaving do . |
| 18 | He will prefer to go to his own courts in State A , assuming they have jurisdiction . |
| 19 | Females tend to remain in their natal units , which thereby increase gradually in size . |
| 20 | Officially , the force was supposed to go in by invitation only ; avoid looking like the heavy mob ; and not humiliate authorities which felt they were hounded because they were struggling to cope on their own . |
| 21 | Network SouthEast , struggling to cope with its massive upsurge in business , proceeded with complete refurbishment of serviceable 1960s stock and started massive investment in new trains , notably its Networker . |
| 22 | However , Nellie 's nagging won the day and he agreed to go in his new Austin car and look for Dr Nolan . |
| 23 | An arbitration commission of eminent constitutional lawyers from France , Italy and Germany was appointed ; they were subsequently joined by others from Belgium and Spain when Yugoslavia failed to agree on its own two appointees . |
| 24 | Examples of such tasks are : an adolescent girl who has been having unprotected sexual intercourse with her boyfriend agrees to go to her local family planning clinic to seek contraceptive advice and to avoid having intercourse until contraception has been arranged ; a student with difficulty getting down to revising for an important examination decides that he must make a list of what he needs to do — his therapist suggests he also arranges the topics in their order of importance . |
| 25 | ‘ I intend to sit by you all night . |
| 26 | Historical biographers tend to work within their own national boundaries , and to prefer as subjects the Good Kings of national history . |
| 27 | ‘ I assume you made it worth her while in other ways , but obviously I failed to discover from her own fair lips how much you thought she was worth , and I 'm damned sure you wo n't admit how much you 've paid over the odds for her favours . ’ |
| 28 | Its accommodation was considerably greater than would ever be needed in normal times , but its nationalistic opulence was intended to come into its own every four years , at the inauguration of successive presidents . |
| 29 | As a consequence they were ‘ extracted ’ from their culture and failed to communicate to their own people . |
| 30 | Do you want to comment on what five thousand less than your figure would do for affordable housing ? |