Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Middlesbrough were portrayed as extravagant young upstarts ( the club had only been in the Football League since 1899 ) , and Sunderland were reproached for daring to ask for such a sum . |
| 2 | For daring to come at all , she was cut from the Kirov team . |
| 3 | Whatever his views on the subject , Labour 's Scottish leader is not in the market for appearing to waltz to any tune called by his Nationalist counterpart . |
| 4 | The Dons are anchored at the bottom of the Premier League after crashing to defeat in all three opening matches . |
| 5 | The Dons are anchored at the bottom of the Premier League after crashing to defeat in all three opening matches . |
| 6 | Sloosh twice a day after brushing to get to all the areas your toothbrush ca n't reach and make your mouth a fresh , clean , plaque-free zone . |
| 7 | But after failing to play in that , he revealed : ‘ I 've hurt the ankle again , and I do n't know when I 'll be back . ’ |
| 8 | Now , you know , behaviour that 's visible to college is behaviour which the college starts to think about wanting to regulate in some way . |
| 9 | It is not even as though the Government have adhered to their own reasons for refusing to act on this in the past . |
| 10 | Thus was I punished for wanting to go to these places , which I knew to be prisons for God . |
| 11 | What I shall want to argue is that their position is caught up in a circular argument : the only reason one could have for wanting to stand in this kind of relationship to biblical women is that one is Christian , but these writers never tackle the prior question as to whether feminism is in fact compatible with Christianity , such that one should want to stand in relationship to biblical women . |
| 12 | As for the actual designs , both he and his brother normally provided these themselves , but sometimes he continued the practice of contracting to build to those of other architects : the principal examples of this are Heythrop House , Oxfordshire ( 1705–8 ) , designed by Thomas Archer [ q.v. ] , and a number of buildings by James Gibbs [ q.v. ] , notably Ditchley House , Oxfordshire ( 1720–1 ) and All Saints church , Derby ( 1723–5 , later the cathedral ) — although in both cases he appears to have had some influence on the design as well . |
| 13 | The unfortunate Met Officers all over Bomber Command had plenty of explaining to do during that summer , as the weather was unusually bad . |
| 14 | [ … ] In the course of attempting to account for such market phenomena as quality differentiation , advertising , or markets in which few producers are to be found [ … ] neo-classical theories were led to conclusions which grossly misinterpret the significance of these phenomena . |
| 15 | The minister is then faced with the task of keeking to see during that prayer whether there are enough potential listeners to justify proceedings with his prepared material . |
| 16 | If this is not possible ( and it usually is n't ) , the golden advice at the present time must be to sell first rather than risk lumbering yourself with the crippling expense of having to borrow for several months or possibly longer . |
| 17 | We got up every morning and went to our routine , boring and badly-paid jobs , some of us hoping , some of us dreading the advent of Mr Right : he who would relieve us from , God forbid , the tedium of having to rely on each other for company , comfort , support and stimulation . |
| 18 | And , free from the stresses of having to clean in all those awkward corners and relaxed in the knowledge that because the Apex is so easy to clean , you will be able to devote all your energies to cooking up something really delicious . |
| 19 | They were both busy people , preoccupied with their work — Robyn with her supervisions and the completion of her PhD , Charles with the demands of his new job — and the thought of having to adjust to another partner , to study their interests and minister to their needs , wearied them in anticipation . |
| 20 | The number of occasions when prolonged treatment with aminoglycosides is required is small , but in these cases the risks of ototoxicity are high and the costs of failing to monitor for this disabling condition can be considerable . |
| 21 | A question might arise as to whether spectators can be given directions under sections 12 or 14 , or be guilty of offences of failing to comply with such conditions . |
| 22 | He wondered how many people in all the mental hospitals in the country — or the world " , — come to that — were really fallen Warriors who had either cracked up from the strain of trying to live in this hell-hole , or simply made the wrong choice and thought that the test was just seeing through the whole thing and then having the courage to stand out and make that challenge . |
| 23 | Even our Lord experienced the frustration of trying to communicate to those who did not have ears to hear ( Luke 10:16 ; Matt. |
| 24 | I can not urge you strongly enough to resist the temptation of trying to work with such tapes . |
| 25 | Erm well could I deal with the management agency question first an an then perhaps I 'll invite Mr Perry to speak on the difficulties in trying to equalise work share of one project with trying to counterbalance on another . |
| 26 | The element of parental responsibility is preserved by paragraph 18 of Schedule 3 under which a parent of a child who is the subject of an ESO commits an offence ( maximum fine £400 ) for failing to comply with any directions given by the supervisor . |
| 27 | Erm the people who have problems erm I would think , because of of feeling probably the way , they feel about living in the flats or about having to live in that way , does n't make them feel any batter about erm you know any any other particular difficulties that they 're having . |
| 28 | Out to provoke Theo into a declaration of loyalty , and at the same time sting him for continuing to belong to a hated class , he charged him with hypocrisy and self-righteousness in refusing to belong to either side . |
| 29 | In seeking to escape from this conclusion it was submitted in argument that the reasoning of the judgment did not show , or show sufficiently , that Thorpe J. had given due weight to W. 's wishes and that accordingly he had misdirected himself . |
| 30 | In seeking to contribute to this research agenda we need to address a number of issues which emerge both from this earlier literature and from some initial observation in a number of social work teams organized in differing ways . |