Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was nothing for Sophie to say after that and she resigned herself to the prospect of meeting Robert again , but later that morning , while she was working alone in the office , she felt desperately unhappy . |
| 2 | De Gaulle left the country for Baden-Baden to consult with French army commander General Massau , who agreed , in return for the release of General Salan , that the army would support any legal government but would not intervene openly unless the Communist Party called for insurrection . |
| 3 | The Prince , momentarily forgetting his orders for Sharpe to change into Dutch uniform , dominated the luncheon conversation as he eagerly expressed his wish that the French would attack before the Duke returned from his meeting with the Prussians , for then the Prince could defeat the enemy with only the help of his faithful Dutch troops . |
| 4 | Leicestershire finished on 289 for 9 … quite a total for Buckinghamshire to chase in sixty overs , , their start was slow but sure … |
| 5 | The most important thing right now is for England to qualify for next years World Cup Finals . |
| 6 | They are required by the Bank of England to deal in all outstanding gilt-edged stocks including index-linked stocks and may , if they so choose , deal in other sterling fixed-interest securities ; in certain sterling money-market instruments ; and in derivatives of these securities and instruments , e.g. futures and options on gilts . |
| 7 | And the parties could fulfil their promises only if they presented a uniform program to the electorate and achieved a cohesive majority in the House of Commons to carry through that program . |
| 8 | Word was also sent to the Superintendent of Newbury to arrange for Shorter 's body to be moved . |
| 9 | At that time he travelled on a little inter-island plane to the northerly island of Westray to teach for two days a week ; for a while he taught for two days on the island of Sanday as well . |
| 10 | What formula are we going to find to get the ordinary people of Ulster to vote on real issues which concern them and not on the entrenched sectarian issues into which we are brainwashed . |
| 11 | The absence of strong unions has been connected with the alleged propensity of TNCs to hop from one cheap labour zone to another ( Frobel et al. , 1980 ) , though Dror finds little evidence of ‘ footloose ’ industries . |
| 12 | We also tested the ability of LC to adhere to murine KC expressing E- and P-cadherins ( Fig. 3d ) . |
| 13 | Messengers were sent off to sympathetic neighbours , and , amongst them , Hugh Woodburn of Loudoun Mains sent his younger brother , George , to ask John Nisbet of Hardhill to come with all haste . |
| 14 | How typical of Iris to think of such a detail at a time like this . |
| 15 | On April 21 another FIS leader , Abdelkader Hachani , was sentenced by the accusation chamber of the Court of Algiers to remain in preventive detention , having been charged with " incitement … to crimes against state security " . |
| 16 | Goodnight discounts rumours that his company could n't actually get a version of SAS to work on that particular platform , saying the firm is n't working on such a port now , and has no plans to do any other Motorola Inc 680X0 implementations besides the Unix one it offers currently . |
| 17 | ‘ Grimm , ’ he said , ‘ I want you to go deep into the ruptured entrails of Vasilariov to search for another hydra . |
| 18 | These references , which were given over the period continually to 1984 , undoubtedly had an effect on the ability of Berg to engage in large scale bill discounting transactions with other banks . ’ |
| 19 | Over time , the company expects Workplace OS to surpass the power of the RISC version of AIX to run on 64-bit machines as well as a wide range of multiprocessing systems . |
| 20 | The first , which took 20 minutes , saw Martin open up a 6–2 lead only for Martin to recover to 6–6 . |
| 21 | And it was Charlie who set up the winner with a headed flick on for McNally to score from eight yards out . |
| 22 | And it was Charlie who set up the winner with a headed flick on for McNally to score from eight yards out . |
| 23 | Mike Leece , Devonport chief executive , said there was a future role for Rosyth to work on minor vessels . |
| 24 | He was quite happy for Willi to sit through some of Therese 's practice sessions , for Willi 's overwhelming admiration for Therese 's voice — and Willi , in spite of his romantic overview , did understand about voice — was doing wonders for Therese 's confidence . |
| 25 | I was shoved into dressing rooms throughout Vegas to stand beside some bemused star for a photograph and Glen Campbell , Lovelace Watkins and Liberace stood and grinned like old pals . |
| 26 | In desperation , she managed to get the head of a psychiatric hospital near Plymouth to travel to Four Winds , when it became clear that Liza 's agoraphobia was too severe to allow her to make the journey to him . |
| 27 | Do you want to rescue these horrible garments , these symbols of pettiness and niggling , for Daniel to give to some trampess ? |
| 28 | There had been growing demands for Yeltsin to resign as Prime Minister . |
| 29 | It seems hardly realistic for Palestine to exist on two sides of Israel . |
| 30 | Also on the team is Ian Darke , who teams up with Gray to commentate on live Monday matches . |