Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [vb past] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A little later on she dropped Edna and Karen in Oxford Street , where they planned to do some shopping before catching the train home . |
| 2 | Mr Justice Hobhouse dismissed B's claim , saying that the statutory intention behind the Regulations , stated in s 203 , TA 1988 , was that income tax should be deducted by a person making any payment of or on account of any income assessable to tax under Sch E. There was a statutory obligation to deduct tax unless either the Regulations showed that there was to be no such obligation or they failed to provide any machinery whereby the payer could make a deduction . |
| 3 | His undoubted talents never blossomed in public life , and he devoted himself to an immense rebuilding and renovation programme at Chatsworth House , Derbyshire , where he loved to spend many hours in the library . |
| 4 | Once it was accepted that this kind of question could be raised , the way was open to the conclusion that the Bible should simply be treated as a collection of ancient religious literature with no special claims to be heard or accepted except where it happened to express some general religious ‘ principle ’ that could be recognised as universally valid — the kernel within the husk . |
| 5 | Although I tried to do this visualization several times a day , I found it best and most rewarding first thing in the morning when I and my mind were fresh . |
| 6 | It was during my fourth visit to Rhodesia that I managed to take some time off . |
| 7 | It was perhaps because of this , and because I tried to foster the whole idea of positive thinking , that I began to concentrate more and more on visualization . |
| 8 | ‘ It was for you that I had to leave that hotel suite and not return until daylight . ’ |
| 9 | And that 's a bit like that erm the teaching skills that I had to do that time when I was on the course . |
| 10 | Something of the casual innocence of the picture may be lost when I tell you that I had to hunt this particular combination of light for two days before obtaining the shot I wanted ! |
| 11 | When I reached Ostend at midday on 16th there was no ticket but only a message to the effect that I had to buy another one . |
| 12 | The amounts of exercise I did meant that I had to eat more than my father ! |
| 13 | I felt that I had to make some sort of social effort so I swung my legs off the bed and sat sheepishly on the edge . |
| 14 | It was ironic in retrospect that I had to travel half way round the globe to get to know working class men from my own back yard . |
| 15 | I had two , and then Gabriel was an accident , and somehow the thought that he was an accident was so insulting to me that I had to have some more , to prove that he was n't . |
| 16 | ‘ It was something that I had to experience all by myself . ’ |
| 17 | So , as my array of new brushes was getting rather low , it was with interest and eagerness that I accepted to test some new brushes developed and manufactured by Pro Arte . |
| 18 | We had no Balls as such in those days , we would have a dance , and when I was entertaining any of my theatrical friends from the West End it was always Tommy that I selected to do some special entertaining — well within the reach of the station commander 's entertaining fund . |
| 19 | When I was chided by someone for seeming oblivious of ‘ the magnitude of the accounting operation ’ I said that it was because of my consciousness of the magnitude of all other operations that I dared to make these demands of Mr Whalley , who perfectly understands in any case . |
| 20 | It was then that I decided to tell each woman in my own time , taking each one in turn — I could n't tell them all at once . |
| 21 | But it was n't until I read the piece in the paper last week that I decided to have another try . ’ |
| 22 | I decided that I needed to get some support , to find someone who could , let us say , take charge of me and give me advice . |
| 23 | The next facet of my approach was that I wanted to see more flexibility in the hands of local family health services authorities over the application of funds and the use of the substantial sums of money that are available to them for the development of primary health care . |
| 24 | Suddenly I realised that there were all sorts of things that I wanted to do that I had n't done . |
| 25 | One of the reasons I forgot about Ohio was that I wanted to forget that unhappy period of my life . |
| 26 | The new flat was smaller than the old so I had to sell some of my furniture . |
| 27 | But what made me decide I 'd had enough was when one night about 11pm I was about to climb into bed when the bell rang from the drawing room so I had to slip some clothes on and go and answer it . |
| 28 | ‘ My first baby changing bag ( Mothercare , £13.50 ) fell apart , so I had to buy another one and I bought a baby changing mat ( £6 ) . |
| 29 | Even so , most of it was so pointedly on target that she began to leave some of her cynicism aside . |
| 30 | JANE O'NEILL WITNESSED A SERIOUS ACCIDENT , AND WAS SO SHOCKED THAT SHE HAD TO TAKE SEVERAL WEEKS OFF WORK . |