Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though typically economists look at the way in which human beings create and distribute goods and services , often with an eye on issues to do with efficiency according to some rational criteria , this does not prevent them using economic theories to examine , for example , educational provision , the supply of blood donors , voting choice , to name but a few . |
| 2 | In any case , there was not enough time left for me to go that way to look for him . |
| 3 | ‘ And how many of them made any effort to get along with me ? ’ she exploded . |
| 4 | They could n't ignore the fact that they were to part , and neither of them made any attempt to avoid it in conversation . |
| 5 | In the 1920s their financial position improved and , despite the reductions of income in the 1930s , the cheap money policy which followed the abandonment of the gold standard and the move to protection , permitted them to obtain cheap mortgages to buy the thousands of three-bedroomed semi-detached houses which were being built in the South and the Midlands at between £400 and £450 . |
| 6 | Should I make fresh efforts to get him back ? |
| 7 | I asked both bodies to get together if they needed further information from British Coal they should secure it . |
| 8 | After the third call Morris said to Bob , ‘ I asked some people to step round . ’ |
| 9 | I asked this housemaster to develop this further . |
| 10 | And of course the third group of students write and say , ‘ Yes , I applied last year to do Biology , I want to do it , and I 'm really clear I want to do it . ’ |
| 11 | So they should , and when the list of necessities is securely written down , you can ask the second question : How do I want this garden to feel ? |
| 12 | Planning for the fateful flight started several weeks earlier when I made tentative arrangements to visit a microlight manufacturer at Membury airfield in Berkshire for the review of the Chevron which appears in this issue . |
| 13 | My son spent a year at Liphook Junior School , during which time my husband and I made frequent visits to discuss our concerns regarding this apparent lack of progress . |
| 14 | I made violent splashes to attract his attention ; he circled until a rescue launch picked me up , some 30 to 45 minutes later . |
| 15 | Back that the al-Rasheed hotel , where I was staying , I made sporadic efforts to escape this undercurrent of hysteria . |
| 16 | Proposals I announced last month to create 12 new environmentally sensitive areas will more than treble the area covered . |
| 17 | Erm I mean one way to do it of course is to say that none of our water 's fit for drinking , and you all get bottled water then would n't you . |
| 18 | will go straight out the window and they wo n't bother with us , a very short time it 's taken five I mean six years to build up the credibility |
| 19 | And it was a little later that same night that his lordship said with some gravity , shaking his head : ‘ I fought that war to preserve justice in this world . |
| 20 | When work group I met last June to ratify the final draft of their report , the US co-chairman , Claire Harris , did not appear . |
| 21 | Loving in truth , and fain in verse my love to show , That she ( dear she ) might take some pleasure of my pain ; Pleasure might cause her read , reading might make her know ; Knowledge might pity win , and pity grace obtain ; I sought fit words to paint the blackest face of woe , Studying investions fine , her wits to entertain ; Oft turning others ' leaves , to see if thence would flow Some fresh and fruitful showers upon my sunburnt brain . |
| 22 | At least Hobbes was consistent for , as Berkeley noted , ‘ Matter once allow 'd , I defy any man to prove God is not matter ’ . |
| 23 | Her breasts swing in a way I defy any artist to capture in paint . |
| 24 | Now I make enough money to pay others to help at home and queue for me . |
| 25 | So er I 've got some , I got them curtains , I got blue curtains to go out |
| 26 | Throughout that period I 've canvassed for the Labour Party , I 've campaigned for the Labour Party , I 've argued for the Labour Party and one of the items that made me join the Labour Party and one of the items I got other people to join the Labour Party was that Labour was a mass Party , because it consisted of hundreds of thousands of individual members and it consisted of millions of trade unionists . |
| 27 | He checks I got enough money to buy the string , and then I go off . |
| 28 | ‘ We had some players on expensive long-term contracts that we could n't afford , while I got some players to agree to wage cuts , ’ he explained . |
| 29 | How many uplifts should I use , and do I need special adaptors to connect them to the filter ? |
| 30 | I tried three times to get in but was beaten back by flames . ’ |