Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That assessment was echoed by the other speakers in the session — Kevin Allard of Bertram Books , David Edyvean of the Gosport Bookshop and Nick Polkinhorne of the Sevenoaks Bookshop — each of whom explained how the application of new technology had enabled them successfully to transform the environment in which they worked . |
| 2 | I therefore proposed an account of law , ‘ normative positivism ’ , which I take to synthesize salient features of positivism and natural law thinking and which seems to me wholly to fit the nature of criminal law . |
| 3 | Ended up we had to get her and the kids out of the house and get them somewhere to stay the night . |
| 4 | One such example is : ( 189 ) … the cry which made me suddenly to re-enter the dimension of distinctness . |
| 5 | This often enables them better to achieve the benefits that rules may bring as explained above , and other benefits besides . |
| 6 | She was feeling for the lumps of coal in her fuel store , to bring them in to light the fire in snowy weather . |
| 7 | You let them in to have a laugh at them or you let them in because you want to listen to what they 're saying . |
| 8 | The mid-range 9121 uniprocessor is expected to be goosed even more — perhaps by 40% , further encouraging users to avoid calling in the plumbers — or to call them in to tear the chillers out . |
| 9 | I even tried laying trails of cheese that led to my feet , which she scoffed up , but she did n't trust me enough to take the cheese from my hand . |
| 10 | What about getting those children as they go out a voucher that their parents can bring them along to see a show at a reduced rate . |
| 11 | ( Always put a knowledgeable and reliable person at the tail , and remind them only to hold the tail down if that is necessary to move the glider easily . ) |
| 12 | ‘ These service industries can provide a better short-term financial return but real sustainable growth must be founded on manufacturing industries which add real value to raw materials by combining them together to form a product for which people are prepared to pay a premium , ’ he added . |
| 13 | ‘ To do that , you take a lot of identical molecules called amines and join them together to form a chain . |
| 14 | Convention be interpreted as meaning that there must be a connection between the actions against the various defendants ? ( b ) If question ( a ) must be answered in the affirmative , does the necessary connection between the actions against the various defendants exist if the actions are essentially the same in fact and law ( einfache Streitgenossenschaft ) , or must a connection be assumed to exist only if it is expedient to hear and determine them together to avoid the risk of irreconcilable judgments resulting from separate proceedings ( for example , in cases of ‘ notwengide Streitgenossenschaft ’ ( compulsory joinder ) ) ? |
| 15 | You wired them together to make a kind of pyramid . |
| 16 | Pour some oil into a small dish ( do not pour oil onto your partner 's body , it can be quite a shock ) , oil your hands , then rub them together to warm the oil . |
| 17 | ‘ Promise me only to stay a week . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Am I also to have no happiness ? ’ |
| 19 | WHETHER HEROIN is at the root of this unreliability I do n't know for sure , nor am I about to proscribe the freedom — or is that stupidity — of anyone to take whatever substance they choose to take , be it alcohol , tobacco , heroin or carpet cleaner . |
| 20 | He was shaken , but unhurt , and merely ordered me not to say a word . |
| 21 | Saying this to me was like holding a red rag to a bull : the more anyone told me not to do a thing , the more I tried to do it . |
| 22 | ‘ Promise me not to wear a switch again , ’ he said , after a fool 's pause . |
| 23 | I remember he once told me not to move the head too much as it weighs 22lbs . |
| 24 | I suppose now you 're going to get timid , and tell me not to rock the boat . ’ |
| 25 | Then I remembered Stephen Roskill telling me not to believe a word Mountbatten said or claimed unless it was corroborated from other sources . |
| 26 | You tried to convince me not to involve the police . ’ |
| 27 | Guy told me not to lower the bridge for anyone except the villagers until he gets back . |
| 28 | At first he tried halfheartedly to appeal to me not to send the story to England for ‘ the sake of the side ’ . |
| 29 | The police came within half an hour and the officer was sympathetic although he advised me not to expect the thieves to be caught . |
| 30 | What I have advocated is possible and not just a dream , but it would be remiss of me not to consider the nightmare scenario of colliery closures at a time when we are increasing restructuring grants by £1,000 million . |