Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Then he said I was too innocent to realise how hard it was for him just to see me for half an hour and a kiss and cuddle . ’ |
| 32 | You yearn to bring about a revolution in your lifestyle and it 's undoubtedly possible in April — but it will be a hollow victory if you overthrow one repressive regime just to replace it with another . |
| 33 | In those gardens he would , no doubt , have noted new plants from America and how best to grow them in this country . |
| 34 | Our thanks to these , and to all the friends of THE FACE who have given their time and money so generously to help us through this difficult time . |
| 35 | Positivist criminology , on the other hand , seemed scarcely to recognise it at all . |
| 36 | Actually , this one 's called an Official Match Day Magazine , presumably to differentiate it from all the unofficial ones . |
| 37 | Antibodies are proteins which , once synthesized by cells of the immune system to counter and inactivate ‘ foreign ’ molecules , enable the body to retain the ‘ memory , for the intruder and hence the capacity rapidly to inactivate it on subsequent invasion . |
| 38 | Trees return once more to help us in this endeavour . |
| 39 | While the Secretary of State has tried to assure the House about the problems and implications of recognition of Croatia , will he try once more to reassure us about that recognition ? |
| 40 | I intended at first only to teach her needlework to qualify her for a genteel position , for you see she has a delicacy in her person that makes it a pity ever to put her to hard work , but she masters everything so fast that now I am desirous to have to divert and entertain me in my thoughtful hours . |
| 41 | Doctor Turner takes me aside to acquaint me in funereal tones with the details of a colleague 's latest symptoms . |
| 42 | Well , the work of the Spirit in the believer is supremely to transform us from one degree of glory to another : that is to say , to make us more and more like Christ . |
| 43 | They had been advised not to keep them too cold and also to cover them with waxed paper . |
| 44 | The first , and political argument , is that historicism ‘ desires ’ not only to predict change but also to control it by centralized large-scale planning . |
| 45 | Er , my Lord may I say that er in relation to the witness statement erm , clearly the credibility of this , the plaintiff Mr is going to be substantially in issue er and therefore er I propose er not to simply to tell him er and say erm in your witness statement your evidence erm but clearly to take him to those areas which are in dispute and to ask him to deal fully with them in I appreciate it 's going to erm take some time to do that but it is important in my submission that your Lordship has the ability to er assess the plaintiffs . |
| 46 | Politicians are n't going to stick their necks out to help break up the various logjams unless we 're shouting and yelling at them from the bank — for the most part to encourage them , but also to warn them of dire consequences to come if they get out of the hot water before the job is done . |
| 47 | The need for improved facilities for Arts and Social Studies , as an aid to the recruitment and retention of academic staff and to assist in the improvement of research activity , has caused the University to launch a review or three sites ( namely the area around the St Cross Building , the central site surrounding the Bodleian Library , and the Taylorian/Ashmolean site ) to see what scope there is for the rationalisation of existing uses and what changes can be made to make better use of them , with a view to defining a comprehensive and coherent scheme for the development of each site which has most to commend it on academic grounds . |
| 48 | For instance , he took her to a newly opened Greek restaurant , and introduced her to the delights of something called Baklava Syrien , which , having a sweet tooth , she very much enjoyed — although he managed simultaneously to annoy her by various highly irritating remarks about the way in which West Indians eat Kit-e-Kat , and by a joke about a man in a Chinese restaurant who found a finger in his Chinese soup . |
| 49 | Now to help you with that I 'd like it back I 've put the attainment targets |
| 50 | It gave me even more of a feeling of why pick now to put me through this . |
| 51 | She reached up now to kiss him on both cheeks . |
| 52 | it seems like now to tell you at last I 've come to terms with it now , I 've really |
| 53 | If it did not do so , they threatened to suspend trade agreements with Yugoslavia , and immediately to restore them with those individual republics which agreed to the plan — in effect to recognize their independence . |
| 54 | We 're all here to support him to some degree . |
| 55 | Towards the trespasser the occupier has no duty to take reasonable care for his protection or even to protect him from concealed danger . |
| 56 | Alright well to consider it in due course anyway , for the moment there it is . |
| 57 | So , basically what I 'm here to ask you for this evening is your support of the project , and specifically , if the town council could buy us another one of these shipping containers . |
| 58 | Derkinderen and Crum do well to remind us of this , but it does not really invalidate the portfolio-grid approach . |
| 59 | At a more specific level there were matters like the involvement with the Military College at Shrivenham , where students were military employees and where the College wished the students to handle security classified material in their courses and possibly even to examine them on classified material . |
| 60 | Thames Valley Police , who organised the class , say the aim is n't to scare the women , but simply to prepare them for any eventuality . |