Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.

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1 With regard to income tax , of course , the danger is that the powers of the protector are such as effectively to make him a trustee in which case the trust may be deemed to be resident in the United Kingdom under FA 1989 , s110 if the settlor when he created the settlement was resident , etc in the United Kingdom .
2 The winners , for example , will collect only around £5,000 less than the £30,000 total prize money that was on offer for the sub-continent 's 1987 World Cup , which is doubtless why Australia and the West Indies were eventually persuaded to join the party after originally blowing it a loud raspberry .
3 My friends shook their heads , and chided me for not telling them a story with a happy ending .
4 It was my own fault , I suppose , for not telling you the whole truth , but I did it for your sake , because I loved you so much ! ’
5 Still half asleep he smiled indulgently , scenting a victory , since he had wanted to be generous all day and had been feeling mildly irritated with her for not giving him the opportunity .
6 I shall always be grateful to him for not giving me the usual reply of an adult to a curious child 's questions , ‘ You 're too young to understand . ‘
7 Critics complained that instead of just handing him the challenge , Spain 's arts ministry ought to have held an international competition for the best scheme .
8 It also reinforces his case by demonstrating the implications of not giving him the cash that he needs .
9 Of more use us the rounded front handle , which twists on to the neck of the body , just aft of the chuck , and serves to hold the depth stop .
10 Let's say it starts of with just to make it a bit easier for you so it does n't come like this let's say it starts with fifteen engines on , and what 's its weight with fifteen engines on ?
11 It 's all about getting a really good structured song together but still putting something in there to get you a hook , whether it be a strange noise or whatever .
12 The canny scribe had just persuaded the RAF to effectively give him the ultimate freebie , one which will remain the envy of flying hacks everywhere for many decades to come .
13 Julie Mills moved into her Edwardian town house in London expecting to just give it a lick of paint .
14 ‘ I kept asking him to just leave me a quote .
15 Yeah in other words yeah , we we you 're gon na complain and to not send them a cheque you give them two free seats which we know the cost of that is is minimal .
16 The trick with infantry is to use them in large units , at least four ranks deep , preferably more , and to always give them a banner .
17 Erm so you need to develop a system that 's going to always give you a method and is always making the work easier for you and not getting you lost .
18 JANE requires you to guess at and check a set of mathematical functions without ever giving you the answers . )
19 But the biggest scam of all is run by the Government , which has somehow managed to harness young energy , ambition and initiative without ever giving it a real chance to shine through .
20 If you have to go out to deliberately buy them the chances are that you wo n't but if you buy the occasional packet when you happen to see them you can have a grand time selecting them to effect a change on a sweater at the right time .
21 ‘ I have accepted a challenge laid down by Mr Plumpton of Greycoats School that this school will field a tetrathlon team against his own team , good enough to really give them a run for their money , if not to beat them .
22 Nero sends his luv , you know he 's coming over here to give us a turn this winter .
23 I reckon Leeds need to win 14 of the last 18 games to even give us a prayer .
24 For him to serenely offer her a lift ?
25 Washington seems content to let the United Nations disband the Contras , but Mr Pickering and other US officials have been linking it to the disbanding of the FMLN , without explicitly making it a condition for Washington 's cooperation .
26 Well I think the thing to do is to actually give you the higher dose patches .
27 Erm , on the emergency call out I getting surprised that this council insist that it 's lit if we do n't need it er at all service , I 'm sure , I 'm quite certain that we have never been told that there 's always been a question of anything that goes to actually give us a better call out service .
28 But the second one was to actually make it a bit of bloody exercise in marketing .
29 Given that the member will be sent their membership card , it would seem a small step away to actually send them a letter addressed to them personally welcoming them to the union and advise them at the very least on the basic facilities and benefits , plus other important information , and signed by the Regional Secretary , if not by the General Secretary .
30 You could use a chronic adulter to actually write it a bit easier but er I did n't know about that when I wrote these slides many many years ago and it 's carried on since .
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