Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [to-vb] [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The opportunity to buy two outstanding adjoining properties in that location was extremely rare and the Perots had the opportunity to acquire them both as a family compound . |
| 2 | erm Obviously , as it 's being passed on to groups , we ca n't make any decision at the moment on whether we think it 's a good thing or not , we do n't get the opportunity to endorse it all , like today . |
| 3 | Sir Philip Egerton having been kind enough to give me a Frank I embrace the opportunity to send you some account of Mr. Gould and his movements , presuming that as you expressed a wish to hear of him from time to time , a letter on this subject might not be devoid of interest . |
| 4 | Thank you , yes , erm thank you very much for inviting me to attend to those meetings and giving me the opportunity to meet you all . |
| 5 | Local authorities are to be given the leading role in the organisation of community care , but the decision to give them this responsibility was taken with the greatest possible reluctance and only after every other possibility had been explored . |
| 6 | Indeed , there must be serious doubts about the decision to hold them this year . |
| 7 | ‘ Do you disapprove of us , my angel ? ’ she asked , exalted by wine and overbearing , and took him down to the kitchen to give him some of the leftover chicken . |
| 8 | Then she hurried out to the kitchen to tell them all the news . |
| 9 | You have competing systems and you have the freedom to switch them all off . |
| 10 | Shareen , you 're very much part of the er , the attempt to help us all use alcohol a little bit more sensibly , what , what , what is this strategy ? |
| 11 | A new Quality Performance system was set up for the person rowing the boat to give him more incentive to work harder and become a key performer . |
| 12 | They 're done because the old-fashioned way of doing a , putting something together is a paste-up job , you 've got all these stories filed about all sorts of things , and then some editorial chap or chapess sits down with sort of paste and scissors and cuts the things off , and they tend to cut things off the bottom to make it all fit until it feels about right . |
| 13 | The moment we walk out into the sun to play we all break out into a heavy sweat . |
| 14 | panel seeks to make that two million pounds , subject to the appropriate level of grants and borrow approvals and perhaps some assistance from within our own resources and elsewhere being budget , this is a , a firm intention to increase that figure , but we can not say it has been increased yet , to do so will be premature , but that I ask the committee to accept it this morning as a recommendation from the |
| 15 | ‘ And I suppose you only had to flash your smile at the women in the village to have them all falling over themselves to tell you more . ’ |
| 16 | But it would take about ten times the age of the Universe to write it all . ’ |
| 17 | A little while later , Hugo left his friends and went upstairs to the room to take her some food and drink . |
| 18 | ‘ We saw you all go into the tunnel , and then we went across the hill to see you all come out , ’ explained Peter . |
| 19 | They had five sons and eight daughters , and Dresser 's hectic career was driven in part by the need to support them all . |
| 20 | He even despatches the C major and F major Preludes swiftly enough to feel the need to play them both twice over . |
| 21 | ‘ He 's a larger than life person with the character to put it all behind him . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ You 're not going to believe this , ’ said Alex , ‘ but I actually picked up the phone to call you this morning , except I realized it would have been the middle of the night your end so I put it down again . ’ |
| 23 | In recent years there has been an improvement in the standard and a number of top athletes have appeared at the event to earn it some respectability . |
| 24 | Cos used to tell 'em when it was gon na be and they would have time before the event to get it all tidied up , it was all ready , he would in and say , there 's such and such on that one , such and such on this one |
| 25 | She wanted the turtle to tell her more about this Love Your Enemies scheme , and she would have asked him , but all of a sudden they heard a tremendous HAR-ROOMF ! |
| 26 | I did n't want to be dependent upon anybody , and I thought , ‘ This is the day to end it all , ’ but I did n't want to make anybody upset about it , so I put the cat out and I did n't leave a note and I thought , ‘ I 'll make this look very natural . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Well , if you must know , that I 'm just waiting and hoping for the chance to marry you some day . ’ |
| 28 | A few days beforehand , Jack Cornelius suggested a jaunt into the countryside to cheer us all up . |
| 29 | ‘ Yes , ’ I said , looking round for the waitress to give us more coffee , ‘ I still hate vomit . |
| 30 | The rate of entry of new firms in executive search was increasing and the business was becoming more competitive , but there was not yet the demand to support them all . |