Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Jane agreed to go into pantomime . |
| 32 | Firstly , the Bank of England ceased to announce in advance the rate at which it would provide assistance . |
| 33 | Finance minister Tsutomu Hata needs to have in mind a more convincing package of measures than last week 's widely expected damp squib to get Japan Inc back into top gear . |
| 34 | Currently CND has to start from scratch every time the target changes its name — from Cruise to Trident most recently . |
| 35 | Before investigating further what Lyons has to say about literacy , then , it is important to analyse what he means by ‘ objectivity ’ and what force arguments about it have within his own discipline . |
| 36 | HOW sad that the Church of England has to resort to advertising as a way of encouraging people to attend services . |
| 37 | Janice plans to stay at home and devote herself to looking after me and Kirsty . ’ |
| 38 | Slightly dominant , she slotted admirably into the mother-substitute figure that Nicholson seemed to require for stability — as opposed to the more sexually desirable women who figured in his life with frequency . |
| 39 | It is true that Robert Harley ( now Earl of Oxford ) and Viscount Bolingbroke seemed to flirt with Jacobitism in the period 1710 – 14 , but they were never sincere , and their actions must be set in the context of their attempts to rally disparate groups of Tories behind them in their own personal struggle for dominance within the party . |
| 40 | All the Shermans turned to watch in alarm as the captain dashed away down the companionway , dragging a revolver from inside his white uniform tunic . |
| 41 | Nevertheless , in 1806 , staying at the house of his friend Sir George Beaumont , Wordsworth began to go to church again , even though he was not a regular attender . |
| 42 | Immunology director Paul Heycock declined to comment on flotation plans . |
| 43 | Scotland failing to capitalise on pressure and inflicting wounds on themselves at the same time is another common event , though , and a first-half penalty missed by Gary McAllister had a profound effect on Andy Roxburgh 's side . |
| 44 | Deane seems to have to problem of going to collect the ball on the wings and as a result he 's never in the centre when the ball comes across — I hope someone will tell him that centre forwards are supposed to hang around near the goal . |
| 45 | Inside her room , Mildred decided to get into bed for a few minutes to warm up . |
| 46 | Simon started to go to school in the same year . |
| 47 | By the end of the year Hearn hopes to have in place six development officers and two principals . |
| 48 | In January 1967 , Sukarno offered to go into exile providing he could retain his office . |
| 49 | Faced with competition for the tight-head position following the arrival at Redruth of Richard Keast in 1983 , May elected to switch to loose-head . |
| 50 | They 've only got Middlesbrough , Peterborough to beat to get to final of Rumbelow . |
| 51 | The increasing numbers of colleges approaching the CNAA had to do in part with difficulties over validation by universities — particularly those which were unwilling or reluctant to validate honours degrees — and in part with the attraction of the CNAA as a validating body which could consider a range of courses , including those in the areas of proposed diversification . |
| 52 | ‘ Mrs Wren is new , sir , since Miss Tunstall left to go on holiday , ’ explained the butler . |
| 53 | This point is of course another criticism of the individualist philosophies of utilitarians and of economists who saw early man as a kind of Robinson Crusoe trying to interact with nature in isolation and according to ideas and institutions which he had created on the spot . |
| 54 | Three floors up , on the top floor of the large house , Sally Headleand sat on her bedroom floor painting her toe-nails a pale silvery green and listening to her stepbrother Alan trying to explain about inflation and unemployment and monetarism and the economic implications of the new rhetoric praising the Victorian values of family life . |
| 55 | Although Diro continued to cling to office , by mid-1991 his position looked increasingly untenable ; in September he was convicted on 81 charges of corruption , and he resigned in October [ see pp. 38534-35 ] . |
| 56 | This is not to suggest that all , or indeed any , should be discarded ; if England have to go for maturity and hope for the best , so be it . |
| 57 | If Nisodemus wanted to stand in front of a car then that was all right by them . |
| 58 | Isabel turned to look at fitzAlan before answering . |
| 59 | Churchill , while being ‘ too much a man ’ to kick the PM on the ground , had agreed to send a letter to Downing Street demanding to know by midday on Sunday the exact position he could expect to hold in the government . |
| 60 | It sounded as though , win or lose , Ace expected to get to heaven . |