Example sentences of "[noun prp] [to-vb] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SENIOR Tories in Cheltenham were trying yesterday to persuade Mr John Taylor to remain as their prospective parliamentary candidate after his failure to become the first black Tory MP . |
| 2 | The court heard Bexton , of Thornton Street , North Ormesby , Middlesbrough , was employed by Torre Thorssen to work on his private boat at Middlesbrough docks . |
| 3 | It took a particular mood for Ken to talk about his sexual problems . |
| 4 | King Husayn used this situation to persuade the PLO to embark upon its risky alliance with Jordan in pursuit of a peace solution , which finally collapsed in early 1986 . |
| 5 | The secretary of the treasury himself ( 28 June ) also noted that Britain 's problems were now too large for the United States to solve with its own resources . |
| 6 | No doubt both men , as supporters of the Gothic Revival , expected Scott to adhere to his stated principles . |
| 7 | She could not help thinking , with great sadness of heart , that perhaps she had sent Johnny to die in his little aircraft , with only the memory of her cold eyes and her hard , unloving words . |
| 8 | At the same time , however strong the desire to cut defence costs and to give priority to home affairs , too much had happened since the mid-1930s for the United States to return to its prewar foreign and defence policies . |
| 9 | By 1174 Henry returned to Germany to serve under his imperial overlord on the fifth campaign in Italy . |
| 10 | Microsoft chose to drop its OS/2 development and concentrate on Windows , leaving IBM to continue on its own . |
| 11 | Botha , meanwhile , signed off with a few words of advice for the Welsh : ‘ They are going berserk about nothing and it might be time for the WRU to concentrate on their own rugby . ’ |
| 12 | Who invited Paterson to work on their pioneering ambient LP , ‘ Chill Out ’ . |
| 13 | For the moment , it was left to England to capitalise on their 2–0 lead in the resumed one-day series , with three matches to come in a fortnight . |
| 14 | at the time , I thought , ‘ This is ridiculous , I 'm holding these boys back ’ because I was also managing a singer called Marc Bolan , and in the quieter moments , he and David would decorate my office to fill in the time , but I said to them that I had just run out of money and could n't afford to carry on — I 'd taken no commission from either of them at the time — so I went off to Spain to think about my next move and released them both from their contracts . ’ |
| 15 | It is too late for British Telecom to return to its old ways if only because the public now knows that it does not have to put up with a telephone system built for the 1950s . |
| 16 | Now that society is at last recognizing and developing the full range of women 's abilities and now that women are seen to have , with men , full ‘ human rights ’ , many people conclude that it is time for the Church of England to embody in its official ministry the biblical vision of equal partnership between women and men . |
| 17 | ‘ He wants Perdita to play for him next year . |
| 18 | I have Phil to thank for my first break on the Cutters . |
| 19 | We mean to work out ways of using new course structures , perhaps with part-time study , new ways of teaching and an innovative approach to university admission which could enable more people from Birmingham and the West Midlands to benefit from their local university . |
| 20 | In an attempt to detach some of Clinton 's black support , Brown announced his intention , if nominated , to invite the black populist leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson to serve as his vice-presidential nominee . |
| 21 | The years spent at Cass enabled Rod Morris to evolve at his own pace and allowed his intuition the subtle space it required . |
| 22 | The years spent at Cass enabled Rod Morris to evolve at his own pace and allowed his intuition the subtle space it required . |
| 23 | But Mr Sutherland revealed further plans for Seymour Street to revert to its original two-way traffic configuration , with a grassed central reservation , and an identical ‘ Georgian ’ terrace built opposite . |
| 24 | Hoe Hickmott of the TTF presented to the cheque to James Gibson to assist in his technical research project ( left ) . |
| 25 | Our hilltop villa proved a great vantage point for the spectacular storms that , after a few days , cleared the air and allowed Provence to shine in her brilliant colours , as if a gauze veil had been lifted . |
| 26 | To ensure it wo n't be a pain in Spain I expect Graham to rely on his tested experienced players and sprinkle them with a blend of youth . |
| 27 | The men who had marched north with Duncan to dispose of his dangerous half-brother at Tarbatness had mostly died in that battle . |
| 28 | But again Bramall Lane roared United back into the game , Cork running onto Paul Beesley 's pass down the left and turning the ball into the middle for Ward to hook in his second equaliser . |
| 29 | While Nana denied that there were such things as duppies and forbade Martha to look under her old iron cot for them before she went to bed , Mada Joyce was expert on ghouls , ghosts , spirits and apparitions of all kinds , and had known a woman in another village who had actually seen the skinless old hag who sucked babies ' blood reach into the cradle of her new-born child and disappear with a shriek when she touched the Bible on the infant 's pillow . |
| 30 | But Mr Szilagy and his staff are not expecting the citizens of Budapest to flock in their thousands to see the collection of ugly lifeless forms . |