Example sentences of "[coord] [vb -s] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This relates to the situation where A sells or agrees to sell goods to B and then later sells or agrees to sell them to C. To whom do the goods belong ? |
| 2 | Tell a grown-up you trust if anyone frightens you or tries to touch you in a way which makes you feel unsafe . |
| 3 | ‘ Felicitations from him who must worship you from afar and longs to have you for his own . ’ |
| 4 | It is generally assumed that in the absence of methodological artifacts visual laterality effects in normals arise either because one cerebral hemisphere is relatively inefficient at processing or retrieving the stimulus material presented and/or because one hemisphere can not fully process the information and has to send it across the corpus callosum to the opposite hemisphere . |
| 5 | The industry concerned is the in-flight catering business which in the UK alone , produces many thousands of meals 24 hours a day every day and has to transport them at chill temperatures from the flight kitchens to individual aircraft , quite often with additional problems resulting from flight delays and so on . |
| 6 | She said : ‘ He holds out his hands for him and loves to have him on his knee . |
| 7 | And buy in food , if he has to , and if anyone has a surplus to sell and wants to sell it to him . |
| 8 | If she 's particularly fond of someone who has Alzheimer 's and wants to help him by producing a foetus , who has the right to say no ? |
| 9 | He has bought the rights to a steamy book by Darling Buds Of May author H. E. Bates and plans to turn it into a TV movie starring his wife . |
| 10 | Currently it contains vintage Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company equipment and plans to replace it with more modern British Rail standard gear have attracted criticism . |
| 11 | The company is already using Concurrent Object-Oriented C in-house , and plans to offer it to public and private research centres and universities across Japan by September . |
| 12 | Later still My silly wee sister has put her feet down and refuses to let me near her Power Pack . |
| 13 | In Britain , for instance , Waste Management International , Shanks & McEwan and Severn Trent/Biffa are enraged that the government has decided to postpone the introduction of the landfill standards in the 1990 Environmental Protection Act , and refuses to apply them to existing landfills . |
| 14 | Count Tarnowski has managed to recover ownership of pictures ( the tail-end of the collection that once contained both the Frick 's ‘ Polish Rider ’ and the Met 's ‘ Perseus ’ by Canova ) appropriated by the National Museum in Warsaw in 1945 , and intends to display them at his old country house of Dzikow . |
| 15 | The colour of his face always reddens just as it does when fat Margot , the launderess , who keeps me supplied with cups of sack , bends and dips to provide me with a generous view of the most famous cleavage in all of Surrey . ) |
| 16 | It 's sad , you know ’ — she turned about and looked at Peggy ‘ It is sad when a mother outshines a daughter , and aims to do it to the extent of trying to fascinate her son-in-law . |
| 17 | Here , one starts with a connection in the world , and appears to describe it by way of our characterization of it , the character of our belief about it . |
| 18 | Kent County Council , at least , has ben persuaded of the value of the Hybrid Bill and appears to favour it as a means of dealing with the Channel Tunnel Rail Link . |
| 19 | Seniority provides committee chairmen with an independent power base and helps to insulate them from control by party leaders and presidents . |
| 20 | Egalitarian feminist psychology analyses traditional psychology 's errors and omissions about gender , and hopes to correct them by bringing in more female psychologists , extending male-oriented psychological work to include women , and adjusting existing procedures and theories . |
| 21 | ‘ Yet she made it known to Brother Tutilo , ’ retorted Herluin , burning up in his turn , ‘ that she has felt compassion towards afflicted Ramsey , and wishes to benefit us in our distress . |
| 22 | If , for instance , Ms Intrepid acquires a small cafe and wishes to convert it to high-class tearooms and this necessitates minor internal building works and extensive redecoration , planning permission will not be required , since the alterations are purely internal and do not alter the use to which the buildings are put , nor do they materially affect the external appearance of the property . |
| 23 | The second player then breathes in and tries to take it off the first until it reaches the player at the end . |
| 24 | So he puts it on the table and tries to squash it into shape , and by the time he 's got his mouth full of that he ca n't make a sound . |
| 25 | He said : ‘ If a player flicks up the ball and tries to head it to his goalkeeper , or flicks it up for someone else to knock back , he 'll be booked for ungentlemanly conduct . ’ |
| 26 | Fig 101 The wind bends at the shoreline in an offshore breeze and tries to cross it at 90 degrees . |
| 27 | Cover-up — a card is placed in the tray , the child studies the word beneath it then covers it and tries to spell it from memory , using the cubes . |
| 28 | The survivor thus denies that he has ever harboured any hostile feelings against the dead loved one ; the soul of the dead harbours them instead and seeks to put them into action during the whole period of mourning … . |
| 29 | So provides section 16 of the Partnership Act , 1890 , and the words have a comfortingly assured ring about them even though long and intimate acquaintance with that Act suggests that comfort will be impaired if here as at other points in the Act one indulges in deeper reflection ; and reflection need not go very deep before one becomes uneasy , because if one takes the words of section 16 into unqualified acceptance and seeks to apply them in practical situations , one does not have to envisage a great number of such situations to find some where the uncritical acceptance of section 16 will lead to manifest absurdity . |
| 30 | The corporatist view , by perceiving the company as a unit which welds together the interests of its participants into a harmonious common purpose defined as the public good , seems to draw on the ideal of community and seeks to inject it into an area which the dominant legal ideology regulates through contract and hierarchy . |