Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much of the machinery is in working order and I was so fascinated to see it actually in operation that I was late getting back to the bus ; driver sitting with engine running , and the eyes of every accusing fellow passenger upon me . |
| 2 | While the Anglo-American partnership was vital but unequal in maintaining the First and Second Pillars of grand strategy , Britain was expected to go it alone in supporting the Third Pillar , which was an essentially British requirement that had little to do with the Americans or the North Atlantic Alliance . |
| 3 | Nobody has come to see me today about that and I think it is disgraceful that the surgery has been disrupted , ’ he said . |
| 4 | I would have come to find you again with my heart in my hand . |
| 5 | It was a world he had relinquished with small regret and he had not expected to find it again on Larksoken headland . |
| 6 | And the consumer can not be expected to do it all on his own . |
| 7 | I have been encouraged to find that the young are not so predisposed to put me aside at the age of seventy and that a new generation of students and artists regard me as something of a cult figure . |
| 8 | I have worked for him for more than three years and have come to admire him both as a doctor and a man . |
| 9 | He wondered if they had come to take him away to a Home for ungrateful and unwanted children . |
| 10 | Dylan Thomas immortalised such machinery in Draper Mog Edwards ' soliloquy in Under Milk Wood : I have come to take you away to my emporium on the hill , where the change hums on wires . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've come to take you away from all this . ’ |
| 12 | His petty-bourgeois family background , his status as an intellectual conversant with the rites of bourgeois education , values and culture , his sophisticated literary and critical talents as a writer , all conspired to set him apart from the communist party leadership and rank and file members alike . |
| 13 | After he is wounded in this staged hunt , perhaps she could be seen to nurse him daily with iodine and mercurochrome , out of remorse , but in the process establishing the first physical contact . |
| 14 | One of the original group , Crest Homes , has now decided to go it alone for the first stage of the project . |
| 15 | Similarly , it may take no more than a momentary pang of empathetic distress to convince me that if I could become as aware from the sufferer 's viewpoint as from my own I would be spontaneously moved to help him even to my own cost . |
| 16 | He handed over to poor Sir Alec Douglas-Home a party legacy of dwindling popularity , and although that amiable and resolute character fought with vigour and gallantry to maintain his position , the tide had sufficiently turned to abandon him gently on the beach , leaving Harold Wilson afloat in waters so shallow that the most gentle paddle hit the sand . |
| 17 | Furthermore … in an individual 's experience the acquisition of rites and beliefs precedes the emotions which are said to accompany them later in adult life . |
| 18 | The only thing I do know is that something must be done to get her away from here … anywhere . ’ |
| 19 | Mostly , she remained an invalid , irritable , on edge and defensive , becoming panic-stricken if the slightest attempt was made to get her away from the house . |
| 20 | In fact it is only because he is trying so hard to get it right that he can be said to get it wrong at all , and the gauche hero is above all the example of social over-anxiety , like Betjeman 's subaltern weak for love on a Hampshire tennis-court : his palms moist at the first handshake , one imagines , his over-careful manners a veneer masking racking uncertainties , and an over-developed sense of social duty enforcing its own inner punishment . |
| 21 | It is intended to identify it again in 1991 . |
| 22 | ( g ) In Andrews [ 1981 ] Crim LR 106 , a Crown Court judge ruled that s.2(1) ( b ) applies only to bouncing cheques when the creditor has been persuaded to accept them instead of cash . |
| 23 | They stress the need for an organization to build financial resilience , i.e. focus on the necessary financial structure and other factors needed to help it live through adverse times . |
| 24 | She had had to rough it alone in digs since she was fifteen . |
| 25 | The hawk was sacred to her , and was used to depict her symbolically in art . |
| 26 | Now you 've got to rework it again in cubic metres |
| 27 | I 've had to put it together over the last three days . |
| 28 | She would have had to leave her alone in the house , and Nelson Close is n't in the suburbs , is it ? ’ |
| 29 | And then if it 's in another area which invariably is if you 've got to give them somewhere like Trowbridge or sometimes erm in Bath or Chippenham You then have to ring up D S S to find the address . |
| 30 | We 've got to keep them away from Daak . |