Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | It can not have helped him , but the restored democracy had treated the leaders of that attempt to destroy it with , if anything , excessive leniency . |
2 | Do you know it is possible because of the fear of people around you , the fear of your peers , the fear of what men may say , of what your family will think , of what your work mates might say about you , it is possible to allow that fear to send you to hell . |
3 | So what would we do to both sides of the equation what would we do to that side to turn it into opposite instead of opposite divided by a hundred and twenty . |
4 | In the village , mothers told their children this story to warn them to be careful when they went down to the river . |
5 | this opportunity to welcome you to Barley Hall again and er I hoped you all enjoyed Charles ' bit . |
6 | Will the Prime Minister take this opportunity to join me in expressing joy at the release of Terry Waite and Tom Sutherland from their long and terrible captivity ? |
7 | I would like to take this opportunity to thank them for their support , and I hope that when my nest book is published they will feel confident enough to treat me just as a novelist and not as a problem . ’ |
8 | We have also had support from our colleagues in Brussels ( see article on page 21 of this issue ) and I would like to take this opportunity to thank them for taking the lead and to appeal to Johnson Matthey sites around the world to take up the challenge . |
9 | May I take this opportunity to thank you for your continuing support of the Society . |
10 | Mrs A. W. wrote : ‘ I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for the time and effort you have put into compiling this diet which has made a bigger difference to my weight and dimensions than any other diet I have been on … . ‘ |
11 | I hope you will not be too disappointed and would take this opportunity to thank you for the interest which you have shown . |
12 | I hope you will not be too disappointed and would take this opportunity to thank you for the interest you have shown . |
13 | May I take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in the School and to wish you a pleasant morning with us . |
14 | I would like to take this opportunity to inform you of the high standard achieved by your service engineer , Dick Churcher [ Healthcare Atherstone ] for his attitude and appearance whilst working at our depots . |
15 | The seamstresses will call this afternoon to measure you for your dress , and the Archbishop has agreed to marry you next Tuesday . |
16 | The Prince is also very keen on deer stalking , another pull to keep him in the Highlands for as long as he can manage . |
17 | But neither should we enable this sympathy to blind us to the greater truth that more persons suffer , many fatally , from corporate crime than ‘ conventional ’ crime . |
18 | ‘ If this is some trick to manoeuvre me into allowing anything to develop there … ’ he threatened . |
19 | Some people allow this fear to block them from forming close relationships of any kind ; while others face the challenge of deep intimacy despite their fears . |
20 | But , while these points may be reasonable , and some of them may be true , this attempt to embed them in a general theory or schema seems unhelpful . |
21 | Her new husband , Andrew Leach , made some attempt to wean her from alcohol . |
22 | ‘ So , Isabelle found another fool to marry her in England . |
23 | There is a need to recognise and further consider the position of male carers , while not using this issue to deflect us from the more general issues which arise for women through entrenched assumptions that this is their ‘ natural ’ role . |
24 | I experienced a moment of complete terror in which my mind raced — I had been discovered after all ; it was obvious that I had a limp ; everyone could see it ; they 'd seen it all along and had chosen this moment to hit me with it , my weakest moment … |
25 | ‘ You can give me another place to meet her at night-time , a more private place , which she can choose and no one will be able to find out . ’ |
26 | Several influences combined in this period to help him in the search for an alternative theological approach . |
27 | Pennethorne regarded Hunt 's appointment as another move to deprive him of work which was rightfully his . |
28 | and get another person to sponsor us for that |
29 | You may pride yourself on being a generous listener who is very interested in others , and use this pride to excuse you from using control tactics . |
30 | The telephone rang at 8a.m. this morning to alert me to the fact that you were to be broadcasting on Radio 4 … 't was a friend of mine to whom I had mentioned your future plans … |