Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pers pn] [to-vb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and have proved that putting a phone in each guest 's room encourages them to keep in touch with their office or home . |
| 2 | If this also makes mathematics classrooms places where girls feel more comfortable and therefore encourages them to stay with mathematics longer , that is all to the good . |
| 3 | My parents are very accepting ; my mum encourages me to dress for comfort rather than fashion . |
| 4 | The sight of a photograph of a cancerous lung causes me to shrink with disgust from the very thought of smoking ; a few hours later the physical craving revives , obliterates the memory , and causes me to smoke again . |
| 5 | A man I do not wish to write for wants me to go to Vientiane , where virgins are $10 a go , and a woman I do wish to write for says it would never work because she is emotionally involved with me . |
| 6 | They accumulate abnormal amounts of sugar which causes them to swell during development . |
| 7 | NeXT says it also has a $3m contract for 400 NeXTstation computers over the next 18 months from Mobil Oil Corp 's Mobil Sales & Supply Corp , which wants them to serve as traders ' workstations . |
| 8 | And Billy Smallbury , she wants you to go to Casterbridge , to see if you can find the young soldier who 's been courting Fanny . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Well , anyway , ’ Lisabeth went on grumpily , ‘ she did ring and she wants you to get in touch with her at the local National Insurance office . |
| 10 | And then she wants him to go to bed after he gets hyper in n it ? |
| 11 | " Has it to do with Timothy Gedge ? |
| 12 | ( Computer adds it to list of treasures discovered so far . ) |
| 13 | Logique du sens causes us to reflect on matters that philosophy has neglected for many centuries : the event ( assimilated in a concept , from which we vainly attempted to extract it in the form of a fact , verifying a proposition , of actual experience , a modality of the subject , of concreteness , the empirical content of history ) ; and the phantasm ( reduced in the name of reality and situated at the extremity , the pathological pole , of a normative sequence : perception-image-memory-illusion ) . |
| 14 | Why it should be so in the case of the United Kingdom constitution is , again , a matter of history — and perhaps it again behoves us to bear in mind that the constitution is a process , rather than a settled state of things . |
| 15 | ‘ When it 's all done and Michel has made an honest woman of her , Constanza wants us to go to Rome , the three of us , and pay our respects to her papa . |
| 16 | She wants us to go to Mr . |
| 17 | ‘ Mr Butters has placed obstacles in our path all the way while at the same time stating that he wants us to stay at Belle Vue . |
| 18 | Women 's experience continually forces them to react to situations in which all the parameters have shifted . |
| 19 | That allows them to read in comfort exactly what you 're what you 're gon na be doing there . |
| 20 | About a third of the estimated six million Britons living abroad are believed to qualify under a 1989 amendment to the 1985 Representation of the People Act which allows them to register as proxy voters . |
| 21 | This allows them to build without hindrance places d'armes on the Japanese islands against the Soviet Union and those countries of Asia which have risen to fight for liberty and independence against the forces of imperialism and reaction . |
| 22 | There are certainly criteria being fulfilled which allows me to deal by means of a formal caution . |
| 23 | You will find this card a real boon anywhere in Europe because it allows you to pay for goods and services with eurocheques , just as you do with ordinary cheques at home . |
| 24 | This versatile multi-function card not only combines all the benefits of a cheque guarantee card and Cashline card but also allows you to pay for goods and services quickly and easily without writing a cheque at retailers displaying the Switch sign . |
| 25 | Features : central focusing wheel and dioptre adjustment ( allows you to compensate for eyes of different strengths ) . |
| 26 | Many times it appears to be used so that other qualities of the work — the wide assortment of materials it might be constructed of , say , or the way it is attached to the wall — can take centre stage , much in the way that a black and white photograph allows you to concentrate on matters otherwise obscured or de-emphasized by colour . |
| 27 | ( b ) it frees you to respond to information in an analytical way . |
| 28 | This forces you to reflect on successes rather than to bask in them . |
| 29 | Rewording is a worthwhile exercise because it forces you to come to terms with language . |
| 30 | If you make good use of the contacts it forces you to make in Ardmore , Wellington or Christchurch , you can get a very useful insight into the local scene that helps prepare you for the fascinating flying that lies ahead . |