Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] [adv] [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ I worked my guts out to get King Taros right to win the race and look what happened . |
| 2 | Ferry companies need to get their acts together to make ferries safe . |
| 3 | Once everyone had claimed their rooms and strewn their possessions around to secure occupancy , Star Eye scattered into the streets , leaving Leila and Ari alone with Nathan . |
| 4 | Detective Chief Superintendent Cole , the final witness at the inquest , said he was unable to interview the two arresting constables , as they had been advised by their solicitors not to answer questions . |
| 5 | Wave-producing species shift their frequencies slightly to avoid confusion with nearby fish operating on the same frequency . |
| 6 | The track was inspired by a documentary about an American woman who has ground her teeth down to gum level . |
| 7 | I know you 've thought about this for a long time , ’ he hissed , gripping her shoulders tightly to prevent movement . |
| 8 | He told them to put their pushers out to undercut Huey 's prices . |
| 9 | They went on their knees nearly to get jobs . |
| 10 | All contemporary accounts suggest that eighteenth century seamen , brutal and violent as they could be under provocation , were hardly lacking in the capacity to organise in support of their claims , and by the standards of the day , to do so peaceably whenever the authorities kept their heads sufficiently to allow mediation to proceed . |
| 11 | The two major parties often advise their supporters how to distribute preferences among their candidates . |
| 12 | Electronic Data Systems Corp has laid off an undetermined number of staff at its offices worldwide to increase efficiency and cut costs . |
| 13 | Laura travels down to London with her parents today to undergo tests before tomorrow 's 1 pm operation . |
| 14 | It is a well-documented fact that cancer , for example , is more prevalent in those with a predisposition to depression and a tendency to bottle-up their emotions just to please others . |
| 15 | Images of London 's wartime blitz were conjured up as children taught their parents how to use gas masks . |
| 16 | CLYDE fishermen are preparing to use their boats today to prevent Renfrewshire Enterprise closing off the entrance to Greenock 's East India Dock . |
| 17 | Anisminic Ltd. put pressure on their customers not to buy ore from TEDO , as a result of which an agreement was reached in November 1957 whereby the plaintiff sold the mining business to TEDO for £500,000 . |
| 18 | Neither are their armies about to join NATO . |
| 19 | The Scottish Trades Union Congress general secretary , Campbell Christie , appealed to parents of new Timex recruits to persuade their families not to cross picket lines with the warning that they would be sacked quickly when it suited the company . |
| 20 | Stella dropped the torch and let it roll into the wings as the children brought their palms together to save Tinkerbell . |
| 21 | They stretched their arms out to make wings and Preston swung an imaginary propeller and they made engine noises with their mouths and ran out of the hangar . |
| 22 | The plaintiffs sought an injunction against the members of the national executive of the union to restrain them from inducing or procuring their members not to use PA copy . |
| 23 | After a while Harbury and Linda detached themselves from a group and carried their drinks over to join Rain . |
| 24 | SCAWD 's regular funding is threatened by the fact that some of our main donors , including the Church of Scotland , SCIAF and the URC , as well as Christian Aid , have all said they can not increase their grants annually to cover inflation . |
| 25 | On the other hand , local governments use their budgets directly to fix tax levels , the essential point being that they can not in law tax for a budget deficit . |
| 26 | Often , the applicants are recommended to re-contact their unions formally to seek access to accounts , stating that this is on the recommendation of the Commissioner , and access has been provided . |
| 27 | Such people give more than they take ; they tend to hide their emotions and repress their desires just to please others . |
| 28 | Moreover , he urges his readers not to join sects that make their adherents abandon their families , give up their money and worldly interests , and lead restricted lives that are ordered entirely by the rulers of the sect . |
| 29 | But his mature convictions were the effect of a long organised retreat from the simple dualities of youthful Marxism — capitalism against socialism , bourgeois against prole — and the first of his books ever to see print , Down and Out in Paris and London ( 1933 ) , had been emphatic that Marxist analysis fails to correspond to observed experience , the gradations insisted on by the kitchen-staff of a Parisian hotel or the destitute of an English doss-house being there because the poor want them to be there and not by compulsion . |
| 30 | The Cuban leader instructed his negotiators not to accept loans from Washington , despite the apparent willingness — even eagerness — of the State Department to extend them . |