Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had this absurd desire to swing Lucy round like a child and walk holding her hand . |
| 2 | He can protect himself under Ord 33 , r4A by making a written offer to accept liability up to a specified proportion , which can be brought to the attention of the judge after he has decided the liability issue at trial . |
| 3 | And , in true dramatic irony , the most apt piece of rhetoric comes from Rita who could well be summing up the everlasting appeal of the Russell classic as she tries to tempt Frank out to an evening at the local theatre : |
| 4 | But distinguishing why changes take place is problematic before we have the evidence , as in Jonson 's case , of an author wishing to impose authority on to a text . |
| 5 | It 's easier to extract sense out of a fruitfly than to get a civil word out of Rickie . |
| 6 | Terence Trent D'Arby-Neither Fish Nor Flesh ( CBS 1989 ) IT WO N'T do to write D'Arby off as a pathetic Prince impersonator , because his roots are rather different-more Sixties London than Detroit funk . |
| 7 | I reckon they 'll come with 9 or 10 behind the ball at all times and hope to catch Leeds out with a long punt or from a set piece . |
| 8 | Second of all because we 're dealing with a topic which people may not want to talk about , may not erm er want to answer questions on to a market researcher , for obvious reasons . |
| 9 | A verbal message was sent to the farm : the doctor would arrive at 1 p.m. to pick Eric up on a rough track not far from his underground hiding place . |
| 10 | He 'd have to sort George out in a delicate way . |
| 11 | The others , including the new drummer , had come to pick Keith up for a practice while I was there . |
| 12 | Now Harwell has decided to help nature along with an active policy of land management for wildlife . |
| 13 | It was left to Bray to wrap things up with a penalty flick , her eighth league goal of the season , after Dixon 's storming run was impeded . |
| 14 | It would explain the extraordinary letter about the cheque — an act of ludicrous personal generosity to help Ingard out of a hole , or , perhaps , more sanely , to try to preserve the shipping company from going down if the rest of the empire crashed . |
| 15 | Luke said savagely , turning to glare at Callum , who continued to pile food on to a plate . |
| 16 | ‘ I feel I have a responsibility to help speedway out of a difficult period , ’ said Rickardsson , who is about to begin his third season with the Witches . |
| 17 | It seems strange to me to see cattle out in a field in mid-winter . |
| 18 | Note 62/3/2 in The Supreme Court Practice 1991 explains that rule 3(2) only applies to a right of a party to recover costs ‘ from any other party to the proceedings ’ and will not apply to the right of a mortgagee to retain costs out of a mortgaged property on redemption or to any other contractual right to costs out of a fund or from persons who are not parties to the proceedings . |
| 19 | Skipper Shane Cooper and full-back Lyon combined down the left flank to put Ropati over for a second-minute try . |
| 20 | He kept talking about wanting to put things on to a sound financial footing , in which case none of us would have been able to afford to live in the club . |
| 21 | The good housekeeping exercise which we 've just circulated the documents on , which we 'll be consulting on in two weeks time tt er it mainly is about changing the organization to allow us to delegate authority down to an appropriate level . |
| 22 | Another is to put prices up during a quiet period , then later offer what seem to be big discounts . |
| 23 | He tried to toughen Charles up as a child by sending him to Gordonstoun public school in Scotland , where the prince became a target for bullies . |
| 24 | SunSoft 's representative on Posix 's PThreads ( or P1003.4a ) committee ensures that the firm does n't go off and implement anything non-standard that is likely to put SunSoft out on a limb . |
| 25 | A rare Haslemere attack saw Reeve , the elder , combining with Hamilton and Reeve , the younger , to put Sharman in with a chance , but his shot was cleared off the line . |
| 26 | Beardsley combined with former Liverpool team-mate Gary Ablett to put Everton through to a lucrative home tie against Chelsea in the last 16 of the Coca-Cola Cup . |
| 27 | The directors are presently authorised to allot shares up to a maximum nominal amount of £114,668,095 and to allot equity securities for cash in connection with a rights issue and up to an aggregate nominal amount of £9,350,000 , without applying statutory pre-emption rights . |
| 28 | At last year 's Annual General Meeting ( ‘ AGM ’ ) , the directors were given authority under Section 80 of the Companies Act 1985 , until 15th July 1997 to allot shares up to a maximum of the authorised but unissued share capital of the company . |
| 29 | Asked whether raising new capital was sufficient to put Olivetti back onto an even keel , he said ‘ We must be very clear . |
| 30 | But to prise 4d out of a working man 's pocket , the slogans and graphics had to have street appeal . |