Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An electronic system 's been introduced to alert them to any emergency . |
| 2 | An electronic system 's been introduced to alert them to any emergency . |
| 3 | ‘ Normally we do n't like people to see them at this stage . |
| 4 | According to such a theory , if we , in English , call both our mother 's brother and our father 's brother by the same term — ‘ uncle ’ — it is because these two relatives are , to us , the same ‘ kind ’ of relative , and that probably the fact that we use the one word causes us to see them in that way . |
| 5 | My hon. Friend has been to see me about this matter with a group of colleagues . |
| 6 | As he was a very busy man , I was grateful that Eliot should have been prepared to see me without any notice at all . |
| 7 | I do n't want to see Sarah in that way , and I would n't want her to see me in that kind of light either . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ And if you are too tired to write you must come to see me in any case , and then I shall know you are safe . |
| 9 | Once you have been through the various categories listed above and picked out all the names to be included next step is to arrange them in some sort of order . |
| 10 | They will take approximately a week to reach this stage , so that while any traces remaining in a carpet could give rise to problems , a solid floor can be easily disinfected to kill them before this stage is reached . |
| 11 | Later , from South Africa , he wrote to thank me for this advice , but now he reciprocated by telling me , with great gentleness , that I should not go on hoping , as he himself had searched the P.O.W. lists , and Leslie 's name was not on any of them . |
| 12 | BSDI 's motion to dismiss , which makes significant use of the Xerox/Apple precedent , claims USL 's failure to sue them for any patent , trade secret or copyright infringement , or even allege such a violation , taints their case . |
| 13 | Clive had got so used to being able to fool everyone in this circle that he was unnerved by her obvious clear-sightedness . |
| 14 | ‘ To treat them in this way is disgraceful . ’ |
| 15 | He was trying , insanely , to preserve everyone in this family in just the state in which he had first encountered them , when they had given him that delightful sense of secure , harmonious , integrated living . |
| 16 | Right , now then , be like this I 'll pretend that I 've done something that needs to be , a high sling to support me in this fashion . |
| 17 | As well for garden planting for show or cutting , thy make stately pot-grown plants , but only for one year as they are unable to find enough plant nutrients to sustain them for another year . |
| 18 | I had had a week in this quiet place in which to relax and order my thoughts — a week of peace to sustain me for this encounter , not to mention a good meal and a half-bottle of wine just consumed . |
| 19 | To see ourselves in this way is to gain a perspective rather than to advocate a policy , yet the relation of these two activities will inevitably remain in the background of our work . |
| 20 | What Gunn means by this is , I think , that everyone realises the risks but yet we all feel a tendency to delude ourselves of any possibility that it might happen to us . |
| 21 | To illustrate this point , I have given an example of a pattern for a knitted rectangle here in all three types of pattern notation , so that you will be able to relate them to each other . |
| 22 | In terms of Weber 's call for adequacy both at the level of meaning and at the causal level , there is argument at both levels , which , of course , much complicates questions of how to relate them to each other . |
| 23 | The expression " breach of warranty " is often used in disputes about deferred consideration , when vendors are said in the agreement to " warrant " that the profits reach a specified figure , and the purchasers seek a repayment from the vendors to compensate them for that loss , in most cases calculated on a pre-agreed formula : if the profits exceed the specified figure , the vendors may be entitled to additional consideration . |
| 24 | But try to implicate me in any way — or use me as a trade-off- and it 'll be added to the police clear-up rate faster than the eye can follow . |
| 25 | He questioned whether it would be possible to prosecute them with any chance of success with the present rules of evidence and he would be against proceeding if it meant changing the way in which the courts worked . |
| 26 | The shame of it is we have the capacity to provide them with that peace but we 've decided it is n't worth it . ’ |
| 27 | to continue to provide them with that service . |
| 28 | Now do you want to provide them with any parking facilities off parking ? |
| 29 | An attempt is being made to provide them with some form of base organisation without which they can not develop full effectiveness . |
| 30 | The court was bound by the maximum aggregate of six months in section 133 in respect of these offences , and the jurisdiction to pass them in this form did not exist . |