Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [prep] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather than sending the children out when the adults want to talk , it may be that a neighbour could make sure to include them in an outing to give the child time to talk to them . |
| 2 | Elizabeth : Elizabeth , a young woman who lives with her sister in a remote and primitive cottage in the Welsh mountains , came to see me about an infestation of scabies . |
| 3 | The Jungle Book was not mentioned again by any of them , as if they were n't ready to see me as an actor but preferred me in my old role as a useless boy . |
| 4 | Well , of course , it did not take very long for people to realize that if someone wanted to sell his company and retire to the country with the proceeds , these provisions could be used to postpone payment of capital gains tax almost indefinitely so long as he was prepared to continue to hold the shares issued to him and to treat them as an investment . |
| 5 | The authorities in Addis Ababa had undertaken to provide me with an escort of ten soldiers while I was among the Danakil . |
| 6 | In my view the key to the solution of the present problem is to be found by recognising that in present day society people generally work with two principal aims in view ; the first is to provide themselves with an income available for current spending and the second is to provide money that will be put into a pension scheme to provide them with an income after their retirement . |
| 7 | After completing the AEC , participants were interviewed to provide them with an opportunity to reflect and comment on the course . |
| 8 | Something tells me he wo n't pass up this opportunity to establish himself as an international . |
| 9 | It is this structuralist mode , through which the particularities of the object world at a given time may help generate the objectifications by which a set of social relationships comes to know itself through an array of everyday taxonomies which makes Bourdieu 's work such an advance on previous analyses of consumption . |
| 10 | We will be pleased to provide you with an estimate of these costs in advance , on request . |
| 11 | Much work was needed to bring them up to scratch and the small band worked hard to ready everything for an opening to the public in June . |
| 12 | We need to know something of an animal 's mind . |
| 13 | She obviously had n't expected Jessamy to provide her with an excuse for staying longer at the house . |
| 14 | Bounderby 's mother , a decent hard-working woman who managed to provide him with an education . |
| 15 | Charles behaved rather like a landlord who could take a long view of the future and expect his possessions to provide him with an income in the fullness of time . |
| 16 | The burdens and lack of stability of his social community became unbearable and the poet yearns for an age of permanence and simplicity to provide him with an alternative to the real world . |
| 17 | Or was he just trying to provoke her into an argument for the sheer hell of it ? |
| 18 | Ultimately , the urge to move on that afflicted so many media people , and Florian more severely than most , would demand satisfaction , but she suspected that Luke would be shrewd enough to tempt him with an offer of his choice of all the other stations in which he had an interest . |
| 19 | It was here that the great receptions and gala balls took place , though it was not the setting for the traditional New Year 's ambassadorial reception as described by Hubner , which was that of the Throne part played by the Empress , since this was her first appearance at such a function and it thus enables us to observe her on an occasion of high formality : |
| 20 | I should like to inform him of an exercise that is being carried out by Doug Bulmer , the president of the British Association of Colliery Management . |
| 21 | She had known William as a boy and as an adolescent ; she was beginning to know him as an adult and as a lover ; but between the two blocks of knowledge was a ten-year gap . |
| 22 | It had meant nothing at first , but then he had thought to try it as an entry code to some of the secret Ping Tiao computer networks he had discovered weeks before but had failed to penetrate . |
| 23 | The ancient Forest system was in fact cumbrous and inefficient : the attempt to revive it as an instrument of Crown policy was doomed to failure . |
| 24 | However , the firm made a mistake in buying up the Laker Holidays label and trying to revive it in an effort to diversify its operating base . |
| 25 | Well that shows us what a dramatist was lost to the English stage when Milton finally decided to write it as an epic and not as a play . |
| 26 | The headlamp picked out a cat streaking towards a wall , and a child without shoes between the shafts of a wooden cart , straining to pull it into an alleyway , and both images were gone in an instant , drowned in darkness as the bike sped past , the road a triangle of bright water as they rode the glittering breakers of the tramlines and swerved to the kerb of the Commercial Hotel . |
| 27 | Operational deposits make up approximately a fifth of bankers ' balances held at the bank , the remainder being made up of non-interest bearing cash deposits that banks are required to keep at the Bank of England to provide it with an income . |
| 28 | About one person in two can expect to find themselves on an operating table at some time in their lives . |
| 29 | In my view the key to the solution of the present problem is to be found by recognising that in present day society people generally work with two principal aims in view ; the first is to provide themselves with an income available for current spending and the second is to provide money that will be put into a pension scheme to provide them with an income after their retirement . |
| 30 | Finally he agreed to provide us with an escort to Aussa . |