Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [prep] [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have 200m shares , nothing would please me more than to see them at £1 each . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Father Laverty came to see me in hospital two days after the birth and had the nerve to look at my beautiful baby and ask me to put her up for adoption . ’ |
| 3 | Now she is absolutely delighted to see me in Formula One . ’ |
| 4 | In the case of Alan Charlton , he has these six very fine grey panels , by very fine I just mean they are handsomely proportioned , they are very carefully coloured to a very precise , not just colour but also weight of colour and brightness and so on , but the way they 're shown in the Royal Academy Exhibition , and this is part of it 's stupidity , is , well I got the feeling it was intended to kill them to stone dead by putting them next to something very loud , very elaborate , very expressionist , a vast canvass by a very good painter by Mutter . |
| 5 | To enable them to police such a large and inaccessible area he recommended the building of a number of new fortresses , to be linked , by road and water , for rapid reinforcement . |
| 6 | ‘ My client wants you to kill someone on Level 121 , ’ he said , low , even though the bartender and anyone else in what might possibly be earshot were making it obvious they were n't listening . |
| 7 | I seemed to meet everyone in doorways that evening . |
| 8 | Well I remember Jackie telling me , she came back from sh she came up to meet me in London one day and she came up with the woman , a German woman , who at that time was a buyer for Army and Navy er women 's fashions and this woman said that the model girls who are so thin she said they 're always bursting into tears and crying because they 're under such stress to keep their weight down and their boyfriends do n't like it because the girls are are lovely to have on their arms to take out , you know everybody sort of goggles , you know , lovely slim girl with yellow half way down her back etc. but , in fact , these girls get very , very ratty ! |
| 9 | The government also planned to distribute areas of forest to families among the Thai and Hmong hill tribespeople in order to encourage them to farm one area of land continuously rather than using traditional " slash and burn " methods . |
| 10 | Others have been concerned about the possible politically destabilising consequences of the overproduction of university and college graduates relative to the capacities of the labour market to absorb them in positions appropriate to their qualifications . |
| 11 | Charter 77 , the human rights organization which played a prominent role as a focus for anti-communist dissent in the 1980s , decided to disband itself on Nov. 3 since it had " completed its historical role " . |
| 12 | In order to deal with the problems of budgeting for this it is necessary to know something of company financial and cost accounting . |
| 13 | In order to deal with the problems of budgeting for this it is necessary to know something of company financial and cost accounting . |
| 14 | Russia , to whom the Near East was almost if not quite as important as to the Habsburgs , also made considerable though less systematic efforts to provide herself with men competent in Turkish . |
| 15 | Where guidance is required , it is possible to obtain it on points 1 and 2 from the relevant ( many excellent ) texts on contract and commercial law and on point 4 from some of the texts on general drafting . |
| 16 | I just wanted to know what on page forty-two under ‘ Water sampling ’ , what the bracketing figures say four u stroke s , one u stroke s , etcetera meant , and on page forty-three , why under ‘ programme and revisiting inspection ’ this four one nine p was starred . |
| 17 | The only way to discover what on earth this means is probably to fork out £60 for the ten-week course or £48 for the eight-week course . |
| 18 | This company had purchased two new middle-water vessels , the Ben Loyal and Ben Roy but had been unable to make them pay and was obliged to sell them in May 1980 . |
| 19 | One man , who appeared to have understood and accepted the fact of his mother 's death , still got ready to visit her in hospital that evening . |
| 20 | After nearly a month of political stalemate and gathering crisis opposition leader Zhelyu Zhelev was elected to replace him on Aug. 1 . |
| 21 | Guest of honour was Pat Moody , a member of a local team of people who took aid to the orphanage and helped to refurbish it in May last year and have been charting progress there ever since . |
| 22 | The best to deal with a cut ball is to replace it under Rule 28 . |
| 23 | Back To The Future star Michael J Fox cut the price of his house in Bel Air by half to sell it for £1.3 million . |
| 24 | . Write your answer , name and address , on a postcard , to : The Limit 's The Shamen competition , 1 Thavies Inn , London EC88 1AB , to reach us by October 1 . |
| 25 | Send your name and address on a postcard to reach us by October 31 1989 to : SHE/Revlon Offer , PO Box 98 , Carshalton , Surrey , SM5 2DB. 500 have been put aside specially for SHE subscribers , so if this applies please mark your postcard ‘ subscriber ’ . |
| 26 | Send your entry to SHE/Pandora Short Story Competition , SHE , National Magazine House , 72 Broadwick Street , London W1V 2BP , to reach us by October 31 1989 . |
| 27 | There are some suggestions to prompt you on pp. 56–7 . |
| 28 | If you would like details of your nearest local group so as to be able to help them in activities such as this or to write letters on the cases that they are campaigning on behalf please contact : |
| 29 | Robert had once put his ear to the door during one of his colleagues ' classes and had been able to hear nothing from Class 2 but an eery silence . |
| 30 | Here again the support network is crucial in trying to help someone with alcohol related problems , as one needs to reconnect the person to a social network which offers interest and stimulation in lieu of alcohol . |