Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Feeling desperate and willing to try anything , Kirsty finally came to see me one day in early spring . |
| 2 | Would you , if your soccer partner was getting to know you marital partner in a way which is not optimally conducive to homely bliss . |
| 3 | Barbosa there used to meet him most afternoons in the bullrings in Spain . |
| 4 | Unfortunately I am completely tied up with filming during the whole of June but I will certainly make the effort to visit you some time in July . |
| 5 | It was only then , for example , that John Bright , busy Member of Parliament , revealed that his stepmother , who had lived alone as a widow for nearly thirty years to the age of 95 , the last ten years blind , was visited daily by his own wife ‘ to chat with her and to cheer with her in her solitude and blindness , or to render her any help in her power . ’ |
| 6 | Hua 's policy of the ‘ two whatevers ’ , i.e. to ( 1 ) resolutely uphold whatever decisions Mao had made and ( 2 ) carry out whatever the Chairman had instructed , were to cause him some difficulties in a changing political environment . |
| 7 | Clive 's favourite , perfectly serious , leitmotif was : ‘ We 're a top team , are n't we ! ’ until Jane felt she 'd scream if he said it once more , and ordered breakfast in her room so as to avoid him first thing in the morning , at least . |
| 8 | The ‘ swing ’ from Labour to Liberal Democrat was 6.4pc , enough to win us both seats in the Willington West ward . |
| 9 | The Sandinistas may also use the visit to discuss US foreign policy in Central America , and the question of whether improved Soviet-US relations could lead to a lifting of the US economic embargo on Nicaragua . |
| 10 | As a consequence , feudal contracts in the full sense of the term must have been more important for supplying castle-guard than for campaigning ( though it would be pushing the argument too far to deny them any significance in the field ) . |
| 11 | I should like to congratulate CAJEC 's first chairman , Jock Worsley , and his team on a job well begun , and to wish them continuing success in the future — in the mutual interest of the profession and the public it serves . |
| 12 | Sub-text : ‘ I have the power to predict , to warn you , to threaten you , to criticise you , but I choose to give you this message in a very subtle way . |
| 13 | His first big senior championship victory over 1500 metres at Crystal Palace yesterday convinced the selectors to give him this job in Rome . |
| 14 | He and I have been friends for many years , so it may have helped that I was there to give him some confidence in the project . |
| 15 | But , but , he did win four tournaments , he did finish second to Norman on the money list , and he did end his season with a startlingly brilliant final round , an 8-under par 63 at the Champions course in Houston to give him third place in the rich Nabisco Championships . |
| 16 | Others have had to do it other people in other countries . |
| 17 | Dell has renegotiated an existing $200m revolving line of credit with a group of nine large banks led by Barclays Bank Plc to give it additional flexibility in using the funds . |
| 18 | We had persuaded our landladies to give us packed lunches in place of the statutory second meal . |
| 19 | US President George Bush on July 31 , 1989 , vetoed a bill passed by Congress which would have set restrictions on the joint development of the FSX fighter , Japan 's next generation of attack aircraft [ see p. 36619 ; 36651 ] , on the grounds that joint development would have enabled the Japanese to overtake US technological superiority in aerospace and would have provided the means whereby Japan could develop its own commercial aircraft . |
| 20 | And the slick export companies and landowners are anxious to keep it that way in order to retain total flexibility in hiring , firing and wage levels . |
| 21 | ‘ I recall going to see him one morning in the mid-70s after a newspaper suggested Liverpool were ready to pay Boro 200,000 for me . |
| 22 | I was greatly relieved , both because this decision was going to save me endless work in revision and because I knew that if all my marks over the year were taken into account I should not have any problem in passing . |
| 23 | It 's that Middle East experience which persuaded the M O D to appoint him overall commander in the Gulf . |
| 24 | But he will have cause to resent his treatment by campaign organisers given Mr Kinnock 's unequivocal pledge to appoint him Foreign Secretary in a Labour government . |
| 25 | However , in Peart the accused was not guilty when he obtained a car on the undertaking that he was going to drive it 30 miles in one direction but drove it 100 miles in another . |
| 26 | Leo had promised to ring me that evening in case there had been any news from the hospital ; and I told him my own news . |
| 27 | If the Operator terminal is in use , the Offline System will try to access it several times in quick succession ; if it remains unavailable the Offline run will not take place and a message reporting the situation will be sent via the mail system to the Offline Manager . |
| 28 | Fujimori , justifying the air force action , said that the C-130 , one of many used to support US anti-drug operations in the northern Upper Huallaga Valley ( the world 's largest single source of coca ) , carried no markings and failed to respond to radio and visual warnings . |
| 29 | A contrary view is that ‘ Marx united Romantic and working-class protest with the Jewish Messianic tradition to make them powerful elements in his ‘ scientific ’ socialism' . |
| 30 | What that exhibition in fact is doing is that it 's not saying here 's a new spirit in painting , it 's saying that we the organizers , having not bothered to show you these things in the sixties and seventies , will now allow you to see them in the eighties , and we will pretend there 's a new spirit because we think it 's good for the art world to have new fashions , new movements , or at least something new going on that will produce some kind of emotional pressure . |