Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [adv] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To treat them simply as statements of objective fact , to be proved or disproved by appeal to observation of the world around us , to the speculations and arguments of metaphysical philosophy , or even to the authority of the Bible understood as a collection of ‘ divine truths ’ , is to misconceive their nature and function . |
| 2 | It is true , these same trivial errors did cause me some anxiety at first , but once I had had time to diagnose them correctly as symptoms of nothing more than a straightforward staff shortage , I have refrained from giving them much thought . |
| 3 | She took them off again when she remembered that it would be she who would have to Ronuk it again if Matey saw its shine marred . |
| 4 | West Indians began to troop off , only for Gower to wave them back since Terry , arm in sling beneath sweater , was returning . |
| 5 | Whenever kids are near he goes out of his way to pick them up and snuggle and kiss them , sometimes more tenderly than one could imagine their parents doing . |
| 6 | And he asked Jane to go down to sort her out but Jane 's scared of a fight . |
| 7 | I always used to pick him up when daddy went out in the morning on his bike or on the bus , pick him up and wave bye-bye , see you soon . |
| 8 | Perhaps it just grew and matured until it took in all their emotions , but his hands began to smooth her back and shoulders , until in the end his fingers were threaded through her hair and his big , warm hands were holding her steady while he kissed her with mesmerising thoroughness . |
| 9 | I kept pretending to pick it up and others , getting further and further to the door picking them up . |
| 10 | Christians singer Henry Priestman , at No 33 with What 's In A Word says : ‘ We spent two years trying to sort it out and relationships in the band suffered . |
| 11 | Yes , it is too bad about the Kuwaitis ; but oil is a commodity and Iraq will have to sell it just as Kuwait did . |
| 12 | Mrs Tiggy-winkle came tripping out to wave us off and Buster 's chains began to rattle inside his kennel . |
| 13 | Given that you can draw all sorts of amazing objects you might not think that you need to edit them much but IntelliDraw has some powerful editing tools . |
| 14 | It may be that Archbishop Jaenberht refused to consecrate him so that Offa was driven to establishing a metropolitan see at Lichfield in order to procure an archbishop who would perform the ceremony . |
| 15 | Dean Martin , Sammy Cahn and Tony tried to calm her down while Sinatra reached for his car radio and called for the police and an ambulance . |
| 16 | ‘ In fact he was very put out because Martinez simply told him one day at the end of last year that the agency had a new client but he , Martinez , was going to handle him personally and Ed Grainger did n't need to bother about him . |
| 17 | Gemmell 's clearance Whitlow down to Ormanroyd , Collimore did well to win it back and Ormanroyd just got a foot in again . |
| 18 | used to have them in the pub and then to play it back and people did n't realise it was there voice you know . |
| 19 | He got very worried , had to calm us down before Cis came back . ’ |
| 20 | Inspector Blakelock gets here early those mornings to let them in and Scobie keeps an eye on them . |
| 21 | Trent considered showing one of them how to keep the bows of the Zodiac to the wind in case he had to cast them off but Louis was beside him . |
| 22 | His friend Chris would do nothing , of course , to undermine him deliberately but Patten has always been spoken about as a one-day leader . |
| 23 | Relations between Modi and Madame Hébuterne became so strained , with Jeanne refusing to give him up and Madame cursing him and his art , that after a time he moved away to stay in the Hôtel Tarelli , 5 Rue de France . |
| 24 | Honestly Paul you wo n't have time to do it tomorrow and Sunday well you can work 'till nine o'clock tonight . |
| 25 | ‘ Really , it just follows the principles of long-term contract accounting , but we ought to be able to do it better than SSAP 9 practitioners because , while they apply the theory to a handful of different contracts , we are applying it to 20m policies . |
| 26 | It would be counter-productive to include a clause which no-one really regards as appropriate to the particular circumstances of the firm just because that clause is commonly found in the precedent books : better by far to leave it out until agreement on a satisfactory alternative can be agreed . |
| 27 | This afternoon it came a step closer when the Health Authority voted to shut it down and transfer facilities to the Gloucestershire Royal Hospital . |
| 28 | Clenching her teeth in disgust , she burrowed her face into the pillow to shut it out until Penry returned . |
| 29 | Cos if you take them back , you 've got to keep them somewhere and building societies and banks are charging much more than they used to for actually keeping safe deposit . |
| 30 | The employer may find it difficult when he becomes aware of the fact that his former customers are now dealing with his former employee to prove that preparation to entice them away or enticement did in fact take place during employment . |