Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Maxine came to see me again the following week and we began the follow-up treatment , along the lines of those which you will find detailed in the ‘ case histories ’ sections of this book .
2 There is a general expectation that people will not remember detailed facts correctly if they are only exposed to them in the spoken mode , especially if they are required to remember them over an extended period of time .
3 Eventually he paused to lead her along a side-track where the hanging vines reached out to cling about them .
4 To pump it out a new water-wheel was required , suggesting that the old Bonsor East Shaft wheel was too far decayed to repair , or missing altogether .
5 Yeah , just as a , as a side issue , I am interested that they 've been growing plum tomatoes because each year I hear of more and more people growing plum tomatoes successfully in this country and while we are just on the subject of diseases and things to control them , you may remember that a few weeks ago we were giving advice on how we should dispose of waste garden chemicals and , and we said you ought to pour it down an outside drain .
6 Mummy did try to help them just a teeny weeny bit cos hyacinths , he 's going to show them at the Airdrie Town Hall , Bobby .
7 There are a number of strategies at your disposal and you can use one or a mixture of them to help you over an unexpected hurdle .
8 For reasons best known to himself Halzman , the senior sonar operator , preferred not to discuss it over an open line .
9 Ca n't tell you how long a journey it was back in the fog from Liverpool that day , and then when we were relegated back again to the third division it was on the last match of the season against Charlton , and the heavens opened and a big thunder storm and it just flooded the pitch and the referee just called the match off and they had to play it again the following Friday and Charlton ran out two-one winners and Walsall finished with nine fit men and still that 's the football I suppose .
10 We used to chase them down a narrow valley with a sheer cliff-wall at the end . ’
11 The oil lamp beside his bed had been extinguished , and when I saw my father glance disapprovingly at the lamp I had brought to guide me up the rickety staircase , I quickly lowered the wick .
12 I still wanted to see more of the world , and as he was offering to give me double the usual pay , I managed to persuade my wife to let me go .
13 In Example 71 the two lower voices have ‘ clanging ’ motifs which evoke the atmosphere of the blacksmith 's forge : Here the ostinatos are unchanging pedal notes , but of course they could be recurring musical designs with changing harmonic potential to give them both a structural and an emotional purpose .
14 I am ready to give you again the beautiful face of
15 ‘ Maureen told me to give her just a small dose , and I did , ’ she said .
16 I would an for two reasons I , I 'm going to give her quite a long course .
17 All in all , I would be prepared to give her quite a high mark during her time in government , which I am sure will be a source of great relief to her when she comes to sleep at night .
18 Other methods can be used if it is desired to give him only an equitable interest in the land .
19 Mr Field believes he would win easily , and once returned to the Commons would ask the parliamentary party to give him back the Labour whip .
20 If it seems necessary to give it over a long period make sure you fully consider your risk before proceeding .
21 And th on the cherish you and whatever else and th erm , I mean we 've already got a situation where we 've got erm through Peter and David , the other two , I mean we 've got erm erm two or three breweries who are quite willing to erm to give us quite a substantial amount of money not as loans , as write-offs against barrelage erm which means that we do n't have any repayments to make etcetera .
22 ‘ So why has Madge Grimsilk never offered to run me up a quick ball-dress on the wardrobe sewing machine ? ’
23 Leila had planned to keep it rather a subdued affair , but another natro group happened along at the small site they were using and livened things up a little .
24 As he began to carry her away a half-formed thought , a prickle of awareness , came from her subconscious .
25 DR Robert Jones , who was repeatedly quizzed after the murder of his wife Diane in 1983 , yesterday began an appeal against the General Medical Council 's decision to suspend him over an alleged improper examination of a patient in Coggeshall , Essex .
26 So in order to speed it up a little bit we might need need to heat it up .
27 They did n't drive around in their fathers ' cast-off Rollers ; they pooled their resources , picked up a MkII escort for a hundred notes at an auction and took it in turns to drive it round a disused airfield practising handbrake turns until the car cried enough .
28 ‘ I am genuinely delighted we were able to repay them just a little bit .
29 ‘ Even though Father always manages to rub me up the wrong way .
30 ‘ Just that I seem to rub you up the wrong way ?
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