Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the stories were based on rumour , although others , like the ones about A&R men flying all over Europe to see them and high-ranking company staff jetting in from the States , were in fact true . |
| 2 | It is advisable to treat them as good value items which , if they should hold their prices , could provide an unexpected bonus . |
| 3 | Where feminist psychologists recognize social differences , they , like conventional psychologists , tend to treat them as psychological variables of the usual sort , controllable , and equivalent to each other . |
| 4 | By virtue of the Unsolicited Goods and Services Act 1971 the recipient of unsolicited goods is entitled in certain circumstances to treat them as unconditional gifts after six months from receipt , or 30 days from notice to the sender , so long as the sender does not in the meantime take possession of them and the recipient does not unreasonably refuse to permit him to do so . |
| 5 | Tony Wedd taught me to spot them as possible ley markers , and the sight of a clump or an individual pine standing alone on a ridge still fills me with excitement , perhaps a resonance with the ancient traveller to whom such a sight meant the security and guidance that the straight tracks provided . |
| 6 | I asked myself that question on many occasions and wondered how I was supposed to refresh his and other people 's memories without risking the accusation of going on about it all the time . |
| 7 | Sensory measurements in particular , complemented where relevant by instrumental analysis of the components of the odorant , could assist the complainant by providing valuable objective evidence to bolster his and other witnesses testimonies which are necessarily subjective . |
| 8 | ‘ I have to inform you that this street will be evacuated this afternoon between nineteen and twenty hundred hours . |
| 9 | The Mail System is used to inform you when these transactions have been completed . |
| 10 | I phoned the kennel owner to inform her that British Rail insisted the dog wear a muzzle and that I would pay her back if she 'd buy one . |
| 11 | The meeting was obviously intended to establish him as sole king , and may have led directly to the coronation in London by Archbishop Lyfing reported by a twelfth-century dean of St Paul 's . |
| 12 | In his famous allocution , Pope Pius declared that , morally , a doctor was not obliged to continue treatment , nor was a patient obliged to accept it when such treatment involved extraordinary medical measures . |
| 13 | The region in which a child is brought up may also have an effect on the propensity to demand HE although this effect will be confounded with many of the factors listed above ( see Rees , 1986 ) . |
| 14 | But there are no recommendations given as to how often it should be used , which type of salt it requires to recharge it or any recommendations as to often to recharge it . |
| 15 | Wedgewood sets out to find it and both parties discover that someone has already arrived on the Moon before them … |
| 16 | And secondly , that I will do my utmost to serve you and those causes to the best of my ability . |
| 17 | She knew what Papa would say because he had said it a few years ago when she had begun to reproach him and all men for their oppression of women . |
| 18 | John Rodwell , a specialist inspector from the Health and Safety Executive , said it appeared Mr Eaton had been using the burning torch to cut at the edge of the slot at one end of the pipe trying to open it and hot gases could have caused it to become dislodged and fall . |
| 19 | You have to remember to unhook it when changing colour again or you will end up solving one problem and causing another . |
| 20 | We understand that Israeli propaganda tries to denigrate us as backward people because it ’ justifies ’ their occupation , yet unfortunately this attitude arises again and again among so called progressives and feminists . |
| 21 | I have come to see you because that Mr R said to my son ‘ If you do n't like it here then go back where you came from and where you belong ’ and I was so upset at that because my son was born here and I have lived in this country for over twenty years and how dare he say that , because my son comes from here . |
| 22 | There were more goods to buy , more people with enough money to buy them and easier ways to communicate with them . |
| 23 | The fund should build up tax-free over the years so there will be enough in the kitty for the grandchild to buy his or first property between the ages of 20 and 30 with an interest-only mortgage . |
| 24 | If the jurisdiction were discretionary , no refusal to exercise it nor any failure to exercise it by the House of Lords would constitute a breach of Article 6 , but , again , if the appeal goes ahead , it must be by a process which the Convention recognises as fair . |
| 25 | The bigger UK companies , hardly enamoured with the charter themselves , might have the administrative capacity to handle it whereas independent operators did not . |
| 26 | I was telling her about our need of somewhere to meet , and she said she would love to help us but that Mr. Olinton would n't hear of it . |
| 27 | Even the understated ‘ Dan Dare fins ’ styling of the chrome bridge and pickup covers does not look dated , and although these came to be regarded as obstructive ( the fashion was to use them as detachable ashtrays , or discard them permanently ) the bass would have looked seriously unfinished without them . |
| 28 | I was able to reassure them that those staff not required on site would be relocated into other company stores . |
| 29 | Partly it is to give you that extra pace which the active , probing , investigating story requires . |
| 30 | She complained bitterly about her husband being so confused and his always forgetting what she had told him without having any insight into her own ability to confuse him and other people . |