Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [art] [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | We start in ten days and I firmly rely on the goodness of Providence to grant me a safe and prosperous passage . |
| 2 | ‘ Her business to find me a pretty and agreeable companion , that 's what she said . ’ |
| 3 | In 1829 , as the lad approached the age of 14 , decision time was coming ; if Benjamin had any yearning to go to sea like his brother , he seems to have kept it quiet , but there was every need to find him a safe and secure job with prospects . |
| 4 | A London speculator of great fortune , Sir Richard Hotham , began work in the 1780s , ‘ to render it a select and quiet abode , distinguished from all other places of a similar description ’ . |
| 5 | I should like to thank Edward and Peter for their years of service to the Diocese and to wish them a long and happy retirement . |
| 6 | It just remains for me to wish you a prosperous and happy one . |
| 7 | Many of the reserves have specially built hides which you can use , to give you the best and closest vantage point for watching the birds . |
| 8 | George has completed 40 years ’ service with the company working in various locations and all his friends and colleagues gathered at Southall to wish him a long and happy retirement . |
| 9 | Many of Hazel 's friends gathered at Yew Lodge to wish her a long and happy retirement , and regional managing director Graham Foote presented her with a microwave oven , a transistor radio , and numerous other gifts on behalf of her many friends and colleagues . |
| 10 | Matthew , standing in for his friend , had promised to give him a full and complete report . |
| 11 | Indeed , in January 1709 , when the Commons were discussing a recently published Nonconformist tract calling for the repeal of the Test , it was a Whig , Sir James Montagu ( brother of the Junto chief ) , who moved the House to vote it a seditious and pernicious libel . |
| 12 | 1 have chosen to call them the Northern and Southern Bands ( Map 3.1 ) . |
| 13 | We widened the steps slightly to make them a secure and comfortable width to walk and wheel a barrow down . |
| 14 | Even in a socialist country like Tanzania , however committed one may be to the abolition of privilege in society , there is no arguing with the fact that young people with secondary and higher education can expect life to bring them a richer and more interesting experience than it does to the primary school leaver . |
| 15 | ‘ Domiciled in the United Kingdom ’ meant living in the United Kingdom with the intent to make it a fixed and permanent home . |
| 16 | The same applies with even greater reason to the domicile requirement , which , according to the United Kingdom , is a more stringent requirement than mere residence and means living in the member state with the intent to make it a fixed and permanent home . |
| 17 | The way in which they sell their credit tends to make it a prominent and a more or less permanent part of the budget of their customers — that is , of generally poorer people , particularly in the North . |
| 18 | erm they have not in the past proved themselves to be the most capable o of people to er to support these things so in conclusion I 'd say that we must put this as part of a shopping list , the shopping list is on there er it is something to bring London and the South East of England which includes Hertfordshire and to make it an economic and viable area and look at the evidence of the other cities and I hope that er all of you will support the motion . |
| 19 | I sat back and treated myself to a cigarette , determined to make it the first and last of the day . |
| 20 | It 's the 10th time the event has been held and the aim is to make it the biggest and best yet ! |