Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am happy to see them in this workmanlike state . |
| 2 | language … gives structure to experience , and helps to determine our way of looking at things , so that it requires some intellectual effort to see them in any other way than that which our language suggests to us . |
| 3 | Very good of you to see me at such short notice . ’ |
| 4 | What better way to taunt the auld enemy than to treat them with such reckless contempt ? |
| 5 | I want to be taken seriously , which makes it galling that when I 've got a brain , certain types of men try to treat me like some empty-headed bimbo who … ’ |
| 6 | Widnes will open their defence of the Regal Trophy determined to wipe out the Headingley memory and make it up to the fans who travelled over to Yorkshire to support them in that disappointing performance . |
| 7 | If it did not do so , they threatened to suspend trade agreements with Yugoslavia , and immediately to restore them with those individual republics which agreed to the plan — in effect to recognize their independence . |
| 8 | This project aims to map the movements of individuals between employment , unemployment and economic inactivity over the decade 1979-1989 , to identify significant trends , and to relate them to wider economic factors and policy developments . |
| 9 | To understand them properly , however , we need to relate them to wider social structures , and we shall consider this aspect of sociolinguistics in chapter 7 . |
| 10 | For example , Activity 47 ( p. 101 ) , " Working with Scalar Paradigms " , provides a place for considering the role of value-judgements and obliges the reader to relate them to specific textual features . |
| 11 | It was not easy to relate them to any obvious scheme . |
| 12 | If a power of appointment , either in law or in fact , is vested in trade unions , the effect is not only to arrogate to them rights attaching only to ownership , but to establish them in this particular matter as the constitutional equals of Parliament . |
| 13 | ‘ A person who receives goods on sale or return and at once passes them on to someone else under a like contract is entitled to demand them from that third person just as soon as the original owner of the goods has the right to demand them from him , but I am clear that , if he allows a period to elapse before he hands them on to a third person on sale or return , he has done an act which limits and impedes his power of returning the goods . |
| 14 | this is a school one , yeah , they have to write them in this little |
| 15 | ‘ To find me in rollicking good humour , basking in my good fortune ? ’ |
| 16 | However , and with great irony , it was the Government 's cuts which led to the virtual abandonment of the Council 's housing policy since the Council decided that whereas it was cheaper to service houses in groups , it was even cheaper and perhaps even permissible not to provide them with certain expensive services at all . |
| 17 | During the eighteenth century diplomats were less irregularly paid than had hitherto been the case and there can be seen the first efforts , though very limited and ineffective ones , to provide them with some systematic professional training . |
| 18 | He 's bit and bridle , ball and chain , a rope to tether me like any other animal . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ They are going to try me with small artificial legs to start with and once I get my balance they will give me bigger ones . ’ |
| 20 | as if I have not had enough to worry me with all this talk of Benedict ! ’ |
| 21 | By absorbing these , the subject is then in turn able to impose them upon some new domain not previously encountered , and thereby immediately to assimilate this into its particular cultural order . |
| 22 | Do you have any idea how long it 's taken me to find you in this God-forsaken place ? |
| 23 | COHSE , the RCN , and the HVA all offer indemnity insurance schemes , and your local steward should be able to provide you with specific written details of this . |
| 24 | We are going to provide you with three written fragments , abstracted from the contexts in which they appeared . |
| 25 | They do n't want to know you at any other time … but most of them are n't like that here . |
| 26 | Esau is coming to meet him with four hundred men . |
| 27 | He expected Caterina to be there to tell him that Rosalba absolutely refused to meet him in such compromising circumstances and considered him a blackguard and a monster even to suggest such an assignation . |
| 28 | Champion picked up his whip and waved it at his mount to encourage him over those last few yards , and Aldaniti responded gamely . |
| 29 | No one would hear her , but she could n't face having to find him among this unfamiliar crowd . |
| 30 | ‘ As I work with the prints all day I would get so bored if I wore them as well , ’ she once told an American interviewer , who expressed surprise to find her in such plain clothes . |