Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gates was very careful to caution about overestimating the duration of his company 's exceptional record on profit margins , however . |
| 2 | to thank for improving the law on prisoners . |
| 3 | ‘ I want to stay on top and win the order of merit as well , ’ said Lane , a former Scottish Open champion who has his wife , Melanie , to thank for spotting the reason behind his recent poor putting . |
| 4 | The buyer 's assent to the appropriation made by the sellers was inferred from his failure to object after receiving the delivery order . |
| 5 | This is what you need to know about selling the service . |
| 6 | I just thought you might like to know about playing the violin . |
| 7 | With the balloon ripstop , one can hold fine lines , and use the colours edge to edge without having to worry about spoiling the decoration with inter-mixing or any blurs . |
| 8 | We were able to lower the nose to improve visibility and to reduce the height of the whole car because we no longer had to worry about having the exhaust pipes running under the passenger compartment . |
| 9 | As a council tenant , Kathleen Parker does n't have to worry about insuring the building she lives in , but that does n't stop the heartache . |
| 10 | Hilary , who 's been producing religious programmes for BBC radio , has not yet decided whether she 'll go back to work after having the baby . |
| 11 | It took a long time to adjust after discovering the baby was a girl . ’ |
| 12 | It 's easy to look at these young hooligans on the street , as they are perceived by so many , without understanding why they are like it , and I think it would help everyone to understand , and maybe we could have some action to work towards supplying the need for these youngsters , because I belief if something could be done for them when they 're sixteen and just starting out on this erm sort of sub-culture life that they get into so quickly , if people could give them maximum help at this stage then they could grow into being responsible erm satisfied adults . |
| 13 | A current priority for KIDLINK , initiated by the children , is to work towards making the network more globally representative , particularly to involve children from the world 's Islamic communities . |
| 14 | The remaining Panguna employees were later evacuated by road , and it was reported that the PNG Army was retreating from the countryside in order to concentrate upon defending the island 's towns . |
| 15 | In the actual examination all the figures are provided and it is only necessary to infer from inspecting the graph or drawing which of four alternatives is the correct one . |
| 16 | Very few writers , in Cusick 's experience , do much in the way of scene setting , and so a lot has to come from reading the dialogue and forming impressions in the mind . |
| 17 | Nour said ( he really did say it ) that I was disobedient to him to persist in feeding the cat . |
| 18 | Dissent increased in the 1983 Parliament , partly because of the government 's larger majority , which enables rebels to dissent without jeopardizing the government . |
| 19 | I have had to stoop to pocketing the money the Supporters ' Club give for raffle prizes . |
| 20 | We welcome people from every party , it does n't really matter which party , or even if they belong to no party , who are just committed to seeing a representative representation , seeing more women in there , because women in this country , just as a matter of fact , have a rather different experience from most men , and if you 're making a decision then you want there the people who have had a wide range of experience , who can bring that experience to bear on making the decision . |
| 21 | Mosbacher , 64 , like Bush a native easterner who moved to Texas and made a personal fortune in oil and gas , had served as Bush 's national finance chairman in 1988 and was once again expected to concentrate on financing the campaign . |
| 22 | He did n't tell her that he had been so worried about her that it had been hard to concentrate on sharing the hurt with Marcus , on blocking out the punishment–hey put him through . |
| 23 | Then , three months ago , we brought in Alan Brooke to concentrate on building the non-fiction side , which is now doing extremely well . |
| 24 | Lord Grubb was trying to concentrate on taking the band off a cigar . |
| 25 | In keeping with his promises to concentrate on reviving the country 's ailing economy , Clinton announced his intention to summon a summit meeting of business leaders and economists to Little Rock prior to the inauguration ( due on Jan. 20 ) . |
| 26 | That immediately poses the question of why the TCCB opted to concentrate on impressing the Test nations with large financial guarantees , instead of copying the logical example of the sub-Continent and targetting the associates ? |
| 27 | Luckily , Katharine had ridden in a double bridle before , so as they started working in she was able to concentrate on getting the feel of Benji . |
| 28 | Would it not be far better for the Government to end these punitive and ridiculous double tax payments — the Post Office already pays corporation tax — thus allowing it to concentrate on improving the quality of service to customers rather than pursuing abolition of the second delivery in towns and putting restrictions on rural services such as insisting that people have letter boxes at the bottom of their gardens or , in some cases , making people go to village centres for their letters ? |
| 29 | In all of our businesses 1993 looks like being another challenging year in which we will have to concentrate on improving the efficiency and profitability of our operating companies in a depressed and competitive trading environment . |
| 30 | Murphy , who was 39 last week , recently announced that he was making his original partner , Helen Cree , managing director , although he is staying as executive chairman to concentrate on growing the business , particularly in the financial sector , and improving quality . |