Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [pron] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Simple aluminium lean-to conservatories start from under £1,000 , but you can spend up to £25,000 if you decide to go for something complete with double glazing , brick walls and decorative finials . |
| 2 | Now presumably somebody in government or Whitehall has just taken a decision to , to go for it all in one year , I do n't know why , I , I do n't suppose we 're told why , but the , the consequence of the decision is actually going to be that people in Shropshire , our clients and social services are going to pay for that decision , either through paying charges for services that they now get for nothing , or by getting less services , er , and this does n't seem to be in line with the government 's stated aim of , of targeting money where it 's most needed . |
| 3 | FOR THE entire 1970s , this was the standard NME favourable review , enabling our non-hippy staff to write about anything weird without listening to it . |
| 4 | Giving it would deprive the delivery driver of the opportunity to discover for himself some of the delightful scenery on his patch . |
| 5 | Of course , the label or promotional literature as constituting a representation would have to induce the representee to enter the main contract of sale and he would have to know of it prior to the contract . |
| 6 | It is a quiet and comfortable village to stop in , as I know from having stopped there , with good walks up into the hills and good fishing — for trout , which begin to come into their own around here as the mountain fish . |
| 7 | A House of Commons select committee , which has been looking at the feasibility of using ‘ combined heat and power ’ ( CHP ) , last week reported that the idea is about to come into its own in Britain . |
| 8 | He is said to come into his own behind closed doors when giving Prime Ministers advice they do not want to hear — in the politest possible way . |
| 9 | And that would leave City free to concentrate on their first round FA Cup tie with Altrincham in a much happier frame of mind . |
| 10 | They requested permission to work on their own in a small area immediately outside the classroom , collected paper and felts , decided between them how to take turns to scribe . |
| 11 | To start with , none of the themes seem to link in with a previous theme or rheme ; each sentence seems to stand on its own in a sort of vacuum . |
| 12 | You 've got to talk about something intellectual for a change ! |
| 13 | Even if it began to howl or to wave its rattle , we would hardly claim that by so doing it was discriminating between the items mentioned and a myriad others ; indeed it would be odd to talk of its discriminating at all . |
| 14 | There was no attempt to consult with us prior to tonight about whether this guillotine should be introduced . |
| 15 | They moved north to Scotland for an intensive period of training , and he found himself in command of a section of young volunteers , many of whom were to serve with him later in the Middle East . |
| 16 | Win or lose , in a contest over a collectorship the office was a liability to a politician , more apt to cost him friends than to lead to anything useful for his interest . |
| 17 | He would have liked to talk to her more about her husband , but he could n't really bring himself , not yet , to ask any more questions . |
| 18 | Questioned , Barron had refused to talk to anyone junior to Wickham and even when Wickham went to his hotel he had little to say except that he had met MacQuillan on private business , that it had nothing to do with the murder and was of no interest to the police . |
| 19 | In religious communities and seminaries most priests never received Communion ( except on Maundy Thursday ) in a community mass , but removed themselves to celebrate on their own with a single server . |
| 20 | Thank you Chairman erm I would like I know that you 've been listening to the first er part of our session this afternoon , erm and I 'd like to ask you to discuss with us one of the questions that we asked the group the Pension Fund erm and that 's to discuss the balance of power that exists between the employer and the various groups and classes of pensioner . |
| 21 | If you should be so kind as to print my name and telephone number in Pilot I would be more than happy to hear from anyone interested in the project and to act as an initial clearing-house for information . |
| 22 | Katharine wants to hear from businesses , Phil wants to hear from anyone interested in joining the volunteer Greenfingers team . |
| 23 | Sgt John Marshall of the mounted section wants to hear from anyone interested in selling a horse which must be a minimum of 16 hands . |
| 24 | And to ease my memory , to free from it some of the words , the phrases I had already written — precious seeds — I would walk and walk ; walk like a man without a camera , who only has his diary to record what he sees . |
| 25 | It is a worthwhile species to grow on its own in a specimen tank . |
| 26 | It was unusual , strange ; but unusual and strange were not words she was prepared to apply to anything short of a surreal Hell on Earth after her day . |
| 27 | Yet for Labour to win on its own at the next general election would be a victory on a scale comparable with that achieved by Attlee in 1945 . |
| 28 | ‘ Left to play on their own in a playground , they wo n't promptly break a leg — they will make good choices about the risks they run . |
| 29 | And something I have not seen anywhere else , though it makes good sense , is that in these mainly narrow streets , the shops have their signs strung out at right-angles across the way so that you can stand at one end and read their names from there , without having to go down to look at them one by one . |
| 30 | It is easier to divide up s.22 than to look at it all at once . |