Example sentences of "[to-vb] [indef pn] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I should like to thank everyone in the Division for all the hard work which has gone into making 1990 a year of significant progress .
2 I hope you manage to see everyone during the holiday period , as I know how much that means to you .
3 Regardless of what company is involved in such matters and of whether it has a socialist supporter , a Conservative supporter or no political supporter at all , it is our duty as a House to enable everyone in the country to feel that his or her pension is well protected .
4 Betty noticed however that Lydia contrived to carry nothing but a bottle of cider which she had clearly earmarked for herself .
5 He pulled Carla into his arms and closed his eyes , feeling a vast , directionless violence , as if his task were to kill everyone in the world and the problem was how to start .
6 But on the other side , it is not necessary to interview everyone in the club if the proper statistical sampling rules are obeyed and if proper tests of significance are applied to results obtained .
7 To flash a badge was to risk someone in the crowd remembering his face and in the future , on another job , he could fingered as the stoolie he truly was .
8 ‘ I have to see someone for a minute .
9 I had needed to break our journey north int he capital to see someone in the tourist board 's head office .
10 To provide everyone with a voucher that can be used instead of money to purchase a minimum amount of that particular service .
11 Judith Masterman , whose daughter Alison works in the orphanage , said : ‘ We are not aiming to provide everyone with a mattress but whatever we can get helps .
12 The leader of the Peronist congressional bloc , José Luis Manzano , claimed to know nothing of the payments which another Peronist deputy , Luis Saadi , described as " odious " as well as being illegal .
13 The Director seemed to know nothing about the College .
14 Unlike Karelius and Fräulein Müller , the Frenchman seemed to know nothing about the opera or even the rudiments of music .
15 The members of his party appeared to know nothing about the opposition of the hierarchy to the earlier Bill , and Dr Browne only found out in October/November 1950 .
16 A dozen policemen rushed into the room and tried to herd everyone into the corners .
17 In the words of a single 19-year-old trainee pilot : ‘ In an ideal world you 'd be able to meet someone at a bus-stop , go for a drink , take them home and bonk their brains out — and then go home to your girlfriend for dinner . ’
18 ‘ Excuse me , Dudley , I have to meet someone at the station . ’
19 ‘ We believe she arranged to meet someone up the mountain .
20 ‘ We believe she arranged to meet someone up the mountain .
21 ‘ Harry said he was due to meet someone in the boathouse , so we went over there . ’
22 You want the papers you 've yet to find someone with a painting and
23 Spencer said easily , ‘ I think you might have been a little more enthusiastic about such lovely slippers , they are a work of art , you must be very pleased to find someone with the talent to work as well as the best London shoemakers and at a fraction of the price , if I 'm any judge . ’
24 I tell you what we 'll do , we 'll try to find someone on the way who knows the counter-spell and send him back to wake the Gnomes up . ’
25 ‘ You could n't possibly have realised how big a task you 'd set yourself , trying to find someone in the whole of London . ’
26 Once again it is up to the pilot to insist that this wing is held and not to accept someone on the upwind wing-tip .
27 To try somebody of a trainer er .
28 Much work was needed to bring them up to scratch and the small band worked hard to ready everything for an opening to the public in June .
29 They had interviewed a man from Bombay who claimed to have a degree in physics but turned out to be a defrocked dentist , and they had nearly offered a job to a man from Sri Lanka who seemed to know everything about the school apart from the fact that it was supposed to be for Muslims .
30 I 'm back with another Fox Report on Monday , but if you want to know everything about the sport and leisure that 's happening in the area , do make sure you listen to Fox leisure with Steve Priestley and Phil Angell tomorrow at two , and Steve Priestly is here , in person , after the news at seven with the Red Fox .
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