Example sentences of "[to-vb] and [pers pn] [verb] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Officers did not go out of the camp to work and they had no contact with women .
2 I asked my neighbour to turn down her records as I found it impossible to concentrate and she said the only way she could cope with the stress of her reality was to blast her music .
3 It was not too far to jump and I know every inch of the lake .
4 She took me to meet the Fellowship she helps to lead and we had a lovely time of worship together .
5 So in other words , Mill accepts the arguments of Russo the arguments of the participatory er theorists that participation in government , participation in public affairs is a good thing , people should be encouraged to participate and it has an improving effect .
6 The lure had been too compelling for Heather to resist and he had the photographs to prove it .
7 There is no need for us to quarrel and I see no reason why we can not — occasionally — go out together .
8 In fact , there was no chance of losing her job , but sooner or later she would have to go and it seemed a good idea to lay down a time now .
9 of the substance venial alanine it , the level rises up in the blood , it 's a bit like overfilling a jug , if you have a quarter pint jug and you have a pint of milk , when you get to the top you do n't stop pouring , it spills out the edge and in the body it actually goes into the body tissues , nowhere else to go and it causes a devastating result , it causes abnormal mental development , it causes gross retardation .
10 He told me where to go and I left the room with relief .
11 Erm she was in India and I wanted to go and she said a Hindi course at A T R in Zurich .
12 Ten yards to go and he heard the driver of the Discovery accelerate away from the roadblock .
13 It was hard to see and he touched the stones as he walked along by the wall .
14 British Rail have nothing to report and I 've no problems to tell you about on the local buses either .
15 It is entitled To Choose or to Lose and it proclaims a strategy ‘ developed against the background of the desire to solve or gain control of environmental problems within the duration of one generation ’ .
16 He can already foresee the day when sales begin to fall and he wants the group to readjust their stringent stance , mainly for their own survival .
17 Well I believe that the report that er is before us that has been moved erm actually sets out a framework which the social service committee is able to work to and to monitor and I see no point whatsoever in referring this back to social services erm to delay further what is the inevitable .
18 Her grip began to slacken and he kicked a little harder , perhaps sensing a reprieve , and he managed to turn his head around so that he could look at her .
19 Meanwhile the Japanese electronics companies continued to grow and they showed an urgent interest in building plants inside the EC .
20 The bubbles of foam trembled to mist and I sensed the house become dangerous , a mirage to my eyes .
21 It was said loud enough for Therese to hear and he had the satisfaction of seeing a slight flush creep over her face .
22 In applications of this kind the authors argue that geographic information management in general and GIS in particular have an important role to play and they give a number of examples from research in progress to illustrate the current state of the art in this field .
23 In 1894 he went to Oxford University as a non-collegiate student but ill health caused him to leave and he spent the year 1895 acting as tutor to an English family in Odessa .
24 It is a great thing , however , that all the parties have now sat down to negotiate and I wish the negotiations well .
25 The tenants have been given a year 's notice to quit and they face the loss of their livelihood and homes .
26 He had studied to be a vet but lack of finances had forced him to quit and he became a blacksmith .
27 IMAGINE light deprived of its ability to illuminate and you get a fair idea of the insubstantiality of neutrinos .
28 So that 's me got four and I 've got another five to do and I had a telephone call from field controller in Edinburgh last night and I really do think I do n't know how I managed to keep my tongue still .
29 This amphibian is not totally aquatic , as some fishkeepers have been led to believe and it requires a large , dry area on which it can climb to feed and preferably burrow .
30 She wanted to cry and she imagined the tears flowing down her cheeks and dripping on to her jersey and how he 'd probably say that she should go somewhere else to cry .
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