Example sentences of "[to-vb] a [noun sg] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Colin Campbell strode through the lengthening shadows , pausing now and then to try a door handle before moving on . |
| 2 | You seem to be sort of trying to encourage a guilt complex by this , this idea put forward by the conservatives , which is not the case , people should not feel guilty in trying to do the benefit that they can to benefit the people of Wiltshire . |
| 3 | In 1698 he equipped two ships to explore the Mississippi ; he also tried to encourage a Huguenot settlement on the Gulf of Mexico , and to float a joint-stock company to exploit Florida . |
| 4 | One woman refused to accept a support worker as a night sitter ; the development officer said ‘ she could n't accept a stranger in the house at night ’ . |
| 5 | It was February 1979 : a group of four unions had refused to accept a pay limit of 5 per cent imposed by the Government on all public service workers . |
| 6 | Sometimes , a conveyancer may be asked to accept a vesting assent as a root of title , but this is not very satisfactory . |
| 7 | Mr Milosevic , blamed by the West for the fighting which swept the northern Balkans following the breakup of Yugoslavia , helped Mr Vance get the Bosnian Serbs to accept a peace plan during talks in Geneva in January . |
| 8 | A management spokesman said that the union had refused to accept a peace package as a whole , while the union negotiators claimed a lock-out of workers was in progress . |
| 9 | A little later the Lord Mayor made a charming brief speech and proposed a toast to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother before asking Her Majesty to accept a birthday gift from the City . |
| 10 | She was convinced her 18-year-old son 's pop dreams would come to nothing and pressured him to accept a job offer from a bank . |
| 11 | But they might be forced to accept a reconstruction package by another route . |
| 12 | NORMA Major is forging ahead with her plans to write a film script from Audrey Erskine Lindop 's novel The Way To The Lantern . |
| 13 | Basically , they wanted to write a press release about me and distribute it to all the local newspapers , Radio Cornwall , Television South West and the BBC regional news programme , Spotlight . |
| 14 | To write a feature story on the Inaugural First Flight it was arranged for me to join the westbound plane at Moose Jaw and telegraph back the story from Calgary . |
| 15 | Kenneth Wilkie , asked in the early 1970s to write a feature article on van Gogh for the Holland Herald , has done his best to show that Vincent was the father of Sien 's unborn child . |
| 16 | " The Boy and the Monkey " , and had been asked to write a court report about the trial in that story . |
| 17 | He had , he told him , to write a Voice column about him , and his act . |
| 18 | Basically what I wanted to do , was to write a love story with the question could one honour the expression of the beloved , the language of the other , in the same way one could honour the expression of one 's own . |
| 19 | He wanted them to write a television show for him . |
| 20 | Tate ( Chichester , 3rd edition 1983 ) , which , for all its apparently limiting title is , in fact , ‘ a study of the records of parochial administration in England ’ ; Town Records ( Chichester 1983 ) and Village Records ( Chichester 1982 ) , both by John West , are further important works of a basic kind , as is How to Write a Parish History by R.B. Pugh ( 1954 ) . |
| 21 | I thought I wanted to write a situation comedy with a woman in the lead . |
| 22 | Thus Guide uses a troff style of mark-up : our above example of a Book-title would be stored in a source file as Such a representation makes it easy to write a UNIX script to , say , extract all the Book-title s from a Guide document , sort them into order , and delete duplicates . |
| 23 | The ward sister will be required to write a ward report on the student , and this must be discussed fully with her . |
| 24 | However , using the information about the clone order from hybridisation data it will be much easier to infer a restriction map of a genome ( and verify a hybridisation map in parallel ) from these results than to construct the complete two single-digest plus one double-digest map from individual restriction maps of each clone . |
| 25 | They were due to meet a Bradman XI at Bowral the day after South Africa were playing there in a World Cup warm-up match . |
| 26 | This was to meet a navy habit of sitting ‘ on the deck ’ when not otherwise engaged , the floor often being preferred to seats . |
| 27 | The county council is facing a serious cash crisis and needs to reduce staff by about 400 to meet a spending cut-back of £12m this financial year . |
| 28 | One of the more controversial obligations relating to margin is the requirement that a firm must close out a customer 's open position where he fails to meet a margin call after a period of five business days . |
| 29 | The route then heads west over Gerrick Moor to meet a moor road at White Cross and on through Westworth Wood into Guisborough Wood . |
| 30 | As we started the long walk back across the tundra to Camp Bell , we decided that there was nothing for it but to establish a base camp at the foot of the cliffs . |