Example sentences of "[vb infin] [noun sg] [prep] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Philip Leapor had earlier been hostile to his daughter 's poetry fearing it was unprofitable but then left her at liberty , it was probably because she had convinced him that she could earn money with her pen . |
| 2 | When Dot heard the deep slow breathing of her mother sleeping , she was alone again and she was frightened . |
| 3 | Although householders may make money on their home , the great bulk of these assets clearly relate to commonplace forms of consumption property . |
| 4 | I know people who do make money from their knitting and they usually concentrate on a particular line . |
| 5 | Clearly the great advantage of thinking about your visual as well as your verbal behaviour is that you can choose visual behaviours which help rather than hinder progress towards your objective . |
| 6 | The data underline the fact that you are more likely to succeed with people if you think about your behaviour and select and use behaviours that help rather than hinder progress towards your objective . |
| 7 | Do you want marmalade on your toast ? ’ |
| 8 | It did n't exactly lend weight to my decision to realize , when I 'd finished making it , that I was standing outside a second-hand jeweller 's looking at a selection of gold rings . |
| 9 | I shall make mention of her reading of the story of Ruth , suggesting however that that story does not escape patriarchal parameters . |
| 10 | ‘ If you are determined to go , my lady — ’ she said ‘ — and in your place , I dare say I should do likewise — I shall first seek permission on your behalf of Sir James Tyrell , the new constable . ’ |
| 11 | Erm so so that is possible it it actually does mention on the fourteen pen it does erm where you can surrender part of your pension to provide a a pension for your spouse or dependant after death . |
| 12 | You need to establish a list of goals and decide when and in what order you will introduce change to your eating habits . |
| 13 | He was a great lover of country sports — but only after seeing that his business was running efficiently did he allow himself to relax and seek pleasure with his gun , his rod or on horseback . |
| 14 | Stirling reasoned that if the Germans did continue their attack and captured Cairo , the whole unit could retreat south from its desert base , thus avoiding capture . |
| 15 | But the majority of service providers will also have appointed a group of dealers to sell and install equipment on their behalf . |
| 16 | You do n't need help with your practice — I gather the small-animal work is thriving . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I would imagine Bob may need help with his album , but I 'm having far too much fun in the playground and getting pissed . |
| 18 | An example of this was given in Chapter 4 , concerning female users with children who did not seek help from their GP because they assumed a direct link between the GP and social services . |
| 19 | Sun Microsystems Inc has been closed out of a few significant contracts lately because it could n't tick off the Motif and Distributed Computing Environment boxes on the bids : the Common Open Systems Environment will at least get it back in the running for a $20m deal at Boeing Co that requires Motif and Sun insiders reckon that the company will now include Motif in its price list almost immediately — the best guess is that SunSoft will offer reasonably priced Motif upgrades for Solaris 1 . |
| 20 | If the break-clause is of this kind , the party entitled to break may equally need flexibility in his choice of time at which to exercise the power . |
| 21 | Should the artist win approval for his project this April or May , it is conceivable that ‘ Wrapped Reichstag ’ might be realised in August or September 1994 . |
| 22 | Let me add here erm I do n't want to say that we will duplicate what is happening , but if there 's going to be any reform to be done it is open and you can introduce reform into our constitution once you have the parliament back again and the Emir and such reform can be introduced . |
| 23 | That 's the way he wanted it and his own bosses at American International Pictures made further changes through the difficulties they anticipated in getting the film distributed to the cinemas ; it was quite probable that it would arouse backlash over its drug content , although , as John Baxter wrote in his review of Sixties films , it was one of those films that exposed with skill the psychological moral pressures vexing society . |
| 24 | Because the computers on which most desktop publishing software runs are capable of displaying colour it seems logical to the software developer that they should introduce colour into their desktop publishing programs . |
| 25 | Students will need to be piloted through the maze of attainment targets , and in the fourth and fifth years particularly they will need advice on which core and foundation subjects to follow to GCSE and which to follow for what the Act coyly describes as ‘ a reasonable time ’ . |
| 26 | Only the fear that he might win custody of their son Robert held the marriage together . |
| 27 | Can I move on to ten which no doubt will excite comment from my left . |
| 28 | Because if you do n't a fresh ambition or optimistic plan will fall flat on its face . |
| 29 | ‘ But many years ago , a wise old man said fall in love and you may fall flat on your face , but pick yourself up and rush towards the next one , knees bleeding , face bruised , arms open , heart on fire . ’ |
| 30 | Glamorgan is way up on Devil 's Peak , and the sight of misty blue clouds hovering over its rocky peaks , so low that you feel that you could touch them , is so awe-inspiring that one feels all it needs is God 's voice thundering from the sky to make you fall flat on your face and worship . |