Example sentences of "the [noun] [to-vb] [pers pn] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sort of people who wanted a house that size these days did not want it in the high street of a market town , and this young woman surely would not have the income to keep it up . |
| 2 | The court was told Terence Jowers had his own grievance against Mr Archer and had taken the opportunity to sort it out . |
| 3 | A second attractive Beckmann , ‘ Blick auf das Meer ’ from a private collection in Switzerland was withdrawn from the auction to give the former owner , the Wallraf-Richartz Museum of Cologne the opportunity to buy it back . |
| 4 | ‘ I suppose it 's to enable blasted Bertha to remain in it — just when you have the opportunity to get her out . |
| 5 | One was that it was horrible and she would always regret it if she made love to Tom only because she was drunk , the other that here was the opportunity to get it over , make a start , break the ice . |
| 6 | Sally Gilbert-Smith and Ruth Gilbert from Cornwall — Sally , 28 , who works in Lloyds Bank in Newquay , entered herself and her mother for the competition because it seemed like the perfect opportunity for the experts to show them off to their full potential . |
| 7 | General Dynamics and McDonnell Douglas , builders of the super-expensive A-12 fighter for the United States Navy , want the Pentagon to bail them out of a possible $2.7 billion overrun on the development and production of A-12s . |
| 8 | He could still recall the sodden weight of the man , hanging from the iron rings upon the outer wall — the struggle to haul him up — the rush of water spewed from the gaping mouth as they turned him over … . |
| 9 | The problems that arise from the development of a new crop on a research station and the attempts to recreate it in economically and environmentally diverse farms outside can in this way be avoided ( CIMMYT 1980 , Biggs , 1981 ) . |
| 10 | ‘ The new owner of the Enderley estate is a hard man , or he 'd never have the heart to turn her out , even if he does want her cottage for a gamekeeper . |
| 11 | But I have n't the heart to drive him back to the warren . |
| 12 | Driving home in the minibus , she offered Silas an apologetic smile as she admitted , ‘ I had n't the heart to throw them out . ’ |
| 13 | So in the end we got a mortgage from a building society , and my parents gave us the money to do it up . |
| 14 | I 'm not against the principle as I said when I came , when I was on the Council previously , when this was first hanging about , that there 's little doubt about it as , it 's a good policy , but will we get the money to carry it out . |
| 15 | After whaling died out , there was cod fishing and , in the eighteenth century especially , piracy , when the Atlantic corsairs of Bayonne and Saint-Jean made mighty profits for the local burghers who put up the money to fit them out . |
| 16 | We come now to vote on this addendum to deliverance n number four and , since it is in print , we do n't need to ask the clerk to read it out for us , so therefore as , ask those who wish to vote for this addendum would you please stand . |
| 17 | Being anxious is normal , the next stage though is to admit the anxiety and to ask for the faith to see it through . |
| 18 | Wally 's dad had the contract to clear them out , sort out what could be sold off and junk the rest . |
| 19 | The decision to kill it off comes four months after BBC 1 controller Jonathan Powell admitted it was a ‘ pale version of its old self ’ . |
| 20 | Anyway I talked to Ann about this this morning and we 've come to the decision to leave it on because that 's what we did in the in the erm |
| 21 | When the Iraqis invaded Kuwait , the decision to drive them out was made for him . |
| 22 | Her children have disappointed and saddened her to the point where she has made the decision to rule them out of future considerations surrounding the throne . |
| 23 | The decision to wind it up coincided with Millar 's retirement , but owed more to the competition from the TUC 's own education department and the Workers Educational Association . |
| 24 | This is almost certainly because the decision to send them in during the later stages of the accident was political ( western-made robots might have been used instead , had the new Soviet leader , one Mikhail Gorbachev , been willing to let the West learn the extent of the disaster ) . |
| 25 | Zen preferred to think that some alert recruiting officer somewhere , realizing the appalling threat a disgruntled Gilberto would pose outside the law , had bent the rules to let him in . |
| 26 | ‘ And a fine , funny one it is too , if you 've the patience to take it in … ’ |
| 27 | He had laid by his sword , but he had a dagger still upon him , and managed to draw it and slash through the folds that smothered him ; and Norbury and Erpyngham and half a dozen others of his own people came plunging and splashing through the storm to help him out of these ominous grave-clothes . |
| 28 | ‘ I had ordered sandwiches by phone two minutes earlier and was about to leave the building to pick them up . |
| 29 | But the Pussy Posse both agree that the Femidom — or the ‘ Femy ’ as it 's known in Italy and Spain — gives women the freedom to put it in beforehand , leave it in afterwards . |
| 30 | ‘ It gives Queen Bees the freedom to put it in … and just let it be . ’ |