Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [to-vb] [pers pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So what Alastair 's saying is information technology er gives us the opportunity to give you information down er a telephone line . |
| 2 | Each panel would have a chunk of joist at the base to give it weight , and the rest of the studwork would be of timber . |
| 3 | Yet had he decided the reverse it was already clear that the League of Nations lacked the will-power to say him nay . |
| 4 | WHETHER today 's Greeks do better than poor Sisyphus and Tantalus will be decided chiefly by the success or failure of the attempt to stop them being tax-dodgers . |
| 5 | So in this area , the attempt to impose US guidelines on competition were reversed . |
| 6 | It 's hard to turn the key to lock me door . |
| 7 | Of course , she should have somehow found the nerve to divorce him ages ago . |
| 8 | Traditionally , city centres always included food shops and they complement stores of other kinds ; if they are presently deterred by high rates it might be worthwhile for the Council to offer them concessions ; the benefits to the public and the city would surely outweigh the loss of revenue . |
| 9 | The event 's organisers would like the council to award it £1 million this year . |
| 10 | And after that we shipped — me and another feller , an Irish feller , a Belfast man — we shipped in an owd schooner called the Mount Blairie : it was an old thing that had been ashore at — in a little shipyard ; and they 'd done her up during the winter to give them men a job . |
| 11 | From the age of seven I had always wanted to be a missionary and I well remember my mother returning from a missionary meeting in the village to hear me say that was what I hoped one day to be . |
| 12 | The temporary success of Greenpeace in preventing the dumping of noxious wastes in the North Sea by actually boarding the dumping vessel is an object lesson to those still locked in the non-violent action syndrome , like those in the campaign to close US bases in Australia and the anti-uranium movement . |
| 13 | Sometimes you have to be more patient and allow the universe to bring you joy and abundance in its own way , and in its own time . |
| 14 | Sometimes , when he was writing , she hung around in the conservatory to keep him company . |
| 15 | A group of children were using some workcards designed by the teacher to give them experience of working independently and helping one another over difficulties . |
| 16 | ‘ There 's something I need to say to you , Dad , and I 'll never have the courage to do it face to face . |
| 17 | Then he had the cheek to tell me Joey erm Joey had a lot of skeletons in his . |
| 18 | Paul Reece pulled off the save of the match to make it Wolves 0 ; Oxford 1 . |
| 19 | ‘ I am Signora Romagnoli , ’ Wilson said calmly , ‘ and I am your landlady who you called in the middle of the night to give you food and there it is . ’ |
| 20 | But out of pity for Bouchard 's poverty , Geoffrey prevailed on the abbot to allow him possession of the mill for the rest of his life . |
| 21 | I will go even further while I am in an expansive mood and say that we often look at what happens north of the border to give us inspiration and we then follow . |
| 22 | When it reached about 3ft I pinched out the top to make it branch , which it did most satisfactorily . |
| 23 | We 're negotiating with the polytechnic to give them permission to build a hostel on the John Boscoe playing field . |
| 24 | Of course today there are no real guns — only a radio ground station playing the role to give us practice in procedures . |
| 25 | He especially liked to be taken to the home of a couple , to sleep securely between them if they 'd let him , and then in the morning to ask them questions about their house , about the furniture which they 'd chosen together . |
| 26 | The oppressed people of Israel cry to the Lord to send them deliverance . |
| 27 | Trust the colonel to give him chapter and verse . |
| 28 | Look at us now , on this wild heathland with only the grass and the sky to keep us company . |
| 29 | A huge head it had on it with rows of teeth and this long sleek green body with all the fins sort of pushed down towards the tail to give it speed in the water I suppose . |
| 30 | We shall expect the Spirit to bring us assurance that we are indeed the sons of God , and conversely we shall be careful not to deny that any Christian people , any sons of the heavenly Father , possess the Spirit of adoption . |