Example sentences of "[noun prp] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have sent for Stirling to report here on his return when I shall make the new procedures clear to him . |
| 2 | Does he think that we should employ 5,000 HMIs to carry out inspections , or does he prefer the Labour party 's solution — that only local councils should be allowed to inspect schools ? |
| 3 | Nobody invited Miss Honey to sit down so she chose a chair and sat down anyway . |
| 4 | The Spanish champions were beaten 3–2 by CSKA Moscow to go out 4–3 on aggregate . |
| 5 | The Spanish champions were beaten 3-2 by CSKA Moscow to go out 4-3 on aggregate . |
| 6 | The Spanish champions were beaten 3-2 by CSKA Moscow to go out 4-3 on aggregate . |
| 7 | In 1971 an agreement was signed with the British Channel Tunnel Company Ltd and the Société Française du Tunnel Sous la Manche to carry out the project on the basis of a mixture of risk capital and government guaranteed loans . |
| 8 | Caring for him became an almost full-time job because he could do so little for himself ; and it was difficult for Mary and Jim to go out together , especially as her father grew less able to get around , and he needed a great deal of help at home . |
| 9 | His confident , curving serve whistled over the net into the far corner of the court , leaving Murray to lunge futilely in its direction . |
| 10 | He looked so extraordinarily like Tom Cornelius that Nora glanced at once at Sarah to see how she responded . |
| 11 | However in 1956 Unwins listed only one geranium mixture , ‘ Zonale Mixed ’ , with instructions to sow in the autumn for flowers 12 months later , but now 22 varieties are included , along with many separate colours , most of which like the ‘ Multiblooms ’ , can be sown in March to flower just five months later in July . |
| 12 | Even more striking , 75% either oppose all territorial concessions or demand an election or referendum before making any , and 69% — with little difference between Labour and Likud voters — want all the Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria to remain permanently under Israeli rule . |
| 13 | Because Xtradrive requires a device driver , which means that it is a system level device , bypassing DOS and the BIOS to go straight to the hard disk would result in the swap file not benefiting from compression . |
| 14 | Three final assumptions permit Lucas to carry out his test . |
| 15 | It is , however , a worthwhile exercise to compare the Shipman 's Tale with these tales of Gower to see where Chaucer may have drawn the line between permissible and even useful scurrility in literature and unconscionable sin . |
| 16 | I would erm suggest that they go at Swindon to see how it 's done . |
| 17 | Alice took off the cotton dress which was what young mothers wore in Chelmsford to shop in , put on jeans and a black T-shirt , the kind of clothes she would always wear now , through an indefinitely stretching future . |
| 18 | The decisive response by the Kennedy administration to a potential missile gap and the Sino-Soviet crisis were the two main factors forcing Moscow to scale down its claims . |
| 19 | Councillors were flown to France to see a PWR in operation , to Torness to see how luxurious the workers , accommodation could be — an attraction to keep them on site and out of trouble . |
| 20 | Drawn forward by Cairns to drive well outside off , the catch Stewart gave was again straightforward . |
| 21 | His father brushed the chair he had been sitting on and , with a flourish , invited Madeleine to sit down . |
| 22 | DEC 's announcement that it would concentrate on OSF/1 only for the Alpha range made enough customers angry for DEC to go back to its business plan and think again . |
| 23 | Robin Child 's influence has gone far beyond the limits of the classroom and his Marlborough pupils : he has lectured widely , here and abroad , to teachers , art societies , art colleges , educationists , church audiences and schools ( some subsequently sending their own heads of department to Marlborough to see how it 's done ) on many aspects of art and art history , the philosophy of teaching and his own approach to it . |
| 24 | He invited Patrick to sit down in the hall and took him in detail through events from the moment the car had stopped in front of the house . |
| 25 | It consisted of a grey , with black tack ( ‘ Very vulgar , ’ said Ian to see how Julia would react ; she made no answer ) and a large handsome chestnut mare with good shoulders but long in the back and with that slightly dotty look in her eye usual in chestnut mares . |
| 26 | To be more accurate , I had gained dispensation from the CAA to carry out test-flights for the renewal of a C of A and from the PFA for the test-flight programme of a new homebuilt aircraft . |
| 27 | She needs to hide from reality but she also does n't want Mitch to see how old she is and the truth that she is hiding from : |
| 28 | Their minds being on Emma , they waited for Peggy to go on , but after placing a piece of wood on the fire she turned to them with a smile , saying , ‘ What about a drink ? ’ |
| 29 | This in turn encouraged Samsonov to drive farther to the west than originally intended , before turning northward , in the hope of encircling even greater numbers of Germans . |
| 30 | We have already been in touch with two GP practices in Middlesbrough to see how much of the medical history we can pick up , and shall be doing the same in Sunderland . |