Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adv] [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two men struck a deal and subsequently Trevaskis took a 50 per cent partnership in a new company to import ‘ Laura Ashley ’ fabrics and make them up locally according to agreed patterns and styles . |
| 2 | Has it not possibly occurred to Mr Marshall that , without the audit , one could reduce one 's prices significantly and , if one is efficient , make rather more profit , providing clients with a service that they in fact desire ? |
| 3 | So by the time he was fourteen he could speak it well enough to ask to be sent to normal high school in Paris . |
| 4 | Professionals have training and experience which are valuable in planning services ; ignoring them almost always leads to an inferior service . |
| 5 | Will my right hon. Friend tell me how best to reply to a constituent of mine who has recently completed a course of treatment at Broomfield hospital in Chelmsford and who tells me that the nurses and doctors were fantastic , that the treatment was magnificent and that he is fed up to the back teeth with the constant efforts of the Labour party to undermine and talk down the achievements of the health service ? |
| 6 | The women who come to refuges do so because marriage is unbearable and they have no resources to give them anywhere else to run to . |
| 7 | The revellers in the foyer , who included some of the more anxious in decorous nightwear , were shooed upstairs to bed by Alastair Goodlad , once the Party 's deputy Chief Whip , whose butlerian rotundity made him quite admirably suited to the task . |
| 8 | is now nitpicking and harassing me to a degree which might lead me yet again to write to my MP . |
| 9 | It took her much longer to get to Leominster Gardens , where Bob lived , than she had expected . |
| 10 | She sends her very best wishes to everyone . |
| 11 | In the Sonnet just quoted , Britten breaks off the rhythm only near the end , with a few sustained chords , before taking it up again to come to a strong conclusion . |
| 12 | And all four of them discovered the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and his brand of Transcendental Meditation — and took it seriously enough to fly to India and study at his feet in Rishikesh ( John and George stuck it out for two months , Paul for one and a homesick Ringo for only ten days ) . |
| 13 | " Why do you very rarely speak to him ? " |
| 14 | So I used to do both jobs , sign you in then rush to the bar . |
| 15 | He would ride the boy on his shoulders or shove him roughly aside according to his mood . |
| 16 | Despite her indulgence of him , she had kept him very much tied to her apron strings and had had great difficulty in relinquishing him to a wife . |
| 17 | The thought that she had failed him so awkwardly added to the weight of her pain . |
| 18 | Those international lawyers , such as Brownlie , who are sceptical about the legality of nuclear weapons use , but who at the same time take a practical view of the law and see it as closely related to what states actually do , are in something of a bind , as they do not hesitate to acknowledge . |