Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [noun] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | City will be kicking themselves for allowing Cranfield to get back into the game , but the visitors must be given credit for a spirited second half performance . |
| 2 | In 1952 it adopted the practice of permitting deputies to stand in for the ministers : the deputies soon became permanent features , attending to all business except that deemed to be symbolically important . |
| 3 | We need to understand the position of the Sanhedrin , Jesus is really representing great changes in their tradition great a great revolution really and we know that what he was doing was was sort of getting Christianity to grow out of Judaism , but it meant that Judaism had to move to one side . |
| 4 | Incapable of leaving people to get along on their own breathing their own air , thinking their own thoughts . |
| 5 | They may be concerned with helping people to face up to unemployment and make choices for themselves , including the acceptance of alternatives to unemployment . |
| 6 | And anyway so we went to er over to Egypt and then it was when we came back and I I , the other morning on the radio they was talking about asking people to ring in about , I 've never rang in , I never bother ring , er how they spent their twenty first birthday . |
| 7 | As the Patients ' Association noted , the Charter was an important step in enabling patients to speak up for themselves as individuals outside the organisational framework of DHAs acting as " champions of the people " and GPs as the patient 's agent . |
| 8 | From here the route continues north , up through Hall Wood to reach Carron Crag , then north for ½ mile before turning south-east to arrive back at the centre . |
| 9 | Starfield and Mellits ( 1968 ) were successful in teaching 5-year-olds to hold on to their urine for as long as possible once a day for six months and enabled one-third of the children to become dry . |
| 10 | I 'll give you my home telephone number , and if you do n't find them until after I 've returned , and you 're not successful in persuading Suzie to go back to England , all I ask is that you let me know where I can contact her . |
| 11 | But she never did find out if he was successful in persuading Paula to go out with him now that he was free . |
| 12 | The old man made a series of ticks down the right-hand side of the buff form before telling Charlie to report back to the chap with the three white stripes . |
| 13 | " Chinese walls " too , apparently , prevented Harvard dealers from advising clients to sell out of Hilton Mining Shares , shortly before the share price virtually collapsed . |
| 14 | THE pathetic objections voiced by the Lords to allowing peerages to pass on through the female line really rammed home to me how outmoded this institution is . |
| 15 | The most commonly-used light source is a discharge lamp , generally with a collimating capillary which allows a pencil of light to escape into the sample region without permitting sample to flow back into the discharge . |
| 16 | But they set their sights a lot lower when it comes to getting Americans to tune in on television . |
| 17 | Publicity was directed to persuading people to switch off at peak times , and some Boards , notably the Eastern , banned sales of space heaters at their showrooms . |
| 18 | The Empire was not built by allowing things to get out of place . |
| 19 | A very few forward-looking companies follow up on these courses by allowing employees to cut down to a four-day week from six months before retirement , reducing again to a three-day week in the last three months . |
| 20 | Lewis , though , pushing apparent naivety to incredulous proportions , said : ‘ I could n't let the WBC down by allowing Bowe to duck out of the commitment he made . |