Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [prep] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed to Talbot that Van Gelder was going to find himself in something of a quandary . |
| 2 | The presbyterie taking the heignanseness of the crime in their consideration doe in odium fanti at terrorum allis appoint Mr. David Sympson his parish minister publickly to rebuke him for it before the congregation and then to take occasion to admonish the people against the evil of such practices and they recommend to the Baillie of Ila to put the acts of parliament against charmers in execution . |
| 3 | The presbyterie taking the heignanseness of the crime in their consideration doe in odium fanti at terrorum allis appoint Mr. David Sympson his parish minister publickly to rebuke him for it before the congregation and then to take occasion to admonish the people against the evil of such practices and they recommend to the Baillie of Ila to put the acts of parliament against charmers in execution . |
| 4 | He peered across the tavern , watching a group of men busy baiting a relic-seller who claimed he had Aaron 's beard in a sack and was prepared to sell it to them for a few coins . |
| 5 | At first I was bitterly jealous of Rachel and only wanted Jacob to love me more than her to win something from her for the first time in my miserable life , but by the end of that blissful week , I found that I , unfortunately , had also fallen victim to his charms . |
| 6 | Yelping in alarm as he tipped her sideways and moved swiftly to trap her beneath him on the sofa , she stared up at him in shock . |
| 7 | It was n't until I threatened to bring my men down to discuss it with him at the Swan Inn that he had a change of mind . |
| 8 | The first is to find a timber merchant or cabinet maker who is prepared to machine it for you to the pattern you want — likely to be expensive . |
| 9 | It was a lot easier it was a lot easier when they used to give them to you over the counter . |
| 10 | tried to put them at our at the cost of our of the work for quite a while . |
| 11 | ( It may be inquired whether , if the wife knew of the VD , the law permitted the husband to infect her with it on the grounds that she consented to his occasioning actual bodily harm to her . |
| 12 | Seven years ago , she had allowed a man from Christ Church to do it to her on a sofa during a Commem ball , and really she had not liked it . |
| 13 | He was therefore use to give up the leadership of the BDA at this juncture and to leave it to someone of the new generation to embrace politics in order to achieve a better deal for the deaf . |
| 14 | I tipped the wink to a pal of mine who 's big in local government , and he managed to fix it for someone from the public health authority to write a letter full of threats and demands and legal gobbledegook . |
| 15 | Commenting on whether a cake had been promised to Miss Dodd , she said : ‘ We were prepared to give it to her as a donation but she cancelled the order . ’ |
| 16 | Courtship is marked by a compulsive desire to share everything about yourself with the person you love , and marriage usually begins the same way . |
| 17 | Formula feeds without lactose are available , and your doctor may be able to prescribe one for you for a time , if your baby has had gastroenteritis and continues to have colic or diarrhoea afterwards . |
| 18 | The first things Dipesh Shah did when he became managing director of BP Solar in March 1991 were to set a target for the next two years and to articulate it to everyone in the company . |
| 19 | If your purchase is to be a gift , the assistant will normally offer to giftwrap it for you for no extra charge . |
| 20 | We can then use unc to transform it to something of the form unc The unc that no longer appear as input variables among the unc still appear in the declaration and in |
| 21 | When someone gives you some information , try to repeat it to yourself in the same way it was given to you . |
| 22 | All it is yeah , is a project yeah that six peo me and other five other people yeah in the school were asked to do yeah for a university which is studying ch er children 's language yeah and what it 's like and basically I 've got to carry it on me for a weekend yeah , record loads of different conversations on ten different tapes |
| 23 | In most cases the point of looking at style in this way is to connect it with something outside the text . |
| 24 | Very well , convey my congratulations to General Froebe — I 'm sure he 'll be anxious to convey his to me for the sake of protocol . ’ |
| 25 | It would be pointless it would be messy it would be inelegant and it would create the problem of the relations between the two , you 'd have to have transformations to get you from one to the other . |
| 26 | But she was the first in recent memory — for Gentle the past had a way of evaporating after about ten years — who had conspired to remove everything from him in the space of half a day . |
| 27 | Branson already knew enough about Laker , his entrepreneurial flair , his reputation as the champion of ‘ the ordinary man ’ in air travel , to regard him as something of a hero . |
| 28 | He was using her to advance himself somehow , for the sake of his family , and he intended to bind her to him before the party , so that he could demand her total loyalty . |
| 29 | She never shared her inner thoughts with anyone , not even her friends at school who had come to regard her as something of an enigma . |
| 30 | Her father 's belief that people made their own luck was true , Cora-Beth thought , when by lunchtime the following day Harry had finished his business with the architect and her ruse to have him to herself for a few hours paid off . |