Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [pers pn] [be] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had a word in their ears and it was left to the hospital to deal with them , ’ said the police spokesman . |
| 2 | GCHQ have analysed the signals and they are designed to completely confuse the whole system controlled from Bacton . ’ |
| 3 | One of those who will be first to move , Mrs Jean Cooke , a secretary in the Sales Department , said , ‘ I have seen the plans for new offices and it is going to be super . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's part of the pattern , Charles ; society disintegrates before our eyes and we are expected to paper over the cracks . ’ |
| 5 | There were hundreds of companies coming to us for funds and they were meant to be writing their business plans properly and cogently . |
| 6 | The first time I wore this , I 'd had it for about two months and I was talking to Princess Margaret , but as we spoke , I could see she was following my hand with her eyes . |
| 7 | She 'd only been at school 2 months and she was found to be blind . |
| 8 | Teachers felt that this text offered them many opportunities for the development of the understanding of parental roles and it was thought to be a book from which all sorts of related topic work could be derived . |
| 9 | Time buckles and I am skewered to this one moment . |
| 10 | We are creating a business which can think on its feet and we are committed to building a company of quality . ’ |
| 11 | He told her that she would not be able to let go of him , that his power was deep , deep in her bones and she was bound to him for ever . |
| 12 | He says it 's going to get bigger and bigger and alot of our pasture land is going to be cannabis plantations and they 're going to be legal ones because they 've been granted licences to possess and grow it . |
| 13 | We 've cut all ties with our old lives and we 're going to be together from now on , ’ she said defiantly . |
| 14 | ‘ People were literally running for their lives but I was rooted to the spot . ’ |
| 15 | Had a slight operation and er I did n't know about it until today so erm er Paul 's going to offer him our good wishes and we 're going to be , I 'm told he 's home again and it 's , it 's only quite a minor operation and he 's quite well and that er hopefully will be back again next week . |
| 16 | Well this morning I were listening to er Roy Normal on the , the Welsh radio programmes and he was talking to er various people and he told one young woman who had been in a certain area in world where they were filming , er and she 'd gone to see this filming with Alan Ladd and all these , you know , and anyway she goes she went into the er local chip shop and the er assistant for the film , the labourer came in and ordered , ordered forty packet of chips and er and he was saying oh it were for film you see , so she thought I 'd go down and see what 's happening , so she went down to the pier end and they were all er doing the performance and er , the producer says now all you people there , he says that 's interested , he said would you all go onto the pier , he says and talk he says and read , make it , you know make it interesting , so they all piled onto the pier and er , they filmed what they had to film with the pier in the background and all the people that were on the pier , so this girl was on the film you know , then after it had finished , he thanked everybody , he says now then do n't walk off the pier , he says will you as you 're going off walk past this , the table at the end there and their bloke give them three pound ten a piece |
| 17 | But to her they merely served as spurs and she was used to those . |
| 18 | ‘ My surveyors have drawn up the plans and it 's going to be virtually mid-centre of the site . ’ |
| 19 | His furniture was seized by the bailiffs and he was reduced to a demeaning game of hide and seek with process servers which eventually ended when they caught up with him in Belfast . |
| 20 | Rudston 's history goes back a very long way to Neolithic times and it is believed to be the oldest inhabited village in England . |
| 21 | At the start of the Malvinas war he is with the Escuadrilla de Ataque based at Punta Indio , flying Aermacclu-339As and he is sent to Puerto Argentina — ’ |
| 22 | I mean if you , you 're the burglar now and you 're planning to break in a house , and you 're looking around at the different houses and you 're trying to , one of the many things you 're trying to do is to establish whether they 're in or out . |
| 23 | He crouched down behind the service hatch in an instinct not to be seen , and then the alcohol stirred in his veins and he was emboldened to be rebuking , lecturing them about making a noise and then , with extreme lordliness , cooking them a very bad meal at no charge . |
| 24 | They followed as far as possible in the time available , the practices and procedures of the permanent parliamentary boundary commission , indeed of the six members of the committees , five were members of the parliamentary boundary commissions and they were appointed to the committees after consultation with the opposition parties . |
| 25 | The partnership was successfully liquidated over a period of years and it was left to John Baring to rebuild the business in the form of a limited company . |
| 26 | ‘ After the Smiths I had been playing the guitar for a few years and I was listening to things like Aztec Camera and Orange Juice . |
| 27 | Many aquarium shops will sell these terrestrial plants but they are meant to be used as marginals outside the tank or in a paludarium . |
| 28 | The former could cover all cases but it is felt to be more appropriate to use fairness in the context of , for example , company inspectors , or immigration officers . |
| 29 | ‘ I used to do women 's programmes but I was moved to the God slot . |
| 30 | Some sympathetic mothers covered it with bandages and bulging dressings and I was driven to the doctors ' where I was given a more impressive bandage , leaving my finger looking the size of a small banana . |