Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mestizo looked up to see Trent watching him . |
| 2 | Historic Scotland listed it as being of international importance , but the National Heritage Memorial Fund decided not to support plans to preserve it . |
| 3 | But the fact that they see the same pl face See not everybody wants to talk to a policeman to report crime do they ? |
| 4 | Brooke-Rose used her facility for light , clever story-telling as a sort of sugar-coating with which to induce readers to swallow her less palatable conceptual material , but in most cases the pill was never digested because readers were accustomed to ‘ serious ’ novels being concerned with morality . |
| 5 | I talk to them about the choices they 've made which led them to offend , and help them to find strategies to avoid it in the future , ’ she explains . |
| 6 | Simply to smell Coca-Cola made her , she said , violently sick . |
| 7 | An ability to accept change singles her out as a leader . |
| 8 | The EEC Directive on Less Favoured Areas seeks to identify DRAs principally , though not entirely , from an agricultural point of view , and to establish policies to assist them . |
| 9 | Here a hypothesis on regional differentiation , sometimes coinciding with social differentiation is attractive , although it is very difficult indeed to provide data to support it . |
| 10 | So Schaffer sat with a stack of paperback books from Hamilton 's corner rack , and occasionally tried to catch Hennessy to pump him for information . |
| 11 | You had to frighten kids to make them behave , but there was no need to scare them too much . |
| 12 | Mum followed them and I too decided to find Frankie to tell him the news after I had cleared away the crocks . |
| 13 | Poisoning of waterways is hideous enough ; but the ability of many organisms to concentrate toxins makes it even more so . |
| 14 | But Creggan could not escape , for he remembered Minch 's command to try ant help her , and anyway he could feel the same longings she felt . |
| 15 | Then she ran to find Ferdinando to tell him and they embraced and it was he who said , ‘ She is an angel ! ’ of Mrs Browning and Wilson realised she had expressed not a word of gratitude . |
| 16 | Time and again Lear tried to tempt Gould to visit him in Rome ; always he pleaded for a letter : ‘ I am anxious to hear from you … ; |
| 17 | That would limit his amusements , but nevertheless he was confident in his ability to find purposes to suit him , enthusiasms to pursue , people to relish … |
| 18 | This neatly matches the region 's external debt and , says David Forrest — underwriting director of the London-based political risk insurer EIGA — ‘ we have to encourage investors to give it the ability to earn the foreign exchange to repay that debt . ’ |
| 19 | One note of warning : if you think of Sherlock Holmes as being an historical figure ( and it 's hard not to , so lifelike was Conan Doyle 's portrayal ) do n't try to write stories bringing him to life again . |
| 20 | ( Enter HAMLET behind , crossing the stage , reading a book — as he is about to disappear GUIL notices him . ) |
| 21 | But the paper must be dealt with and you need to find ways to master it , before it masters you . |
| 22 | And it 's not easy to find ways to solve them . |
| 23 | He was the first High Commission for England in England , said , You come from , she says , Yes , he says , You do n't happen to know Jack do you ? |
| 24 | Hypocrisy of this kind derives from the agent 's conscience telling him of his evil , while his desire not to appear evil causes him to feign goodness . |
| 25 | One hesitates over publicising these things for fear of sparking imitations , but you 're going to read about it somewhere so it might as well be here — over the past few weeks it has become clear that setting up telescopes to watch people tapping their numbers into automatic teller machines and then scavenging for discarded receipts bearing the account number is a really outdated way of defrauding banks and their customers — these days , you set up a bogus teller machine of your own and record the card details as the customer keys in the number : in the latest instance , a gang in Manchester , Connecticut set up a mobile teller machine in the Buckland Hills Mall Associated Press reports , sabotaged the other machines in the shopping mall to encourage people to use it , and later wheeled the machine away and debriefed it on all its card secrets , using the data to make up counterfeit cards which were subsequently used to withdraw cash from the accounts in the New York area ; moral — stick to machines you know . |
| 26 | And to encourage people to work they would make them fill in a job-sheet saying how many forms they had booked in . |
| 27 | The Foundation is always looking for others who can demonstrate an equal commitment to total quality to join it as full members , affiliates or subscribers . |
| 28 | Failure to trust God leaves us in despair and ultimately leads to the grave . |
| 29 | I gave up trying to find excuses to calm her and tried to concentrate on my ironing , hoping against hope that you would yet arrive . |
| 30 | There is thus no doubt that on the older authorities the courts have refused to review by way of certiorari the decision of a visitor even though they were prepared to grant mandamus to require him to act or to prohibit him from acting in excess of jurisdiction . |