Example sentences of "[pron] [to-vb] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Solicitors will not need to be reminded that for them to continue to act despite a conflict of interest is a breach of their duty to the court . |
| 2 | They sold their assets — empty sites , empty schools , council houses — in the hope this would permit them to continue to build with the money . |
| 3 | He stands in the doorway , forcing me to continue dripping in the hall , and says : |
| 4 | Poverty , he defined as ‘ having no surplus ’ , i.e. having the bare essentials much of the time , but nothing to spare to provide for a crisis such as unemployment , sickness or death in the family . |
| 5 | And er erm they saw me on the you know television programme and they asked me to go go to the school and |
| 6 | ( Stone 1988 : 246 ) ( " Though he did what one would normally find inconceivable for someone to risk doing in a city full of idols … " ) |
| 7 | All it needed was someone to go looking for the jack , find their hands curling round them and start asking why … |
| 8 | In this case , they suggest , the hearer is encouraged to think of all the implicatures that the speaker could reasonably have expected someone to have derived from the proposition that his childhood days are gone , and then assume that there are still further implicatures that the speaker wants to back . |
| 9 | The possibility that we belong to such a so-called noumenal realm ( that is , a realm of things in themselves ) in our true being , also suggests dimly how it can be possible that ultimately we are free agents , who can cause ourselves to act according to the moral law , whatever the pressures upon us , in spite of the fact that at the level of appearance we are simply parts of the natural order of cause and effect , and as such merely animals impelled by our instinctive desires |
| 10 | Contemporary popular music , in fact , with its fine tuning of genre mutations and blurrings and its rapid responsiveness to demographics , might be a more productive place than popular cinema from which to start thinking about the processes of television genre . |
| 11 | The following morning a person who was out with his gun , in expectation of falling in with some sort of wild fowl , perceiving an appearance rather uncommon , ventured to approach the spot ; upon his coming up the dog got off the body , and after repeatedly shaking himself to get disentangled from the accumulated snow , encouraged the sportsman ( a Mr. Finch ) , by actions of the most significant nature , to come near the side of his master . |
| 12 | That capacious subject he considered himself to have found in the stream which rises at the spring called Lady 's Fountain , and flows through Holford Combe and Holford Glen on its short journey to the sea at Kilve . |
| 13 | When I was younger they used to say if I ever did want to go to bed with somebody to ask to go on the Pill . |
| 14 | So he 'd say , ‘ I 'd like you to imagine going into a recording studio , you 've never met the band in your life , you 're going to do a session for them and you 're going to be paid very well and they 're all on Acid and they 're playing rockabilly . |
| 15 | Mr Major praised his work yesterday and , in a reply to Mr Garel-Jones , said : ‘ It is characteristic of you to wish to see through the legislation you have been working on , and it is what your colleagues would have expected of you . |
| 16 | ‘ I told you to keep going in the same direction . |
| 17 | Then look at the five-day exercise on the senses : this has enabled you to start writing with the knowledge you derive from your whole body , rather than merely the abstract , visual knowledge you adduce through your eyes . |
| 18 | Er without being an actuary I say to myself that 's a pretty magical thing you 've done and then it causes you to start looking at the monetary background of all of that an and again I I 'm , I 'm speaking here largely on what actuarial advice we are beginning to receive . |
| 19 | The Centre does nothing magical , nothing unscientific , nothing really extraordinary , it merely helps you to start filtering off the oil and getting back to that crystal clear water . |
| 20 | By discussing children 's work and looking at it together I hope to help you to learn to discriminate between the good and the precocious . |
| 21 | Look how many times have I told you to stop swinging on the handle you 're tipping it over . |
| 22 | 'Now I would like you to stop focussing upon the word ‘ calm ’ and instead turn your attention to your right hand … we are now going to create a sensation of tension in your right hand by making a fist . |
| 23 | The emphasis is added here ; but even more emphatic was the JCS opinion that , in the event of an overt attack by organized Chinese communist forces in Indo-China , the US should not permit itself to become engaged in a general war with communist China although assistance short of the actual employment of US military forces should be provided . |
| 24 | Similarly , the future lens cells can not detach from the sheet unless their CAMs change to allow them to let go of the neighbouring cells . |
| 25 | I tried everything to get rid of the extra weight with no success . |
| 26 | Relatively cheap methods of testing local ground conditions which have been researched by geomorphologists can act as useful warnings to engineers as to whether they are risking the kind of problems which now make the Trannon scheme , with hindsight , a questionable one to have undertaken in the first place . |
| 27 | The L.T.A. were represented by Barbara Davis who had come along to supervise the ‘ rating ’ of players to enable them to qualify to compete in the V.W. series tournaments during the summer . |
| 28 | During the terrifying 15-minute ride the Catholic mother of three recited decades of the rosary to herself to help get through the ordeal . |
| 29 | After a while she forced herself to stop wandering around the room and instead got into bed . |
| 30 | And that was why she was allowing herself to become sucked into a whirlpool of corruption which could destroy her career , or worse . |