Example sentences of "[pers pn] [noun sg] [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I therefore continued to stand there awkwardly , waiting for my employer to give me permission to undertake the motoring trip . |
| 2 | Many such contracts are not sale contracts as such but are licence agreements ; this is particularly so with respect to computer software where the owner of the rights subsisting in the software grants licences to customers , giving them permission to use the software in return for a licence fee . |
| 3 | Three years ago — the day after Under Secretary Lehmann had been killed in the House by Tolonen — he had summoned the leaders of the House before him , and there , in the Purple Forbidden City where they had murdered his son , had granted them concessions , amongst them permission to build a generation starship . |
| 4 | We 're negotiating with the polytechnic to give them permission to build a hostel on the John Boscoe playing field . |
| 5 | It also gives me pleasure to rehearse a story clearly that I have thought about . |
| 6 | From the antislavery perspective this would also make them readier to assume the responsibilities of freedom . |
| 7 | It would be you responsibility to repair the pipe , or pay for all the water wasting away into your garden . |
| 8 | Who gave you permission to take a break ? ’ |
| 9 | More impressive are the two-metre leads , allowing you freedom to position the unit safely and conveniently . |
| 10 | If you wist to alter the car struturally , eg raise the roof to take a seated wheelchair passenger or change the doors to ramps , you would have to obtain a car through Car Chair , Gowrings or Widnes Car Centre Ltd , or buy the car on hire purchase . |
| 11 | I said well I 'll be quite honest mate , there 's two hundred people working in this factory and I said , if you think that e all the charge hands and the supervisors have got to come down and roll up you lot to get the job done I said you turn round and you think if you was in business , whatever it is you like to do , if you 're in business and you 've got an order and that order 's got ta be out by six o'clock tonight and you 've got ta grovel to your workers otherwise you 'd lose that order , I said what would you say ? |
| 12 | He gives them scope to do the deal , to become entrepreneurial . |
| 13 | The Foreign Office had only given him permission to join the Army on the understanding that he would return to Abyssinia when his leave expired . |
| 14 | In his resignation press conference Michael Heseltine complained explicitly about Mrs Thatcher 's style and performance as Prime Minister , claiming that she had acted unconstitutionally in refusing him permission to discuss the issue in Cabinet and in forbidding him to restate views he had publicly expressed in the past . |
| 15 | What he did n't say was that during his father 's last days in 1958 Tony gave him marijuana to ease the pain . |
| 16 | She was accustomed to exercise for , each morning for the past two weeks , Sharpe had saddled her at three o'clock , then ridden her south to watch the dawn break over the Sambre valley , but this morning , hearing the crackle of musketry to the east , he had ridden the mare much further than usual . |
| 17 | They had planned to hold him hostage to secure the resignation of the strongly pro-Noriega General Staff . |
| 18 | He was taken to hospital where doctors gave him charcoal to absorb the drug and sent him home to rest in a darkened room . |
| 19 | He is hoping a local farm owner will rent him space to run a boarding kennels and rescue side by side — one supporting the other . |
| 20 | The clear image of Curtis 's hostile face which flickered on the screen of his inner vision , sent a tide of rage surging through him , lending him strength to overcome the pain . |
| 21 | The Home Secretary was acting under clause 13(4) of the Licence and Agreement between him and the BBC and section 29(3) of the Broadcasting Act 1981 both of which gave him power to give the broadcasting authorities notice in writing requiring them to refrain from broadcasting any specified matter or classes of matter . |
| 22 | This gives him power to enjoy the income by virtue of subs ( 5 ) ( d ) [ now s742(2) ( d ) ] . |
| 23 | Jamie asked whether she could make it slightly later , giving him time to finish an essay that should have been completed during the summer vacation . |
| 24 | Re-stowing the rest of the sails gave him time to get the details straight in his head . |
| 25 | It was a gesture , Blanche thought , to allow him time to absorb the information . |
| 26 | The not very exacting demands of a theology degree gave him time to make a lot of useful Anglican friends . |
| 27 | It was at Leeds that he carne to realize the value of a game of golf in relaxing his players , and in 1913 he introduced a day 's golf each week as part of regular training . |
| 28 | Jimmy , a world of conjecture in his face , opened his mouth , and Leith thought it time to put a stop to his speculations before he went any further . |
| 29 | Is it time to consider the question ‘ do we need scrums ? ’ asks Clive Norling . |
| 30 | Is n't it time to consider the creation of a similar library where the data of computer-aided history are available for similarly free-ranging enquiry ? |