Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [pron] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had to mourn for her friends who died in the accident . |
| 2 | Somehow he had survived the attempted assassinations , the palace revolutions of his childhood , and was beginning to gather about him men who were willing to gamble their fortune with his , as well as others who were still not committed , and yet others who might , before he grew any stronger , take any chance that presented itself to push their own claims . |
| 3 | Yes , but when you , you have to shop for us lot it can , and loads and loads and loads |
| 4 | The extra pound a day for their film work did little to compensate for their tiredness which surely must have been as much due to under-nourishment as overwork . |
| 5 | Zambia , however , trying to compensate for whatever information they 'd picked up about hir , offered to entertain Nathan for the afternoon so that Roirbak could begin work with Ari . |
| 6 | If you were going to worry about her feelings you would n't have started the affair in the first place . ’ |
| 7 | and of course , as I say , being at Cambridge there was a little theatre there and er we used to see so many of the actors and actresses that used to come into our lives you see because there were five places on the station , for instance , there was the tea room adjoining the , there was a large kiosk , large kiosk one girl in there , you see , and er there was , then there was this large which is the biggest and then the dining room that , you see and er so and , and one year I , I wrote it down but erm , one year I remember we took forty four thousand pounds which was a lot of money and er , you see , well er I got on very well with the girls |
| 8 | ‘ When you asked me to come into your bedroom my heart was beating so fast I thought it was going to come leaping out ! ’ |
| 9 | He can play , if Wallace was more inclined to work WITH his partner they might strike more times ( he 's a selfish git ) . |
| 10 | In fact , Laura had refused to accept from her friend anything more than a small token sum towards the other girl 's rent . |
| 11 | As we have seen , it is difficult to know in what sense one may talk of an unselfconscious elite , and Bachrach and Baratz 's more limited point is the more cogent . |
| 12 | It 's difficult to know in what way you would actually set about doing this . |
| 13 | You 've go to know in your mind what you 're going to talk about . |
| 14 | the foresters attach to come before them men who work in their own ground , making ‘ hoes ’ to sow corn , although the King had no demesne there : and they say that they have made waste and purpresture if they do not their will for having peace ; from each man holding land they will have the skin of a lamb or a farthing , and they say that is their fee . |
| 15 | On the contrary , he had spent the hours of peril trying to establish in his mind his superiority to the abject cowardice of his companions , seeming more concerned with his own soul than with the fate of the helpless pilgrims on the Patna . |
| 16 | He nodded absently , his mind obviously elsewhere — nor was it difficult to guess in whose direction it had turned . |
| 17 | Such an appeal was not to be resisted , but first I had to tell Meehan that if I did look into his case , I must feel myself free to come to whatever conclusions my investigations led me , ‘ whether in your favour or not ’ . |
| 18 | Disabled applicants are encouraged to come to whichever campus they hope to study at , meet the staff from the Student Services Department and academic departments and weigh up the issues of facilities and ease of access for themselves . |
| 19 | Because I know what I 'm going to say to any kids who have the audacity to come to my house which they wo n't but erm and I 'm sure a lot of people do so the rest of the year we we 're encouraging children not to approach strangers and everything else and then this one day of the year or maybe two days or maybe the whole run-up from now until November the fifth you 've got kids begging on the street penny for the guy and all that sort of thing . |
| 20 | Before setting out the law , it is important to discover to what extent there exists any unifying principle or premiss which draws together the individual legal rules . |
| 21 | I 'd be interested to know on what authority he changes the rhythm at 1′12″ — 1′19″ in the Dante and omits the ties near the end of the B minor Sonata ( track 12 , from 3′41″ ) . |
| 22 | These are the questions which I sought to answer through my fieldwork which began in November , 1981 , as part of two research projects based at the University of York . |
| 23 | I would say : if you want to talk of my thinking it in such circumstances then the least misleading thing to say is that I think it in saying it . |
| 24 | Well it 's one thing to t to talk amongst your friends I suppose , and another one to be you know spontaneous when you 're in front of a huge crowd of people . |
| 25 | Our prayers tend to be mechanical or at best self-centred , and prayer in the Holy Spirit means allowing the Spirit of Christ to pray in us , to pour into our souls his overflowing life of Intercession . |
| 26 | He did not make any attempt to eliminate from his voice his complete disbelief in what he was saying . |
| 27 | In turn he made it clear that the directors wanted an opportunity to participate in whatever business they ended up in and that there was a realistic profits incentive . |
| 28 | The banks agree not to sell bonds below the issue price until the arranger of the issue is satisfied that the bulk of the deal has been sold , after which , members of the group are free to sell at whatever prices they wish . |
| 29 | But he did n't like to go against his grandmother who , in her grim fashion , had been kind to his dad at the last . |
| 30 | During this time , Liz had taken much of the responsibility for the day-to-day running of the business , while her mother had been staying at home to look after her husband who was in poor health . |