Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [pron] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deng Xiaoping managed to stay alive and did not wish to wait for his own death before being given any credit . |
| 2 | ‘ I had to sell my share in Moffat Engineering , which lost me my chance to drive for them that year … ’ |
| 3 | She could do with being able to sew for her own sake . |
| 4 | And it was the thought of all the children who , like Danny might have experimented not knowing that they were dicing with death , that prompted David to try to stop any more parents having to go through his own agony . |
| 5 | Any other information that you wish to include for your own reference such as tension dial settings , type , colour and brand of yarns for example , can also be entered on the TENSIONS screen . |
| 6 | If … if , though , she does n't let you stay with them , then Mother will try to arrange for you some place else . |
| 7 | ‘ Would you expect me to remain after what that woman said of me ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I went home and got on with my work expecting them to come for me any day or night . ’ |
| 9 | And there is the all-important local pull , with staff and graduates keen to write for their own university press , strongly supported in EUP 's case by the scholarly expertise of its Press Committee . |
| 10 | In particular I would like to know about your own background rather than having to guess at this while reading about a set of fictional characters . |
| 11 | And he , so apparently casual — punitively casual — often irritated by her anxiety , could also rely on her being there for him , but without having to know about his own need for her to be safely where he had left her . |
| 12 | He had wondered , also , how much the mediciner had been able to guess about his own mind and nature . |
| 13 | Are we prepared to discipline ourselves to restrictions and regulations that we feel we ought to impose for our own good ? |
| 14 | It seems that if Caribbean parents are not too preoccupied with the ‘ struggle ’ to bring their kids up , and there is every reason to believe that , due to the aftermath of migration , familial ruptures and large , possibly unmanageable families , it is a struggle , they are so eager to compensate for their own lack of education that they encumber their children with over-ambitious objectives backed by inflexible , often demoralizing , discipline . |
| 15 | The most voiced reason for having a baby is that the parents can give what was not given in their own lives , to compensate for their own emptiness . |
| 16 | They embraced the myth of revolution to compensate for their own inadequacy , as a substitute for love , friendship , human affection . |
| 17 | This means that it depends on the host 's cells ' own energy-producing system to provide for its own growth and reproduction . |
| 18 | A star may or may not be able to generate its own cash to provide for its own investment . |
| 19 | Emphasis is placed on the responsibility of individuals to provide for their own welfare needs and those of their dependants . |
| 20 | The original intention that the poor could be put to work for their own support , or even show the country a profit , was one which developed out of the Elizabethan founding idea of the " parish stock " . |
| 21 | Where heavy demand or deficiencies existed , small-scale traders such as mechanics , carpenters and plumbers would be allowed to work for their own profit . |
| 22 | There are some things which no one would wish to know for their own sake , some subjects which have no possibility of being endowed with general significance . |
| 23 | The content of education must therefore be that which men would wish to know for its own sake . |
| 24 | I made a great nuisance of myself and , in the end , they resorted to the traditional method of dealing with trouble-makers : they asked me to stand for my own ward at the next local government elections . |
| 25 | The waitress looks at her pen , as if willing it to write of its own accord . |
| 26 | And with the millions of insects buzzing , crawling , flying and swimming about , all needing to communicate with their own kind and with other associated species , but not with the millions of other creatures , this would seem to be essential to avoid confusion . |
| 27 | Er I was at Portugal , we had fancied going to America but er my husband 's young brother and his wife want to come with us this year and they 've got two young kids so they felt it was far enough for them . |
| 28 | ‘ I wanted to come with you that night , ’ she said earnestly . |
| 29 | She was still looking admiringly around when , ‘ I 'm so happy that you agreed to dine with me this evening , ’ Lubor stated warmly . |
| 30 | Two are about to leave Oxford University to work with their former professor — Tony Cheetham — and five other students who have already settled in California . |