Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [prep] [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I spent the evening reading , and rang for Miss Matlock to help me to bed shortly before eleven . ’ |
| 2 | Problem 1 Assuming , for the moment , the truth of the assertion of uniqueness made in Remark ( iii ) above , one deduces that , amongst the axioms listed for Z , there must be at least one which can not be satisfied by Q. Can you identify which axiom(s) from A1 through to I are not satisfied if one attempts to apply them to Q instead of Z ? |
| 3 | The established procedure for overseas subsidiaries of British companies in liquidation is to put them into liquidation separately in their own jurisdiction . |
| 4 | I kept trying to put them in bed all with the wrong ones if you know what I mean . |
| 5 | His initial intention was to publish something on Epicurus merely as an appendix to the Exercises . |
| 6 | With this came the news that the Barclay brothers had offered to buy the statue and were proposing to put it on show alternately in the V & A and the National Gallery of Scotland . |
| 7 | The Macintosh user interface has been called the first ‘ intuitive ’ interface , suggesting that a user can learn how to use it by instinct alone without the need for instruction manuals or training . |
| 8 | I offered to give it to Daniel actually for his birthday but I , I fe I felt a bit sorry for Robert , I thought o opening all them . |
| 9 | It is evident that Howard and colleagues reduced the level of service in their attempt to extend it from Sunderland alone to 13 additional hospitals in the region . |
| 10 | While militarily strong and able to protect themselves from threat both from without and within Egypt , the mamluks were inefficient rulers , and , though they left some magnificent architecture , by the later thirteenth century there was a series of revolts , plagues and famines . |
| 11 | Will employers be tempted to screen potential employees to protect themselves from lawsuits afterwards from workers who contract such diseases ? |
| 12 | It is of the eighth magnitude , but I admit that I have never been able to see it with certainty even with × 20 binoculars , though it is easy enough in a telescope . |
| 13 | And what 's more , Uncle Pumblechook , realizing that this boy 's fortune may be made by going to Miss Havisham 's , has offered to take him into town tonight in his carriage , and let him sleep in his own house , and deliver him tomorrow to Miss Havisham 's . |
| 14 | Useless to tell them to book early for the peak period : they came in droves . |
| 15 | ‘ I share those feelings to the utmost and I know the RUC rightly go after all killers with equal determination to bring them to justice regardless of any circumstances and they never give up . ’ |
| 16 | The only ultimate disaster that can befall us , I have come to realize , is to feel ourselves at home here on earth . |
| 17 | Once the basic idea for the advertisement has been agreed , it falls to the art director , in consultation with the writer , to bring it to life visually in commercials , advertisements , and printed material such as brochures and leaflets , and point of sale — material , which are show cards and other items for display actually in the stores . |