Example sentences of "[pers pn] [to-vb] [conj] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.

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1 I only mentioned it because I want you to know that I realise the problems we 're facing — and that I 've got plans to put us back on our feet .
2 In addition to academic qualifications they will expect you to demonstrate that you have the intelligence to understand the demands of their businesses , the fluency to communicate ideas to others and the flexibility to develop other people 's ideas .
3 Back home , impatient sports editors waited for them to file as they drank the Latium hills dry of Chianti .
4 We must provide tuition for students and examine them to ensure that they reach the highest standards to allow them to practise as actuaries .
5 Otherwise , she would never have put anything on record in that isolated motel cabin , all ready for Them to snatch when they kicked the door in .
6 But more importantly , as far as Roddick is concerned , each franchised outlet is required to take on a community project in its area , which she believes gives the young women in the organisation additional status and helps them to realise that everybody has the ability to change the world for the better .
7 Instead it is copied to the plaintiff together with new Form N236 which asks him to confirm whether he wishes the case to proceed or that he is withdrawing the action ( Ord 9 , r 2(7) ) .
8 I 'd told her not to worry and that he was one of the lads , although I 'd never seen him before , and we were just waiting for her to go before we started the party .
9 They waited for him to elaborate as he unbuttoned the side pocket of his tunic and took out his cigarettes .
10 In 1894 he went to Oxford University as a non-collegiate student but ill health caused him to leave and he spent the year 1895 acting as tutor to an English family in Odessa .
11 But I have tried to talk to him , to persuade him to say that he thought the askaris were going to shoot him or that it was a misunderstanding , but he refuse absolutely to excuse himself . ’
12 Quick and easy to prepare , not too heavy or sweet , it makes a fine choice to follow a roast — just leave it to cook while you eat the main course .
13 Well that failed as you would imagine it to fail if you take the civil war in Vietnam as being in effect a , a war of national liberation , as the Soviets called it , because what the North Vietnamese wanted was in fact national unity .
14 Well that failed as you would imagine it to fail if you take the civil war in Vietnam as being in effect a , a war of national liberation , as the Soviets called it , because what the North Vietnamese wanted was in fact national unity .
15 I do not want to go over that ground again ; suffice it to say that we accept the Secretary of State 's assurance that the Government are making a genuine effort to find a mechanism to implement Lord Cullen 's recommendation 30 .
16 Trevor Pinnock ensures that the music keeps moving , and never allows us to forget that it conveys the emotional meaning of the words and is not , as some interpreters would have us believe , detached from all relevance except the purity of its own sound .
17 It was usual for us to call when we took the horses over to Mickleton to be shod .
18 We are indebted to the Opposition for tabling the amendment to the Loyal Address which has enabled this subject to be debated and which enables us to prove that we have the best solution for local government funding .
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