Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The luthier , Tony Rockett attempted to track down a new steel rod for my bass , only to discover that nobody in this country supplies Warwick spares . |
| 2 | They keep sheep in Magdalen grove now , and I hear the fleecy care bleating all day long : I am shocked to find that none of my pupils , though they are all acquainted with pastoral poetry , regards them as anything but a nuisance : and one of my colleagues has been heard to ask why sheep have their wool cut off . |
| 3 | Consequently , it is not surprising to find that none of these mosaics is assignable , confidently , to a period before 330 ( or that all but no. 16 could be of the third quarter of the fourth century ) . |
| 4 | Surely , however , there are lines to be drawn , and it is not only remarkable , but worrying , to find that someone in such a responsible position can argue that the tobacco industry provides a neutral form of sponsorship . |
| 5 | And er we used to try and them in the garden just to get the odd one or two for somebody you know . |
| 6 | He wants to know if anyone in the Darlington area has any information of the whereabouts of Mr Whitbread . |
| 7 | Erm , the latest round of erm proposals to come before you as part of the N H S reforms are the consultation document that we we received recently and proposals to the merge the three existing area health authorities in North Essex to form one merged unit . |
| 8 | He tried to pretend that none of it mattered , could half convince himself . |
| 9 | He had quite rightly decided that he could do no good by playing with the Huns at 20,000 feet , so came down to see that none of them got me . ’ |
| 10 | I am delighted to see that lots of improvements are happening within the business and that people are not waiting for ‘ Felcourt ’ to make things happen — the best initiatives start in the field and are developed by enthusiastic individuals and long may this continue . |
| 11 | We do not know enough to claim that they as consciously intend the means , the specific actions and speeches they produce to accomplish such a social act . |
| 12 | The biographical sources for this period are neither detailed nor accurate enough to allow a close analysis of the degree to which the system had become elaborated in the first half of the sixteenth century , but the broader outlines may certainly be perceived and seem to confirm that something like the provisions of the Kanunname were operating by the early years of that century . |
| 13 | The Minister will have to agree that nothing in the Bill would stop whoever buys Eastern Scottish from selling the St. Andrews square bus station a fortnight later for El 5 million or thereabouts . |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't seem to remember seeing you in church , Bridget , ’ said Clare . |
| 15 | ‘ BAII has no knowledge of the circumstances leading to his arrest , and accordingly can make no comments , other than to state that nothing in the course of his employment has given rise to any question . ’ |
| 16 | Mm , cos mum had Reverend come round , you see cos dad were n't , none of us were religious least of all dad , he could n't do none of it , so we said to , we did n't , we did n't know what vicar to choose cos none of us go to church so me mum said dad used to go to the church where me sister got married to the little Derby and Jones twice a week and Reverend is always there so mum said we 'll have him , dad got on well with him , he liked him , he knew dad , anyway he come round to see mum and I were n't there cos I had to go and sign on , I bloody wished I had been , anyway she said , she told him all about dad and she said I want you tell everybody how brave he was in the war and what a good father he were and a good provider and how he lived for his grandchildren and so on and so on , she said I do n't want no hymns I just want his own organ music all through the service and nothing else and just some , do a couple of prayers , she , so he said right the Lords Prayer will be fine that 'll be nice , well he never said nothing , he said I did n't know John but he said I 've been told he was a good man , he worked in a hospital , which he did , but I mean you 're only like an engineer we were n't really emphasising on that and that was all he said , he played a bit of the organ music before we went in , a bit as we come out and there was about eight bloody prayers and the songs and everything read out and made us sing a hymn ever so disappointed , hardly said anything , hardly play , played his music , no , I was well disappointed about that |
| 17 | There is also plenty to celebrate and lots of opportunities to make heroes . |
| 18 | Thus to honour the first of the Roman emperors an orderly arrangement was reduced to an illogical jumble that many people find difficult to remember but which in the course of 2,000 years has been successfully imposed on most of the world . |
| 19 | A quick look round to see if anyone on the faculty might be listening and then , traitorously , raising her glass almost to her lips , ‘ In fact , I sometimes wonder if we are n't all dead . ’ |
| 20 | And I was only one out the family of nine that volunteered to go and none of me brothers or none of them that was all keen on the sea , they did not seem to want to go . |
| 21 | Well if you rung you could always say oh I 'll have to go cos somebody at the door if she starts going on a bit long . |
| 22 | Industry does not stop because one of our political parties likes to suggest that everything in Britain is going wrong . |
| 23 | The article is the sharpest challenge by a Cabinet minister to church leaders , whom Mr Patten accuses of refusing to suggest that anyone except governments and institutions can actually be bad . |
| 24 | Not a snigger to suggest that anybody in the audience even knew this was a joke . |
| 25 | It does not even oblige us to assert that nothing but classics , or philosophy , or mathematics , or PPE is education . |
| 26 | None of them had ever supported Mr Hitler and most were shocked to hear that anything like that had been going on . |
| 27 | The 1555 survey contains forty-six ( exclusive of men who were also freeholders ) , and it is reasonable to assume that something like thirty held land that was sublet in 1522 , an estimate that finds a measure of confirmation in the subsidy schedule which , perhaps in deference to the provision for the taxing of income from customary holdings , mentions the landed wealth of twenty-six men who were assessed on goods . |
| 28 | I take leave to assume that none of my readers belong to this scapegrace company , but wish to cherish their possessions . |
| 29 | We might therefore expect these works to conform in some way to established taste , but it does not follow , as many of Wordsworth 's later disciples were prone to assume that anything in heroic couplets is necessarily bad ; in fact , many passages from these poems compare quite favourably with Wordsworth 's eighteenth-century predecessors . |
| 30 | Choosing Where to Buy and What to Plant |