Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How dreadful it would be if you hooked a big fish only to lose it through poking around with an inadequate net . |
| 2 | Nor does it seem sufficient merely to qualify it by admitting a certain element of free play in the facts . |
| 3 | And Mary 's condemnation was not enough to keep him from succumbing . |
| 4 | The author 's preface refers to ‘ the gentleman , who was so kind as to take care of the Publication of it , only to excuse me from appearing ’ . |
| 5 | She had actually tried to use the photographs … perhaps to blackmail him into marrying her . |
| 6 | In all the circumstances , I do not consider that Mr. Glick 's argument , powerful though it is , is persuasive enough to deter me from recognising , in law , the force of the justice underlying Woolwich 's case . |
| 7 | But not for the Americans , nor the British who were not bombed heavily enough to prevent them from turning the experience into a basis for a cosy national myth . |
| 8 | ‘ If it 's just to stop her from clinging round your neck … ’ |
| 9 | Can I give them a more entertaining life indoors to stop them from going out so much ? |
| 10 | Perhaps there are Leicester citizens who will feel just a little sorry if the bird we all love to hate were ever banished ; no longer to amaze us with squabbling antics in the garden , purposeful flight lines at the end of day , noisy pre-roost assemblies — and starling spectaculars at dusk . |
| 11 | Her parents offered no explanation when police boarded their plane at Chicago airport yesterday to arrest them for abandoning their children . |
| 12 | Dorothy alone remained a still centre , and when in January 1795 Wordsworth was left £900 in the will of Raisley Calvert , a young friend and admirer who had died of tuberculosis , there seemed nothing further to prevent them from realizing their hopes of a life together . |
| 13 | He gambled and drank , and she had to humour him always to prevent him from flying into rages … . |
| 14 | Two of them were wearing navy-blue men 's overcoats that must have been the crew 's , holding the ends carefully to save them from trailing on the stairs . |
| 15 | Please remember though to ask us before going overdrawn . |
| 16 | to restrict the buyer 's remedies ( e.g. to prevent him from rejecting the goods and to confine him to damages for breach of condition ) ; |
| 17 | The problem is that , to speak of noise , to give it attributes , to claim things for it , is immediately to shackle it with meaning again , to make it part of culture . |
| 18 | He thanks you for the toy soldiers you left behind for him but wishes The General was here to organise them in fighting order . |
| 19 | Two goals from Milton 's leading scorer Nigel Mott and one from Neil Allen put this game beyond doubt , the opening encounter was fast and furious with bone jarring tackles from both sets of players , and referee , Mr Merchant from Newbury did well to keep it from boiling over . |
| 20 | ‘ You are here to assist me in upholding the law , sir . |
| 21 | I read in the Planning Press that the Newbury District Council managed to browbeat the the Department of Environment into accepting the phrase in their in a local plan , so perhaps presumptions are er the word presumption may or may not be acceptable , but then to extend it into saying well you ca n't even say , not normally be acceptable , and , not normally be er agreeable , for any sort of policy er means that strategic policies or general policy approaches are simply ruled out ri right across the board . |
| 22 | Bathed in the bright sun of Italy and glittering with social and commercial success , it seemed to her that it had always been menaced by dark shadows , many of which , Constance sometimes thought , had sprung up almost to punish her for leaving this remote area so early in her adult life . |
| 23 | The powerful aggregates industry is already leaning on him hard to prevent him from doing so . |
| 24 | The powerful aggregates industry is already leaning on him hard to prevent him from doing so . |
| 25 | If you need to give a tablet directly to your dog , it may be helpful to have someone else to assist you by holding the dog . |
| 26 | For example , they may force the potentially inefficient firms either to join them in adopting cost-saving innovations which involve some disruption of current working practices , or to go to the wall . |