Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is to enable everyone to advise you on the possibilities you may choose to explore . |
| 2 | What they need , apart from encouragement , is a little practical know-how about the job they are taking on , to enable them to tackle it with confidence . |
| 3 | C. and D. then , fraudulently and without the defendant 's knowledge , made arrangements with the building society to borrow £15,000 on the security of the property to enable them to purchase it for £24,500 from the defendant . |
| 4 | ‘ And does n't it reassure you to know she told me about coming here when she kept it from her family ? ’ |
| 5 | It is not always easy to know who does what at Trinity Road or who to speak to on any requests or queries you may have . |
| 6 | If you are contacting SCOTVEC on National Certificate matters , it helps to know who does what in Hanover House . |
| 7 | Only her resolve not to irritate him prevented her from letting the scissors stray towards his temptingly close ears , and she swallowed hard on the furious retort which jumped to her lips . |
| 8 | Robbe-Grillet 's insistence upon the essentially ludic dimension of all of his fiction ( and cinema ) was also a means of escaping what might be termed the prison-house of reflexivity ; it was not uncommon to find him distancing himself from Ricardou , even during the conference devoted to his work in 1975 , at which he claimed that even his supposedly ‘ theoretical ’ utterances over the years should be construed as attempts to maintain plurality and mobility . |
| 9 | She darted a look at Niall 's profile , only to find him studying her in a way she found oddly disturbing . |
| 10 | One source said : ‘ It would come as no surprise to find her driving herself to the church . |
| 11 | By law , all gas and electric fires have now to be fitted with a fire-guard by the manufacturers , and when helping an elderly Person to choose one it is wise to encourage her to buy one with the on/off control switch on the top or high up on the side , to avoid unnecessary bending . |
| 12 | I was not only surprised to find they had plenty of timber for fence posts , but also that it cost far less than new wood . |
| 13 | It 's just we got no time , as you sit down to work they pin something on you . |
| 14 | Do you not think that the people deserve to know what threatens them on their very doorstep ? |
| 15 | As mentioned earlier , it is possible to treat certain phobias ( although not all ) by hypnosis without ever having to discover what caused them in the first place , and for some patients this is all they require . |
| 16 | I seem to remember they put it in mono and did a limited edition in stereo which , for those days , was a fairly advanced piece of thinking . |
| 17 | And both have been designed to enable you to hold them for long periods of time . |
| 18 | My God , not if I have to kill you to keep you in this bedroom ! ’ |
| 19 | And I said oh I 've got a present for you so I want to see you give it to you . |
| 20 | Very glad to see you made it on the list , James . |
| 21 | This chap with the leg or something who wants to see you said something about being or having been a patient , but not being here as one now , and as he 's loaded with flowers for you and I did n't know how Old Red would take it , I used the sterilizer . ’ |
| 22 | Pupils need to be able to respond to such forms , and schools have an obligation to help them to read everything from labels and slogans to the subject textbooks of the secondary school curriculum . |
| 23 | In any case , he made feeble efforts to help me get him to his left foot , and with my almost total support he made the few hops to reach the boat , though I could see it hurt him sorely . |
| 24 | Now say that the applications are completely processor-independent too — that you do n't even have to re-compile them to move them from one machine type to another , and indeed bits of them may even wander from processor type to processor type in the course of execution . |
| 25 | Now say that the applications are completely processor-independent too — that you do n't even have to re-compile them to move them from one machine type to another , and indeed bits of them may even wander from processor type to processor type in the course of execution . |
| 26 | The thrifts-rescue act of August 1989 at first contained a clause banning thrifts from holding junk bonds , later weakened to require them to place them in special subsidiaries insulated from deposit insurance . |
| 27 | As a lover , he had bored her , but she liked the idea of his having to steel himself to visit her in the filthy venue she had chosen for their affair . |
| 28 | He was most often to be found in that jazz Mecca , Dobell 's Record Shop in Tower Street , where he was happy to reminisce about earlier times and to discuss who played what on the records from his heyday . |
| 29 | ‘ It almost broke me to hear you accuse me of going to bed with you to get a story . |
| 30 | ‘ I know it 's hard to expect you to believe it after what happened , but you can trust me . |