Example sentences of "[to-vb] a [noun] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er they tried to write a rider to bypass it completely , but I do n't know whether that is sound . |
| 2 | English merchants felt confident that money could be made out of settlements there , if only they could acquire enough influence at court to secure a charter to launch them . |
| 3 | When the Royal Africa Company collapsed under the weight of its fixed costs , the need for permanent bases on the West African coast — essential if only because half-a-dozen other European countries were setting up forts there — led the government first to try to organize the slave-trading merchants into a loosely organized company which would be responsible for looking after the forts , and then to provide a subsidy to keep them going . |
| 4 | Ted was a natural , so unless he managed to find a right-hander to take him through the Backdoor , he was always looking over his shoulder . |
| 5 | Lin will première the work in San Diego , California , which has a large Chinese population , and if it is successful there he hopes to find a way to perform it in Taiwan . |
| 6 | ‘ Ken was such a brilliant bloke that if he had an idea of how to deliver a line , he 'd try to find a way to block it . |
| 7 | I need to find a way to persuade him . ’ |
| 8 | She had to find a way to escape him . |
| 9 | We 've got to find a way to make it OK to buy a Buick . ’ |
| 10 | The world has changed since the long , low silver engineering prototype was unveiled at the 1988 British Motor Show and Jaguar 's then chief executive , Sir John Egan , decided that they should try to find a way to build it , as the ultimate supercar to outdo Ferrari and Porsche . |
| 11 | It was with a certain sense of foreboding — as if we had seen an omen — that we descended from this mountain fastness to the domain of the Bugis , where we knew we had just two months left to find a prahu to carry us eastwards before the monsoon set in … |
| 12 | He certainly owed money but none of his creditors needed to obtain a writ to have him confined when the Government had arrested him for them . |
| 13 | Without revealing that both ships had been secretly assisting South Vietnamese commando raids on the North , Johnson called upon Congress to pass a resolution granting him sweeping powers to act against North Vietnam . |
| 14 | THE CHESTER International Hotel is set to become part of Queens Moat Houses after the former Business Expansion Scheme company agreed to accept an offer valuing it at £9½m . |
| 15 | It is only 12 months old and I now wish to purchase a modulator to convert it to a colour monitor for use with a domestic TV set . |
| 16 | So it 's vital to understand just what the right weight is , and how to feed a bird to keep it fit but well fed . |
| 17 | What do you think influenced you , I mean if you went to choose a chair did you sit on it to see if it was comfortable or were you more interested in what it looked like ? |
| 18 | Anjou wines are so distinctive , that in 1920 a competition was held to design a glass to do them justice . |
| 19 | For centuries the continual struggle of ordinary country folk to harvest an income to keep them and their families above starvation level meant that they were always prepared to swallow their pride and go , cap in hand , to the gentry for a few vital coppers The same philosophy spawned the hiring fairs ( which continued until the second half of the century ) when the ‘ spare ’ children of rural ( and sometimes urban ) families , not required for work at home , were sent to stand at appointed places where prospective employers could examine and interrogate them checking their limbs for strength and making sure they were properly subservient There was n't a deal of difference , fundamentally , between hiring fairs ( as immortalized by Thomas Hardy in Far From the Madding Crowd and the weekly cattle auctions held in market towns . |
| 20 | The small snag is that it costs considerably more than the purchase price to buy a licence to use them and a licence is required for each computer . |
| 21 | Although she could hardly speak , she had recently managed to express a wish to see me . |
| 22 | In the context of Conversation E , then , using Creole to express a refusal marks it as " jocular " and non-threatening , just as laughter , delay and offering an excuse ( or " alternative " ) were used earlier to mark another refusal as non-threatening . |
| 23 | To expect a man to understand it about another man 's son is expecting a very great deal . ’ |
| 24 | Last month a 12-year-old Devon girl became the first in Britain to win an order allowing her to live with her grandparents . |
| 25 | Both discussed Kohlberg 's moral dilemma of a man who can not afford the expensive medicine which may save his fatally ill wife , and who must decide whether to burgle a pharmacy to get it . |
| 26 | She called headquarters from a phone booth , spoke briefly to Sarah , then hurried to the curb to signal a taxi to take her back to her flat . |
| 27 | His case was put back to enable a solicitor to represent him . |
| 28 | I 'd like to see a psychiatrist convince me this is all in the mind . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'll be going to see a specialist to get it sorted out as soon as I can . ’ |
| 30 | Liberal Democrat MP Simon Hughes on the Lamont affair WHEN he goes to see a Shakespeare play he wants to know what happens at the end . |