Example sentences of "[indef pn] [vb infin] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I mean , they get these ideas and these bees in their bonnets and try and make everyone think the same way , and they change all the rules and upset everything , and Freud got it wrong in one way and Marx got it wrong in another . ’ |
| 2 | Lewis thinks he has a scoop , but once we let everyone know the truth then he 'll have nothing left to play around with . |
| 3 | There was a good crowd round the 11th attracted by the possibility of seeing someone win the Bentley . |
| 4 | Are there any home games in the Xmas/New year period ? and can someone give the phone number of the booking office at Elland Road . |
| 5 | Please please please can someone confirm the good news . |
| 6 | You may have heard someone use the term ‘ customer relations ’ . |
| 7 | But I 've said the same before , only to hear someone use the same gadget and get a monster sound . |
| 8 | To help someone see the nature of his justification ( and live by it ) he needs an ever-deepening understanding of grace . |
| 9 | ‘ Why should someone sabotage the jet ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Did someone meet the train , Inspector ? |
| 11 | First , how can someone enter the Tower , murder Sir Ralph , then leave the fortress without being noticed ? |
| 12 | Once these images must have excited lust — enough to make someone take the trouble to cut them out and stick them up on the wall ; but after a day or two , or a week or two , the pictures had ceased to arouse , they had become familiar — faded and tattered and oil-stained , almost indistinguishable from the dirt and debris of the rest of the factory . |
| 13 | I heard someone say the other day that modern people treat the Ten Commandments like examination questions : only four need be attempted . |
| 14 | Sometimes we come very close to the world outside , for example when we hear someone say the words we need for a piece of writing we 're involved in we commit it lovingly to memory so we can use it . |
| 15 | The answer is no , but the high-backed boot has certainly helped everyone ski the powder because it provides that little tweak of leverage that helps pull the tips of your skis up . |
| 16 | It was nice to hear everyone give the chap a big cheer as he came forward , obviously overcome with excitement . |
| 17 | Right , appreciate how does , how does somebody appreciate the difference between key plan and a golden key plan ? |
| 18 | I thought I saw somebody pass the window , ’ said Sophia . |
| 19 | Myddle parish saw nothing like the same rapid turnover of personnel . |
| 20 | Nor did everyone see the need for an update on current classroom practice . |
| 21 | The Indians accordingly , with every kind of entreaty , implored Alexander to let no-one molest the animal . |
| 22 | This brings us to his third and final question , which is , should the law be used in all or some cases , and if only the latter , on what basis does one make the decision about where and when to intervene ? |
| 23 | As for Mr Kinnock 's conversion to multilateral nuclear disarmament , Mrs Thatcher said : ‘ How does one explain the Labour leader 's contortions ? |
| 24 | How else can one explain the emergence of the ‘ throwaway philosophy' ? |
| 25 | It is important in this case , because only on this assumption can one explain the experience a reader gets from The Inheritors of " looking round the sides " of Lok 's world view , to see a more substantial reality behind it . |
| 26 | How does one explain the possibility of numerically diverse particulars ? |
| 27 | Only if the early universe was very smooth and uniform , with a high pressure , can one explain the absence of observable numbers of primordial black holes . |
| 28 | Is the attempt to make such a separation meaningful , and above all can one devise the appropriate form of highly reductionist experiment which will enable a distinction to be made between these processes ? |
| 29 | How does one compare the class work of a teacher in Tunbridge Wells whose five year olds all come from homes where books are common , to that of a teacher in a multiracial school in St Paul 's , Bristol ? |
| 30 | The ultimate objective test of free will would seem to be : Can one predict the behavior of the organism ? |