Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [indef pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was struggling to pull something to the top of the dunes . |
| 2 | It was only when I got to know something of the poverty of India 's villages ( some 500,000 of them ) that I really saw far worse poverty . |
| 3 | He replied politely that just as he studied the whereabouts of bones and tendons and muscles so as to know more about the figures he tried to draw , in the same way — if he was attempting a portrait — it helped to know something about the working of people 's minds and how their characters had been formed . |
| 4 | I 'm back with another Fox Report on Monday , but if you want to know everything about the sport and leisure that 's happening in the area , do make sure you listen to Fox leisure with Steve Priestley and Phil Angell tomorrow at two , and Steve Priestly is here , in person , after the news at seven with the Red Fox . |
| 5 | We want to know everything about the Dove Trust and its officers . |
| 6 | ‘ Captain Maestrangelo , ’ he said , filling his pipe rapidly and efficiently , ‘ needs to know something about the family , everything about the family , in fact , and quickly . ’ |
| 7 | Other than this we do not need to know anything about the portion of the sentence we have already generated . |
| 8 | In a search system like Okapi , which ranks records by weighting terms , the system also does not need to know anything about the nature of the relationship . |
| 9 | Designing experiments to check these possibilities is n't easy , and it took us several years , through the early 1970s , to try to eliminate one after the other . |
| 10 | Specially designed to help everyone in the family cope with the problems of epilepsy , it costs £12.50 from BEA , . |
| 11 | To make a hole in masonry or concrete you do not need to exert anything like the pressure you do with a conventional percussion/ratchet hammer drill which basically relies on drill rotation to wear away the material . |
| 12 | If we want to buy anything at the moment we have to borrow the money . |
| 13 | She bent her head so he could n't see her blush at the thought that he meant their own relationship , and pretended to do something to the heel of her shoe . |
| 14 | Do we need to put anything in the front of our , our quality manual , in the scope of registration , which 'll make it clear that the day to day of our accounts department are . |
| 15 | Since then about ten new sites have been scheduled each week , and this could be seen as a deliberate blocking measure as it only takes place where the owner wants to do something with the site . |
| 16 | He wants to do something to the camp . |
| 17 | But he wants to do something to the camp . |
| 18 | I do n't know if anyone wants to put anything into the pool of things that , points that we raised and er or a general feeling that they had after that meeting . |
| 19 | And we tried to do something about the problem of alcoholism and prostitution in the area by getting the bars and brothels registered with the local government . |
| 20 | She says when you want to do something in the city it 's much handier to go with your bike than with car . |
| 21 | She was persuaded to concede on that point , then proposed to share everything with the production team — until it was pointed out that if just one penny , or a single biscuit was diverted in that direction , and it became known , we 'd be lynched . |
| 22 | Are we presuming that those students will not be expected to pay anything in the charge that they pay for staying in the halls of residence ? |
| 23 | She leaned on the fence , wrapped her coat more closely round her body and tried to assimilate something of the tranquillity of the night , but all she could think of was the hurt in Barney 's eyes and the stiffness of his voice . |
| 24 | The ‘ no meaning ’ theist denies that the theist needs to say anything about the existence of God that is intelligible to those who do n't already accept the existence of God as true . |
| 25 | Out of the corner of her eye , she saw the casual intimacy as Luke bent to say something to the girl , felt the cruel , jealous twist in her body , as she saw his mouth meeting hers in a lazy kiss . |
| 26 | It can from , in situations where the employer wants to take one on the life of the employee . |
| 27 | Erm I er move straight over to er er Graham and then open up for any questions or if anybody wants to say anything from the floor . |
| 28 | Trying to drive yours up , spread on the table , not on the carpet , cos you he has to move everything on the carpet it 's not so slippy . |
| 29 | The probationers told him to remember that every minute he was getting a little better , and Ward Sister told him not to make any effort , and not to try to take anything by the mouth . |
| 30 | At one extreme , it is possible to try to commit everything on the tape to paper . |