Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | NB If an advertisement says , ‘ write for application form ’ then keep the letter very brief and without personal details as you will only have to repeat them on the form later . |
| 2 | Charlotte says she can only bear to recount it for the sake of others who may feel they 're totally alone in their plight . |
| 3 | The German and French leaders told the Prime Minister they did not want to see him in the run up to the Edinburgh summit , which begins on Friday . |
| 4 | It must be for the local authorities , which have the statutory responsibilities , to take those responsibilities extremely seriously and I would not want to divorce them from the primary responsibility for undertaking those tasks . |
| 5 | I think from the County Council 's point of view , the safeguard is there is no proposal to make those available for other spending within the committee and therefore , if hopefully we do not need to access them during the year , they are still available for Council in future years to , to meet other spending requirements . |
| 6 | Right , well we 'll just need to stuff it in the bag then . |
| 7 | He drove grimly and skilfully and he drove very fast as if he could not wait to get her on the plane to England and out of his sight . |
| 8 | Counsel thought so little of it that he did not seek to sustain it before the House of Lords . |
| 9 | You do n't fucking expect to see them on the side of a bar though do you ? |
| 10 | She now hopes that the world will no longer expect to see her on the arm of her husband , hugging or kissing him in public , behaving like a loving wife . |
| 11 | If you would like additional copies of the leaflet , or have any enquiries about the scheme please do not hesitate to contact me at the Council offices . |
| 12 | The message from brokers is apply for shares , but do not look to hold them for the long term . |
| 13 | NOW we have sent the Calibans grimacing and snarling back to their caves for a further spell , perhaps nice Mr Major will address himself to a problem with which we did not like to trouble him during the election . |
| 14 | Robert did not like to remind her about the nature of her costume . |
| 15 | ‘ We have a certain operation ahead of us and we would not like to disclose it to the press , ’ team leader Nikita Smidovitch said in Manama last night , hours before a UN plane was to fly to Baghdad . |
| 16 | I was now twenty metres up in the air , and I desperately hoped he would not decide to throw me to the ground . |
| 17 | Remember that the vendor may not wish to have you around the house at all , so try to agree a mutually convenient time , starting at , say , 9am or 2pm , which will allow at least three daylight hours for the survey . |
| 18 | The judge was told that the father had given undertakings ( which the judge recited in the course of his judgment ) that , if the court ordered the child to be returned to Canada , he would not attempt to remove him from the care of the mother without an order of the Canadian court ; that he would not support or initiate any contempt of court or criminal proceedings arising from the mother 's removal of the child , and would co-operate in having an early hearing of the proceedings in Ontario . |
| 19 | He could not stop the rain now , just as he would not attempt to start it in the heart of the dry season , without serious danger to his own health . |
| 20 | As a comment on Eve 's lofty nature she notes that the serpent ‘ did not try to tempt her from the path of duty by brilliant jewels , rich dresses , worldly luxuries or pleasures , but with the promise of knowledge … and he found in the woman that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasures of picking flowers and talking with Adam did not satisfy ’ . |
| 21 | have er , oh well I 'll just have to put them in the oven they 'll go brown under the oven wo n't they ? |
| 22 | ‘ Well , you 'll just have to hump it up the stairs as best you can , wo n't you . |
| 23 | If the frost comes early , I 'll just have to bring them into the airing cupboard wo n't I ? ’ |
| 24 | Freddie did not manage to keep us in the Cup against the powerful Rangers outfit but , usually playing at centre-forward , he steadily repaid that fee several times over during the first five post-war seasons , for not only has his tally of 48 League goals only been exceeded by six players here at The Palace since then , but his goals were scored in struggling Palace teams , which only once finished in the upper half of the League table . |
| 25 | They were concerned when his mother did not arrive to deliver him for the day yesterday . |
| 26 | They were concerned when his mother did not arrive to deliver him for the day yesterday . |
| 27 | Although Thomas felt her husband had been stupid to bring a woman like this to the planet , he did not intend to abandon her to the mercy of the hostile environment and the murderous shapechanger . |
| 28 | It is unwise for us to become close because I can not afford to entertain you in the style to which you are accustomed . ’ |
| 29 | He could not continue to look her in the face . |
| 30 | IN 1900 Tiller had an idea for a routine which excited him so much he could hardly wait to show it to the public . |