Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [pron] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should she try and get him back again or buy a newspaper first and try to find out what in the world he had been talking about ? |
| 2 | It is generally advisable to find out something about a fish before purchasing it . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been asked by the Bishop to find out something about the background of Hereward Marr and his wife , ’ she tried , as an opener . |
| 4 | In consequence , months of painful and arduous negotiations had been wasted , largely because of the ignorance or the Bourbon attitude of the Foreign Office who did not bother to find out something on the basis that they already knew every piece of human knowledge that is worth knowing . |
| 5 | Francis Bacon , well known for his capacity to drink nearly everyone under the table , left his friend John Edward , a son of a publican , £10 million in his will , which was published last month |
| 6 | By the time 1972 was out I had found a Vets club in join , the VAC as it was called , and I began to pick up something about the scene — where to find the minor races , who to go to for training advice , the way to use blocks and how to seek out physios for repair purposes — and I took up steady training . |
| 7 | ‘ Oh just a boring errand , to pick up something from a friend of my aunt 's . ’ |
| 8 | He wanted to pick up something from the breakfast table and throw it on to the floor , the plate from which Mr Blakey had eaten his fry , the apricot jam , the tea-pot , the bundle of knives and forks that Kate had collected and put on top of the pile of green cereal bowls . |
| 9 | I now have the confidence to tackle almost anything in the kitchen , pies , pastas , cakes , soups , meat dishes , vegetables and bread . |
| 10 | ‘ You 've only got to look around you at the marriages of people we know , ’ said Jannie , ‘ to see that 's not true . ’ |
| 11 | Or does he refuse to go near it for the rest of the session and become unsettled ? |
| 12 | ‘ We feel it is our duty to put back something into the community , ’ he says . |
| 13 | So we 've got the I think that to fulfil I I P requirements , we 've got ta put out some it would be useful to put out something like a training and and development policy . |
| 14 | For example , if you bought some apples from a market stall and they were mostly bad and you already had a few apples at home and if , say , your bus had arrived , it might be perfectly legitimate to do absolutely nothing about the situation and avoid any discussion about it . |
| 15 | For instance it may be that , viewed at this point , the woman has a quality of cautious practicality and by comparison the man seems a reckless dreamer , which is hard to see as anything but a weakness . |
| 16 | He was prepared to believe almost anything of the London underground . |
| 17 | Changing to bridged mono operation , which is as simple as flicking a switch , allows the CF-200 to kick out something in the region of 200 watts into 8 ohms — and all this from a 1U rack space . |
| 18 | It is something of a relief to have let my clattering , panicking self go , to wear instead something of the forest 's stillness . |
| 19 | Elisabeth never craved to remove items ; to take away anything from The Tamarisks would be , she felt , to disfigure a perfectly beautiful body . |
| 20 | Greg forbore to ask how someone with an accent like that would know , and said instead : ‘ It 'll bring in a tidy sum if it 's a best-seller , I suppose . ’ |
| 21 | Not an easy thing to say when someone in the grip of an alien being is trying to make scrambled eggs out of your brains . |
| 22 | The renationalisation of the water industry would cost £3.8 billion — and that is to say absolutely nothing of the £28 billion programme which is currently in place and which will run for the rest of the decade . |
| 23 | - You start getting this strange maternal urge to bring in everything from the garden overnight . |
| 24 | Out of the last discussion , titled The Merseyside Perspective , came the idea for a new umbrella organisation to bring together everyone in the business locally . |
| 25 | The Protocol documentation , as is seen later , requires the seller 's conveyancer to prepare absolutely everything at the outset , so that a complete package is sent to the buyer 's conveyancer for consideration . |