Example sentences of "[to-vb] [indef pn] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | June had asked Hilda Lodge to thank everyone for the lovely flowers sent to her during her recent stay in hospital . |
| 2 | Our attitude is that we want to see everyone in the six counties , whether Protestant or Catholic , active in the movement to attain civil rights for the people there . |
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| 5 | You ought to find someone on the same wavelength , who knows your mind , your love of freedom , who thinks of you the same instant you think of him . |
| 6 | I think for every feeling , no matter how inward and personal it appears , the writer has to find something in the visible world which corresponds to it , to make it visible for the reader . |
| 7 | If the adventurers stop to negotiate , Juliane explains that she and Maximilian have come to the Castle to find something in the Great Tower . |
| 8 | That is why you have someone with a clapperboard at the start of each take : to make it possible to find everything in the whole length of film . |
| 9 | I mean we used to do the annual report because the R C E had to provide something to the General Manager |
| 10 | However , failing that , an international money order can be drawn in almost any currency — your bank will advise on how best to obtain one in the right denomination . |
| 11 | He will liaise with the medical rehabilitation teams and with the ERCs to know something of the overall picture of the person 's employment problem . |
| 12 | It is vitally important to know something of the individual richness and variety of each religious tradition before becoming subject to the generalisations of those engaged in comparative religion . |
| 13 | The important point about heritability is that we do not need to know anything about the actual genotypes in order to say what it is . |
| 14 | Stretch up as if you are trying to reach something on the top shelf of the kitchen at home and you know you are going to succeed . |
| 15 | I 'm just trying to remember everybody in the same afternoon , to collect them all because of about six of them are being done around here |
| 16 | Legal advice recommended that , as Mrs. X was unable to remember anything of the alleged incident and that , as it may not be possible to prove beyond reasonable doubt that , not only did she not consent , but also that XYZ knew that she was not consenting , the case should be dealt with summarily by the Commanding Officer . ’ |
| 17 | One of his compulsive gambits was to challenge everyone at the first meeting . |
| 18 | In her primping performance as Amy Johnson in They Flew Alone ( 1942 ) , Anna Neagle is allowed to express none of the deeper motivations for her character 's decision to defy convention and take up flying , and the film never tries to make anything of its contrast between Johnson 's individualism and its concluding images of girls marching , clearly anything but individuals . |
| 19 | The main barriers to growth have been the complexity of using the systems , their inability to handle anything but the simplest graphics , the high cost of connect-time charging and poor publishing decisions about which databases to offer online . |
| 20 | This provided the opportunity for the members of the committee to see something of the rural development problems and programmes in Lewis and Harris , and discuss them with some of those working on them . |
| 21 | We might have expected to see something of the great movies , Gold Rush , Modern Times , Limelight … |
| 22 | However , a pilot study has shown that if the available data is collected and sorted by computer , enough survives to enable something of the overall pattern to emerge , especially through comparison with the much more plentiful English data . |
| 23 | Gina , Barbara , Ronnie and Chris Jury , a friend of theirs from Hull University Drama Department days , volunteered to arrange something for the second anniversary of John 's kidnap on 17 April . |
| 24 | Afterwards McEnroe finally agreed to hold a press conference — thereby avoiding a $10,000 fine following his refusal to attend one after the first round . |
| 25 | We want to do something for the voluntary sector . |
| 26 | Er , so i it 's er changes of that kind that have been looked at because if you move production work out of one nation into the other to get a nice rationalised allocation of work , you build this wing , you build that wing and so on , you then have got to do something with the minor components to get back to you original erm work share allocation and percentage times . |
| 27 | Erm in the eighteen fifties , in the years immediately preceding the American civil war , the er then American president er was placed under great pressure to do something about the increasing tensions and increasing conflicts between north and south but er he declined to do so . |
| 28 | Again Jacob thought he must bring himself to do something about the increasing hold this man had on Katherine 's life . |
| 29 | And I believe that with the privileges that come to those who benefit most from the capitalist system there are obligations , and so the combination of that latter thought makes me want to do something about the inner cities , plus a revulsion at waste and hopelessness and dereliction and concern which is self-evident in some of these older towns and cities . |
| 30 | He said : ‘ This would force Langbaurgh Council and Northumbrian Water to get together to do something about the terrible sewage problems there . ’ |