Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [pron] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ruling groups have found that their interests are best safeguarded if they are supported by a work force which can not think for itself in the coherent way writing affords . |
| 2 | If the seller wants a margin , he must stipulate for it in the contractual description . |
| 3 | He was rather taken aback but said he would report to head office and let me know about it in the New Year . |
| 4 | When he left his room , he knocked on the women 's door ; he would wait for them in the small restaurant at the front of the hotel . |
| 5 | ‘ Go and dump your shopping quickly and I 'll wait for you at the first bridge , ’ he suggested , indicating the expanse of parkland their building overlooked . |
| 6 | There was quite a wide space between stone and stone , but Jenny felt sure that she could jump from one to the other quite easily . |
| 7 | Well , since he did not appeal to me in the slightest , the whole business became a terrible bore . |
| 8 | Now er on the air at five o'clock mister Tim with drive at five and the early evening sequence , and we 're gon na chat to him in the next thirty minutes because he 's been out shopping today and he 's spent quite a lot of money on some brand new clothes . |
| 9 | From time to time Maggie saw Felipe glance at them through the rear-view mirror . |
| 10 | Robbie could think of nothing but the deep growing ache around which every sense seemed focused . |
| 11 | How curious that she could now think of him without the tiniest pang ; it was as if the shadow of Max had been totally eclipsed by the substance of Luke — with all its ramifications . |
| 12 | There was a lot of tooth-sucking for a while as he tried to get me to say more and that was almost funny , given that it was the tooth-sucking that made me think of it in the first place , suddenly thinking . |
| 13 | This is because one or other must be better , and pride can not allow executives to settle for the second best — so why think of it in the first place ? |
| 14 | Alan Middleton has recently moved to Aberdeen with Christian Literature Crusade , pray that he would settle into his new role in that place and that Alan would be open to what God would do through him in the coming months . |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't know how you can even speak of her in the same breath . ’ |
| 16 | It was unlooked-for grace that after supper he should send his page to ask Mistress Hussey to be kind enough to come and speak with him in the small chamber the prince was using as a study . |
| 17 | I shall carry with me into the darkest corners of the world knowledge , peace , freedom , religion , the hope of heaven ! |
| 18 | Erm the talks erm Gillian Thornton is gon na speak to us on the 23rd of February just to remind you and I 've actually prepared some notes on play writing which we can fit in some time during this sort of session . |
| 19 | perhaps , you 'd speak to us at the next council meeting , then . |
| 20 | His opinion of her work , like his opinion of her as a person , really should n't matter to her in the slightest . |
| 21 | An application for annulment of a bankruptcy order must specify on which of the two alternative grounds in s 282(1) it is made and in either case must be supported by an affidavit ( r 6.206 ) . |
| 22 | They all run the recently-released version 6 of the company 's Unix SVR4-based DRS/NX operating system , though Unix Systems Labs ' Destiny will appear on them during the first quarter of next year . |
| 23 | We label this line AD and shall refer to it as the aggregate demand curve . |
| 24 | We shall therefore refer to it as the Fundamental Theorem of Vector Programming . |
| 25 | Now assign a system-wide logical name to the storage directory ; you will always refer to it by the logical name from within LIFESPAN . |
| 26 | West Ham are one of the favourites to go straight up , but who can tell what the pressures of promotion will do to them in the final weeks . |
| 27 | He could quite clearly see through it to the crushed grass on which it lay but , when he gingerly touched a scale that was a mere golden sheen on thin air , it felt solid enough . |
| 28 | We tried for compensation and we 've got Tony Baldry , who we 're going to see Saturday , and he 's going to try and claim for us under the Criminal Injuries Compensation Act . |
| 29 | ‘ You ask : how do you advance the public interest , how do you provide for it in the best way ? ’ |
| 30 | Perhaps they will spawn for you in the new tank . |