Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the seller wants a margin , he must stipulate for it in the contractual description . |
| 2 | He was rather taken aback but said he would report to head office and let me know about it in the New Year . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | She had dressed her hair daringly with ivory combs , sweeping it straight back from her face to emphasize her high cheekbones , then letting it fall behind her in a dark torrent that contrasted sharply with the pale silk of her gown . |
| 6 | Christine let him stew in it for a few moments . |
| 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 | Her friends did not think of her as a drunk and Rachel would be truly shocked if she knew about the long nights of insomnia and secret alcohol . |
| 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 | Biggs is of the opinion that Mason would be unlikely to survive more than a couple of rounds against the world heavyweight champion and at this stage it would be unwise to even think of him as a genuine contender . |
| 13 | But he did not think of it as a cosmic event which must somehow change the whole of human thought , altering philosophy and theology and closing the mouths of poets ; such a view seemed to him superstitious , a denial of ordinary scholarship and ordinary hard-thinking rationality . |
| 14 | If you could cut out the sound track of shells and sniper fire , ignore the gaping holes in the beautiful buildings and the lack of water and electricity , and did n't notice the rubbish in the streets , you would think of it as a normal city . ’ |
| 15 | You can think of it as a genetic ruler . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Is that the case and , if so , what can we do about it at an early stage ? |
| 20 | Is that the case and , if so , what can we do about it at an early stage ? |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't know how you can even speak of her in the same breath . ’ |
| 22 | Swear that you will never speak of it to a living soul ! " |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ Yes , people can identify with him as an ordinary , decent bloke . ’ |
| 25 | I shall carry with me into the darkest corners of the world knowledge , peace , freedom , religion , the hope of heaven ! |
| 26 | And , if he was a man with , who had never been in trouble before , and perhaps with a young family , and through being hard-up and through illness or any other reason , he would speak to him in a fatherly manner . |
| 27 | Yeah , even on the phone our Rob rings up and er , he 'll speak to me for a few minutes and he speaks |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | perhaps , you 'd speak to us at the next council meeting , then . |
| 30 | Chair , if I can , if I can speak to it from a financial point of view , this is the scheme where we have been successful in bidding for the European Rural Development Fund grants . |