Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Obviously if I decide not to take the job he 'll need to start looking for a replacement . ’ |
| 2 | In order to establish their seriousness and integrity in seeking exclusive negotiations , the buyer should also consider volunteering to enter into a confidentiality agreement with the seller . |
| 3 | Its message was iconoclastic , even radical and certainly not at all the type of thing that one would expect to see emanating from a government department , with the seal of approval provided by a preface over the minister 's signature . |
| 4 | I look grimy , bad-tempered , just the sort of guy you 'd expect to find hiding in a woodpile in Deptford when there 's trouble about . |
| 5 | Mr Ashdown yesterday sought to provide himself with even more leeway in a hung parliament by outlining circumstances in which he would not feel bound to vote against a Queen 's Speech which did not contain PR . |
| 6 | Most religions , Christianity among them , would appear to have degenerated to a point where they can be used to provide , at one extreme , a justification for intense civil turmoil by violent and cruel people , and at the other , justification for luxurious globe-trotting and conference-attending by a ritual-ridden and pomp-loving hierarchy . |
| 7 | He moved up to the counter with the air of a man who does n't like having to go through a routine once again but is prepared to do so , all right then here 's my card if you insist ! |
| 8 | Moments which we would like to savour disappear in a flash and moments which embarrass us seem interminable . |
| 9 | ‘ How would you like to have to ask for a penny to buy a stamp if you wanted to write a letter ? ’ she would ask . |
| 10 | ‘ Equally I believe that you should stop using smacking as a way of punishing a child when that child is big enough to hit you back — and that 's at quite an early age . |
| 11 | Her parents were told that Dawn had evidently suffered a stroke , and would probably recover to remain confined to a wheelchair . |
| 12 | ( c ) by arguing that any subsequent inconsistent legislation was inadvertent , that the Westminster Parliament could not have intended to legislate in a manner conflicting with community obligations and that the " bounden duty of the courts would then be to give effect to community law " Macarthys v. Smith ( C.A. , 1979 ) . |
| 13 | Gould , however , was probably the last person Lear should have expected to engage in a chatty , long correspondence . |
| 14 | It was the sort of notice that one might have expected to read on a bus going from New York to Philadelphia . |
| 15 | Doris cuddled me on the way to the door but she must have let go for an instant ( perhaps I goosed her too eagerly ) because I went off on a run that would have taken me all the way downtown — further , to the Village , to Martina Twain — if the dessert trolley had n't been there to check my sprint . |
| 16 | Yeah Rob yeah Rob you know you should have done taken like a hair out of your head , placed it in there before you and pulled it out . |
| 17 | Also , because smoking tends to be associated with a lower body mass index , our inability to adjust for any confounding due to body weight will have tended to result in an underestimation of the effect of smoking . |
| 18 | Pemberton 's defiance should have helped United to a point , which was the least they deserved . |
| 19 | Adam would have preferred to phone for a hire car but Lewis would n't hear of it . |
| 20 | I could n't explain that I would have had to leave in a month or so anyway — but I pointed out that in fact I was n't well , had n't been for quite a while whatever he chose to think , and that a rest would do me good . |
| 21 | But B of course if you did badly in those elections in May the government might have done badly in May , then morale would have been rock bottom of having to go into an election , he would have had to go for an election six weeks later or they 'd run out of time , yeah . |
| 22 | If she had told Richard about Harry , and about Maurice 's dubious cargo , he would n't have had to lie in a pool of blood waiting for her own daughter to rescue him . |
| 23 | But as no one shareholder had control to sell , the Government was able to acquire control of the company 's assets for a fraction of their true value ( and for a fraction of what it would have had to pay on a take-over bid ) . |
| 24 | Mr Fairley said : ‘ If he was in his bedroom he would have had to run past a gauntlet of flame . |
| 25 | His head lowered to find her lips , while any thought of resistance she might have had melted like an ice-block in boiling water . |
| 26 | X.desktop had the edge over VUE because of its availability under VMS , aside from any uncomfortable feelings DEC might have had opting for a product from one of its biggest competitors . |
| 27 | I 'm sure that if I was still living in England we would n't have got the push that we had on the last album and we would n't have got nominated for a Grammy . |
| 28 | Thanksgiving for deliverance from the plague could then have become attached to a festival already in existence . |
| 29 | With Forest rooted to the bottom of the Premier League , there is increasing speculation that the time is approaching when they will have to start looking for an alternative to Clough 's unique management style . |
| 30 | He will also have to start thinking about a partnership with Skoda before long , too , provided Renault gets its way in Czechoslovakia . |