Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I believe we suffered the downturn because of the way in which we kept our clients up to date , insofar as when the recession hit , our clients did n't need to come to us because the Revenue was on their backs . |
| 2 | Will it wait to deal with them when the bills drop on the doormats and then try to compile a list of people entitled to a rebate after the council tax has been introduced ? |
| 3 | The living may not want to talk to us but the dead await ! ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Forty of them would have voted against her if the Lord God Almighty had come down and instructed them not to ’ said one minister . |
| 5 | It might already have occurred to you that the routine can be varied to produce different benefits . |
| 6 | I do n't pretend to like you , and I would n't have served under you if the Home Office had been daft enough to appoint you Director of this Lab . |
| 7 | Michael Hickes , Burghley 's Secretary , was in no way diffident about taking presents , for men in his position could not have lived without them and the practice was part of conventional behaviour . |
| 8 | Slowly , she walked towards him , struggling to quell the alarm bells that were ringing inside her head , and she should have listened to them because the minute she was inside the room Damian closed the door behind him and double-locked it . |
| 9 | Their second greatest fear was that they might be forced to comply with her frequently telephoned suggestion , made purely from a sense of duty , that they should go to stay with her until the Whistler was caught . |
| 10 | so let it come to pass for you and the manservant were yield so that particular was all about faith , so |