Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] [prep] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After an eight hour [ night ] patrol , it was only to be expected that the policeman would prefer resting to hanging around the courts waiting to bring petty offenders to book . |
| 2 | In Darcy 's Utopia we will make do with listening to the radio . |
| 3 | Those who do no have the time to go to a La Scala performance or are visiting out of season , must make do with going to the theatre museum ; this normally , but not always , includes a trip to the auditorium . |
| 4 | Then Monica , in apparently wanting the ITF to change the Olympic eligibility rules to suit top players who did not want to qualify by playing in the Federation Cup , said ‘ without Gabriela , Martina or I in the Olympics , they would n't really be the Olympics and Steffi could win the gold medal playing left-handed . ’ |
| 5 | A new firm would have to invest in learning about the business , and the audit fee would have to reflect that . ’ |
| 6 | BRITTEN 'S Miss Wordsworth , primmest of Suffolk schoolma'ms , would no doubt have balked at setting before the public eye any but her most promising music pupils . |
| 7 | Foster parents can often claim fostering allowances of 2–3 times the Supplementary Benefit that the natural parent would have received for looking after the same child … which is peculiarly ironic when one considers that some children might not be in foster-care at all if their parents had adequate incomes in the first place ( Fairbairns , 1976 ) . |
| 8 | In fact , the individual migrants who participate in this urban migration manage to generate income which is more attractive to them than the income they would have earned by remaining in the rural areas . |
| 9 | Jim must have felt like accelerating to the point of wheelspin but restrained himself and drove sedately to the Hungarian post . |
| 10 | Furious at the strong wave of protectiveness that washed over him , despite all his suspicions , Guy bit out a curse that , in normal circumstances , he would n't have dreamed of using in the hearing of a woman . |
| 11 | If he had never seen that leaflet pinned up on the Catholic Society notice-board at college , he would never have dreamt of participating in the pilgrimage . |
| 12 | Had he known that the sinecure into which he had expected to step was but a chimera , he would have opted for staying in the army which had , in fact , suited him . |
| 13 | Munich , in other words , was expressly orchestrated to destabilise public opinion at home , to terrify whole populations with the threat of war and coerce them to accept reactionary government measures in exchange for peace ; ( c ) the British and French governments recoiled from inflicting the diplomatic humiliation on Hitler that would have resulted from resorting to the anti-fascist resistance offered by Washington and above all by Moscow . |
| 14 | Three years ago they would have hesitated before speaking against the Seven ; now — however covertly — they sanctioned armed rebellion . |
| 15 | The largest pair of Stillsons may shift the nuts , but you may have to resort to cutting through the pipes . |
| 16 | Before her conversion , she would doubtless have insisted on waiting for the results of a number of studies being conducted by an international panel on climatic change set up by the World Meteorological Organisation and the United Nations Environmental Programme . |
| 17 | Okay so if you can learn to concentrate on looking for the patterns and looking for , Oh well what sort of word is this , is it going to end in a K end in c sound so it 'll be C K. |
| 18 | Most of the rest would help pay for disposing of the plutonium by generating electricity from it while turning it into waste . |
| 19 | We therefore asked whether pou[c] , being a rather divergent POU protein ( 46% , 42% , 42% and 49% amino acid sequence identity to the POU domains of the abovementioned proteins , respectively ) , could cause bending upon binding to the ICP4 TAATGARAT and Ad2 degenerate octamer-TAATGAR motifs . |