Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] [vb pp] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ca n't wait to get started on the championship itself . ’ |
| 2 | You do n't need to have taken in the fact , planted early on , that Joe keeps a gun , or have noticed the required sign in the foyer warning that shots will be fired ( ca n't the nanny state keep its paws off anything ? ) to know that retribution is coming , and on elephant feet . |
| 3 | Consequently , no attempt was made to provide an interview schedule such as that developed by Labov ; fieldworkers were simply briefed on the kind of social information ( such as occupation , educational background , family connections and previous residence of speaker ) which they would need to have acquired by the end of the observation period . |
| 4 | Item No. 1 : this winged lion of St Mark in a gondola is the typical sort of item you would expect to find attached to the top of expensive furniture . |
| 5 | Notwithstanding these excesses of zeal , the Evangelical Alliance booklet does not appear to have gone over the top . |
| 6 | Relations between Becker and the rest of the German team would appear to have deteriorated after the incident in Melbourne when , within minutes of learning that Stich and Udo Riglewski had been nominated to represent Germany in the doubles , in Barcelona , he set in motion a chain of events which led to a quick re-think . |
| 7 | The court in Philippou does not appear to have known of the dictum in McHugh . |
| 8 | We , we were you know sort of asked , is there anything I can do to get rid of the baby ? |
| 9 | And something has to be done about the over-breeding of pedigree dogs : I 've met Home Office Minister Angela Rumbold to discuss important changes I would like to see made to The Dog Breeding Act . ’ |
| 10 | Dido does n't claim to have got to the bottom of what she calls the Canine Predicament . |
| 11 | Dear Friend , I embrace you as I would like to have done on the day you left . |
| 12 | He does n't appeart to have struck since the end of January but one thing worrying the investigators is that there may be more victims who are too scared to come forward . |
| 13 | After the first week they should have grown used to the idea that on some evenings the pantry will be bare . |
| 14 | ‘ Oh , well , please yourself , ’ he said and , worried lest Primrose should have felt excluded from the conversation , as well as the trip to Southampton , he offered to give her two of his tickets to Wimbledon . |
| 15 | Adults were initially more reluctant to discuss their feelings , but may have felt inhibited by the presence of healthcare professionals ; many parents were observed swapping addresses at the end of the meeting . |
| 16 | That is money which the carmakers would sooner have seen invested in the business . |
| 17 | Further , the buyer must have made known to the seller the particular purpose for which he was buying the goods . |
| 18 | The new tone was set in the early hours of Friday when a broken-hearted bearded man of radical inclinations tore down his Labour posters and replaced them with a single bleak statement which , curiously , he must have had printed before the election . |
| 19 | Must have got booed off the stage every night . |
| 20 | So you 're gon na have , you 're gon na have get rid of the lawn at the front then effectively ? |
| 21 | A month or so before this was due to be delivered , however , a curt memorandum arrived from the Energy Department warning the group that it ‘ should resist getting drawn into the fray ’ . |
| 22 | Since times are hard in the science job markets and so called whistleblowers tend to be regarded as troublemakers rather than public spirited heroes , these depredations against scientific integrity would probably have remained hidden in the absence of the scandals at the EPA . |
| 23 | If the Prince of Wales had not stood up and spoken as he did that day , the government might have remained entrenched on the subject for considerably longer than it was . |
| 24 | Number the items and try placing an " urgency rating " against each item : x- for those books already overdue at the library ; for that essay to be presented by next Monday ; for the tutorial paper you 're committed to give next Tuesday ; for less urgent items , like the laundry or shopping you must try to have done by the weekend . |
| 25 | If this subsequently turns out to be incorrect , since we would not wish to feel constrained by the set fee , we will charge for outlays incurred . |
| 26 | The lesson of Mr Krenz is that those who can not cope get crushed by the engine .. |
| 27 | She was very , she did n't really want to get rid of the baby , not really , I think I think perhaps somebody had put the idea into her head you 've got enough children you should n't have any more . |
| 28 | Because I do n't want to get smacked in the mouth . ’ |
| 29 | The assumption that Gloucester would be a more satisfactory component of royal authority in Wales proved justified , and on the rare occasions for which evidence survives he does seem to have co-operated with the council . |
| 30 | The assumption that Gloucester would be a more satisfactory component of royal authority in Wales proved justified , and on the rare occasions for which evidence survives he does seem to have co-operated with the council . |