Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pron] [indef pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd fuck her one after the other and she would n't even know who they were . |
| 2 | So he is familiar , and he could win us a gold medal in that symbol of absolutism , the 100 metres sprint ( he could , theoretically , win us one in the 200 metres , but that is far less likely , far less mythopoeic ) . |
| 3 | The US Government is reliably said to have invested large sums from its military budget on research in which impulses from computers ( which might give you something like the binary number level of the program ) were detected at a distance and the task was to see whether the highest level of program ( expressing what the real purpose of the program was ) could be reliably inferred . |
| 4 | As a consequence , the changes produced will tell you nothing about the normal functions of that part . |
| 5 | If that dreadful mid-Atlantic ‘ celebrity ’ who rummages through other people 's houses in the appalling ‘ Through the Keyhole ’ TV programme delved through the house of Australia rugby , he would find any amount of shimmering silverware — the World Cup itself , the Bledisloe Cup , and so on — but the contents would tell you nothing about the true greatness of the inhabitants . |
| 6 | But if spatial relations within a phenomenological space can tell us nothing about the numerical diversity of ontological objects , there is even less that can be gleaned in this respect from temporal relations within a phenomenological time . |
| 7 | Advantages : An agency can usually find you someone at the last minute . |