Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " He wo n't know how to shiver in a week or two , " said Hawkbit , with his mouth full . |
| 2 | Prosecutors interviewed by the Polish daily Zycie Warszawy said they would not know how to deal with a case of illegal abortion as they had not yet received copies of the new law . |
| 3 | but erm and she thought I sha n't know how to deal with a girl at all |
| 4 | You must know how to go about a revision of this kind . |
| 5 | There appears to be a general assumption that women should somehow automatically know how to prepare for a baby , but this is simply not the case . |
| 6 | They had had medical attention since the beginning of the year and he did not know where to turn for a penny . |
| 7 | If they ca n't be moved ( for example you may prefer not to call in a plumber to move the sink ) , stick them down . |
| 8 | Church unity would do well to build on a foundation such as this , just as grace builds on nature . |
| 9 | So if you are producing a Victorian mystery , for instance , you would do well to think of a plot in terms more of melodrama than if you were writing a book set today . |
| 10 | We 've got which I 'll go on to expand in a minute about . |
| 11 | What she did know was that he lived with his mother and two brothers , and that after the war he would go back to work in an insurance office . |
| 12 | A Welsh smallholder quarryman moved into the family farm so that his wife could go out to earn as a washerwoman , but the children did not get on well with their step-grandmother : ‘ There was a very hard side to her , she was a very stern woman , and we did n't like her . ’ |
| 13 | If you say , ‘ I wo n't let you go to any parties ’ or ‘ You ca n't go out to play for a week ’ you will probably reconsider when you cool down , change your mind and thus lose credibility . |
| 14 | Ellis , who was unemployed and living on benefit , hit upon the idea that the girl should go out to work as a prostitute , it was claimed . |
| 15 | you ca n't settle down to work on a project even though it interests you |
| 16 | ’ Posi , ’ she said , ’ Let's start again to lay in a Netline course for a Highlight crossing to the planet Fraxilly . ’ |