Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [pron] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ruling groups have found that their interests are best safeguarded if they are supported by a work force which can not think for itself in the coherent way writing affords . |
| 2 | If the seller wants a margin , he must stipulate for it in the contractual description . |
| 3 | He was rather taken aback but said he would report to head office and let me know about it in the New Year . |
| 4 | When he left his room , he knocked on the women 's door ; he would wait for them in the small restaurant at the front of the hotel . |
| 5 | Well , since he did not appeal to me in the slightest , the whole business became a terrible bore . |
| 6 | Now er on the air at five o'clock mister Tim with drive at five and the early evening sequence , and we 're gon na chat to him in the next thirty minutes because he 's been out shopping today and he 's spent quite a lot of money on some brand new clothes . |
| 7 | There was a lot of tooth-sucking for a while as he tried to get me to say more and that was almost funny , given that it was the tooth-sucking that made me think of it in the first place , suddenly thinking . |
| 8 | This is because one or other must be better , and pride can not allow executives to settle for the second best — so why think of it in the first place ? |
| 9 | Alan Middleton has recently moved to Aberdeen with Christian Literature Crusade , pray that he would settle into his new role in that place and that Alan would be open to what God would do through him in the coming months . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't know how you can even speak of her in the same breath . ’ |
| 11 | It was unlooked-for grace that after supper he should send his page to ask Mistress Hussey to be kind enough to come and speak with him in the small chamber the prince was using as a study . |
| 12 | His opinion of her work , like his opinion of her as a person , really should n't matter to her in the slightest . |
| 13 | West Ham are one of the favourites to go straight up , but who can tell what the pressures of promotion will do to them in the final weeks . |
| 14 | ‘ You ask : how do you advance the public interest , how do you provide for it in the best way ? ’ |
| 15 | Perhaps they will spawn for you in the new tank . |
| 16 | If the immigration authorities concluded that Mr Hussain 's assertion that he was undecided as to his long term intentions was pretended rather than genuine , clearly that would weigh against him in the primary purpose issue . |
| 17 | She said : ‘ I do work with him in the commercial world — but I have no involvement in his politics . ’ |
| 18 | So I mean I suppose they 'll look at it in the same kind of way , somebody who 's got managerial , management qualities rather than I suppose people who are interested in the other side of it , the medical side of it , probably , really be geared up to organizing the money side of it would n't they , usually one or the other . |
| 19 | He will be missed although the contribution he has made will remain with us in the present form of N C V O , to which he very greatly contributed . |
| 20 | ‘ With the Smart Rope , the condition of the rope being hired is visible and the hirer can sign for it in the full knowledge of its condition , ’ says Jim Oag . |
| 21 | Likewise , Mr Clark has had to explain that his remark to Mr Lamont ( ‘ I can see you were n't at Eton ’ ) is derogatory not of the chancellor but of Mr Clark 's alma mater , where ‘ you were surrounded by shits and knew what shits were , the sort of people who could vote against Her in the first round . |
| 22 | How far the EC can be regarded as a common labour market , or will develop into one in the foreseeable future , remains an open question . |
| 23 | She said that because he was a volunteer she felt she could not call on him in the same way as with a paid worker . |
| 24 | If they do n't respond to me in the next forty eight hours I 'm going to send them a second letter er tel . |
| 25 | Determined to shoot one with a really fine head , I decided to spend a night near the mountain-top so that I could hunt for them in the early morning before they lay up for the day . |
| 26 | ‘ They 'll never understand why I did n't go to them in the first place . |
| 27 | His illness would stand to him in the other place too . |
| 28 | TARA , the golden retriever with a theatrical bent , came face to face today with the two little girls who will star with her in the musical Annie . |
| 29 | I was crouching just feet away , terrified that at any moment one of the massive males would charge into me in the desperate struggle . |
| 30 | In the spring , almost without knowing how it happened , she accepted Rachel 's invitation to go and live with her in the new house she was buying in London . |