Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [indef pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was quite a wide space between stone and stone , but Jenny felt sure that she could jump from one to the other quite easily . |
| 2 | Robbie could think of nothing but the deep growing ache around which every sense seemed focused . |
| 3 | When I saw this happening I began to watch more closely , and I saw that some nights even when she was n't up on the stage Madame had her eye on these two and would often look from one to the other and then back again . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If a detainee tells a FME that he wishes to give him confidential information , he is warned by the doctor that confidentiality does not apply to anything against the public interest , for it would be improper for the doctor to collude in deception . |
| 6 | One might compare the difficulty with that of trying to write rules for how one might indicate to someone of the opposite sex that one finds them attractive ; while psychologists and biologists might make detailed observations and generalisations about how human beings of a particular culture behave in such a situation , most people would rightly feel that studying these generalisations would be no substitute for practical experience , and that relying on a text-book could lead to hilarious consequences . |
| 7 | Ignoring the licence problem and the various trips and entertainments ( which we think will be the responsibility of the conference organizers ) , your cost calculations may well come to something like the following . |
| 8 | They would sit across one from the other and study hard , for they bet on their games . |
| 9 | His competitor , Barry O'Donovan of Carbrook Chemicals , does not export on anything like the same scale as himself , he says . |