Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well er I went when I was when I went first went and do you know I went into the to the place and do you know I run away from the place . |
| 2 | What some writers now term the ‘ widening gap ’ between the rich and the poor , both within countries and between the First and the Third Worlds , might tempt us to subscribe pessimistically to the view that the countries of the Third World are passive victims of the exercise of First World hegemon countries ' power . |
| 3 | The House will expect me to apologise again for the remarks that I injudiciously made when I was trying to illustrate a simple point — that , with the private sector providing more rail services in future , I hope that a range of choice will be available to the travelling public in terms of price and time of day , rather like that provided by the airlines and the long-distance coach market . |
| 4 | ‘ Did you honestly expect me to stay home at the barn and carry on as if nothing had happened after you threw all those accusations at me ? |
| 5 | Do you think that teachers really do n't expect them to do well in the sciences and perhaps even positively discourage them from going into science ? |
| 6 | If prison riots are caused by overcrowding , understaffing , bad physical conditions and poor security , one would expect them to occur exclusively in the local prisons and remand centres which are the most overcrowded and understaffed , where conditions are worse and security less tight than in many longer-stay establishments . |
| 7 | ‘ I will do your errand , my lord , ’ he said , ‘ and I 'll bring you word again from the Lord Owen . |
| 8 | Mr Craven does n't want you to wander all over the house ! ’ |
| 9 | Erm you look fairly fit thank you very much , you know , very sweet of you dear , erm tt and I think to , to carry on with the regards to well how much do you earn you went all around the houses , do n't apologize and say well I have to ask you because , you know , , you know you need to know |
| 10 | It is said that if you visit the Mermaid Pool of Derbyshire just before dawn , you will see them swimming gracefully in the dark waters below . |
| 11 | I was still carrying the child , but now I could see you riding away into the distance . |
| 12 | What I 'd like you to do just for the last ten minutes is to think of a member of staff you have who has a training need and think about how you will go about training them and the methods that you will use . |
| 13 | He could remember him complaining once in the café to William 's grandad . |
| 14 | We must n't keep it locked away in the closet lest it turn to dust . |
| 15 | As results get worse , I still manage to bluff the board into believing I have a long-term strategy that will see us pulling away from the bottom within weeks . |
| 16 | That will enable them to respond flexibly to the transport needs of their students , including students with learning difficulties . |
| 17 | The group , headed by Stanley Kalms , said his resignation would ‘ enable him to concentrate fully on the financial management and control of the group 's retail businesses . ’ |
| 18 | He was a quadraplegic , confined to a wheelchair , but this did n't stop him travelling all over the world . |
| 19 | The restructuring will enable it to focus better on the two areas of its expertise in both wide area and local networks . |
| 20 | ‘ Our strengthened balance sheet will enable us to benefit fully from the opportunities which the recovery will offer across our range of activities . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Our strengthened balance sheet will enable us to benefit fully from the opportunities which the recovery will offer across our range of activities . ’ |
| 22 | Apparently you could hear them shouting all round the college . |
| 23 | Do you have them going right to the edge ? |
| 24 | That time she 'd told me how lonely and abandoned she felt when she was with her husband , those confessional words , ‘ lonely and abandoned ’ , which usually would have me cringing all over the place , made me shiver . |
| 25 | Erm on the use of existing employment sites , I 'd hate you to go away with the impression that er we were actively seeking to reallocate sites as they came forward , and that certainly is n't the case . |
| 26 | An ideal adventure for beginners , this one should have you plugging away till the wee small hours of the morning . |
| 27 | He stayed with us for a while in Salisbury early in 1921 and I can still hear him thumping away on the piano singing his favourite song ‘ Signora ’ in a not very tuneful voice . |
| 28 | He could hear her coughing half-way along the passage . |
| 29 | It had lain there all day , still unread , for he knew that just to look at it , just to scan its heavy headlines announcing further death and destruction would only make him sink deeper into the bog of doubt . |
| 30 | All these kinds of ambiguity can interact We look here at the interaction of anaphor resolution with word sense and with structural ambiguity resolution . |