Example sentences of "[vb infin] [indef pn] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hard though he tried , Floyd could make nothing of the inward half and Couples , having gone to the front with a birdie at the ninth , was never caught again . |
| 2 | Sometimes they are perceived only by those in intimate contact , yet sometimes they can make everyone in a large crowd aware of individual feelings . |
| 3 | You 'd need someone with a good deal of local knowledge to pull that off . ’ |
| 4 | And do n't buy one with the front headlamp glass missing : they 're almost impossible to replace . |
| 5 | Perhaps they reflect nothing at all except the accidents of conception : but I suspect that there is often , in fact , a buried clue here , and that if we could unearth it we should know something about the early growth of many market towns that no documents will ever tell us . |
| 6 | Buying a ticket for last night 's game does NOT guarantee one for the all-Ireland clash in November — unless a formal application was made at the time of purchase to the IFA office . |
| 7 | The all-alloy 24-valve twin-cam engine is described by Cosworth as being of the ‘ high-efficiency ’ type , and follows the ‘ modular ’ theory — meaning that the basic design could suit anything from the three-cylinder unit to a V12 . |
| 8 | Great advantage now is you would n't need anything like a high chair |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't know anything about a stolen book , ’ Connelly bleated . |
| 10 | Well my mother was one of the pillars of the Palfrey church and er she er oh I went , my father never used to go , but she used to go and of course I , I used to be an altar server down there when I got a bit older I did for a week or two to the erm do you know anything about an Anglo-Catholic Church I mean where they swing the incense and there is this little boy with the boat ? |
| 11 | And they did n't really know anything about the blooming bloke you know ! |
| 12 | What gets me about this guy Alderson is that he served in the country area of Cornwall , and he makes all these proposals about inner-city policing ; now how the hell would he know anything about the inner city ? |
| 13 | When I first decided to go into acting , my mother went mad — it was quite understandable , we did n't know anything about the acting profession . |
| 14 | ‘ When I arrived I could n't speak a word of Spanish , did n't know anything about the photographic scene in Madrid and had never worked as a professional photographer before , so it was n't the easiest of situations to begin with . ’ |
| 15 | They referred to his dependency upon the Black vote ( as though the Democratic Party itself could win anything without the Black vote , and as though Alaska and Vermont were strongholds of Black populations rather than white snow ) . |
| 16 | I certainly do not believe that we can win anything by a formal arrangement with the Liberal Democratic Party . |
| 17 | Let us assume nothing but a casual connexion between the imagined tastes and the motion of the hand . |
| 18 | ‘ I shall do nothing for the simple reason that — knowing Doreen — it would be a waste of time and effort . |
| 19 | She saw Naylor 's sharp glance go over her , but , while she quickly lowered her glance , she could do nothing about the unexpected riot of colour that flooded her face . |
| 20 | Ruth kept her distance from him but she could do nothing about the wretched aura that surrounded him . |
| 21 | If you 're gay you 're reviled , but Cube has always revealed the sick shit from the grubby corners of his mind , and you ca n't expect someone from the wasted landscape of black urban America to think like a white liberal . |
| 22 | Here , more than anywhere , in these moments of shared contemplation where the presence of death is so immediate and so visible , do you sense something like a collective consciousness being forged , a powerful combative resolve . |
| 23 | Mr John Rennilson , the county planning officer , said : ‘ Unless we can achieve something in a short time the inevitable will happen on March 31 . ’ |
| 24 | He was so efficient , I 'm wondering if he could do something about the disgusting chick pea casserole they serve on the Intercity 125 . |
| 25 | A Reagan administration in Sacramento , the voters were led to believe , would do something about the rising tide of crime in the state , would take people off welfare and put them to work and , above all else , it would get the government off the people 's back . |
| 26 | If a public sector organisation says that it will do something at a certain time , the customer wants that to happen . |
| 27 | First of all , presumably , you lose your normal time structure of having to go off and do something on a regular basis . |
| 28 | I mean , it needs to perhaps perhaps they can do something for the first couple |
| 29 | And I think that if people who are still smoking , and I think nearly every smoker is unhappy with their habit , if they will remember that and think that they can actually do something for the next generation , it 's not their fault , there are people out there , there are forces out there who are forced them to start smoking and who are trying to get the generation to start . |
| 30 | Runner-up River Falls , beaten a head , and his stablemate Swing Low , third , are both in the 2,000 Guineas but Richard Hannon will send one for the Italian version . |