Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] [pron] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Grace Hinkle loves to see me making like an executive and remembering to charge up all expenses . |
2 | He needs to know he belongs to the new family , that he is ‘ accepted in the beloved one ’ ( Eph. 1:6 ) . |
3 | Liberal Democrat MP Simon Hughes on the Lamont affair WHEN he goes to see a Shakespeare play he wants to know what happens at the end . |
4 | Someone has to experience it to know to the full how you feel . |
5 | There are no nationally agreed guidelines for the appointment of police surgeons : this matter rests entirely on the discretion of the local Chief Constable who has to decide who to appoint from the applicants for the particular post , which is advertised by the police . |
6 | It 's not that he wants to stop them going to the toilet , we 've got to persuade these people to do it on a stagger basis … |
7 | She has just taken office as president of the British Computer Society , and needs to make it jump from the seventies , where some believe it is still stuck , into the nineties . |
8 | Sarah Brightman 's Rose was a bloodless creature — she has to make us believe in the devil-may-care spirit of theatrical folk to show up the stuffiness of the aristocrats . |
9 | Neither the political right nor left wants to tell what happened from the 1920s through 1945 . |
10 | If the client refuses to let them communicate with the auditors , then they should turn the job down . |
11 | Prior to enrolment at the start of their first year , the University will send to all EC students forms to enable them to apply for a mandatory award . |
12 | He does n't really seem to be very careful about distinguishing intellect from the one and , and so forth , does n't really , he 's not , he 's not really focusing on that difference and so seems to let it lapse in a less than useful way . |
13 | He seems to invite us to think of the circle as something which embodies , or is a continuing expression of , the motions which generate it ; and this involves our thinking of those motions in a way which makes them less like efficient causes than like formal causes , at least as Aristotle intended them . |
14 | Marshall seems to think it relates to the oyster farm negotiations , but as no money , has yet been received on that account I don t see why commission had to be paid in advance , particularly at a time when the group is pressed for cash . |
15 | After some reflection , she was unable to offer any rule but said , quite correctly , ‘ It seems to have something to do with the verb . ’ |
16 | ‘ I try to suggest , to an actor , something in the scene other than what appears to make it move on the surface . ’ |
17 | The small piece of plastic or glass fibre protruding at the tail of the board which helps to keep it sailing in a straight line . |
18 | These are broad descriptions of how the company wishes to see itself developing over the planning period . |
19 | ‘ But who wishes to find themselves married to a boy ? |
20 | He tries to confine his searching to the area around the nest , presumably so that he can keep an eye on his partner . |
21 | Liverpool 's defeat , which threatens to prevent them finishing in the top five for the first time since their initial season back in the First Division 30 years ago , was again due to the unpredictable goalkeeping of Grobbelaar . |