Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [indef pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only when I got to know something of the poverty of India 's villages ( some 500,000 of them ) that I really saw far worse poverty . |
| 2 | He replied politely that just as he studied the whereabouts of bones and tendons and muscles so as to know more about the figures he tried to draw , in the same way — if he was attempting a portrait — it helped to know something about the working of people 's minds and how their characters had been formed . |
| 3 | She bent her head so he could n't see her blush at the thought that he meant their own relationship , and pretended to do something to the heel of her shoe . |
| 4 | And we tried to do something about the problem of alcoholism and prostitution in the area by getting the bars and brothels registered with the local government . |
| 5 | She was persuaded to concede on that point , then proposed to share everything with the production team — until it was pointed out that if just one penny , or a single biscuit was diverted in that direction , and it became known , we 'd be lynched . |
| 6 | She leaned on the fence , wrapped her coat more closely round her body and tried to assimilate something of the tranquillity of the night , but all she could think of was the hurt in Barney 's eyes and the stiffness of his voice . |
| 7 | Out of the corner of her eye , she saw the casual intimacy as Luke bent to say something to the girl , felt the cruel , jealous twist in her body , as she saw his mouth meeting hers in a lazy kiss . |
| 8 | They had interviewed a man from Bombay who claimed to have a degree in physics but turned out to be a defrocked dentist , and they had nearly offered a job to a man from Sri Lanka who seemed to know everything about the school apart from the fact that it was supposed to be for Muslims . |
| 9 | In a car outside these youngsters seemed to know something about the vandalism . |
| 10 | The Director seemed to know nothing about the College . |
| 11 | Unlike Karelius and Fräulein Müller , the Frenchman seemed to know nothing about the opera or even the rudiments of music . |
| 12 | Huy stooped to pick something off the ground , that lay three-quarters hidden in the rough yellow grass that grew around the sides of the stone . |
| 13 | Next morning he seemed to remember nothing of the night 's experiences , and Tess did not refer to his sleepwalking . |
| 14 | " We came to do something about the record-player , " Sandra said brightly . |
| 15 | I seemed to do anything to the car , mind with the water pump I think they check , they have to er adjust the timing . |
| 16 | To Pétain , for whom the future seemed to hold nothing but the obscurity of a colonel in retirement , the war and the dramatic failure of Plan XVII brought an unexpected opportunity to prove his ideas . |
| 17 | Bernhard Langer got the first blow in by hitting a great second shot over the Swilcan Burn at the first hole to only a few inches , about a foot I guess , and birdied to go one nearer the lead . |
| 18 | ‘ We believe she arranged to meet someone up the mountain . |
| 19 | ‘ We believe she arranged to meet someone up the mountain . |
| 20 | He declined to add anything in the column for ‘ Other personal information ’ . |
| 21 | Suddenly , in mid-song , Dylan stopped playing and began to mumble something into the microphone , off on his own personal tangent . |
| 22 | However , if Mr Chekhov decided to write anything in the future it would be delighted to have look at it . |
| 23 | Suddenly Malcolm decided to change everything about the shop — name , stock , attitude . |
| 24 | Miss Dunstable decided to say nothing about the Rector 's imperfectly ironed surplice . |
| 25 | Jim went to put something in the garage |
| 26 | I could n't really cope with meeting any more people and went to watch Everything But The Girl from nearer the stage . |
| 27 | If she still managed to get anything in the way of a book published he would persuade some friends to provide bad reviews . |
| 28 | ‘ What intrigues me most of all is how you managed to get someone like the editor of the New York Times to agree to back up your cover story . ’ |
| 29 | The members of his party appeared to know nothing about the opposition of the hierarchy to the earlier Bill , and Dr Browne only found out in October/November 1950 . |
| 30 | It appeared to have something on the side . |