Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [indef pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Specially designed to help everyone in the family cope with the problems of epilepsy , it costs £12.50 from BEA , . |
| 2 | Are we presuming that those students will not be expected to pay anything in the charge that they pay for staying in the halls of residence ? |
| 3 | As home secretary , he had psyched himself up to batter the police unions and the chief constables , but on penal policy he was pushed to find anything in the agenda of Tony Blair , his Labour counterpart , to quarrel with . |
| 4 | A teenager concerned about the plight of the homeless has decided to do something about the problem herself . |
| 5 | Secondly is evidence from sediments and materials , and the material comprising the river terrace could be used to infer something about the mode of deposition and the physical environment at the time . |
| 6 | He had n't bothered to inform anyone in the team of this intention , and manager Bob Merriman suddenly found himself plunged into a crisis of seemingly immense proportions . |
| 7 | Got to visit everyone in the road ? ’ . |
| 8 | So he said erm but we ha being refurbished in four weeks ' time and we 've got to sell everything in the shop |
| 9 | You 've got to do one on the slip off and one on the slip on , at the same part |
| 10 | We 've got to do something about the bomb before we start . |
| 11 | We do n't always write on them ; sometimes you find that if somebody tells you to write a poem about windows you end up writing a poem about aeroplanes or whatever , and I actually like being told to do something from the outside because you 'll discover almost immediately whether that 's really something you want to write about or not . |
| 12 | every time you get a question right you pick a card , but if you have more than , once you 've got more than nine cards you 've got to put one at the bottom of the pack again |
| 13 | It 's when you get to ten you 've got ta stop , you 've got to put one at the bottom |
| 14 | You 've won , but if you ca n't you 've got to put one at the bottom |
| 15 | You 've got to repeat everything on the board is he ? |
| 16 | you 've got to swap one to the left , Shell |
| 17 | Terence would not mention his own name to anybody , he was confident of that , but he must be told to say nothing about the rest of it , to anyone . |
| 18 | Ever since I first saw a Judas tree , its winter bare branches studded with clusters of rosy-purple blossom , I have meant to plant one in the garden . |
| 19 | Though , just for the record , I would n't have tried to do anything of the sort if it were n't patently clear that you do n't feel anything lasting for your fiancé . ’ |
| 20 | Staff and parents should be encouraged to question anyone in the unit who is not wearing identification , while anyone leaving the hospital in a stealthy manner should also be questioned . |
| 21 | In this chapter we have tried to convey something of the complexity of the events which are associated with the INSET developments originally conceived as an essential part of the ESSE/L Project aims , and also something of the achievements to which these events have led . |
| 22 | We have tried to convey something of the complexity and texture of the environment within which the project was conceived and developed , and through detailed case studies of three schools to illustrate the project in action . |
| 23 | She had n't meant to ask anything of the sort , but realised then that her love for Naylor , her basic need to know more and everything about him , had got in the way of the fury she felt at his latest bossy manoeuvre . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , an ordinary person might be hard put to tell one from the other . |
| 25 | She had n't been allowed to bring anything off the boat except her patchwork leather shoulder-bag which had been thoroughly searched first . |
| 26 | Instead his diaries had begun to assume something of the knowingness of incipient middle age ; at times , indeed , he was in danger of becoming priggish and opinionated . |
| 27 | At table there were some small , preliminary escapes , nothing much ; I was determined to save everything for the climax . |
| 28 | Faye had said that of course she was welcome to browse through the large collection of beautiful books on painting and sculpture that filled an entire wall of bookshelves in the studio , and she had begun to learn something about the Renaissance , Impressionism , and modern Australian painting . |
| 29 | My sister was sent off to boarding school near Bournemouth to improve her health and was near starved , but Mother always managed to find something for the home fare — I remember a great day when she found the butcher 's bare and bought a goose that was available and that we certainly should n't have had it in normal circumstances and I was quick to see it was an ill wind that did nobody any good ! |
| 30 | Many like this team from Calgary in Canada , only managed to free one in the time . |