Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] [adv prt] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But for their middle-class , middle-aged , CD-buying target audience , such shows , which tend to concentrate on either the roots of popular music or music from the less-developed world , offer the chance to explore the very ‘ essence ’ of a musical culture . |
| 2 | They want to find out why the men drove there and how the truck caught fire . |
| 3 | But you see this is what they want to find out now the dialect 's changed in |
| 4 | They say they still want to find out how the girls died , but ca n't get legal aid to sue for damages . |
| 5 | This method is therefore the one to use if you want to work out how the pattern should be placed for matching side or raglan seams , cardigan fronts and so on . |
| 6 | We want to point out again the difficulty of drawing up regional strategic guidance in the absence of a stated national coastal strategy . |
| 7 | When faced with what we regard as consummately bad taste , or people who seem to revel in exactly the behaviour we abhor , we often feel revolted , nauseous or acutely embarrassed , as when parents say the wrong thing in front of a child 's peers , or that child is forced to wear clothes whose image he or she rejects . |
| 8 | Surely Baldwin , whatever his desire earlier in the imbroglio , can not at this stage have wished to go back to the Cabinet on the following morning and announce that a wayward King , who had already compromised his position with most opinion both at home and in the Dominions , had suddenly changed his mind , at least temporarily , and , having attracted the maximum publicity to his preference for Mrs Simpson over the Throne , was now prepared to ditch her and try to pick up again the pieces of kingship . |
| 9 | ‘ We have to find out why the trade is not supporting it . |
| 10 | Not as rosy as you might think if you have to rely on just the state pension , or fail to review existing pension arrangements . |