Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the case of a walk-in or chance guest then the room status board would be checked to see if accommodation was available . |
| 2 | Section 1 of the 1976 Act was thereby amended to include as dependants spouses and former spouses of the deceased , any person who ( i ) was living with the deceased in the same household immediately before the date of the death ; and ( ii ) had been living with the deceased in the same household for at least two years before that date ; and ( iii ) was living during the whole of that period as the husband or wife of the deceased , any parent or other ascendant or child or other descendant of the deceased , any person who was treated by the deceased as his parent , and any person ( not being a child of the deceased ) who was treated by the deceased as a " child of the family " in relation to any marriage of the deceased , and any person who is or was the issue of a brother , sister , uncle or aunt of the deceased . |
| 3 | Servants no longer slept within earshot of their masters , but were banished to garret or basement , and subsequently planted out in separate wings . |
| 4 | Do you want to go and shimmy off while I get them ready for bed ? |
| 5 | ‘ Both races hope for prosperity , prosperity means expansion , expansion means immigration , immigration means British ’ ; the syllogism was false , in logic and experience , but it was good enough for those who did not want to go where logic and experience pointed . |
| 6 | In dealing with the difficult topics of his own day he resorted to silence and ambiguity . |
| 7 | Annunziata opened the door quietly and checked to see that Julia was asleep before walking silently to Comfort 's chair and whispering that there was a visitor for the signora downstairs . |
| 8 | I checked to see if Armstrong was still there and then I risked a crouching run as far as the Sierra 's tail lights . |
| 9 | Cruttenden 's data also tend to confirm that congruity has a greater effect when it is paired with gender cue , which is the condition in which it would seem , a priori , to be less useful . |
| 10 | But doctors failed to diagnose that Anthony Newell , 35 , a publican , of Websters Land , Edinburgh , had a serious but treatable arterial condition in the brain . |
| 11 | They failed to see that money came from success , not the other way round — Chelsea , for instance , had also paid large sums for players without creating a championship team — and that the vital factor was the genius of the manager in charge for getting the most out of his players , whatever they cost , and for buying the right man . |
| 12 | There may well be those who believe that plants should be rigidly seasonal and I tend to agree but nature goes its own way and Galanthus nivalis subspecies reginae-olgae is a true end of year Snowdrop . |
| 13 | Once you have sold an idea to an editor you can then discuss how much material you will supply and how much the magazine will want to write or photograph for itself . |
| 14 | Two weeks ago , a one-ton bomb at Canary Wharf failed to detonate although experts have failed to find out why . |
| 15 | Thus , in this view parents as well as children tend to appear as victims and , in particular , working-class parents are seen as vulnerable and powerless vis-à-vis statutory agencies . |
| 16 | You tend to find that groups , if you 've got a group who 're gon na launch a bomb y'know that that groups make far more risky or dicy de decisions than individuals . |
| 17 | And we 'll do that by constantly demanding to know that Ashi and Sousan are alive . |
| 18 | And he has written to Home Secretary Michael Howard demanding to know if plans for the category B inmate jail will be put on ice for a second time . |
| 19 | He has written to Home Secretary , Michael Howard , demanding to know if plans for the category B inmate jail will be put on ice for a second time . |
| 20 | They must be taught to retrieve but mine have always been intelligent enough to quickly acquire the knack after limited training . |
| 21 | I assumed you 'd want to know that wreckage of a dinghy was washed up a few miles north of here on the Welsh coast last night . |
| 22 | Now to me I might want to know that people use language to mean more than one thing . |
| 23 | He did n't really want to know and Ruth was grateful for his lack of interest . |
| 24 | He turned his horse time and again , and went ploughing through the thickest of the struggle with bared sword , exchanging strokes with any who cared to stand and debate with him . |
| 25 | Moreover , we failed to find that Helicobacter pylori is associated with reduced acute mucosal injury and the relevance of haemorrhagic lesions in patients taking NSAIDs to the development of important clinical lesions has recently been questioned . |
| 26 | There was no sign of a studio and for a minute she expected to find that Alain had been merely frightening her — some hidden cruelty to make her feel uncomfortable , another chance to embarrass her . |
| 27 | They had not long to wait to discover whether Edward was in earnest or not . |
| 28 | The lower-ranking mandarins who agreed to work as interpreters were rewarded with big tracts of good rice-growing land in the Mekong delta , and the idea soon began to catch on that collaborating paid . |
| 29 | ‘ No 1 ’ was small , but ‘ Carlisle ’ , built in 1865 , was a largish engine with tender and we soon got to know that Whitaker would let us onto the footplate . |
| 30 | ‘ I still want to see that article , Maggie Howard , ’ he had teased . |