Example sentences of "[prep] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For to remain as a directly managed unit would place a question mark on it 's future . |
| 2 | And your telephone then and then you go to this is got ta to go for the page |
| 3 | Well no not really because erm it , it was a private company as you can understand er , I can I ca n't really explain it everyone seemed to be pulling together you know that was the last thing you thought of , fifth columnists , things like that although it was they used to er , every now and again they used to send government national service officers round to look at the personnel and the structure of the working and if they thought anybody was superfluous to requirements they 'd get the papers soon after to go into the army or the services yeah , yeah , that is true and that happened , used to happen in factories all round the area , it was called the Essential Works Order . |
| 4 | If ‘ Now I see it as a duck ’ did mean this , then the sensation would have to be such as to lead to the judgement ‘ a drawing of a duck ’ and not such as to lead to the judgement ‘ a drawing of a rabbit ’ . |
| 5 | If ‘ Now I see it as a duck ’ did mean this , then the sensation would have to be such as to lead to the judgement ‘ a drawing of a duck ’ and not such as to lead to the judgement ‘ a drawing of a rabbit ’ . |
| 6 | The meeting decided to contribute £10 towards to cost of the Durham County Best Kept Village competition . |
| 7 | Imagine what it is like to sit through a meeting , go to the theatre or try to follow a further education class if it is essential to see the speaker 's face in order to understand what is said . |
| 8 | It was to be known whether the mines " are like to continue as they have been , & whether the Oare is like to continue at the same rate it hath been at , and whether it be of the same goodness as it hath been . " |
| 9 | She tried to imagine what it would be like to sink to the sea bed and stay there , calmly , with only a steel hull between a man and the enormous , pressing waters . |
| 10 | Figures about child labour in coal mines in the nineteenth century , or about evacuation of children in the Second World War , do not begin to give any impression of what it was like to work in a coal mine or to be evacuated . |
| 11 | We are excited about this part of our course , but a bit unsure of what it will be like to work in a foreign country . |
| 12 | As Rain passed Tavett 's desk he cupped his face in his hands and moaned for her benefit , saying : ‘ Have you ever wondered what it would be like to work in an ordinary office instead of a newspaper where every kind of freak feels entitled to barge in and collar you ? ’ |
| 13 | For instance , the Association of Carers ( address on page 145 ) was founded in 1981 by Judith Oliver who knows from experience what it is like to look after a disabled husband for many years . |
| 14 | I can only hazard a guess at what it must have been like to sail in a typical convoy , with bombers and submarines liable to strike at any moment , or to brave the Western Approaches with only a couple of inches of rusting metal between yourself and the enemy . |
| 15 | I had no conception of what it was like to play for an honest-to-god institution until Walter put me straight . |
| 16 | Time for reflection : Andy Goram now knows ‘ what it is like to play for an honest-to-god institution ’ after some words of wisdom from Walter Smith . |
| 17 | teams know what it is like to play in a school for educationally sub-normal children who can not ( or do not want to ) distinguish between the ‘ baddy ’ character and the actor — who finds himself molested as he retreats to his car after the show ! |
| 18 | " Has it ever struck you , Pinkie , what it would be like to belong to a class of objects which gets more valuable as it gets older ? |
| 19 | ‘ I was wondering what it would be like to battle with a marlin . ’ |
| 20 | He was also learning the hard way what it was like to live with the ‘ changeability of women ’ . |
| 21 | Apart from the influence of many young voters who have no memory of what it was like to live under a Labour government , the biggest thing going for Labour in this election is an Englishman 's sense of fair play . |
| 22 | Before I left , I told Eliot that I was still toying with the idea of writing the book on politics , which had increasingly been absorbing me , and I described to him something of what it had been like to live under a benevolent dictatorship . |
| 23 | You have not known , you could not know , what it was like to live under the Occupation . |
| 24 | Dissecting and describing , he makes you not only know but feel what it 's like to live without a phone and be totally dependent on erratically functioning call boxes for the battle-lines on which to fight for late or lost benefit payments . |
| 25 | If a grown-up really wants to find out what it is like to live in a young person 's world , let him or her get down on hands and knees and go about like that for a week . |
| 26 | Having finished it , Artemis then sat gazing at her drawing , trying to imagine what it would be like to live in a house with just four windows , one chimney and one door , with just her mother , and perhaps even her father . |
| 27 | Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live in an antique shop ? |
| 28 | There 's something spooky about them : you sense momentarily what it must be like to live in an ordered , God-run universe , with Himself looking over your shoulder and helpfully dropping coarse hints about a cosmic plan . |
| 29 | This is what it was like to live in the pre-scholastic age . |
| 30 | What is it like to live in the countryside ? |