Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [noun] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After moving to England , he fought for over two years without being defeated and reckoned : ‘ Ninety per cent of the public wanted to see me win the British title . |
| 2 | I 'm starting to lose my bearings a bit — and my ball-bearings as well , come to that . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd be grateful if you could deign to spare my proposition a full thirty seconds of considered thought . ’ |
| 4 | We paid rent to be there and er and of course either Hugh or me or both of us came up to see my mother every day , you see , unless we knew she was going to have a visitor and then we used to take a day off |
| 5 | Thankful that , though her ankle was still painful if she put any weight on it , her foot was n't swollen , Luce put on a pair of yellow flat-heeled sandals and , unable to contain her impatience a moment longer , picked up the crutch and headed down the corridor . |
| 6 | In the second half of 1934 and in 1935 the movement all but collapsed as a national force , and to revive its fortunes the fascist political programme was de-emphasized and instead more attention was paid to fomenting local and regional grievances in populist campaigns . |
| 7 | So let's see if there 's anyone a bit more meatier and we get to know their character a bit more . |
| 8 | It 's difficult to know which country the cocoa comes from because you do n't know where they buy it . |
| 9 | The Weathermen , about whom the underground filmmaker Emile De Antonio made a sympathetic documentary in 1977 , took their title from the protest song by Bob Dylan : ‘ You Do n't Need A Weatherman To Know Which Way The Wind Blows . ’ |
| 10 | It was too heavy to turn in the wind , but it mattered little to know which way the wind was blowing : wherever it blew it blew word of the miraculous pageant and the Angel Gabriel . |
| 11 | ‘ It was difficult to know which way the cat was going to jump , ’ she told me . |
| 12 | I 'd certainly like to know which bookshops the trials are being held in . |
| 13 | IF the BBC wants to secure its future the first thing it should do is cut down on the huge fees it pays to presenters . |
| 14 | he went on , attempting to increase their pace a little , " what have you been up to ? |
| 15 | Partly to counteract its influence the TUC created official Unemployed Associations in 1930 . |
| 16 | yeah , absolutely , erm I think partly those things are to in when people pump out loads and loads of references , partly it 's to indicate which studies the ideas , information , evidence have come from |
| 17 | When he finally turned into Brunel Road and stopped to catch his breath the others were nowhere to be seen . |
| 18 | Morrison was host to such Victorian worthies as Ruskin , the great art critic , and Charles Kingsley , who is said to have been inspired to write his book The Water Babies by his visits to the Dales ( Vendale being based on Littondale ) and who once told somebody that the black marks on the face of Malham Cove were made by " the fingers of little chimney boys " . |
| 19 | He would doubtless provide if a commission was to come his way a superb set of illustrations to Dante Alighieri 's The Divine Comedy . |
| 20 | I 've been helping him to find his feet a bit in Algiers . ’ |
| 21 | Zen murmured something about needing to find his mother a present , and Cinzia immediately took charge . |
| 22 | Without any direct contact , it 's difficult to know what state the negotiations are in . |
| 23 | For example , it is important to know what properties an estimator or test statistic , which is known to have good properties if we happen to have chosen the correct model , will have for models with particular types of mis-specification . |
| 24 | But Labour 's deputy leader of the council , Alan Dean , said it was impossible to know what effect the level of government finance , pay settlements and competitive tendering would have on the council 's ability to guarantee jobs . |
| 25 | If so , he will often need to know what action the local authority has taken before the matter came to court and whether this complied with the requirements of the Act . |
| 26 | She also needs to know what stage the host birds have reached in their own nesting cycle because the timing of her laying can be crucial . |
| 27 | Once the decision has been made to accept an invitation from the media you will need to know what form the programme is to take . |
| 28 | and so on , to establish what media the ads were in , what they said , and similar questions . |
| 29 | In such a case better to accept whatever penalties the Church might impose , however harsh , for theft and deceit , rather than fall into the hands of the secular law , my law , ’ said Hugh firmly , ‘ where murder is a hanging matter . |
| 30 | To discover what difference the action project made ( that is , whether it delayed or prevented admission to an institution ; whether it delayed deterioration in or improved the physical , emotional or mental well-being of dementia sufferers or their carers ; whether it delayed deterioration in or improved family relationships ; whether it increased , decreased or had no effect on people 's receipt of statutory or other voluntary services ) . |