Example sentences of "[to-vb] [indef pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Hankses ' cottage , Tom rubbed the steam from the window and peered outside , able to see nothing but heavy snowflakes melting against the windows . |
| 2 | Clive had got so used to being able to fool everyone in this circle that he was unnerved by her obvious clear-sightedness . |
| 3 | He was trying , insanely , to preserve everyone in this family in just the state in which he had first encountered them , when they had given him that delightful sense of secure , harmonious , integrated living . |
| 4 | When public funds are required to support someone in private care the needs of that person should be assessed in the same way as for admission to statutory care and admission should depend on the results of that assessment . |
| 5 | ‘ We are creating and missing so many chances that sooner or later we 're going to hit someone for six , ’ he said . |
| 6 | Just recently I was talking to a man who had crossed the world to see someone for this very reason . |
| 7 | He had n't been so pleased to see someone in all his life . |
| 8 | ‘ All that stuff just kinda blends into blues , but it is real hard to compare someone like Blind Lemon Jefferson to Albert Collins . |
| 9 | Enough grain is produced to provide everyone with ample protein and more than 3,000 calories per day . |
| 10 | Obviously a client will not discuss intimate affairs with someone whom he believes to know nothing of such matters , or whom he thinks may condemn or be shocked by his problems . |
| 11 | I just want you to know nothing of that kind will happen again — ever . ’ |
| 12 | But Clare seemed to know nothing of this side of the relationship between her brother and her cousin . |
| 13 | He could scarcely put more vividly the truth that the Spirit who has come upon Christians is the Spirit of Jesus , and that our destiny will involve the suffering and the hardship of the Servant of the Lord That is why he is determined to know nothing among these Corinthian enthusiasts but ‘ Jesus Christ , and him crucified ’ ( 1 Cor. 2:2 ) . |
| 14 | We might , however , usefully make " trust " the focal point of a drama in which , for example we examined when it is appropriate to trust someone , or how we might learn to trust someone in difficult circumstances , or how we can gain someone 's trust — but this is very different from the worryingly naive claims sometimes made for " trust games " . |
| 15 | It was a funny feeling to meet someone like that and feel that way . |
| 16 | And if the committee of the CICCU be taxed with bringing in someone who did not fit the undergraduates of a university , it might be replied , first that they were desperate to find someone at short notice , and secondly , was it desirable that a missioner should fit the undergraduates ? |
| 17 | In order to secure someone with outstanding qualifications and experience for this demanding appointment , an attractive and fully competitive remunerations package , and substantial performance bonus , will be negotiated . |
| 18 | Should the weather be unkind , or fish reluctant to rise , then I am sure that I will be able to find plenty of other sea-borne activities to keep me fully occupied ; and , hopefully , merrily amused . |
| 19 | I think , I mean , one way is for editors with similar jobs to get together and do a generic one erm but there 's only one editor amongst us so you have no-one together with unless you want to find somebody in another group , but I do n't think it 's going to really serve very much purpose . |
| 20 | Do you think people who are digging all these bits up are going to know everything about all the things they 've dug up ? |
| 21 | A common fault into which candidates fall is to assume that the mention of a topic in the question is an indication that the examiner wants to know everything about that and related subjects . |
| 22 | In the arts it has become over the last century not the exception but almost the rule for the innovator at the crucial time of forming his style to find something in another culture from which he can learn , an influence not superficial , as in eighteenth century chinoiserie , but radical ( the Impressionists and the Japanese woodcut , Debussy and the Javanese gamelan , Frank Lloyd Wright and Japanese architecture , the Imagists and Japanese and Chinese poetry , the Cubists and African sculpture , Henry Moore and the Mexican Chac Mool , Brecht and Chinese theatre , Artaud and Balinese dance ) . |
| 23 | Fishpool is a way to provide something for local dancers , and it 's also a chance for David and Gaynor to take hold of the creative reins . |
| 24 | However — ’ he shrugged ‘ — my vet in Westmead ca n't be expected to come out so far so I 've obviously got to find one for this shop . ’ |
| 25 | The problem will be to find one without any geological ‘ boobytraps ’ , such as heavy faulting , without generating a political furore . |
| 26 | How very nice to find one in these dark days . |
| 27 | If you want to increase something by forty five percent what do you multiply it by ? |
| 28 | So , if you want to increase something by forty five percent what do you multiply it by ? |
| 29 | If you want to increase something by seven percent what do you multiply it by ? |
| 30 | To build up a character you need to know something about that character , what sort of person that character is or what sort of animal that character is . |