Example sentences of "[to-vb] [indef pn] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clive had got so used to being able to fool everyone in this circle that he was unnerved by her obvious clear-sightedness . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Just recently I was talking to a man who had crossed the world to see someone for this very reason . |
| 4 | He had n't been so pleased to see someone in all his life . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I just want you to know nothing of that kind will happen again — ever . ’ |
| 7 | But Clare seemed to know nothing of this side of the relationship between her brother and her cousin . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | It was a funny feeling to meet someone like that and feel that way . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Do you think people who are digging all these bits up are going to know everything about all the things they 've dug up ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | The problem will be to find one without any geological ‘ boobytraps ’ , such as heavy faulting , without generating a political furore . |
| 16 | How very nice to find one in these dark days . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | If you have tried other diets , it might help to know something about some of the most recent and popular ones . |
| 19 | Who was it who wanted to know something on that ? |
| 20 | And one was that this bungalow should be retained completely er by members of the Hosiery Finishers in spite of being a national union which of course has still operated , and secondly , that er nobody should go to this union until er er at least when I 've finished that they should be voted for and they were n't going to impose anybody on this union , they 'd vote for somebody from among their own members , which of course operated and that 's operating now . |
| 21 | Um — you would n't happen to know anyone with such a craft ? ’ |
| 22 | The reply to my letter tamely confirmed this , explaining that it was considered wasteful and expensive to train anyone of that age , for their service would be too short . |
| 23 | Fucking useless nowadays trying to find anything in these books . |
| 24 | Be warned though , it does n't work on all PC speakers — there are one or two in the office that emit a sound of some sort , but so quietly that you need a hearing aid to catch anything at all . |
| 25 | ‘ We do n't want to provide anything of that sort just yet . |
| 26 | But there 's one one fault really it takes approximately fifteen to eighteen months for them to pass anything like that and that could be one |
| 27 | The second defect is that the suggestion is too strong and is likely to make it impossible for any of us to know anything at all . |
| 28 | And it is not possible for us to know anything at all about him unless he is generous enough to disclose himself Another book in this series has tackled the question of revelation ; suffice it to say at this point that without revelation we can not say anything about the Lord who is Spirit . |
| 29 | You want to know anything about that boat , you ask Nick , not me . ’ |
| 30 | I do n't even drink he 's the sort of guy who 'd want to know anything about this . |