Example sentences of "[to-vb] [subord] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Servants are not to go where their masters frequent . ’ |
| 2 | How are the workers to be encouraged to go where their labour is most needed . |
| 3 | It is very difficult to design a pressed flower picture on to a background material that has already been printed with a design , and if you were to use a floral fabric it might be hard to spot where your picture stops and the print begins . |
| 4 | Well , we thought he 'd gone out , but apparently he must have got to the door just as the bomb landed , and the blast blew the door backwards , er the door inwards , knocked me dad backwards and at the back of him we had a cellar , but it went through this , the cellar door and although it turned round before it went down the cellar , he finished up down there because we did n't know this til after a while that me brother wou did n't offer to go out , so I went out think , to find where me dad was you see . |
| 5 | Unless there is dire reason to attempt its destruction , Castle Drachenfels must be left to stand where it is. |
| 6 | Both lone parents and married mothers are more likely to work once their children have reached school age — 55 per cent and 68 per cent respectively ; compared to 20 per cent of lone mothers and 34 per cent of married mothers with pre-school age children . |
| 7 | Children found it easier to communicate than their parents , but were primarily concerned about learning more about the seizures . |
| 8 | It might also help to give the switchboard an alternative ( Tim or Simon ? ) number to try if your line is engaged . |
| 9 | Well , it was somebody who wanted to know if her treasurer man was here ? |
| 10 | The English study site , in Dorset , was a group of four old flooded clay pits between 225 and 830m apart ; the distances were critical because , in addition to finding out how often toads moved between ponds , the researchers wanted to know if their movements were related to the distance between ponds . |
| 11 | Charities give varying reasons for entering the Annual Report and Accounts Award , from wanting to know if their report 's overall structure is moving in the right direction , to learning from specific judges ' criticisms , but in the end , they all boil down to a desire to improve the standard of their accounts . |
| 12 | Notwithstanding such examples , children growing up m a rapidly changing technological society can not be expected to master all that they require to know if their learning is totally haphazard and unstructured . |
| 13 | He also needs to know if your consumer advertising will push customers into his garden centre to buy the new product . |
| 14 | I just want to know if your anger is because of the way the project has absorbed me lately , or if it 's simply the ill-mannered forgetfulness I showed last night — which I do n't deny , and for which I again apologize . ’ |
| 15 | But the 59-year-old actor had to endure another 15 minutes of crucial legal argument to discover if his gamble in refusing The Sun 's pre-trial settlement offer of £50,000 — made on October 7 — had backfired and meant he would have to pay the bulk of the estimated £200,000 costs of the case . |
| 16 | If several unsuccessful attempts have been made , the LIFESPAN Manager or immediate parent should be consulted to discover if your user name has in fact been created , or to modify the password if necessary . |
| 17 | An illustration is provided by Dennant v. Skinner ( see paragraph 3–08 above ) where , after the goods had been knocked down to him , the buyer was persuaded to sign a statement that property was not to pass until his cheque was paid . |
| 18 | ‘ If I were married , ’ she almost screamed at him , ‘ I would n't send my child out to work if my husband was fit and well . ’ |
| 19 | He retired in 1910 , but continued to work until his death in Edinburgh , 29 January 1926 . |
| 20 | As the authors of a 1906 investigation of 6000 women workers in Birmingham put it , either ‘ women are compelled to work because their husbands are unsteady , drunken or idle , or the husbands develop bad habits because their wives remove the burden of responsibility from them ’ . |
| 21 | It is very hard for me to bear because my employer and even my own family think I am just being work-shy . |
| 22 | This representative , beautifully chosen collection of Faure songs is the first issue to appear since her announcement , and it whets the appetite for many more . |
| 23 | One of the most important works by Motherwell to appear since his death , ‘ Elegy to the Spanish Republic ’ is estimated at $600,000–800,000 ( £400,000–533,000 ) . |
| 24 | France also denies refugees the right to work while their applications are being processed . |
| 25 | If earlier national and local links still existed it would have given a helpful criterion to governors to know whether their school was being managed well . |
| 26 | But it is difficult to know whether their defence of the Masai in such cases should be attributed to the peculiarly seductive qualities of this people , or to the well-documented tendency of District Officers throughout British Africa to become closely identified , in a paternal and proprietary way , with the interests of ‘ their ’ tribe . |
| 27 | Trent would have liked to know whether their meeting in Frankfurt had been deliberate on the American 's part . |
| 28 | In addition we feel that we do not have the technical or professional expertise to know whether our ideas are actually workable , given the various constraints . |
| 29 | The voters have the right to know whether his heart is in it , or whether it 's a con . |
| 30 | When a healthy young man asks for employment and his employer wants to know whether his genotype indicates that he may die in his thirties or forties from Huntingdon 's disease , this is unfair . |