Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [pron] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But at least give that person whose turn er , on the Management Committee for representing er , another committee , give him the opportunity to s either speak on it , or to say whether or not he wishes to carry on and of course to see what the vote people would take , and to put himself forward even so , which unfortunately , I was n't er , able to do so . |
| 2 | Now let us take a look to see what the future might hold . |
| 3 | I think we 'll look at the news in a few minutes to see what the weather 's going to be and then , do you want any ice cream or anything ? |
| 4 | His comments were useful because they provide us all with the opportunity to see what the Opposition have in mind and the approach that they will take in the run-up to the next election and if they were ever to be elected to government . |
| 5 | Politically , therefore , the inducements to continue what the Plowden Committee call ‘ excessive social services ’ are much stronger than the inducements to discontinue them or to supplement any which may happen to be ‘ inadequate ’ . |
| 6 | As the aim of many of the BES assured tenancy companies is eventually to obtain value by selling or redeveloping the properties when they are vacant , it would be useful for shareholders to know what the market value is with vacant possession , even if the present value with tenants in possession is also shown as a note . |
| 7 | ‘ It is the agency 's responsibility to find you the type of work you have indicated that you are interested in . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's not on at all for a brother-in-law to treat me the way you treat me . |
| 9 | He said : ‘ One has to keep it under review to see what the need might be . ’ |
| 10 | Finally we asked very loudly if the store was going broke and somebody within earshot scooted out of a doorway to see what the ruckus was about . |
| 11 | It is an attempt to meet what the Secretary of State for Wales described as the widow factor . |
| 12 | Every attempt to establish what the referent of a sign is forces us to define the referent in terms of an abstract entity which moreover is only a cultural convention . |
| 13 | Stress has been mentioned several times already in this course without any attempt to define what the word means . |
| 14 | By 1920 , there could be a pause for breath , an attempt to remember what the meaning of the revolution was supposed to be . |
| 15 | Icke was the party 's national spokesman 17 months ago when he donned a turquoise tracksuit to announce himself the son of God on a mission to save the world . |
| 16 | Foreman agreed to link up with Stafford to give him the chance to attract another League club . |
| 17 | And the dam is turf Ed on the land ward side to give it the appearance of a gently sloping field . |
| 18 | The report , for the local authorities reports mentioned in the committee item is an attempt to give me the subject of car boot sales a fairly wide airing . |
| 19 | Can the hon. Gentleman prevail on his right hon. and learned Friend to give us the assurance that there will be funds — public funds if necessary — to ensure that the King 's Cross scheme goes ahead ? |
| 20 | All you have to do is answer five questions and write a short tie-breaker to give you the opportunity of winning the title and prize of Sainsbury 's Wine Taste Challenge Winner . |
| 21 | She popped a toast soldier into her own mouth to give herself the strength to deal with her father . |
| 22 | The Discovery is the first ever gas cooker to have a hotplate with ‘ Gas Powered Discs ’ a revolutionary new concept developed by Moffat that actually places a Disc above the flame to give you the controllability you expect from gas plus an unheard of level of cleanability . |
| 23 | ‘ While I respectfully agree that recommendations of a committee may not help much when there is a possibility that Parliament may have decided to do something different , where there is no such possibility , as where the draft Bill has been enacted without alteration , in my opinion it can safely be assumed that it was Parliament 's intention to do what the committee recommended and to achieve the object the committee had in mind . |
| 24 | He bought groceries to last him the week , then popped next door to the frame shop to pick up the stainless steel frame he 'd ordered for a James Barker black and white print he 'd obtained in an auction some weeks before . |
| 25 | Jacqui gurgled something incomprehensible , as Kattina 's tongue shot into her mouth to save her the embarrassment of replying . |
| 26 | Whether working in small or large groups , encourage the chldren to think what the space they are working in represents . |
| 27 | They share one feature in common , namely an attempt to quantify what the condition of , say , the balance of trade would have been had the country in question not participated in the CU . |
| 28 | But when he had leapt off his horse to approach it the chest had sprouted legs and had gone trotting off into the forest , stopping again a few hundred yards away . |
| 29 | Ask your parish priest to show you the scale of charges and to explain the fees to you . |
| 30 | Well , rightly or wrongly we 've come to arrangements with the Liberals , not because we like the Liberals , not because we wanted to , but we , we were fed up with be being in opposition to tell you the truth . |