Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pron] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We intend to establish what the attitude of the financial institutions is to the industry , ’ said CIOB Commercial Director Julian Barlow . |
| 2 | Though popular with patients , such a departure from traditional practice has been known to outrage consultants , demanding to know what the researcher is doing with their patients ! |
| 3 | But I do think the minister er should er b be quite clear about that point er because er it may be of crucial importance , not just to the industry , er but also to the public interest who will want to know what the position is so far as er er these matters are concerned . |
| 4 | If the only way to give the drama momentum is to allow through ( 1 ) an emergence of crude competition between the teacher and pupils or through the even cruder ‘ I 'm the baddy not to be trusted ’ approach of ( 4 ) , then she may have to abandon altogether her intention to open up ( 2 ) , the recognition by the townsfolk that here is an official who can not know and indeed who does not want to know what the cost of this decision will be to those of us who are faced with it . |
| 5 | And I would want to know what the health effects were on them of the conditions in which they had to work . |
| 6 | And if he come along he would want to know who the man 's doctor was . |
| 7 | Surtees was a good choice , but I never got to know him the way I did Graham Hill , Jackie Stewart and Pedro Rodriguez . |
| 8 | You , you can have your erm if you were watching a programme and er , I 've done this , erm if you 're watching a programme and you want to see what the weather forecast is er you can have that superimposed on your programme . |
| 9 | Once he frogmarched a knocker out of a press conference , although it transpired that he could hardly wait to see what the victim wrote next . |
| 10 | He would wait to see what the negotiation process turned up , he said , but " only if real progress is made during negotiations , and if there are obvious and clearly defined benefits for my country and its people , will we consider any possible change to our present constitutional position " . |
| 11 | I 've had them born in the car on the way the the mother have come to see me the father has brought her to see me thinking that if she could just see me she 'd be alright . |
| 12 | The broad guiding principle , attested by many authorities , is that one looks to see what the taxpayer has done to earn the profit in question . |
| 13 | Thus Lord Bridge 's guiding principle could properly be expanded to read ‘ one looks to see what the taxpayer has done to earn the profit in question and where he has done it . ’ |
| 14 | As Burn tried to tend him the plane exploded . |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't think I 'm being treated fairly and I want to know what the hell is going on . ’ |
| 16 | I want to know what the microphone is ? |
| 17 | I want to know what the difference is , and I want to know whether we need to take action or what ? |
| 18 | IF YOU want to know what the future holds for Europe 's financial markets , the best guess is usually to look at America 's present . |
| 19 | ‘ I expect you want to know what the future has in store , do n't you ? ’ |
| 20 | We want to know who the boss is . ’ |
| 21 | I want to know you the way no man has ever known a woman before . ’ |
| 22 | Nevertheless , it is of some importance to try to establish what the effect of this learning environment is on the actual communication between deaf and hearing people . |
| 23 | You need to know either the landlord or the tenant and , more important , he needs to know you before he can be expected to grant you the right to work on his land . |
| 24 | The organisation that calls the general election closest is the one that is most attractive to Tesco or Finefare or whomever it might be when they want to discover what the public thinks of their baked beans . |
| 25 | Whatever the nurse staffing arrangements , each one needs to know what the patient has been told and what currently appears to be understood . |
| 26 | Although a picture may be worth a thousand words the reader still needs to know what the picture relates to . |
| 27 | The company needs to know what the investment must achieve to produce goods which can be sold profitably . |
| 28 | The other is that the investigator needs to know what the agent intended by and in performing the action : why this agent played this move in the ‘ game ’ . |
| 29 | You will therefore need to know what the value of your pension would be if you stay in SERPS or your company scheme , whichever is applicable . |
| 30 | We must , therefore , seek to discover what the gospel has to say to our culture . |