Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [prep] [det] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't want to go in any of the women 's services after what I 've heard from Eileen , ’ Anne said . |
| 2 | Muhammad ibn Ali promoted a campaign which used the medium of itinerant missionaries and was calculated to appeal to most of the people who for different reasons were discontented with the Umayyads . |
| 3 | The alternative explanation , involving a change in the rate of momentum loss through electromagnetic radiation or particle outflow might be accompanied by an observable change in the radiation pattern or the braking index ; we intend to search for these in our continued monitoring programme . |
| 4 | These results , which show that Blacks and Whites are similar in some aspects of their attitude to the police , tend to differ from those in some other studies ( such as the P.S.I . |
| 5 | We do n't want to leap into this without being totally sure that every point is acceptable , ’ he said . |
| 6 | After 15 months of tough talks , Moscow agreed to pull out most of its troops by Nov 15 this year . |
| 7 | Overheating degrades battery electrolyte , and rechargeable types are designed to cope with this to a large extent , but dry cells are not . |
| 8 | Teresa , whose accounting section has to liaise with both of them , has already paid the balance on a Far Eastern round trip taking in Hong Kong , Bangkok , Singapore , Bali , Jakarta , Brunei and Penang . |
| 9 | Heavy rain driven by gales predicted for last night was forecast to continue for much of today . |
| 10 | He continued in his refusal to offer a defence in his trial on charges of corruption , which opened in March 1991 and was expected to continue through most of the year [ see pp. 38157-58 ] . |
| 11 | ‘ The slump on the major markets is expected to continue throughout most of 1993 . ’ |
| 12 | Mr Warburton replied that since Newton had had single-lead aspects in the past , it had not been considered to fall within any of the interpretations of the embargo . |
| 13 | But based on the experience of the last 10 years the total is expected to fall by more in March . |
| 14 | But what I would like to know is , any of you know for certain that you want to come to either of the parts of those that day , in the evening or the afternoon ? |
| 15 | When you join the Royal Air Force you expect to work on some of the world 's deadliest aircraft , Jaguar Fighters , and harriers , but there 's another side to aviation . |
| 16 | I do not intend to list all the normal things Excel can do — just take it for granted that you will be able to set up a spreadsheet to calculate whatever you want to — but I want to concentrate on some of the features that will certainly save time , effort , and head scratching . |
| 17 | if you want to comment on any of those while we 're going through , or perhaps cross them off your list . |
| 18 | Actually , the use of this final pronominal element is quite transparently a way to regain attributive status for the adjective which precedes it , and its use with certain adjectives ( to be introduced below ) which do not genuinely occur in predicative position is thus much more significant than Bolinger allows for , showing that there are values attached to attributive status which are more important than mere position in the sentence relative to the verb , and that speakers will even seek to conform to these by devising an attributive construction which would otherwise not be called for . |
| 19 | If the police want to talk to any of them , they 'll know where to find them . ’ |
| 20 | Please do contact me if you want to talk about any of these points . |
| 21 | I do n't know if I want to talk about this on a Saturday lunchtime I tell you Dan I mean it really is it 's erm What are you doing ? |
| 22 | This year Mr Rooker stayed out of the race , and has nominated Mr Davies who is expected to pick up most of his votes . |
| 23 | Erm do n't know if you want to look at some on the paper , have a look at some in the paper and see how you do on those . |
| 24 | I hesitated for a moment on the stairs , turned round and tried to look at some of them , to see if there was a familiar face , a suspicious or suspecting face , a face I could place , a face that could … |
| 25 | The performances are certainly very competent , but this is n't quite the vintage Kantorov we 've come to expect from some of his later Denon recordings ; a degree of blandness gives the playing a slightly ‘ automatic ’ quality . |
| 26 | If we want to use up most of our ration of luck in our theory of the origin of intelligence , then we have n't much left over to spend on our theory of the origin of life : we must come up with a theory that makes the origin of life almost inevitable . |
| 27 | She had tried to be hard and grasping , tried to deal with this in a sophisticated , detached manner . |
| 28 | Most managers want to deal with all of an artist 's activities in the entertainment business throughout the world . |
| 29 | I want to deal with each of those two arguments — and , indeed , with the others that have been advanced by the DSS in support of the present regulations . |
| 30 | The new system is designed to hook into most of the popular network operating systems used in small to medium size PC networks.Microsoft is not just targeting existing PC network users but also customers seriously thinking about installing a network . |