Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] [indef pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | First he made a gourd spring up to protect Jonah from the sun ( by ‘ gourd ’ we are to understand something like the castor-oil plant or Palma Christi , with its rapid growth and all-sheltering leaves ) ; then , with no more than a wave of the silk handkerchief , he sent a maggot to destroy the said gourd , leaving Jonah painfully exposed to the heat . |
| 2 | He pulled Carla into his arms and closed his eyes , feeling a vast , directionless violence , as if his task were to kill everyone in the world and the problem was how to start . |
| 3 | Mr Kelly has made a formal complaint against the police and is to lodge one against the ambulance service . |
| 4 | What I would like is to know something about the job I came here to do . |
| 5 | The very first thing which they do is to destroy something on the island , which shows their masculinity . |
| 6 | Its aim is to do something in the life of the person who reads it , as well as to capture his aesthetic interest and supply him with historical and theological information . |
| 7 | But for each individual student , the best thing is to put everything into the private account . |
| 8 | Mr Thornton said : ‘ Our aim is to have something for the golfing world to see in July 1995 when the Open Championship is staged at St Andrews . ’ |
| 9 | The object in this chapter is to convey something of the nature and application of these techniques without going into detailed descriptions . |
| 10 | This is to say nothing of the varied forms and objects of laughter that there may be : spontaneous hilarity ; dark chuckles over black humour ; knowing , ironic laughter ; the nervous giggles of imperfect comprehension . |
| 11 | Labour has opposed our measures which have led to stiffer sentences , it would shackle the police with political controls and its answer to rising crime is to blame everyone except the criminal . |
| 12 | To flash a badge was to risk someone in the crowd remembering his face and in the future , on another job , he could fingered as the stoolie he truly was . |
| 13 | One of his compulsive gambits was to challenge everyone at the first meeting . |
| 14 | One of the worst things that could happen to a pupil was to leave something in the dining room by mistake after dinner . |
| 15 | His first thought was to do something to the Volkswagen Passat . |
| 16 | ‘ My first reaction was to get someone from the British Transport Police , but the door of their office was locked . |