Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [pron] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 And if somehow or other the , the , the whole of that er , erm , number nine , including the can be deferred , and I believe it should be , then that is what I would wish to happen , I would wish Mr to continue to have the freedom to see what the options are for this county council .
2 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 .
3 Now let us take a look to see what the future might hold .
4 Did you ever have an opportunity to see what the tramps actually carried with them ?
5 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 .
6 ‘ It is the agency 's responsibility to find you the type of work you have indicated that you are interested in .
7 ‘ It 's not on at all for a brother-in-law to treat me the way you treat me .
8 He said : ‘ One has to keep it under review to see what the need might be . ’
9 And it had come down to the Valve to see what the Famlio ship was doing there .
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 Mr Browning said : ‘ I shall now look for a lawyer to explore what the Ariadne Galleries are prepared to offer me . ’
15 By 1920 , there could be a pause for breath , an attempt to remember what the meaning of the revolution was supposed to be .
16 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 .
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 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 .
20 She popped a toast soldier into her own mouth to give herself the strength to deal with her father .
21 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 .
22 ‘ 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 .
23 Jacqui gurgled something incomprehensible , as Kattina 's tongue shot into her mouth to save her the embarrassment of replying .
24 A large number of studies have been conducted with particular reference to eyewitness testimony in an attempt to decide what the effects of high levels of arousal at the time of a crime are likely to be on the testimony of a victim or witness .
25 Whether working in small or large groups , encourage the chldren to think what the space they are working in represents .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 Ask your parish priest to show you the scale of charges and to explain the fees to you .
29 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 .
30 Bruno de Bayser attracted a lot of attention , albeit no buyer , for a magnificent FFr 1.2 million ( £123,700 ; $215,250 ) red chalk drawing of a young woman by Fragonard a deliberately eye catching piece to show what the gallery is capable of but did sell ten works including three female portraits by Dunker , Jeaurat and Quesnel for under FFr 100,000 ( £10,300 ; $18,000 ) .
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