Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Make evokes merely the idea of " producing an effect " ( = the event expressed by the infinitive ) , so that causation is represented as operating instant by instant throughout the actualization of the latter and the two events are felt to coincide in time . |
| 2 | People often want to agree today the price of some future payment . |
| 3 | I 'd be glad if you 'd let me know , because we , we want to know yet the numbers , and how many we 're going to get . |
| 4 | The report concluded that : ‘ Most of the advantages appear to benefit directly the builder or developer , whereas the consumer is left with a dwelling which must have some inherent risks , however small . ’ |
| 5 | If it 's alright then I 'll come home cos Mr said to me last night , oh you want to stay here the night . |
| 6 | I want to take seriously the suggestion that the sort of inquiry that Quine has in mind could be the heir to traditional epistemology — although I shall not restrict the concerns of the latter to studying the relation of evidence to theory . |
| 7 | I am conscious that we want to improve drastically the standards of laying hens , not just in battery cages but in colony and other systems . |
| 8 | They propose to take away the courts ' most important sanction — the power to take over a union 's assets . |
| 9 | Manufacturers tend to state only the input wattage especially on mains powered tools , but it is the power at the cutting edge that counts . |
| 10 | Within these lines , language and style combine to highlight both the fabliau context and the construction of the character . |
| 11 | Gradually they hope to strip away the disguises and help both partners to understand themselves and each other better and recognize the ways in which they interact . |
| 12 | The grain was too complex and cross for him , the blade stuck , and in the same instant Isambard stretched both arms over the boy 's shoulders and seized his hands , forcing them apart and wringing them until he twisted with pain and let go both the knife and the wood . |
| 13 | These ideas were the ‘ promotion of homosexuality and its portrayal as a pretend family relationship ’ , which ‘ seek to alter fundamentally the society in which we live . ’ |
| 14 | But , on the other hand , this perspective produces global strategies which have little purchase on concrete instances , and tend to assume instead the burden of a messianic project in which the enemy is supposedly being smashed , crushed , or stamped out for ever . |
| 15 | Use a steel chisel or bolster to cut away the plaster and brick to a depth of about 35mm |
| 16 | ‘ If by talk you mean confess then the answer 's no . ’ |
| 17 | Er they 're still proper funerals but they basically bulk buying so the cost will be Typically about |
| 18 | The EAT set aside the tribunal 's finding of unfair dismissal and found that the employee was entitled to a redundancy payment . |
| 19 | If you look around there a lot more physicists who are Christian than people taking the arts subjects and I reckon it could be that the arts bombard you with a lot of different views and maybe you find it hard to crystallize to say what you want ; whereas in physics we get told precisely the answer and we realize that we do n't understand it totally . |
| 20 | You know walked right the way down and you could n't see |
| 21 | All of us who teach know well the moments of self-doubt , the anxieties and the hesitations , as work is planned and executed and evaluated , the apparent failures and inadequacies bulking large in the mind 's eye . |
| 22 | I often rush through reading things and like to read just the summary — then ca n't remember what it said . |
| 23 | They are intended for those who like to probe into the whys and wherefores of things or who like to assess fully the credentials of a subject before they give it serious consideration . |
| 24 | Always remember to check carefully the identity of any caller whatsoever who wants to gain admittance to your home . |
| 25 | When used with the to infinitive , on the other hand , find denotes rather the discovery of a fact : ( 96 ) I measured the tail of the dead rat , and found it to be two yards long . |
| 26 | Well , I will tell you now , Murphy , that as long as you continue to do properly the job for which you are paid I do n't care how much you drink nor shall I tell anyone about it , not anyone . |
| 27 | Roll out into a large rectangle and a large circle ( both the same size as the marzipan pieces ) and use to cover both the base chest and the lid . |
| 28 | Look , too , at the process by which students are assessed : very rarely do examiners in higher education try to identify explicitly the criteria by which they are going to examine . |
| 29 | See , just keep going so the flint 's gone . |
| 30 | We attempt to describe also the prevalence of longterm use of peptic ulcer drugs and the epidemiologic risk factors for longterm use in Denmark . |