Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [to-vb] in [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Imagine wanting to live in that room , that awful room , with walls like dung-heaps , what has happened in there , what has been done in that room ? |
| 2 | I 've given my word that , if I do decide to invest in this project , all care will be exercised to see that the area is n't spoiled in any way . ’ |
| 3 | So that means that er , in th the total we do have to pay in some way or another , is four thousand pounds with sixty but we 'll say we 've already got three thousand four hundred , if all the for , forty people go and they pay twenty five pounds each , that 's another thousand , so we 've got a I think I 've got it right , a , we 're only a hundred and sixty short . |
| 4 | Things do seem to work in this world . |
| 5 | The last part of the resolution is it 's actually taking up the area , where at the present time we have n't got a D S O. It seems stupid that you go into a school and you can clean , clean their classrooms , cut their grass and look after their , do their grounds maintenance , cook the kids ' dinners , but you ca n't do any minor repairs , you 've got to call in another organisation . |
| 6 | Well I , I , I , I think that you 've got to move in that direction rather than maintaining the status quo . |
| 7 | You 've got to relax in that situation . |
| 8 | You say , O K , this is it , put it all away , because I 've got to cope , I 've got to survive in this life , so know what your stress points are and act on them . |
| 9 | We have also noted in passing the important and increasing role which public authorities have come to play in many countries in the bargaining process . |
| 10 | I have sought to demonstrate in this book that an attempt to alter the shape of Europe by compromising with the ‘ Maastricht philosophy ’ must necessarily end , by faster means or by slower , with the political centralisation of the Community . |
| 11 | Such an investor would have already have decided to sell in any case . |
| 12 | Nowadays these horizons have expanded to take in much of the world outside by virtue of changes in education , in transport and communications , and , as we shall see in the following chapter , by virtue also of changes in the social composition of village community itself . |
| 13 | McMahon and Reid , long time Merseyside rivals on the field , are extremely similar in style and have tended to get in each other 's way in City colours . |
| 14 | His positioning helped Iain Dowie — the pair have tended to get in each others ' way on past occasions — and Dowie revelled in the extra space . |
| 15 | Plant material is poor in nutritive value , and difficult to digest , and herbivores have had to adapt in several ways to make the most of it . |
| 16 | ‘ I view with very much concern the comments I have had to make in this inquest . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ We ca n't be certain about anyone just yet , but such evidence as we have seems to point in that direction . |
| 18 | What I have attempted to argue in this chapter is that to consider our own experience against an international background reminds us of three linked points : |
| 19 | The position I have attempted to outline in this first chapter is that of the ‘ meaning ’ theist , but it is also that of the ‘ meaning ’ atheist . |
| 20 | But the medals have continued to arrive in this country and among the latest batch of heroes to receive one is Darlington man George Stevens . |
| 21 | What I 'm saying is — well , you have to learn to live in those places , Mr Holly . |
| 22 | We have tried to emphasise in this report the inevitable tentative nature of conclusions to be drawn from the data presented . |
| 23 | What I have tried to do in this book is to tell how he did it . |
| 24 | What I have tried to do in this chapter is to suggest a way of looking at towns as though they were a special kind of landscape — as indeed they are — to get behind the guide-books and the individual buildings to the secret history of these places : to draw attention to what I think are some of the significant bits of urban landscape that point the way into this secret history . |
| 25 | I have tried to show in this book that though the academic institutionalizing of vernacular literary study which began about a century ago had good , even inescapable reasons in its origins , its later progress has not had the effects the founders hoped for . |
| 26 | What I have tried to show in this section is that before we can fully understand the particular historical genres which appear under the labels of programme categories , and , even more importantly , before we can understand the forms of subjectivity which they imply , we need to place them in their historical and institutional relationship to the theoretical genre of novelistic narrative . |
| 27 | I have tried to show in this discussion that higher learning is not learning at all in any familiar sense . |
| 28 | We have tried to avoid in this chapter the sort of generalised waffle about God in which many theologians indulge . |
| 29 | I have tried to express in another paper one conclusion : |
| 30 | It is wholly consistent with the principles which I have endeavoured to state in this speech . ’ |