Example sentences of "[vb -s] [noun prp] [vb infin] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Jane has Roche inspect the hut , the wild man , with his black face and his pigtails , has gone , leaving behind him ‘ only a vague warm smell of old clothes , dead animals , grease and marijuana ’ . |
| 2 | Greene has Adonis refuse the goddess in Perimedes the Blacke-Smith in 1588 ; Spenser has the same thing in The Faerie Queene , and Marlowe in Hero and Leander . |
| 3 | When Sheila Sheffield fails to achieve her quota for the quarter , he helps Sheila discover the reasons . |
| 4 | Easy enough , but how does Rainey prevent the slide translating into a crash when he has only milliseconds to react to the signals of impending doom ? |
| 5 | ‘ Does Ernest use the workshop now ? ’ she wondered . |
| 6 | More specifically , why does Wittgenstein italicise the word ‘ game ’ ? |
| 7 | How does Willie climb the tree ? |
| 8 | Apart from that , and a brief exchange with Boswell on one of the Macleod family , it was now clear that Johnson found little stimulation on Raasay : ‘ There was not enough of intellectual entertainment for him , after he had satisfied his curiosity , which he did , by asking questions , till he had exhausted the island ’ : does Boswell mean the topic of Raasay or its people ? |
| 9 | Does God like The Smiths ? ’ |
| 10 | But does Randy have the right to say such things when , to put it bluntly , he is trading as a self-confessed copyist ? |
| 11 | Neither does Japan have the votes to achieve a resumption in commercial whaling , despite evidence from the IWC 's scientific committee that there are sufficient numbers of minke whales . |
| 12 | But does Washoe use the hand signal , allegedly meaning ‘ more ’ , in this way ? |
| 13 | Why does Piaget use the word confused here ? |
| 14 | Not only does Diana play the piano at home , she invariably has a background of classical music playing in her sitting-room and in her private study . |
| 15 | Does Newcastle fit the model for a town , on page 41 , or is it different ? |
| 16 | ‘ In that case , why does McCloy kill the goose that lays the golden eggs ? ’ |
| 17 | So er how does Paul relish the prospect of of playing up front , cos it 's a role that er he has n't played in while he 's been at County is n't it ? |
| 18 | This led to two problems : is there then any space from which a critique can be established ? and how does Foucault reformulate the relation of writing to history ? |
| 19 | In the latter case , an appropriate question would be : ( 40 ) how does Clara want the façade ? |
| 20 | Columbus in this bitter dream makes Isabella see the truth at last , makes her accept that her need for him is as great as his for her . |
| 21 | Boris Hessen 's account of the adoption of Newtonian physics in the seventeenth century as a response to the technological needs of the time can be read as a relativist account with respect to communities , whilst Feyerabend 's assertion that it is the ‘ internal connectedness of all the parts of the ( Copernican ) system together with his belief in the basic nature of circular motion that makes Copernicus pronounce the motion of the earth as real ’ is a remark in keeping with a relativism with respect to individuals . |