Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] [pron] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The broad guiding principle , attested by many authorities , is that one looks to see what the taxpayer has done to earn the profit in question . |
| 2 | Thus Lord Bridge 's guiding principle could properly be expanded to read ‘ one looks to see what the taxpayer has done to earn the profit in question and where he has done it . ’ |
| 3 | Whatever the nurse staffing arrangements , each one needs to know what the patient has been told and what currently appears to be understood . |
| 4 | Although a picture may be worth a thousand words the reader still needs to know what the picture relates to . |
| 5 | The company needs to know what the investment must achieve to produce goods which can be sold profitably . |
| 6 | The other is that the investigator needs to know what the agent intended by and in performing the action : why this agent played this move in the ‘ game ’ . |
| 7 | It also wants to know what the position of Unix International , which it strongly supports , is going to be . |
| 8 | It also wants to know what the position of Unix International Inc , which it strongly supports , is going to be . |
| 9 | He wants to know what the job of a Euro MP is , well he is applying for a Euro seat , I do wish him the best of luck and when he 's been there |
| 10 | My mind wants to know what the theft of the Wolvercote Tongue has got to do with the murder of Theodore Kemp . |
| 11 | ‘ The industry wants to know what the hell is going on . ’ |
| 12 | Little forms if anybody wants to know what the hell |
| 13 | Rollins wants to hear what the woman has to say . |
| 14 | Now Diana wants to give them the sort of holiday she believes young boys should have … not shut up in old castles . ’ |
| 15 | And who , at the same time , wants to give you the opportunity to do your best for yourself and your family ? |
| 16 | ‘ Everybody looks to give him the ball , so he 's sees more of it and , in my thinking , he therefore has to be fitter than anybody else . |
| 17 | That 's it and let them , let them get on with it in the middle of bloody summer with a pint of water and say , look , that pint of water has to last you the day . |
| 18 | He is the man who wants to take part , who wants to do everything the woman does where possible . |
| 19 | I understand that the Prime Minister wants to call it the opt-in clause . |
| 20 | When he has to deliver anything the man opens the door maybe half an inch . |
| 21 | Which means the guarantor no longer has to pay you the rent so you you do n't really want to forego that either , yeah . |
| 22 | Any claim to direct acquaintance with God through immediate religious experience has to explain what the experience is experience of Ayer makes this point in discussing what he calls ‘ mysticism ’ . |
| 23 | Well , these days I can reach the highest shelves of the house library , and walk into Porteneil to visit the one there , so I can check up on anything my father says , and he has to tell me the truth . |
| 24 | The winner 's the player who amasses enough points to create what the rulebook calls a trance-like state . |
| 25 | He collects it from the door when it arrives to spare her the embarrassment of being seen by the boy . |
| 26 | Certainly the crisis over Maastricht is no nearer solution , especially as the Government still refuses to accept what the Treaty is about . |
| 27 | A rich and aged relative , who has little use left for his wealth , refuses to give him the money he needs to go to Bali ( he has at last made up his mind ) , but there is an opportunity to steal it from him . |
| 28 | His father now refuses to give him the partnership . |
| 29 | Though he prefers to call it the Hospice Coast to Coast , ramblers have already nicknamed the route Clapperton 's Way . |
| 30 | It is not fiction , nor is it conventional autobiography , which tends to say what the author wishes us to know . |