Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [pron] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I called the police , they instructed me to write down everything the caller had said . |
| 2 | Since that time , researchers have struggled to try to establish just what the form of representation is that is used by deaf children . |
| 3 | The important thing is to establish just what the end result is to be and then find the right software . |
| 4 | The 150-page tome is being snapped up by people anxious to discover just what the treaty is all about . |
| 5 | It follows , then , that an evolutionary argument must attempt to establish exactly what the continuity may have been that led from the level of the higher animals to that of Man . |
| 6 | Plus , you 're in the best place to know exactly what the modification is that you want . ’ |
| 7 | So we want to know exactly what the odds are , on this one . |
| 8 | This is all very limiting for the pilot but it does mean that the investigator is able to know exactly what the pilot is , or should be , doing at any stage in the flight . |
| 9 | It is hard to know exactly what the company were aiming at or were attempting to say , but after a couple of scenes the audience found itself tussling with one question only . |
| 10 | It is impossible for the author to know exactly what the reader will accept as being a " proper " application of abstract algebra . |
| 11 | It 's traditional in some ways but the brothers who own the hotel , Julio and Alfonso , have come to know exactly what the Club 18–30 holidaymaker is looking for . |
| 12 | The concept of ‘ emotion ’ is ill-defined within psychology , although paradoxically the lay person seems to know exactly what the term refers to . |
| 13 | There are general sort of comments that they do n't really know what the parish council does and they 're not very sure , erm , sort of it , it was mainly through the children 's card thing , perhaps a little bit of money that their child , you know did n't me meet any recognition but would n't it have been nice to know exactly what the picture had been for , and sort of the nitty- gritty does n't necessarily get filtered through . |
| 14 | The summary is for the reader who is in a hurry and wishes to know quickly what the recommendations are . |
| 15 | TODAY headed off to London 's Clapham High Street with Mo Mowlam , MP for Redcar and Labour 's spokesperson on the City , to find out what the man on the Clapham omnibus — well , in the Clapham McDonald 's — really thinks . |
| 16 | Meanwhile Carella went back to the chemist 's to find out what the man had bought . |
| 17 | Jim Devine , Scottish regional officer of the Confederation of Health Service Employees , said there was no need for a pay intelligence unit to find out what the Government 's strategy is for its staff . |
| 18 | All we have to do is to find out what the brains of our common ancestors looked like to find out how similar we might expect the brains of mammals to be . |
| 19 | I mean some people say it diffidence some people say it 's considerate so you have to then try and go a bit further beyond the actual differences to find out what the reasons behind them are . |
| 20 | he 's going to go integrate again he 's going to find out what you know if you 're working one way he 's going to find out what the distance is . |
| 21 | Southwestern Bell Corp and the Panasonic unit of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Ltd have developed a new personal communication service but we all have to wait until next Tuesday or Wednesday to find out what the service will be . |
| 22 | Equally , however , it might be perfectly reasonable to use a headline that encourages the reader to read on to find out what the proposition is . |
| 23 | Before you can make a sale , you need to find out what the customer really wants . |
| 24 | They will need to find out what the cost of the various activities will be — not just in terms of teachers , materials and equipment , but also in working space and support services . |
| 25 | It 's your moral and legal responsibility to find out what the law says and to comply with the law . |
| 26 | The adult is trying to find out what the child knows or understands , and the child 's responses are interpreted accordingly . |
| 27 | For this purpose , the designer is too familiar with the product and he rarely takes the trouble to find out what the user really needs to know . |
| 28 | What I can not do is go around and do a full enquiry to find out what the position is , an enquiry indeed might be difficult , because you may have found these people but actually pinning down er to who does it and what actually happens may be more difficult . |
| 29 | I shall not necessarily take the hon. Gentleman 's figures on the disabled as being correct , but I shall certainly make inquiries of British Coal to find out what the position is , and I shall write to the hon. Gentleman . |
| 30 | Almost every newspaper , national newspaper and local free papers , will have er their horoscopes , television and radio chat shows , again , will have their their resident astrologers telephone call lines to find out what the stars have in store for you , an unprecedented interest in the , in the various branches of the occult . |