Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sheffield United 's Dave Bassett is the latest to find himself the subject of a police inquiry after being reported by the gentle , clean-mouthed souls who inhabit Chelsea 's stands for swearing . |
| 2 | ‘ It is the agency 's responsibility to find you the type of work you have indicated that you are interested in . |
| 3 | She knew the Spanish liking for these little snacks and she stepped down into the street , a little surprised to find herself the focus of several pairs of eyes . |
| 4 | KAY BLAIR was recently shocked to find herself the recipient of high quality service |
| 5 | Edward undertook to place a force of 600 men at the duke 's disposal and to grant him the earldom of Richmond , to which his family had an ancient claim and which John of Gaunt relinquished for the purpose . |
| 6 | Where we might have expected him to grant her the respect of verse , he goes on in the same business-like prose : ‘ How now , Kate ? |
| 7 | Has the company appeared to escort him the rest of the way ? |
| 8 | Ken Collins , MEP , says that there is not much evidence to show that compliance with legislation is improving , partly because there is little information to indicate what the state of the environment actually is . |
| 9 | It is an attempt to meet what the Secretary of State for Wales described as the widow factor . |
| 10 | That is what the governor of that offenders centre had to say , and I should be very interested to know what the Minister of State has done since she read that report in the newspaper . |
| 11 | Mr Doblin claimed that no-one at the hotel seemed to know what the cost of a telephone call should be . |
| 12 | If the only way to give the drama momentum is to allow through ( 1 ) an emergence of crude competition between the teacher and pupils or through the even cruder ‘ I 'm the baddy not to be trusted ’ approach of ( 4 ) , then she may have to abandon altogether her intention to open up ( 2 ) , the recognition by the townsfolk that here is an official who can not know and indeed who does not want to know what the cost of this decision will be to those of us who are faced with it . |
| 13 | Or if I am called to a meeting that does not have a purpose written on the agenda , I demand to know what the purpose of the meeting is , before we start . |
| 14 | It also wants to know what the position of Unix International , which it strongly supports , is going to be . |
| 15 | It also wants to know what the position of Unix International Inc , which it strongly supports , is going to be . |
| 16 | It is never possible to be certain what the situation would have been in the absence of any such policy nor is it possible to know what the outcome of a different policy might have been . |
| 17 | Research studies , however , including ( … ) those of Wolkind and Kozaruk ( 1983 ) on children placed through the Adoption Resource Exchange , and Reich and Lewis ( 1986 ) , and Maca-skill ( 1985a ) concerning the agency Parents for Children , indicate that children who have been placed against their parents ' wishes seem to be settling quite well , but there are insufficient numbers , followed up for insufficiently long , for us to know what the impact of adoption of older children without consent is going to be in the long term . |
| 18 | You will therefore need to know what the value of your pension would be if you stay in SERPS or your company scheme , whichever is applicable . |
| 19 | Mrs Laughton resigned with much regret , saying as she went that Orkney Islands Council did n't appear to know what the role of the Reporter to the Children 's Panel should be , and determined to make her concerns public . |
| 20 | It is important to know what the acceleration of a body down a surface would be without friction as a start to explaining its actual acceleration . |
| 21 | 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 |
| 22 | My mind wants to know what the theft of the Wolvercote Tongue has got to do with the murder of Theodore Kemp . |
| 23 | And she closed one eye in a grotesque wink , leaving Sally-Anne to guess what the bit of all right was — a visit to a music hall or a theatre , she assumed — wrongly , for she still had a lot to learn about the ways of the aliens among whom she lived . |
| 24 | ‘ We intend to establish what the attitude of the financial institutions is to the industry , ’ said CIOB Commercial Director Julian Barlow . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , it is of some importance to try to establish what the effect of this learning environment is on the actual communication between deaf and hearing people . |
| 26 | Where the plaintiff is unable to establish what the cause of his injuries was , then the action will fail . |
| 27 | Every attempt to establish what the referent of a sign is forces us to define the referent in terms of an abstract entity which moreover is only a cultural convention . |
| 28 | Foxes often avoid the colony sites of breeding seabirds because if they attempt a swift invasion to capture nestlings they are liable to find themselves the object of severe and painful dive-bombing by the parent gulls and their companions . |
| 29 | It seems to me that you get these big moments in the life of the church , as you do in the life of any institution , historically speaking , and it takes a long time for you to discover what the effect of them is going to be . |
| 30 | The Leasehold Reform Act 1967 for the first time introduces leasehold enfranchisement , whereby a lessee is entitled to compel his lessor to sell him the freehold upon payment of compensation on a scale fixed by the Act . |