Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tiny Regency houses had no doubt been listed to spare them the attentions of developers ; from the state of the paving stones and the grass-studded cracks in the roadway , it seemed that the town council too had passed them by . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | We need to know who the members of assemblies actually represent and to what extent they are able to investigate and influence executive actions . |
| 4 | ‘ It is the agency 's responsibility to find you the type of work you have indicated that you are interested in . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | KAY BLAIR was recently shocked to find herself the recipient of high quality service |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | Has the company appeared to escort him the rest of the way ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It is an attempt to meet what the Secretary of State for Wales described as the widow factor . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Mr Doblin claimed that no-one at the hotel seemed to know what the cost of a telephone call should be . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | To start with you need to know what the phonemes of the new language and their variants are . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It also wants to know what the position of Unix International , which it strongly supports , is going to be . |
| 18 | It also wants to know what the position of Unix International Inc , which it strongly supports , is going to be . |
| 19 | The CVR allows the investigator to know what the members of the flight crew were saying to each other , and to some extent what they were thinking , at relevant times during the flight . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It would have been interesting to know what the men at the front thought of this account of their endeavours . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | And I 'd be interested to know what the masses of London think . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 |
| 28 | My mind wants to know what the theft of the Wolvercote Tongue has got to do with the murder of Theodore Kemp . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ We intend to establish what the attitude of the financial institutions is to the industry , ’ said CIOB Commercial Director Julian Barlow . |