Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [pron] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | And that woman where we got Angela 's dress from , if er Karen 's peach dress does fit her , well at least Karen 's there to be able to go where we got Angela 's dress from . |
2 | What is it to claim authority or to accept that someone has authority over one ? |
3 | But it so happens , you might say well all these years retired I ca n't be much good at the job , you 'll be interested to know that I give talks to groups which include retiring tax inspectors . |
4 | When chemists vapourised potassium nitrate and trapped it an argon matrix , however , they were surprised to discover that it contained molecules with the chemical formula KNO 3 . |
5 | For all her gruffness and trying to hide that she loved Wilson , I knew she did . |
6 | The , the chap rung up to see when was a good time to come and I suggested Monday at half past six . |
7 | We wanted them to know if they had information we could protect them if need be |
8 | She wanted to know if they liked America and appearing in movies . |
9 | One waitress even wanted to know if we have Christmas on December 25th in Europe . |
10 | She keeps wanting to know if I play golf . |
11 | ‘ There are a lot of exciting things we have got lined up which we were not going to launch until we launched Taurus , but we will come out with these products . |
12 | The Inland Revenue does not need to prosecute because they have powers to exert penalties similar to a fine , and basically they want to get the money back . |
13 | The fact that her husband was having a homosexual relationship does not come as a surprise but it is more difficult for Blanche to accept because he needed help but she caused his death by saying that he ‘ disgusted ’ her . |
14 | ‘ Well , Shelley , I told Consuelo not to come because I thought Mrs Richards would be back in her villa . ’ |
15 | An unemployment insurance scheme was not seriously proposed in Britain until 1907 when suggested by Beveridge as a desirable complement to labour exchanges : it could replace poor relief and relief works , giving the unemployed a right to benefit while they sought jobs . |
16 | Women in developing countries are generally undereducated because young girls are often taken out of schools as early as possible to allow their mothers to work whilst they take care of younger siblings . |
17 | Our Medical Superintendent wanted to know whether we had beds allocated in the Outer London hospitals for the civilian casualties who were with us , and the non-infectious soldiers . |
18 | In a fortunate moment I noticed a sign reading ‘ Jardin de Paris — Restaurant Français ’ , and abandoning Anastasia on a pavement , a procedure to which East Europeans do not seem to take exception , I ventured in to discover whether anyone spoke French . |
19 | And £1.5m-rated midfielder Gary Owers is still waiting to discover whether he needs surgery on a troublesome groin injury . |
20 | Presumably he had been a football fan but it has not been possible to discover whether he supported Liverpool or Everton . |
21 | Eight years were to pass before she encountered Dermot Corcoran again . |
22 | I went to talk to RELATE when I had problems with my own marriage . |
23 | Xerox Corp chairman Paul Allaire said yesterday that profit in the second quarter from its document processing business ‘ could be somewhat below ’ the $1.12 per share the unit earned in the year-ago period : Xerox said nine-tenths of its total business is in document processing , and the remainder is in insurance and financial services , and that it is in the midst of realigning its US sales force for document processing , which along with continued weak economic conditions , are affecting its results ; it expects sales momentum to increase as it realises benefits of the sales reorganisation and still expects profit growth in document processing . |
24 | He refused to comment as he left court yesterday . |
25 | Patrick pretended to hide when he saw Rain was after him . |
26 | She had just poured the boiling water on the tea and was standing waiting for it to brew when she heard Alex 's footsteps on the stairs and , turning , she saw his tall figure blocking the kitchen door . |
27 | Now in those cases we ca n't use the normal Chow tests we 've got more parameters to estimate than we have observations , right , as a result Chow developed a second test , right , from structural change where we do n't need er erm to estimate essentially the regression in the sub sample which has got very few obser observations but in that Chow , that Chow second test is often called a test of predicted failure , right , Microfit will calculate both of those tests and bear in mind I mean that we 're spending a lot of time on er parameter constancy , we must bear in mind that parameter constancy is vitally important if we are going to make these inferences possible be about policy making on the basis of our estimates . |
28 | ‘ We are going to negotiate hard with the department to see that we get things moving . ’ |
29 | If the frail or housebound are to eat properly , it is essential to see that they have help with their shopping , for carrying or pushing heavy baskets soon becomes an impossibility and very few shops now deliver goods . |
30 | I once garnered a useful titbit about Indian life from a documentary about the highest balloon flight in the world because I happened to see that it took place in the centre of the Indian sub-continent where the air can be particularly still . |