Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not need to tell you the potential problems and chaos that the delay is causing to the reorganisation of the leagues next season . |
| 2 | Suppose , for example , that your most recent life had been a particularly horrifying and traumatic one : you would not really want to experience it the first time you were regressed , as you might not be able to cope . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd like to confirm what the financial arrangements were . |
| 4 | You can only begin to guess what the ancient Greeks would have made of that , and the subsequent impact on Renaissance sculpture . |
| 5 | Well would you like to know what the fourteen great achievements are then ? |
| 6 | Only then did the navy begin calling itself the Senior Service — reference to the fact that it was around long before the East India Trading Company . |
| 7 | On behalf of all her fans , I would like to wish her the best of luck in 1992 and hope that she will carry on in the dedicated way she has in the past year or so . |
| 8 | I , on behalf of all her other fans around the world , would like to wish her the best of luck for 1992 . |
| 9 | We only have an A4 scanner but if somebody would like to send me the relevant pages from the Torygraph I will have a go , the address is coming up at the end of the progrmme . |
| 10 | On a sober note , I should also like to echo what the right hon. Member for Worcester said about Alick Buchanan-Smith . |
| 11 | I would not like to think what the wrong type would do to , say , the bacteria in your filter ! |
| 12 | If … if there 's time , I 'd like to show you the new salon in Albemarle Street . ’ |
| 13 | We will endeavour to give you the best possible service to ensure a trouble-free and enjoyable holiday . |
| 14 | ‘ No , you 'd do that for about three or four days and then he 'd decide to ask you the same question again just to see if you did look it up . ’ |
| 15 | Adorno 's recognition of the radical potential of what he called jazz ( see , for example , Adorno 1976 : 33–4 ) could have given him the theoretical space for such an approach ( it certainly means he has no logical grounds for the theoretical closure he operates , only a self-fulfilling pessimism ) ; but he fails to follow his quest into places where he could have found what he sought , and , more damagingly , he excludes the possibility of any other mode of critique than that associated with alienated individualism . |
| 16 | I would never have given him the sweet if I knew there was acid in it . |
| 17 | Oh well it were n't to me cos I probably would have given you the eight |
| 18 | The House will have heard what the hon. Gentleman said about his parliamentary neighbour . |
| 19 | That comes within the responsibility of my fellow Under-Secretary of State , my hon. Friend the Member for Eastwood ( Mr. Stewart ) , who will have heard what the hon. Gentleman said about further applications . |
| 20 | The detailed points raised by the hon. Member for Linlithgow ( Mr. Dalyell ) are matters for my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs , who will have heard what the hon. Gentleman has said . |
| 21 | Should have realised it the first time , but that 's what happens when you make assumptions . |
| 22 | In such cases the court will have to estimate what the net commission would have been and award damages accordingly . |
| 23 | ‘ It was the first time I did n't have to worry what the other girls were gon na think , what anyone was gon na think and if I do n't like what happens I can cut it out … |
| 24 | Now , the other thing that I mentioned yesterday , or we mentioned yesterday , was that local radio is opportunity for practice in various ways , and most local radio in most forms , and we will have to know what the local knowledge is here , do welcome people who are sufficiently interested to contribute stories , information , angles for their programmes . |
| 25 | I think you should have done it the other way . |
| 26 | if I 'd have fed it the first time I 'd have understood it , but I 've only fed it today ! |
| 27 | They may not have made him the finest British light comedian since his hero David Niven , but at least they rescued him from an uncertain future in Britain where he may have ended up as a cross between Roy Castle and Ronnie Corbett . |
| 28 | See where this affair with a nobody will lead you ; I would have made you the greatest actress of your generation , and now you are nothing and no one . ’ |
| 29 | Its elasticity would have made it the ideal candidate for a trampoline-cover . |
| 30 | It will try to identify what the key moments of commitment/disengagement are , when , and to whom , school offers self-fulfilment and when it operates denial ; whether patterns of differentiation persist within the national framework of ‘ entitlement ’ and equality of opportunity . |