Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] the [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You will then also need to drill the same contrast in all other positions in which it occurs . |
| 2 | Equally , do not expect to find the same fineness of knotting in a nomadic item as in a rug of workshop origin , although some nomadic rugs are surprisingly finely knotted and consistent in their designs . |
| 3 | But why should n't staff put the same process into operation lower down the school ? |
| 4 | If a road sweeper kills the king he ca n't expect to get the same gratuity as a general . |
| 5 | Cynthia Cockburn calls this " studied hypocrisy " , arguing that as things stood no woman could expect to earn the same wage as a man , because of the Factory Acts among other things , and links it with the undoubtedly fiercely held view among many compositors that women really had no right to " leave the home " anyway . |
| 6 | She could 've had the same thing free on the National Health ! |
| 7 | Does each answer describe the same number of students ? |
| 8 | Last night some Conservatives argued that government whips should demand that Mr Heseltine urge retreat on Sir Anthony , who has said he would like to see the former Defence Secretary and ardent pro-European lead the party . |
| 9 | I would like to see the same thing happen to them . ’ |
| 10 | Daedalus would like to do the same thing for human senses , and DREADCO chemists are now at work on his ‘ contrast-exalting spectacles ’ or ‘ Cexspex ’ ( Regd. ) make of a cunning tinted glass . |
| 11 | For the er we 'd really like to do the same thing for the whole weapons system with Eurofighter also but the the premium that eurofighter might demand to cover the risk . |
| 12 | I would like to do the same thing to them |
| 13 | I would like to stay the same age so I could play football . |
| 14 | You might like to stay the same weight but change your shape . |
| 15 | Tordjman expects software products to grow faster this year than engineering and systems integration , but he would like to maintain the same division of revenue for the next few years . |
| 16 | ‘ I have purchased a black lead Pencil Sketch of Mr. Green of Ambleside which I think has great merit , the materials being uncommonly picturesque and well put together ; I should dearly like to have the same subject ( it is the Cottage at Glencoyn , by Ullswater ) treated by you . ’ |
| 17 | I hate it when people cry , cos it makes me want to do the same thing . |
| 18 | As for advising someone else who might want to do the same thing as myself , I do n't know what to say . |
| 19 | You do n't want to use the same pen . |
| 20 | We do n't want to use the same cutlery an ’ that . ’ |
| 21 | Tone generators and loudspeakers , however , have to cope with a multitude of frequencies and can not hope to move the same amount of air as the equivalent number of pipes . |
| 22 | The individuals may function well in different compartments , and while they may have inhabited the same house for 30 years , believing they are together , they may , in fact , not be together as far as their hopes and expectations go , so it is terribly important that they voice these things to their partners . |
| 23 | What makes it look all the more daft is that they will often have to wear the same number tabard all the way through , which over top hat and tails makes them look like someone wearing his vest over his dinner jacket . |
| 24 | Without this " attraction " it was hardly to be expected that rural labour markets could clear themselves through falling wages , since they were already so close to the level of subsistence that a further lowering would have reduced the productivity of labour via its depressing effect on the calorific value of workers ' diets which would no longer have sustained the same work effort . |
| 25 | The very next day , Sunday , I would have to attend the same chapel in its religious function , and the fact that the previous evening it had been a battleground for people who were supposed to be friends and allies , while the ‘ enemy ’ got on with his job uninterrupted outside , led to a more or less permanent confusion in my mind , which I now believe to be totally justified , between violence and religion , and between fact and fancy [ or film ] . |
| 26 | And they , do they all have to carry the same weight ? |
| 27 | It says it 's wrong that a judge should have to pass the same sentence on an abused wife who kills a brutal husband as it does on a robber armed with a shotgun who kills in cold blood . |
| 28 | In this sense , they may have occupied the same position in the Minoan religious system as angels and demons in the Christian belief-system in medieval Europe . |
| 29 | Otherwise he might have suffered the same fate as Sheila Brayford . |
| 30 | Had the Republican candidate in 1980 been an ideologue , he would have suffered the same fate as Barry Goldwater in 1964 ; if , by some fluke , he had been elected , he would have been denied cooperation by congress and would have been drummed out of office in 1984 . |