Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Badlands spirit is swelling — catch this wave now , but do n't think about doing it in a Fat Willys T-shirt . |
| 2 | Just as compelling production of incriminating Reports in the hand of the insured may lead to a climate for settlement on the part of the defender , so a Specification properly directed to the pursuer or those to whom he may have entrusted information ( other than his solicitors ) may assist in compelling him to be more realistic . |
| 3 | Apply it with a roller in a thin , even coat and let it dry without disturbing it for a good 24 hours . |
| 4 | Then you can concentrate on using it to good effect . |
| 5 | What do you think of launching it with pictures of Deneuve ? ’ |
| 6 | How could he think of abandoning her to the malevolent clutches of this voracious monster ? |
| 7 | ‘ Do n't even think of asking me about female membership , ’ barked the old Sgt-Major . |
| 8 | How did you feel about helping her with those activities ? |
| 9 | So we hid it somewhere really good , where nobody 'd think of looking ! — Anyway , it do n't matter about putting it in the bank now , does it ? |
| 10 | This means that they must refrain from instructing him about what he is to do … " ( p. 295 ) . |
| 11 | For some young people , especially those in areas of high youth unemployment who are attending special youth training programmes for trainees with learning difficulties , this operation may never succeed in bringing them into employment ( Wilkinson 1990 ) . |
| 12 | The lesson of that election was that only an alliance of all those who stood to the right of the Socialists could succeed in easing them from power . |
| 13 | He patented in 1870 a wheeled ‘ apparatus for affording protection from bullets and other missiles ’ , but did not succeed in selling it to any of Europe 's warring armies . |
| 14 | The person whose grass or corn is eaten down by the escaping cattle of his neighbour , or whose mine is flooded by the water from his neighbour 's reservoir , or whose cellar is invaded by the filth of his neighbour 's privy , or whose habitation is made unhealthy by the fumes and noisome vapours of his neighbour 's alkali works , is damnified without any fault of his own ; and it seems but reasonable and just that the neighbour , who has brought something on his own property which was not naturally there , harmless to others so long as it is confined to his own property , but which he knows to be mischievous if it gets on his neighbour 's , should be obliged to make good the damage which ensues if he does not succeed in confining it to his own property . |
| 15 | Similarly , an imaginary case in which I would claim to know that p , but where p is false , will succeed in preventing me from claiming to know that p in a new case which is not relevantly ( i.e. , discernibly to me ) different . |
| 16 | Sometimes antibodies can be produced that bind to a virus but do not succeed in preventing it from entering and infecting cells ( called non-neutralising antibodies ) . |
| 17 | How did the company benefit from having me on the staff ? |
| 18 | The Messiah has done for us what we could never do in putting us in the right with God ; and the gift of his Spirit releases us from the need to try to justify ourselves . |
| 19 | This he would achieve by forcing him into discarding his weapons . |
| 20 | I ca n't think of anything else so I 'll finish by thanking you for all your hard work . |
| 21 | No , but I know that you 're dying to have a computer , and if money was no object , then we probably would n't hesitate in lending it to you , but really and truly at this moment things are tight and we ca n't afford to commit ourselves with things unless it 's absolutely necessary . |
| 22 | No , but I know that you 're dying to have a computer , and if money was no object , then we probably would n't hesitate in lending it to you , but really and truly at this moment things are tight and we ca n't afford to commit ourselves with things unless it 's absolutely necessary . |
| 23 | Since I 've recently had my car radio stolen I 'm quite in favour of them not being sold at the car boot sales perhaps somebody would like to returns it to me but erm , the , you know , I 'm er you know they do need some restr , some legislation but I would n't want them to be legislated out of existence . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'll definitely stick to wearing them in the future , ’ he told me in an exclusive interview . |
| 25 | If the government 's hands were clean , why did it insist on hiding them behind its back ? |
| 26 | She had always been as strong as the lioness Candy would insist on comparing her to . |
| 27 | Would Geoffrey insist on taking her on a tour of every English don in the college ? |
| 28 | ‘ Why do you insist on seeing me in this horrible way ? ’ she finished up . |
| 29 | However I am not so enamoured of the sound of my own voice that , bearing in mind what er Dr has said about the amount of business , I would insist on inflicting it upon it if someone would be prepared to second it and the convenor and the assembly be prepared to accept it . |
| 30 | Why did Mrs Jenks insist on giving them to him for breakfast ? |