Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pron] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who knows what the exact situation will be and what problems will arise as those changes are forced upon the Scottish people who did not want them in the first place ? |
| 2 | David does n't want them in the first place and he wo n't argue , I 've discussed it with Robin he wo n't argue , erm Richard who 's the only one that could really be regarded as a loser dare n't argue 'cos it 's his report that recommends we they come back to us , and John wo n't understand the item so I think we 're alright there . |
| 3 | You do n't want them in the next group with us do you ? |
| 4 | Several different views have been put forward ; we shall consider them in the next chapter under three headings : |
| 5 | We all like ‘ to do right ’ by our horses and this often involves the over-feeding of supplements , either because the horse does n't need them in the first place or because we tend to think ‘ a little bit extra will do him even more good ’ . |
| 6 | They get bored easily , so if you ca n't excite them in the first 30 seconds of your record , you are probably in the wrong business . |
| 7 | They ca n't gazump you at the last minute cos it makes |
| 8 | Do you need one after the next one , 'cos which sticks one , which |
| 9 | Once the door was shut , they could have had a dance band going full blast and you 'd never know it in the next room . |
| 10 | At the speed the train is going , I will catch it at the next station . |
| 11 | I was gon na catch it at the next stop . |
| 12 | I think it would be nice , and then we could actually discuss it at the next planning meeting which I presume , which is the twentieth |
| 13 | Staff wishing to avail themselves of this flexitime arrangement should discuss it in the first instance with their line manager . |
| 14 | No definition is spot on really , you can always find difficulties with it but they do sort of discuss it in the first paragraph . |
| 15 | Er if there were holes in the information or whether really whatever board members feel and erm we can consider it at the next meeting . |
| 16 | He did n't catch us until the last peak , Creag nan Damh , where a number of ridge-walkers were gathered , basking in the delight of the afternoon and resting on their laurels after a mammoth expedition . |
| 17 | I can not chuck them at the last minute . |
| 18 | And they will achieve nothing over the next 20 years . ’ |
| 19 | Unfortunately I can do nothing about the first two but it is my responsibility to protect your salary so that your wife and family are looked after . |
| 20 | Try and keep them dry , and take the painkillers we 'll give you for the first few days . |
| 21 | I mean , it needs to perhaps perhaps they can do something for the first couple |
| 22 | And I think that if people who are still smoking , and I think nearly every smoker is unhappy with their habit , if they will remember that and think that they can actually do something for the next generation , it 's not their fault , there are people out there , there are forces out there who are forced them to start smoking and who are trying to get the generation to start . |
| 23 | They may feel New York for the first time because its fast-dealing busyness is something the screen does n't catch and may smell it for the first time if they come in high summer but one of the great first sights of the world is gone for ever . |
| 24 | But erm I mean th th the debate yesterday was , was as , as budget issues always are I mean when you 're talking about budget no matter , even in boom years you 're always still talking oh we have n't got enough money erm but it was positive in the sense that it was A we 're coming off the back of some good performance , and that 's important to remember , and all I 'm saying is there 's no reason why we should n't be able to maintain our performance , even if we ca n't improve it in the next two or three months erm from , to where we actually think we should have been given that the systems come in last year . |
| 25 | Efforts to strengthen and improve it in the last decades of the century had only moderate success . |
| 26 | Why do it now , why did n't she do it in the first place . |
| 27 | Let me be able to wash and dress myself to the last . |
| 28 | With its self-imposed end-of-June deadline for publishing a common desktop environment specification now just six weeks off , the Common Open Software Environment firms — Hewlett-Packard Co , IBM Corp , Santa Cruz Operation Inc , Sun Microsystems Inc , Univel Inc and Unix System Laboratories Inc — are circulating ( internally ) a draft form of the ‘ Process Paper ’ which covers the scope of COSE and describes who will do what for the first of its promised offerings . |
| 29 | With its self-imposed end-of-June deadline for publishing a common desktop environment specification now just six weeks off , the Common Open Software Environment firms — Hewlett-Packard Co , IBM Corp , Santa Cruz Operation Inc , Sun Microsystems Inc , Univel Inc and Unix System Labs — are circulating ( internally ) a draft form of the ‘ Process Paper ’ which covers the scope of COSE and describes who will do what for the first of its promised offerings . |
| 30 | This data set , coupled with extensive satellite observations , will give us for the first time a essentially a snapshot view of the behaviour of the ocean . |