Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pron] [indef pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd fuck her one after the other and she would n't even know who they were . |
| 2 | So he is familiar , and he could win us a gold medal in that symbol of absolutism , the 100 metres sprint ( he could , theoretically , win us one in the 200 metres , but that is far less likely , far less mythopoeic ) . |
| 3 | I asked if they could give me something for the pain . |
| 4 | Lie back , and I 'll give you something for the pain . |
| 5 | The US Government is reliably said to have invested large sums from its military budget on research in which impulses from computers ( which might give you something like the binary number level of the program ) were detected at a distance and the task was to see whether the highest level of program ( expressing what the real purpose of the program was ) could be reliably inferred . |
| 6 | I did n't give you one on the end but I bought |
| 7 | Did they give you anything in the ambulance ? ’ |
| 8 | Running until their pursuers had become separated by the chase , they would turn and ambush them one after the other . |
| 9 | My clever chat would avail me nothing in the face of the fact that I had chosen to ally myself with a woman who practically peed her pants at some salesman 's blue jokes . |
| 10 | That will cost you something in the region of fifty pounds a week . ’ |
| 11 | Little did I know how right he was because the first thing that happened when David 's mother had a bad day , she would call me everything under the sun . |
| 12 | Erm can you tell me something about the temple in that area in Caldmore , its role in the community , briefly perhaps . |
| 13 | Can , can you can you tell me something about the Llandudno area during that time . |
| 14 | Can you tell me something about the crowd itself , erm did particular age groups tend to stand together around the ground or were the young |
| 15 | I would be grateful if you could tell me anything about the guitar . |
| 16 | You did n't tell me anything about the cheque . |
| 17 | And can you tell me anything about the materials that are actually cos they do n't |
| 18 | Looking at the cassette and tape itself will tell you nothing about the film itself . |
| 19 | If that dreadful mid-Atlantic ‘ celebrity ’ who rummages through other people 's houses in the appalling ‘ Through the Keyhole ’ TV programme delved through the house of Australia rugby , he would find any amount of shimmering silverware — the World Cup itself , the Bledisloe Cup , and so on — but the contents would tell you nothing about the true greatness of the inhabitants . |
| 20 | As a consequence , the changes produced will tell you nothing about the normal functions of that part . |
| 21 | And if a company has n't filed accounts at all when it 's supposed to have done , that should tell you something about the organization of the company . |
| 22 | I could tell you something about the , if you 've got the |
| 23 | Keeping your eye on court lists can also tell you something about the firms appearing and if a firm consistently acts for the plaintiff against health authorities you can be fairly sure that their specialism lies in medical negligence . |
| 24 | There 's one other factor , at the bottom of that , er page , will tell you something about the allocation to units . |
| 25 | But can I tell you something off the record ? ’ |
| 26 | But actually it does n't tell you anything about the quality of the care which they 're purchasing and the evidence that we are getting increasingly from the community health council is the experience of people of the health service is that actually the quality of the care is getting worse and this is not due to the staff in the health ee the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the e the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the for an operation er , four years , it should to be said er , she 's been waiting despite the government 's claim that all operations are done within two years er for very severe varicose veins and surprisingly enough she got them because of course most varicose have been removed her , the north-east Thames region erm , and er she turned up on the Wednesday and the operation had been postponed twice previously er , she was er gone through all the er , various tests which took her four hours cos she had to find all the places herself , there was nobody to show her to X-ray and various other places erm she was prepared for the op and then was sent home because there was n't a bed available ! |
| 27 | I 'll tell him nothing of the sort , Fernando Serra , because your problems are your own , ’ she husked pityingly . |
| 28 | The size of the compulsory core of a discipline might tell us something about the strength of its identity , and the extent to which it constitutes an organic whole or , to use a common expression , ‘ seamless web ’ . |
| 29 | An auditing system would tell us something about the investigations looked at and , by way of extrapolation , also about the general reliability of the system . |
| 30 | Can you tell us something about the quality of water locally ? |