Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pron] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You could dye them the same colour , ’ said Betty . |
| 2 | Plus , of course , he admitted to himself wryly , the fact that the hours and the work do n't make me the ideal boy-friend , let alone husband . |
| 3 | To Ajax he says : ‘ I would thou didst itch from head to foot ; an ’ I had the scratching of thee , I would make thee the loathsomest scab in Greece' ( 27ff . ) . |
| 4 | I would thou didst itch from head to foot ; an I had the scratching of thee , I would make thee the loathsomest scab in Greece . |
| 5 | What kind of people d' you think I the first year psychology students they 've been given some sexual orientation ? |
| 6 | You can shew me the exact spot and that will save time . |
| 7 | I do n't know I the other day . |
| 8 | ‘ T is so no more ’ , that is , he can no longer consider himself the same person — he has become , at last , a human being ( line 36 ) , not a dreaming poet , and he can not go back to the earlier state . |
| 9 | ‘ Did you know who the prospective owner was , ’ asked the Captain , ‘ when you discussed these plans ? ’ |
| 10 | The shot was supplied by Chris Baldwin who thinks the observer was Tony Buxton , does not know who the green-fingered pilot was , but knows they both survived . |
| 11 | We do not know who the first organist in the old church were . |
| 12 | Do you know who the official Society representative in your region is ? |
| 13 | At first I did n't know who the bearded man was for ( as I realise now ) I had been too busy participating to see . |
| 14 | I do not know who the hon. Gentleman thinks he is speaking for , but I remind him that these people are volunteers and join with the approval of their parents . |
| 15 | To allow large numbers of Southerners into their highly regimented society could unravel everything the Stalinist regime there has created in the last forty years . |
| 16 | Though she had said she was too young for them she had been enraptured by them in a tiny jeweller 's in Pollensa but Fernando had hurried her away saying he would buy her the real thing one day . |
| 17 | things you see , so erm , I thought right well that 's it Ben can have the garage , I 'll go and buy her the flying circus , Joseph can have the bus and call it a day . |
| 18 | You can not guarantee what the resulting shade will be , though — you build up depth with subsequent layers — and you can get tell-tale streaking if you are not very careful with application . |
| 19 | Mr Ken Currie of the Energy Technology Support Unit at Harwell will then describe what the rich world could do to mitigate the effects . |
| 20 | ‘ I do not know what the final outcome will be and would stress that there is no obvious solution at this point , but at least we now have adequate time to look at all the alternatives . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I could n't for the life of me remember the English name for this vehicle and certainly did n't know what the Russian name was , so I asked him what he would call it . ’ |
| 22 | Accordingly , one is constrained in the way which one can refer to the preceding paragraph in the printed document — because one does not know what the preceding paragraph will be . |
| 23 | It claims to be ahead of schedule with NT-on-Alpha , a relatively meaningless phrase since we do n't know what the real schedule is . |
| 24 | One of the bosses announced : " We do n't know what the real trade figures are going to be . |
| 25 | By the end of this week we shall know what the Labour Party no longer stands for , such as unilateral nuclear disarmament and full-scale nationalisation ; but what , in essence , does it stand for ? |
| 26 | I do not know what the Labour party is so proud of , because under the previous Labour Government manufacturing output fell by 2 per cent . |
| 27 | ‘ We do n't even know what the bloody thing looks like , ’ Julie added . |
| 28 | ‘ I doubt if they would know what the bloody hell you were talking about . |
| 29 | Do you know what the traditional name for them is ? |
| 30 | What was , does anybody know what the first term was ? |