Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There she would stay for up an hour in shirt-sleeves in the pitch-dark , sometimes in the snow , while the bewildered family shivered inside . |
| 2 | All I could think about at the time was keeping this lady happy . |
| 3 | But what , she wondered , did the Colonel think about during the periods of his wife 's persistent chattering ? |
| 4 | ‘ I did n't even think about about the decathlon again until Duncan Mathieson , another one of Jim 's group down here , started going on about being the only one who was going to make it to the World Student Games . |
| 5 | You know , there 's a lot of symbolism that really has been lost , people do n't think about in the wedding service , but is underlying , you know , until fa fairly recently a lot of people promised to obey , erm , look at Prince Andrew and that when he got married , you know , erm , the Duchess of York actually promised to obey him |
| 6 | But if bureaucrats turn out not to organize and act as in the model , then that is so much the worse for the model . |
| 7 | What changes do you know of in the landscape or the use of land in your area ? |
| 8 | BRITISH actress Emily Lloyd is all smiles after watching the Hollywood premiere of In The Soup — but she 's nursing an aching heart . |
| 9 | And what Do you have any sort of memories that you can describe of of the marches in coming to ? |
| 10 | We were told that he refused to take his seat in the Chamber of Deputies because there was something he did n't approve of in the campaign . |
| 11 | Erm do you know in in the flats , erm different ethnic groups . |
| 12 | Ma did not glance from behind the paper . |
| 13 | ‘ If you must write — you do n't need to by the way , I can earn enough to support my family — but if you really must , you should always write ‘ Mrs Nigel Hughes ’ at the end of it and tell the editor you are married to me . ’ |
| 14 | The poor girl had gone off to her camp before she had formulated any hypotheses ; she had no idea as to what theory or concepts her work was to throw new light on , and so , to be on the safe side , she had recorded everything she could think of over a period of about six weeks and her notebooks practically filled a medium-sized suitcase . |
| 15 | There could be no answer to that , none that I could think of at the time . |
| 16 | No they do n't , but it was the only accent I could think of at the time . |
| 17 | Claire Rayner and Jeni Barnett are the only two I can think of at the moment . |
| 18 | Well , that 's all I can think of at the moment . |
| 19 | The the other advantages I can think of at the moment for erm getting company to say yes it the obvious connections to company . |
| 20 | That is unless it 's sold to the sort of person who blasts half of his land away to quarry gravel for motorways , like someone I can think of on the west coast . |
| 21 | A typical example would be : How many uses can you think of for a brick ( or a paper clip ) ? |
| 22 | ‘ And I am Lio ! rt Dragonlord , ’ said the hanging man , pronouncing the word with the harsh click in the back of the throat that Rincewind could only think of as a kind of integral punctuation . |
| 23 | A ministry that we do n't often think of as a ministry . |
| 24 | If anyone is interested in forming a group to go out and get petitions signed , or anything else we can think of as a group , please will they write to me as soon as possible . |
| 25 | What we might think of as a process of deliberation and choice about our desires is , for him , simply the interplay and jostling of desires amongst themselves ; and what we call ‘ will ’ is simply the desire that wins . |
| 26 | While neither a saint nor a psychopath , he clearly had some of the characteristics of both — ; chiefly what Lydia could only think of as a sort of selfless solipsism . |
| 27 | She was shocked to the very roots of her being by what she could only think of as an outrage ; a violation of her person . |
| 28 | The igneous and metamorphic rocks form what one can think of as the bones of the landscape , covered by sedimentary sequences of varying depths ( muscles , internal organs ? ) , and a thin skin of Quaternary ( Ice-Age ) material and new soil . |
| 29 | Current you can think of as the amount of water that actually gets through , the |
| 30 | It was the only Italian name I could think of in a hurry and I did n't have the nerve to put on the right accent to go with it . ’ |