Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] the [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are there assumptions I can safely make about the language they understand , their level of awareness , the social and political groups they identify with ? |
| 2 | Creggan had learnt by now not to talk of his past , or to try and explain about the Zoo he had escaped from . |
| 3 | This general tendency in soil conservation evaluation derives from similar problems identified by critics of the existing approaches to agricultural research , namely the lack of a continuous outreach to and from research stations and farmers , and the conducting of programmes under conditions that do not exist for the farmer/pastoralist who is supposed to adopt them ( Biggs 1981 ) . |
| 4 | Could you explain for the record what your reasons were for arriving at that conclusion ? |
| 5 | ‘ Guides should be setting the example and I think we should think about the way we put adventure first . ’ |
| 6 | Do you ever stop and think about the way you breathe ? |
| 7 | Repetition is likewise the musician practising her scales until she can be consistent every time , so that while she performs she can think about the music itself rather than the individual notes . |
| 8 | ‘ The gang should also stop and think about the danger they could be in . |
| 9 | Left staring at him while waiting for her full wits to return , Leith did not know for the moment what on earth was going on . |
| 10 | • Is the clock the same in all of us and at all stages of our lives ? • What do we know about the clock itself — where is it , what influences it , and how does it work ? • What is the usefulness of such a clock ? |
| 11 | ‘ Think we do n't know about the carvings you do for the hospital ? ’ he asked , then smiled at her look of astonishment . |
| 12 | I know , but what I mean is that when they see the city centre , the people who are walking up and down the city centre , they see all the national charities , they do n't necessarily feel that they 're organised in the same way and therefore that they should be participating , and the whole palaver of getting a licence and applying is actually quite difficult , it 's not a simple , it 's not something , we get numerous telephone calls in the office saying ‘ Well can I go out next Saturday and rattle a tin for such-and-such ’ , and you say ‘ Well , you ca n't ’ , and it 's left much too late , so that people do n't know about the way you get licenses to rattle tins in city centre . |
| 13 | G. is pleased with the response at the company — not only do they report as soon as possible when they 've got a pollution , they let him know about the progress they make : ‘ I 've got them so well trained now they 'll be phoning half an hour before they have a discharge . ’ |
| 14 | Trailing lamely off as she belatedly realised that Leo did n't know about the conversation she 'd had with his sister , she bit her lip . |
| 15 | ‘ How do you know about the state he 's in ? ’ said Nessie . |
| 16 | From the standpoint of ‘ experience and observation ’ , what do we actually know about the forces which one billiard ball transmits to another , when compelling it to move after a collision ? |
| 17 | And even in quite a wide area not perhaps the garden croquet players you would n't know about the people who play in the back garden but you know the people who play in tournaments . |
| 18 | Do you know , on the first night , Malcolm Harris did n't know about the cuts we 'd had to make for time . |
| 19 | ‘ How much did you know about the book he hid here ? ’ |
| 20 | Then she would glance through the books she had bought , because she had to make a report on them . |
| 21 | She felt a brief pity for the police who would never pick their way through such a fen . |
| 22 | Little did anyone know of the furore which was about to break six hours later at Ellis Park . |
| 23 | If you have ever had the privilege of meeting such men , you will no doubt know of the quality they possess to which I refer . |
| 24 | She did not know of the vow he had made that if it ever did come he would make sure she was the first to go , even if it meant him staying in the Cages . |
| 25 | He does n't approve of the way I spend my free time . |
| 26 | ‘ Whether she 'd approve of the people who 'll be living here I do n't know . |
| 27 | Her piercing cry is a death omen and she will hover near the person she is attempting to warn , crying ‘ My husband ! |
| 28 | Fie , that you should imagine otherwise ! ’ she said lightly , adding on a more serious note , ‘ During the past months , I learned to speak and act like the duchess your wife — but in these last days I have learned to think like her also ; to believe that I am indeed the lady Anne ! |
| 29 | Why ca n't I ever behave like the person I want to be ? |
| 30 | The government said that it would appeal against the decision which it called a " wilful violation of the law " . |