Example sentences of "[vb infin] [indef pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hard though he tried , Floyd could make nothing of the inward half and Couples , having gone to the front with a birdie at the ninth , was never caught again . |
| 2 | Sometimes they are perceived only by those in intimate contact , yet sometimes they can make everyone in a large crowd aware of individual feelings . |
| 3 | As was pointed out in the previous chapter , the plan of the Victorian house and the Victorian city have this in common : that both are so designed that the few who live on the privileged side of the divide need know nothing of the many who are crowded beyond it into a fraction of the space . |
| 4 | At Key Stages 1 and 2 , these might include someone from the local archaeological unit , the museum or archives or a local historian , especially someone used to speaking to young children . |
| 5 | You 'd need someone with a good deal of local knowledge to pull that off . ’ |
| 6 | And do n't buy one with the front headlamp glass missing : they 're almost impossible to replace . |
| 7 | Do you need one after the next one , 'cos which sticks one , which |
| 8 | Perhaps they reflect nothing at all except the accidents of conception : but I suspect that there is often , in fact , a buried clue here , and that if we could unearth it we should know something about the early growth of many market towns that no documents will ever tell us . |
| 9 | So , the research worker should know something about the main ways to obtain information from the library . |
| 10 | Buying a ticket for last night 's game does NOT guarantee one for the all-Ireland clash in November — unless a formal application was made at the time of purchase to the IFA office . |
| 11 | I said well do you know anybody with a good ? |
| 12 | The all-alloy 24-valve twin-cam engine is described by Cosworth as being of the ‘ high-efficiency ’ type , and follows the ‘ modular ’ theory — meaning that the basic design could suit anything from the three-cylinder unit to a V12 . |
| 13 | Great advantage now is you would n't need anything like a high chair |
| 14 | ‘ Do you know anything of the Old Ones , or the carvings that are in the museum ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't know anything about a stolen book , ’ Connelly bleated . |
| 16 | Well my mother was one of the pillars of the Palfrey church and er she er oh I went , my father never used to go , but she used to go and of course I , I used to be an altar server down there when I got a bit older I did for a week or two to the erm do you know anything about an Anglo-Catholic Church I mean where they swing the incense and there is this little boy with the boat ? |
| 17 | If they answer the phone and say they do n't know anything about the bed-and-breakfast bookings , a customer could be lost immediately . |
| 18 | And they did n't really know anything about the blooming bloke you know ! |
| 19 | What gets me about this guy Alderson is that he served in the country area of Cornwall , and he makes all these proposals about inner-city policing ; now how the hell would he know anything about the inner city ? |
| 20 | I mean , frankly , does he know anything about the inner workings of central heating ? ’ |
| 21 | When I first decided to go into acting , my mother went mad — it was quite understandable , we did n't know anything about the acting profession . |
| 22 | But , even if you do n't know anything about the deeper workings , you can apply some common sense guidelines to the same effect . |
| 23 | ‘ When I arrived I could n't speak a word of Spanish , did n't know anything about the photographic scene in Madrid and had never worked as a professional photographer before , so it was n't the easiest of situations to begin with . ’ |
| 24 | They referred to his dependency upon the Black vote ( as though the Democratic Party itself could win anything without the Black vote , and as though Alaska and Vermont were strongholds of Black populations rather than white snow ) . |
| 25 | I certainly do not believe that we can win anything by a formal arrangement with the Liberal Democratic Party . |
| 26 | Using such stereotypes , one can then argue that the occult sciences of the Renaissance could contribute nothing to the new sciences of the seventeenth century . |
| 27 | And they will achieve nothing over the next 20 years . ’ |
| 28 | Let us assume nothing but a casual connexion between the imagined tastes and the motion of the hand . |
| 29 | ‘ We have a deliberate policy to involve people of all ages and this is shown in the new function room which will benefit everyone from the youngest to the oldest members of the community . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I shall do nothing for the simple reason that — knowing Doreen — it would be a waste of time and effort . |