Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [to-vb] that [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Leapor 's view , her friend has failed to recognize that beneath the charming exterior there may be something very unpleasant : |
| 2 | In those days they did n't use mileometers , what they did was they took any particular route number and the number of journeys they did , because in those days a bus kept on a route which applied , say between Witton and Rushmere Heath all day , did n't run around like they do nowadays and erm when the schedules were prepared , each bus had got a route number or was placed on a route number , say one Witton , two Witton , three Witton and a copy of its schedule was recorded on another sheet and the mileage , having known what the mileage was and we 'd used to obtain that from the Borough Surveyor 's Department , er I think it was about nine point one four miles a return trip Witton and Rushmere Heath , er you 'd work out how many journeys they did there and say well that bus was due to run a hundred and twenty six miles during the day . |
| 3 | I would have liked to say that to the normally pleasing Duchess of Kent when shown on television visiting a home for people who are elderly . |
| 4 | I do want to record that during the past colleagues have , almost without exception , done their best to work the system and I have greatly appreciated that . |
| 5 | Butland seems to have failed to appreciate that in the government reforms the general practitioner is the purchaser of services and the family health services authority 's role is to facilitate this and not to act as Big Brother . |
| 6 | For example , Vivian de Sola Pinto ( a regular contributor to the Review during the 19305 ) had come to consider that in the post-war world liberally-educated persons , whether schoolmasters , civil servants , or business administrators should have the capacity to contribute to the revitalization of a " soulless bureaucracy " , and that the main object of English studies should therefore be " the provision of a truly liberal education " for such " non-specialists " . |
| 7 | You 've got to remember that at the time , deregulation was looked on as an open cash-register . |