Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [pron] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I criticise them for refusing to accept that they made a mistake and for refusing to take any action to put matters right , when it was patently obvious that everything was going disastrously wrong . |
| 2 | ‘ The trouble was , Len himself refused to accept that he had a problem , ’ said Martin . |
| 3 | You need to know what you 've got , not precisely the solicitor does n't want to know that you 've a house and three insurances and two bank accounts and a building society . |
| 4 | Arriving at the edge of the quay , Fitzroy Maclean attempted to inflate it , only to discover that it had a puncture . |
| 5 | She had chosen the hotel for its low prices rather than its almost non-existent amenities , so she was rather surprised to find that they had a maid at all . |
| 6 | We 've heard of a small baby who chewed through a gift and swallowed a battery , and of a granny who bought one of those talking baby dolls for her favourite grandaughter , only to find that it had a vocabulary of four-letter words . |
| 7 | How many cards have you spent hours punching out , only to find that you have a mistake and need to go back and stick tape over some holes to avoid the mistake being knitted . |
| 8 | What they had said was at the end of the war they aimed at a safe and lasting peace , and to obtain that they demanded a setting up of a League of Nations . |
| 9 | And then came the bier , its front draped with a shawl to indicate that it carried a woman , which perhaps accounted for the general meagreness of the proceedings . |
| 10 | Has he ever said anything to indicate that someone has a grudge against him ? ’ |
| 11 | She had wanted to know if he had a wife , just out of normal curiosity , ever since she had first met him . |
| 12 | Nobody wants to know unless he commits a crime . |
| 13 | He considered the opportunity to participate in the project to have tied in well with curriculum trends he had been supporting across the school : This was something I very much wanted to encourage because I have a worry that in spite of everything one does in schools to make children aware of library facilities and how to use them , I think quite a lot of children may still leave school without personally having experienced the whole process of needing to find something out , going to a person who can tell them where to look , going , looking , finding it , and then using it . |
| 14 | In order to print out stitch patterns templates for instance , the program needs to know whether you have a punchcard or electronic machine and how many needles your machine can pattern over . |
| 15 | Fifteen years were to pass before I had a book published by Faber 's , but by then I had been launched by other publishing houses . |
| 16 | Such behaviour was still rather sinful to my innocent mind : many years were to pass before I gained a taste for traditional ale ! |
| 17 | Any vestige of friendship Grassi might have retained was to disappear when he saw a letter from Florence claiming that the Jesuits would be powerless to answer Galileo 's arguments . |
| 18 | We will now examine the commonest and most important kinds of fossils , the kinds that the reader will be able to find when he starts a collection . |
| 19 | Because no Sunday School teacher is there to see that everyone gets a prize , that no one cheats or that no one is left lonely and out in the cold , there will be casualties . |
| 20 | And I know he was very good to us in the war cos my father was , got a terminal illness and er he used to see that I had a bottle of whisky for dad you know , er the manager did . |
| 21 | She gave a shrug , longing to acknowledge that they shared a sorrow , but unable to do so . |
| 22 | Since I refused to acknowledge that I understood a word of Czech or German , I just shrugged my shoulders as they droned on . |
| 23 | A governing party is apt to claim that it has a mandate for doing something which it said it would do in its election manifesto , or which it simply said it would do some time before being elected . |
| 24 | ‘ But although he 's been a key force for them , we have to remember that they have a number of good jumpers ready to come in as replacements . |
| 25 | The figures you gave us at the beginning I I seem to remember that you sell a lot more water abroad than in this country . |
| 26 | But you have to remember that you have a life of your own to get on with . ’ |
| 27 | Points to remember If you experience a reaction , immediately cut out the offending food or beverage You will not be eating any grains or dairy produce this week apart from the permitted 2 slices of slimmer 's bread and 3floz ( 85ml ) skimmed milk or low-fat yogurt . |
| 28 | He was beginning to form a picture of the murderer and even beginning to wonder if he had a match . |
| 29 | Jo 's organising them all , down the hill at a brisk pace , impossible to talk while you time a dash across the road scooping the kids up with you as lorries thunder in both directions farting diesel fumes into your face . |
| 30 | I must admit I , I was beginning to wonder whether I made a mistake whether I taken on then I popped home |