Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [det] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's unfair , Bernard , you 've been in this job much longer than me , what do you think about this new menu for the canteen at Digby 's Ballbearings ? |
| 2 | ‘ For goodness ’ sake , surely you did n't fall for all that nonsense of his the other night ? |
| 3 | ‘ Oh , yes ; do n't pretend you do n't know about that juicy bit of gossip , ’ she spat bitterly . |
| 4 | PLEASE let know about any unsold tickets by Friday 8th November . |
| 5 | We 'll probably wait for some boring moment on the tour and go over it , collect it and put it in a book for posterity ! ’ |
| 6 | I do not know of any thorough research on the usage of the article with personal names in II Maccabees . |
| 7 | We do not know of any other reports of a similar nature but we know of a lady whose left hip joint was completely destroyed as a result of rheumatoid arthritis . |
| 8 | I do n't know of any other sport like this . |
| 9 | ‘ Mr Choak , you say that it is unlikely that your uncle was involved with the girl Jordan , but do you know of any other woman with whom he associated ? ’ |
| 10 | I do not know of any known way of preventing evil men from planting a little piece of plastic explosive in a vast complex like the Musgrave Park hospital . |
| 11 | Cos I see him know with this big pallets of that stuff all over the place and |
| 12 | For the most part , I will concentrate in this first section on the legal problems facing the transsexual contemplating surgery . |
| 13 | ‘ He that ventures to look downward sees , that if his foot should slip , he must fall from this dreadful elevation upon stones on one side , or into water on the other . |
| 14 | ‘ It will appeal to all those people in any discipline who are knowledgeable enough to know that there is much they do not know , and that learning and re-learning is worthwhile . |
| 15 | He admits that he can not appeal to some absolute conception of ‘ objectivity ’ in claiming that some languages ‘ allow their users to approximate to neutral , objective description ’ . |
| 16 | When they were wet from rain or swimming in the oceans , the light might catch on some deep oil in them and they would glimmer shadowy rainbows of colour , like oil spills on a road . |
| 17 | Our approach to the project will concentrate to some large extent upon the identification of underlying object classes in order to develop an object-oriented model . |
| 18 | This project will focus on this particular element of formula funding . |
| 19 | But we 're looking at it with hindsight , we ca n't just say that because of this this that and the other erm that pragmatism did overrule at this particular point in time . |
| 20 | Can you think of another solid figure with the same number of plane faces as letters in its name ? |
| 21 | Now I could write a book on Workers I have known and they are worth a mention here , because I can not think of any other branch of agriculture , but organics , where people will almost pay to work for you . |
| 22 | That really is trying to , erm , discover whether the person on the other terminal is human by means of language , and really , you ca n't think of any other way of doing it . |
| 23 | I could n't think of any other way of saying it . |
| 24 | Miranda said , ‘ People only say that when they ca n't think of any other reason for doing something damned stupid . ’ |
| 25 | I ca n't think of any other reason for him to walk out of the dinner he was supposed to be at . |
| 26 | I ca n't think of any other explanation for the flare-up . |
| 27 | ‘ I ca n't think of any other woman of my acquaintance who would kick up such a fuss just because a man wanted to buy her some new clothes . |
| 28 | One day I was sitting in his room in Downing Street having a general discussion , when he suddenly said to me , ‘ Can you think of any good name for the next Honours List ? ’ |
| 29 | Quite probably it was the truth , as I ca n't think of any good reason for you to have lied … |
| 30 | I could n't think of any suitable advice at the time . |