Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [pron] [pron] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be interesting to know what she did with all the money he left her . ’ |
| 2 | He welcomed the endorsement by USL of OSF layered products , said that DEC 's Network Applications Support ( NAS ) services would be ported to the system by autumn of next year , along with versions for HP/UX and AIX and said that both USL and DEC would be prepared to help anybody who felt like porting Destiny to the Alpha chip . |
| 3 | They have always been relatively free to do what they liked with their collections , within reasonable limits , but now a museum can actually sell a top work of art with financial gain as a prime motive . |
| 4 | In small group discussions , happily married men with children clearly saw fidelity as part of their lives ; although not immune to other women 's charms , they were not prepared to jeopardize what they had for the sake of a night of passion . |
| 5 | The essential function of the Masai was to provide the perfect opportunity for the British to display what they believed to be their finest characteristics as a ruling race : the ability to understand and to gain the respect of proud traditional peoples , the self-discipline to treat them with courtesy , and the moral authority to guide and control them without resort to brute force . |
| 6 | Yet its impossible to forget what he did to me . |
| 7 | ‘ It is impossible to explain what it felt like when that weight was lifted . ’ |
| 8 | She also felt that age 6 was too early to make what she saw as a drastic decision — once out of mainstream education she felt he would be unlikely to get back . |
| 9 | It was very hard to imagine what he made of what was going on . |
| 10 | They found it hard to understand what he saw in the boys he now surrounded himself with , some of whom seemed to the girls stupid and callow and bad at drawing . |
| 11 | I felt safer now that they 'd arrived and I was curious to see what she meant by ‘ laying out ’ . |
| 12 | He said words were inadequate to describe what he felt about Laing and warned that when he came out of prison ‘ people will be waiting for him and justice will be done properly ’ . |
| 13 | Naturally enough , the latter group interpreted the first sentence appropriately but were unable to report what they heard through the unattended channel . |
| 14 | Through their objectivity , he argued , search consultants were able to provide what he saw as conceptual help in defining a business need and translating it into the sort of people who could fulfil it ; actually searching for people was perhaps less important . |
| 15 | They were able to request anything they wanted from their administrative colleagues which they felt could aid them on any given mission . |
| 16 | I just wanted to be private , to be able to choose whom I talked to , let alone where and when . |
| 17 | But she had n't been able to hear what he said for the roaring in her ears . |
| 18 | Older people were much more likely than the young to be unable to describe what they meant by health . |
| 19 | Later I knitted quality , made to measure garments in good yarns for people who for some reason or another ( usually an awkward size ) were unable to get what they wanted in the shops . |
| 20 | Robin Dawson turned to working with collage after becoming increasingly frustrated with feeling unable to say what he wanted with a single image . |
| 21 | Robin Dawson turned to working with collage after becoming increasingly frustrated with feeling unable to say what he wanted with a single image . |
| 22 | Looking back it is difficult to justify what we did at times . |
| 23 | I find it difficult to put what I saw into words . |
| 24 | For the historian it is equally illegitimate to overlook what they had in common as it is to neglect the differences . |
| 25 | That would not in any way restrict the paper 's right to print whatever it wished in the rest of the paper . |
| 26 | Though their heads were held down forcibly , the two men looked up at Rosten , anxious to know what he intended for them . |
| 27 | ‘ That you 're keen to finish what you started in St Lucia , so you 'd like to rid me of my inconvenient hang-ups ? ’ |
| 28 | But within minutes , confirmation was coming in on all sides : from our headquarters in London , from the teleprinter flashes , from national newspaper reporters stunned like us and now eager to hear what we thought about it . |