Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [to-vb] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , it was Basil Rathbone , and just enough of a pause before ‘ friend ’ for Jan to think what she liked to think . |
| 2 | But this suggests that it is actually impossible for Hegel to realise what appears to be an ideal notion of the relationship between lovers . |
| 3 | But he thinks he 's the centre of the world and he was going to make it difficult for Angie to do what she wanted if it would affect his career . |
| 4 | It did not take long for Curtis to establish what had happened . |
| 5 | IT took a long time for BMW to overcome what was probably a touch of snobbery about diesel cars and come up with some of its own . |
| 6 | Child care experts have gathered from throughout Scotland to discuss what can be done to improve the educational record of children in care . |
| 7 | Born in London , an ex-punk who started acting while at art school during a course in sculpture , Roth never actually went to drama college ( aside from one afternoon when he got pissed and snuck into RADA to see what he 's missed ) . |
| 8 | Anyway s to cut a long story short , I had a word with Stuart to see what it 'd cost . |
| 9 | A 100 per cent survey of the 145 households will be carried out by Market Research Scotland in March to see which landlord is preferred . |
| 10 | Maxim had been long enough in Whitehall to know what Sims was talking about . |
| 11 | But are we left with a view of God as one of the actors on the world stage in the manner of the pagan gods , a benign Zeus who ‘ comes down ’ from Olympus to perform what is morally uplifting on earth ? |
| 12 | But the visit amounted to an urgent appeal from Washington to stop what has seemed an inexorable downward slide in its relations with Beijing since the bloody crackdown on anti-government protests in June . |
| 13 | In 1939 we were all in England when Pop came back from Burma to decide what we should do — stay in England during the war , or go back to Burma . |
| 14 | That it be referred to the meeting in October to consider what means may be most likely to encourage the study of scientific farriery . |
| 15 | I believed I was the first anthropologist in France to understand what this means . |
| 16 | He had made enquiry in Cornwall to ascertain what dues were typical in that county and from the information he had gleaned he was able to show that Consolidated Mines paid one-twentyfourth ; Tresavean and South Roskear one-twentieth ; and North Roskear to two different Mineral Lords — one-twentieth and one-fifteenth . |
| 17 | TODAY dropped in to the Oxfam shop in Oxford to see what she missed . |
| 18 | I said I 've come all way from Llandudno to see what you 're doing . |
| 19 | It was in this atmosphere of craven piety that Lillian Hellman , the playwright who had carte blanche in Hollywood to write what pictures she liked , administered a cold douche to the nation 's conscience by stating unequivocally that she refused to inform on anybody else but herself . |
| 20 | Essentially , what she wants is for Berowne to discover what is serious in life , and to stop fooling all the time . |
| 21 | And it seemed to her that she was at least two people , for the person who had plunged them into the forest and brought them to this spot was not the same as the person who sat here waiting for Allen to say what he was doing , and for the Friar to return . |
| 22 | The environmental campaign group is to lobby shoppers on Saturday to highlight what it claims is a destructive and sometimes illegal assault on rainforests . |
| 23 | on Tuesday to see what she was doing that 's of course if she can get . |
| 24 | Her husband took matters into his own hands by asking Laurens van der Post to come to Scotland to see what he could do . |
| 25 | The FA meet on Monday to decide what action to take . |
| 26 | The fact remains that while Mossad is the honoured guest of the American government in Washington , especially at election time , the entire UN General Assembly had to be air-lifted to Geneva to hear what Arafat had to say . |
| 27 | We will leave it to Goldberg to disengage the tone from the shit , he wrote , we will leave it to Honeyman and McGough , much good may it do them , though I will no doubt come back to the question before my project is completed , the big glass and the notes to the big glass , these two to be worked on at night , and this freewheeling commentary on both to be written by day , putting down whatever comes into my head after a night 's work , no correction , no revision , whatever comes into my head , the first two to be worked on by artificial light , the strategy clear , this by natural light wherever possible , no strategy at all , the first to be exhibited , the second to be published in the form of sheets in a box , a blue box or a red box , I have not yet made up my mind , in a limited edition , not a luxury edition but a restricted edition , five hundred boxes perhaps or even two hundred and fifty , all that will become clearer in the course of my work on the big glass , of my work on the notes to the big glass , now I have finally embarked on the major project of my life , the climactic project of my life , leading to the end of my life , all will grow clearer , wrote Harsnet , whether to try and call back and destroy all I have done till now or let it be , whether to burn this commentary or let it be , or perhaps leave it to Goldberg to do whatever he wants with , all these things will no doubt be resolved before the work is completed , that is the beauty of being in the middle of a project , that time itself , which had seemed such an enemy before I started , rushing forward and dragging me with it , impervious to my pleas , has suddenly turned friendly , flops down at my feet , licks my ankles , lets me know it is on my side . |
| 28 | ‘ So , ’ she went on , fighting to maintain a cold , level rhythm in her words , ‘ I came to Woodline to learn what kind of man you were , just as I said . |
| 29 | If not , as with ‘ honesty ’ , the onus remains on Finnis to explain what , consistent with his methodology , distinguishes genuine or legitimate determinations from false or illegitimate determinations . |
| 30 | We are going over to Trame to see what effect this is having . ’ |