Example sentences of "[to-vb] [verb] [pron] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er the developers as we all know have a right to go to appeal which they did and |
| 2 | Mistakenly supposing that their moral beliefs are innately given , people are liable to continue to accept what they have been taught as young children . |
| 3 | He knew how things worked in London , where to go to obtain what he wanted or needed , had contacts with the underworld , was smart enough and experienced enough not to make mistakes of the kind that draw a visitor to the attention of the authorities . |
| 4 | They seemed to be mostly line-and-wash with an occasional burst of colour , and even when I got close to them I found I had to concentrate to see what they were about . |
| 5 | Anyway , I said to Rick , ‘ Look , if you 're going to try to sell me something that I 'm going to play , make me a guitar that 's a cross between an Alembic and a Les Paul , but make it simple . ’ |
| 6 | When Sam died in 1923 aged only fifty-four , Marjorie felt free to try to do what she had always wanted , and auditioned for the Tillers : |
| 7 | Challenging the authority of the canon is immensely difficult ; if a writer is great , then s/he will be in the canon ; if a writer is not in the canon , then s/he ca n't be any good , and to try to put him/her there would be an act of mindless obstinacy . |
| 8 | Returning soldiers found the civil population too obsessed with their own hardships to try to understand what they were being subjected to at Verdun . |
| 9 | Sometimes an intervention provides a useful impetus to try to articulate what they are doing , and in the process , see things more clearly for themselves . |
| 10 | She had to struggle to understand what she already knew about in her head , but not in her heart . |
| 11 | Instead I would go to Amantani in Lake Titicaca , reputedly a quiet , touristless island , to try to reconstruct what I could of my journal and other writings . |
| 12 | ‘ It may be best for us ’ , McFarlane reported back at the time , ‘ to try to picture what it would be like if after nuclear attack , a surviving Tartar became Vice-President ; a recent grad student became Secretary of State ; and a bookie became the interlocutor for all discourse with foreign countries . ’ |
| 13 | Then ask people to try to copy what you did . |
| 14 | Nigel had invited his teacher 's attention and in turn she had offered him a chance to try to tell her what he meant by ‘ balance ’ . |
| 15 | The response was that we do not get involved in trying i in to get foreign administrations to try to tell them what decisions they should make . |
| 16 | When activity is taking place rapidly under pressure and with scant resources , there is a tendency to neglect to tell anyone what is going on or to fail to find out whether the ground may have already been covered by someone else . |
| 17 | It has even been darkly insinuated by Paolucci ( in Beccaria , 1963 ) that he may merely have been used as a front by his radical friends , the Verri brothers , who were too much in trouble with the authorities at the time to risk writing it themselves |
| 18 | For example , the stress many Tories came to place on the sovereignty of the law under Queen Anne is easy to comprehend given what we discovered earlier about the profound attachment many Tory Anglicans had to the rule of law even prior to the Glorious Revolution . |
| 19 | As a young man he was cursed with a dreadful stammer , and to help combat it he became a club singer , not easy under the best of circumstances . |
| 20 | Did n't offer to help carry anything which was a bit of a surprise but then I suppose they 're not Sherpas are they ? |
| 21 | When they spoke she did her best to avoid calling him anything . |
| 22 | But when I tried to avoid giving them he ordered me to tell him what was up . |
| 23 | An absolutely diabolical situation because then the the the local authorities that have continued to avoid doing what they ought to have done will be rubbing their hands with glee while the others who have a a social conscience , a moral social conscience will be put under tremendous pressure ! |
| 24 | And obviously the new settlement is a very important sub-regional er planning proposal , and it must comply with the overwhelming run of sub-regional planning policy which is to avoid doing anything which would erm undermine the regeneration of West Yorkshire . |
| 25 | If anyone is willing to help renovate it they should contact Jim Cosgrove or Jim Maison , of the MBA . |
| 26 | While the BBC series Lifesense continues to present a view of what animals think of us , we present 30 questions , devised by nature writer Robin Robbins , to help reveal what we really think of them . |
| 27 | Being aware of the ( external ) divergence between these cultures and ‘ mainstream ’ culture , they are anxious to avoid imposing what they call ‘ crude mainstream stereotypes ’ on to the interpretation of these internal systems : they want to get access to what the patterns of behaviour mean internally and how these are perceived by in-group members . |
| 28 | When an animal is predictably going to continue to do what it has been doing , a signal is uninformative . |
| 29 | I said well we had I said I had a bit of a run in with the lady who ran it , I did n't agree that he should be compelled to do singing which she thought he should I said and we had a decided it cos he . |
| 30 | He is conscious that his wife would not want him to let slide everything she worked so hard to achieve . |