Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [noun] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , is it in order for them to mug or murder Mr Symon and , if not , what do we do to protect him ? |
| 2 | Looking into those calm , assured faces in this odd setting I felt a stab of the futile longing to communicate that Alan Moorehead described on meeting a family of gorillas . |
| 3 | You are the first of the king 's officers to know that Lord Grey of Ruthyn is carried off prisoner into Wales , and if this moment you turned out the muster of every shire between here and Denbigh , and loosed them into Clocaenog forest , do you think you would find hide or hair of a Welshman there ? |
| 4 | And you 'll be pleased to know that Frank Dobson has agreed to meet us on the fourteenth of June and we will make sure , to the best of our effort , that that policy will be endorsed . |
| 5 | Bernard Dixon ( Forum , 24 February , p 534 ) may be interested to know that Jerome K. Jerome was a fellow sufferer . |
| 6 | It was an unforgivable , though unintended , breach of confidence ; and it is but a small consolation to know that Herr Sussmeyer thereby gained a correspondence with a young woman which he has doubtless found extremely gratifying . |
| 7 | Well , it will surprise you to know that Mrs Glen thought I , me , myself , personally had been up to no good . |
| 8 | I happen to know that Mme Flaubert thought her son treated me abominably . |
| 9 | ( He was not to know that Charles Olson , after next to no apprenticeship at all , would recklessly try to emulate him . ) |
| 10 | All those who have written to the prisoners will be pleased to know that Henrick Gjoka from Albania , Reverend Lawford Imunde from Kenya and Ernesto Diaz Rodriguez from Cuba have been released . |
| 11 | THOUGHT your readers might like to know that Linfield FC have recruited a new fan in the person of Demi Moore , the wife of Bruce Willis . |
| 12 | Readers whose memories were pleasurably tickled by our ‘ Oldies ’ article on Dave Hill 's Superyob guitar might be interested to know that John Birch is back in the guitar business after a ten-year absence . |
| 13 | Readers will be interested to know that Mr Mant , now in his 90th year , has also recently had published a book on the fall of Singapore in 1942 , another historic event to which he was witness . |
| 14 | It would never do for him to know that Mr Massingham had brought the file to her home personally . |
| 15 | There was no need for them to know that engineer John le Grant was its author . |
| 16 | How was I to know that Grace Swan was a pupil at the Arden Convent School ? |
| 17 | So , on the other hand , feminists want another kind of knowledge — based on believing that it is not enough to establish that Angelica Kauffman was productive and well respected in both difficult and popular forms of art . |
| 18 | Newspaper announcement , June 1794 : ‘ The public are most respectfully informed that Mr Edmund Bond ( late a Pupil of the Veterinary College ) has undergone an Examination before the Medical Committee , and the following is a Copy of their Report : These are to certify that Mr Edmund Bond has attended the Veterinary College as a Resident Pupil for Eighteen Months , and having been examined by us , we consider him as qualified to practise the Veterinary Art . |
| 19 | 10 Downing Street London W 1 21st June 1988 To Whom It May Concern This is to certify that Miss Jane " Alligator " Jones has served the British Government in a number of dangerous situations in recent years . |
| 20 | He was the first and only contender for the US Presidency to demand that South Africa be designated a terrorist state and treated accordingly . |
| 21 | The report by Ramaphosa and others to Tambo said that Mrs Mandela had participated in the beatings of Stompie and other youths , and that the Crisis Committee had decided to demand that Mrs Mandela should produce Stompie and disband her private bodyguard , the so-called Mandela United Football Club . |
| 22 | If the Test and County Cricket Board have any courage and stature they ought to demand that Javed Miandad 's team forfeit their £100,000 prize money from the Cornhill Tests , the Texaco Trophy one-day games and the Tetley Bitter matches against the counties . |
| 23 | Other staff said she seemed annoyed to discover that Mrs Fribbins had wet the bed . |
| 24 | Downing Street had originally put in a request for the Bridal Suite , only to discover that Jeffrey Archer had got in first . |
| 25 | As she stared up at the height a voice spoke from behind her , and she turned to discover that Silas Wilder had followed her down the track . |
| 26 | It needed no especial acuteness of perception in Hilary Frome to discover that Penny Warlock was the axle around which the sexual activity of the Staff Common Room revolved . |
| 27 | ‘ At their first meeting together , Enya was pleasantly surprised to discover that Princess Diana just loves her music , ’ said a source close to Enya . |
| 28 | Anne managed to discover that Kathleen O'Neill had been moved to a small hospital near St Helens in Lancashire and she travelled there to visit her on Sunday . |
| 29 | SHOULD Des O'Connor have suffered sleepless nights wondering whether he will wake up tomorrow to discover that Ken Dodd has become Lord Dodd , I have some words of consolation . |
| 30 | The Maggot referred to himself as a ‘ good old country boy ’ which description provoked Ellen , who could not stand the sight of him , to comment that John Maggovertski was to country what the serpent was to Eden . |