Example sentences of "[to-vb] [subord] [pron] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that woman where we got Angela 's dress from , if er Karen 's peach dress does fit her , well at least Karen 's there to be able to go where we got Angela 's dress from . |
| 2 | We wanted them to know if they had information we could protect them if need be |
| 3 | She wanted to know if they liked America and appearing in movies . |
| 4 | One waitress even wanted to know if we have Christmas on December 25th in Europe . |
| 5 | She keeps wanting to know if I play golf . |
| 6 | ‘ There are a lot of exciting things we have got lined up which we were not going to launch until we launched Taurus , but we will come out with these products . |
| 7 | The Inland Revenue does not need to prosecute because they have powers to exert penalties similar to a fine , and basically they want to get the money back . |
| 8 | The fact that her husband was having a homosexual relationship does not come as a surprise but it is more difficult for Blanche to accept because he needed help but she caused his death by saying that he ‘ disgusted ’ her . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , Shelley , I told Consuelo not to come because I thought Mrs Richards would be back in her villa . ’ |
| 10 | An unemployment insurance scheme was not seriously proposed in Britain until 1907 when suggested by Beveridge as a desirable complement to labour exchanges : it could replace poor relief and relief works , giving the unemployed a right to benefit while they sought jobs . |
| 11 | Women in developing countries are generally undereducated because young girls are often taken out of schools as early as possible to allow their mothers to work whilst they take care of younger siblings . |
| 12 | Our Medical Superintendent wanted to know whether we had beds allocated in the Outer London hospitals for the civilian casualties who were with us , and the non-infectious soldiers . |
| 13 | In a fortunate moment I noticed a sign reading ‘ Jardin de Paris — Restaurant Français ’ , and abandoning Anastasia on a pavement , a procedure to which East Europeans do not seem to take exception , I ventured in to discover whether anyone spoke French . |
| 14 | And £1.5m-rated midfielder Gary Owers is still waiting to discover whether he needs surgery on a troublesome groin injury . |
| 15 | Presumably he had been a football fan but it has not been possible to discover whether he supported Liverpool or Everton . |
| 16 | Eight years were to pass before she encountered Dermot Corcoran again . |
| 17 | I went to talk to RELATE when I had problems with my own marriage . |
| 18 | Xerox Corp chairman Paul Allaire said yesterday that profit in the second quarter from its document processing business ‘ could be somewhat below ’ the $1.12 per share the unit earned in the year-ago period : Xerox said nine-tenths of its total business is in document processing , and the remainder is in insurance and financial services , and that it is in the midst of realigning its US sales force for document processing , which along with continued weak economic conditions , are affecting its results ; it expects sales momentum to increase as it realises benefits of the sales reorganisation and still expects profit growth in document processing . |
| 19 | He refused to comment as he left court yesterday . |
| 20 | Patrick pretended to hide when he saw Rain was after him . |
| 21 | She had just poured the boiling water on the tea and was standing waiting for it to brew when she heard Alex 's footsteps on the stairs and , turning , she saw his tall figure blocking the kitchen door . |
| 22 | Now in those cases we ca n't use the normal Chow tests we 've got more parameters to estimate than we have observations , right , as a result Chow developed a second test , right , from structural change where we do n't need er erm to estimate essentially the regression in the sub sample which has got very few obser observations but in that Chow , that Chow second test is often called a test of predicted failure , right , Microfit will calculate both of those tests and bear in mind I mean that we 're spending a lot of time on er parameter constancy , we must bear in mind that parameter constancy is vitally important if we are going to make these inferences possible be about policy making on the basis of our estimates . |
| 23 | The Marine tried to tell himself it was something simple like a mole , but then paused to wonder if they had moles in Haiti . |
| 24 | You start to wonder if he find things hard or if you 're doing something to unsettle him . |
| 25 | I began to wonder if I had halitosis or a snotty nose , or green eyes , or a squint — surely I am not so unattractive ! |
| 26 | The first is the easiest to remember since it uses characters that are related to the name of the function the sequences is performing ( as mnemonic ) . |
| 27 | There are two basic concepts of financial accounting which it will be useful to define before we discuss users and their needs , particularly because their use in ordinary language is often not helpful in understanding their technical meaning . |
| 28 | I was just trying to remember whether they did Joan 's do at the last year . |
| 29 | He had slid one hand beneath the thin wool sweater , causing her skin to judder as he made contact with her naked midriff . |
| 30 | The latter are amenable to testing by the manager to see if they influence behaviour . |