Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [conj] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sidled into the room , scarcely daring to breathe lest I harm the recording . |
| 2 | She crept downstairs , remembering to avoid the creaking step , and padded softly across the living-room floor , hardly daring to breathe as she opened the front door . |
| 3 | Matthews ( 1962 ) suggested the use of synthesis ( the generation of all possible sentences and checking to see whether they match the input ) to apply transformational grammars . |
| 4 | Meanwhile we , and God too , must wait to see if he passes the test or not . |
| 5 | Some days later , a farmer phoned to discover whether I knew the meeting times and places of witches in his area . |
| 6 | ( 21 ) John has two PhDs +> I believe he has , and have adequate evidence that he has ( 22 ) Does your farm contain 400 acres ? +> I do n't know that it does , and I want to know if it does The first of these provides an explanation for " Moore 's paradox " , namely the unacceptability of utterances like ( 23 ) : ( 23 ) ? ? |
| 7 | As I write , I make assumptions about what my reader already knows about language and language learning , about the common ground of knowledge , and what he or she can not be expected to know since it concerns the idiosyncrasies of my own view of these matters . |
| 8 | According to a recent report in the New York Times , Castelli has said that he wishes the archives to be fully accessible to the public and that if this were in any doubt he would donate them without charge to the Smithsonian Institute 's Archives of American Art . |
| 9 | The Spirit has shown that he validates the Christian mission among Jews , proselytes , ‘ Godfearers ’ ( as Gentile adherents on the fringe of the synagogue were called ) , and even outsiders like eunuchs and Samaritans . |
| 10 | History has shown that he made the right choice . |
| 11 | At some time he may also have sent an expedition against Normandy which was defeated , and his Helmet coin type , perhaps current from 1003 to 1009 , depicts him in armour ; according to the surviving verse on him by the Icelandic poet Gunnlaug Serpent 's Tongue , the army feared Æthel-red no less than God , and N.P. Brooks has shown that he increased the military burdens on his people by requiring more of his soldiers to wear helmets and byrnies . |
| 12 | She stopped rehearsing when they reached the end of Act One . |
| 13 | The bubbles of foam trembled to mist and I sensed the house become dangerous , a mirage to my eyes . |
| 14 | Now I want to suggest that what makes the difference — what transmutes overload and pressure into full-blown stress — are what I shall call injunctions . |
| 15 | If Iran , weary and broke after its war with Iraq , has waved goodbye to its proselytising days , this is a valid reason for easing it out of its isolation and back to the position in Gulf politics which , from the shah on , it has craved and which reflects the size of its population and length of its coastline . |
| 16 | African-Americans in South Central mostly hate Korean store owners and there 's no getting around the fact , as Jesse Jackson tried to do when he said the assaults on Koreans were not racist . |
| 17 | I do n't know if I 'm unique , I suspect I 'm not but I go to my two design people and I say right blah blah blah this is what we want to do but you organise the printer I want you as the designer to find a printer that you can work with but here 's my timescale and it 's up to them |
| 18 | These are precisely the questions that the peace movement has to address when it contemplates the use of law and many of these aspects are discussed in Part III of the book . |
| 19 | Yes , I 've got yeah I know they did , but I think after a while they stopped doing that I think the latest ones you 'll find do n't , do n't do that , they gave , you know , after a while they gave that up , but I , I must check on that , I must check on . |
| 20 | At 32 , the actor turned producer-director has proved that he has the clout to raise money for stage and screen and the artistic talent to ensure that it 's well spent . |
| 21 | However , once the licence to sink an exploratory well was awarded to the Hamilton Oil Company , we tried to ensure that it honoured the conditions attached to the licence , prepared an adequate oil spill contingency plan and designed an operational programme which minimised the risks to the environment . |
| 22 | Similarly , all engineers should seek to ensure that they receive the education and training they need , and that those working for them are also suitably developed . |
| 23 | Your husband needs to relax before he hits the sack . |
| 24 | I think Chancellor Kohl has indicated that he knows the risk to the Government 's chances of re-election if interest rates have to be raised in Britain . |
| 25 | The petition your correspondent mentioned ( while conveniently omitting to mention that it contained the signatures of 179 concerned parents ) was crucial to that meeting taking place . |
| 26 | It is also a rather different exhibition conceptually : Alfonso Perez Sanchez , former Director of the Prado and co-organiser of the show , has declared that he wants the Spanish to get to know ‘ the real Ribera ’ , which means that he has whittled down the number of works . |
| 27 | We want to stay and we think the school would be an asset to the village . |
| 28 | A definition , along the right lines but too broad , is that an animal has signalled when it changes the behaviour of another animal . |
| 29 | The messenger ambled out and for no good reason everybody stopped talking until they heard the lock click . |
| 30 | Once the robot has confirmed that it has the right kind of plastic by its reading of an identifying bar code , it shreds the material ready for collection . |