Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [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 | The bubbles of foam trembled to mist and I sensed the house become dangerous , a mirage to my eyes . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Your husband needs to relax before he hits the sack . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | We want to stay and we think the school would be an asset to the village . |
| 18 | " But I 've come to say that I told the police station 43 is an agreed squat . |
| 19 | It would also be a defence for a person charged to prove that he/she had the article with him or her for use at work ; for religious reasons or as part of any national costume . |
| 20 | They did not demand a search for set words ; they demanded instead that a disposition be scrutinized to see if it satisfied the law of trusts ( the principles of benefit and intention were the minimal requirements ) . |
| 21 | He was difficult to live with , impossibly single-minded over his career , yet none of that seemed to matter as she balanced the weight of her new discovery against all she knew of him . |
| 22 | If they do attempt to fly on a windy day , then a check flight should be made to ensure that they remember the hazards and how to avoid them . |
| 23 | To know someone to be a gouger gives some policemen and women cause to believe that they have the excuse to ignore the minor requests for assistance that the person may make , and for his or her minor infringements of the law to be taken seriously . |
| 24 | right so if you er draw a make sure you have got at least half a page , right , you are going to be drawing two quite familiar diagrams , right , you er , first of all just draw a normal total product curve , what we are going to do , because we are looking at a fixed level of output , sorry fixed level of capital what we are going to be analysing is the relationships between the total product of labour , the average product of labour , and the marginal product of labour , right , for a given level of capital okay , so the total product curve just tells us what happens to output as we increase the level of our variable factor labour keeping capital fixed at some constant constant level |
| 25 | The DTI refuses to ackowledge that it misinterpreted the EC directive saying : |
| 26 | The years reeled back , her old saggy breasts seemed to respond and she crossed the room without realising it , wrapping both her children in the Chinese spread and taking them into her arms like a mediaeval St Anne with Virgin and Child . |
| 27 | Prepare lists of utterances which may all be said to the same tune , e.g. following example from Portuguese of Brazil : listen to each list in turn listen to pairs , one word from each list , across insert one utterance from list 2 near the end of list 1 , and vice versa , and listen to check that you hear the difference between them standing out clearly |
| 28 | Whilst many people have written to say that they found the letter itself to be interesting and factual , the view has also been forcefully expressed that the quotation on the envelope implies a view that rape is somehow wrong , and to be opposed , only or primarily insofar as it may reduce a woman 's chances of marriage . |
| 29 | Yet it is equally true that the Treasury just as consistently suggest economies that they do not expect to achieve but which concentrate the minister 's mind and preferably chill his blood . |
| 30 | ‘ The callers do n't want to hear that they have the wrong number , ’ says Howard Eckstein , Opto Plus 's owner . |