Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [verb] [pron] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do all the drawings , unlike other studios where you have someone to do the cars , someone to do the buildings . |
| 2 | If you do live in the same house as your landlord and he or she wants you to leave the property then he or she must still give you at least four weeks Notice to Quit on a special form . |
| 3 | As for quality , it 's just for simple cases and in truly complex insolvencies or where we wanted someone to trade the company through , the need to get the person or firm with the right expertise would tend to override any cost concerns . ’ |
| 4 | Both , in tandem , have transformed who does what and where they do it to create the wealth governments now seek . |
| 5 | At least be flattered that I chose you to tell the truth to . ’ |
| 6 | At this point a friend of mine appeared , whose house is nearby , so I asked her to call the vet and to bring me a couple of bandages to keep the flies off until the vet arrived . |
| 7 | I could not understand what he meant , and wanted to hear more about Céline , so I encouraged him to finish the story . |
| 8 | So , unsurprisingly , she ensures that she does nothing to cross the ‘ important ’ people on which she is dependent . |
| 9 | It seems that the author has deliberately left things vague by choosing the intransitive verb construction : that she wants us to have the delicately ironic impression of a deferential , high-class shop in which doors , as it were , open and shut almost of their own accord . |
| 10 | He stretched out a hand to Merrill , and she found that she needed it to escape the embrace of the thick , downy cushions . |
| 11 | ‘ Do I understand , sir , ’ I said , ‘ that you wish me to convey the information to the young gentleman ? ’ |
| 12 | By reinforcing your credit policy a reputable debt collector can not only recover your monies but can also let your customers know that you run an efficient business and that you expect them to do the same by paying you as and when agreed . |
| 13 | However , she knew that she could n't stand at the window indefinitely , so she left it to complete the task she had on hand . |
| 14 | As you can see , sir , this lady is quite a redoubtable lady and it was with great difficulty that we persuaded her to await the outcome of this enquiry before insisting on seeing you personally , sir . ’ |
| 15 | There is surely no doubt that we take them to involve the necessity relations and the relations of requiredness . |
| 16 | What I would say is that we endeavour to counteract that on the reasons that I 've stated , by virtue of the fact that we invite them to read the policy . |
| 17 | It 's very important for the environment that we do something to stop the amount of CO2 going into the atmosphere . |
| 18 | Perhaps the reason for the comic success of such characters is that they help us to recognise the prejudice which exists in all of us at so many different levels about so many different things . |
| 19 | Few of his ministers are saying , even in private , that they expect him to lose the next election . |
| 20 | None of the four structures given in the Government 's proposals are desirable , SNH says , arguing that they do nothing to tackle the problems caused by historic boundaries such as the fact that one local boundary runs down the middle of Loch Lomond . |
| 21 | This , combined with an unwillingness to lend more money to ‘ high risk ’ countries , considerably reduces their chances of running into trouble , although it does nothing to help the poorest nations . |
| 22 | What is important about this contribution to linguistic theory is that it allows one to analyze the personal or ‘ subjective ’ elements of language without having to resort to any real correlative outside language . |
| 23 | Those were his heroes , and you can look at it like thy had a defeatist attitude or were grotesquely self-indulgent — or that it enabled them to have the art . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , while the Report may have rejected the reactionary normativist ideology it is also the case that it did nothing to challenge the dominant legal culture . |
| 25 | With a choice we work perceptually on the alternatives to see if we can make one so attractive that it attracts us to ignore the others ; or we try to make the alternatives so unattractive that we can dismiss them one by one . |
| 26 | She was thankful that he said nothing to express the inner rage he must be feeling . |
| 27 | Carver knew for a fact that Hauser had a collection of Roosevelt film clips , that he studied them to perfect the famous American president 's mannerisms . |
| 28 | It was held that a manufacturer of products , which he sells in such a form as to show that he intends them to reach the ultimate consumer in the form in which they left him , with no reasonable possibility of intermediate examination , and with the knowledge that the absence of reasonable care in the preparation or putting up of the products will result in injury to the consumer 's life or property , owes a duty to the consumer to take reasonable care . |
| 29 | Lord Atkin laid down the narrow rule in Donoghue v Stevenson [ 1932 ] AC 562 : A manufacturer of products , which he sells in such a form as to show that he intends them to reach the ultimate consumer in the form in which they left him with no reasonable possibility of intermediate examination , and with the knowledge that the absence of reasonable care in the preparation or putting up of the products will result in an injury to the consumer 's life or property , owes a duty to the consumer to take reasonable care . |
| 30 | This means that he intends us to develop the character of Christ . |