Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [pron] [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if he comes by it innocently , nevertheless once he gets to know that it was originally given in confidence , he can be restrained from breaking that confidence . |
| 2 | Dear Rosemary , ‘ I thought you would like to know that I 'm still following your diet ( almost anyway and I have never felt better for years . |
| 3 | Even though the defendant knew the names and addresses of all customers , the quality of contact was not of the degree required in order to establish that he was ever regarded as " being the business " or even had any influence over the customers . |
| 4 | It has taken five years to get this one right and the Government will not want to repeat the mistakes of the mid-1980s when Nigel Lawson thought he had beaten inflation , only to discover that it was just sleeping . |
| 5 | Miraculously , we surfaced the other side of the wave only to find that we were rapidly sinking ; my spray deck had caved in with the force of the water . |
| 6 | On returning to his office the following Monday , Mark was surprised to find that it was now occupied by visiting American auditors . |
| 7 | A twelve year old makes a wish at a fair ground fortune telling booth that he could be big , and the next morning his astonished to find that he 's fully grown |
| 8 | Luce surfaced in the early hours of the morning to find that she was still enfolded in Michele 's arms . |
| 9 | If Berg was successfully to allege that it was fraudulently misled , it must show that some natural person connected with it had been misled , and Berg could not do this . |
| 10 | We can speculate that there is a psychological motive for this switch , with Adele using a change of code to indicate that she is only reporting these words and does not herself " stand behind " them or vouch for their validity . |
| 11 | This latter tradition remained geographically confined to the Far East and continued to flourish until it was gradually replaced , from the eighteenth century AD , by Western-style coinage . |
| 12 | ( The first dozen pages of one of Simenon 's novels , Maigret 's Pickpocket , just describe , for instance , Maigret riding a bus to work and one is simply gripped . ) |
| 13 | You may be right , but your cynicism would be easier to accept if it was universally applied . |
| 14 | The revenue obtained a huge sum of money which they had no right to demand and they are now hanging on to a very large amount of interest which they have no moral right to retain . |
| 15 | The Zande do not expect things to work unless they are properly made . |
| 16 | Van Der Meulen realised that change had to come but he was surely saddened by the way it happened . |
| 17 | The court said that there was no general rule that a valuation made on an " erroneous principle " ( which presumably means the same as a mistaken decision ) had to stand unless it were also shown that a valuation on the right principle would produce a materially different figure from the figure of the erroneous valuation : if there were such a rule , it would place on the objector the extra burden of making a fresh valuation which in its turn might also be rejected . |
| 18 | If need be , we should educate them for unemployment , rather than trying to pretend that they are all going to get jobs in which French and Geography will come in handy . |
| 19 | It was n't a safe time to communicate as the guards often popped in to see that we were still exercising . |
| 20 | His leadership characteristics include ingenuity and determination not only to unearth agents of change , but to see that they are profitably applied : he took robotic ideas from Austin Rover into food manufacturing . |
| 21 | If the Hotel is part of a group , brochures of other hotels within the group should be on display and receptionists instructed to see that they are well distributed to guests and casual enquirers . |
| 22 | In the forests of Chippenham and Melksham , Dean , Feckenham , Peak and Windsor the warden had also the custody of royal manors in the forest , and he had to see that they were properly stocked and managed . |
| 23 | But because such men were materialists and therefore underestimated the power of spiritual and moral values ( despite the Soviet invention of the doctrine of ‘ dialectical materialism ’ ) , they failed to see that they were only perpetuating the problem of modernity in another form . |
| 24 | The purposes of a pre-trial review are twofold , viz : ( 1 ) if there is no reasonable case in law to be tried ( whether on the claim or defence ) , as far as is possible , to dispose of the case ; ( 2 ) if there is a case to be tried , to give directions to see that it is properly prepared . |
| 25 | And it is disappointing to see that it is still going . |
| 26 | The Chairman welcomed the members present at the meeting and was pleased to see that it was well attended . |
| 27 | I have been a fan of hers for a long time and it is wonderful to see that she is now achieving the status and success that she deserves . |
| 28 | Meredith had only time to see that she was expensively dressed , sharp-featured and bad-tempered in looks . |
| 29 | He laughed , but she was pleased to see that he was fast becoming his normal self , this unwonted display of humility being hidden , perhaps only ever to be shown again to someone as close as her . |
| 30 | She turned her attention to his injury , relieved to see that he was now losing very little blood , and that although the area about the wound was reddened and irritated the edges of the gash where the arrow had entered were not jagged , which would have delayed healing . |