Example sentences of "[vb infin] [subord] [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | James II succeeded to the throne but the favourite illegitimate son of Charles II , the Duke of Monmouth , did not approve so he landed in the West Country and encouraged a Protestant revolt , but much of the public supported the King and the uprising was suppressed . |
| 2 | Do n't know if you remember in the Old Testament , the book of genesis . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't know if you know about the school , but — ’ I paused to give her a chance to answer . |
| 4 | So he he 's been up he 's one of type of dogs , he said like a human you would n't know if he went in the house they would n't know whether he was coming out with a double barrelled shot gun to shoot yourself or |
| 5 | But why , you 'd just forced the door open prior to arrest why do you wait until you got to the bedroom , indeed got the bedroom door open before shouting armed police . |
| 6 | Or do you wait till they tire of the taunting and go to release the victim when the coast is clear ? |
| 7 | And Graham claimed : ‘ Frank McLintock was a marvellous skipper — I should know because I played in the same team with him . |
| 8 | Although in some cases , part of the site may survive because it lies outside the area to be destroyed , more often the whole site disappears and only excavation records and finds are left . |
| 9 | I read — I do not know whether it came from the Department of Energy or from Conservative central office ; I suspect that it was the latter — that privatisation of the coal industry will drive a stake through the heart of Dracula , the leader of the NUM . |
| 10 | Father Barnes will know whether it belongs to the church and with luck there may be prints . |
| 11 | Well I 'd be happy to give you the name of the particular one but I do n't know whether it applies to the young . |
| 12 | Er I I do n't know whether you know about the Saar ? |
| 13 | And I 'm not sure , I ca n't remember which , I do n't know whether she started on the bottom or the bottom I 've a feeling she may be did n't start on the bottom actually |
| 14 | I would like to think you could perhaps mention to Peter if you see him in the next couple of days , I do n't know whether he pops into the office but we , it would be nice if you could if you could mention |
| 15 | Anthropologists , following Evans-Pritchard 's lead , have reacted against this way of seeing primitive , or non-literate , peoples , and maintained that they do not act as they do for the same reasons that neurotics act in Western society . |
| 16 | Daunton asks the searching question : ‘ did the private market as it existed in the decades before the First World War fall , or was it pushed ? ’ |
| 17 | LITTLE did they know as they lazed by the pool that the roof was about to fall in . |
| 18 | Caitlin 's voice made him jump as he bellowed across the room : ‘ You left a young girl to walk along a dark road at night ? |
| 19 | ‘ I was asked for the first time last week what I 'd do if we got into the Premier League . |
| 20 | But the danger is that if relief is too often refused on such grounds it may give decision-makers the signal that it does not really matter whether they act within the law or not , so long as the decision is ‘ right ’ . |
| 21 | In addition , since the CAB did not succeed when they pressed for the extension of legal aid to cover representation at industrial tribunals , there simply is no other organisation able to take on this work . |
| 22 | For our purposes , what matters about it is that it is an all-or-none signal , with an amplitude that does not attenuate as it travels along the axon . |
| 23 | It needs , as a minimum , some complementary statement of aims of what the NHS should achieve as it moves into the next century . |
| 24 | Positioned some 30 yards from goal , the former Liverpool star unleashed an incredible thunderbolt which the bemused Hitchcock could only watch as it speared into the top corner . |
| 25 | In the past , in the past these children would be so severely mentally handicapped that they could n't lead a normal life , but if , if your able to control this disease and bring them up intellectually normal so that they 're like everybody else , they 're going to have the same life expectation and hopes and aspirations as the best , that 's the best of us , and what do women do when they get to the |
| 26 | But what will you do when you get to the far shore ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ And what did you do when you came to the river ? ’ |
| 28 | What exactly did you do when you went round the shops ? |
| 29 | How did you feel as you came to the end of your working week yesterday afternoon ? |
| 30 | So must a butterfly feel as it rose towards the sun , so must a bumble bee feel as it slipped from nectar.filled flower to flower , so must Matthew 's foal as it gambolled beside its mother . |