Example sentences of "[to-vb] [be] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That , in my own mind , though they can not be opened for the day to the public to see are gardens by comparison with which the most beautiful garden of this island is tawdry and unkempt . |
| 2 | The first examples to appear were facsimiles of Elvis Presley 's first records for the ‘ Sun ’ label . |
| 3 | you need to write is sine of sine of forty equals what ? |
| 4 | ACL would communicate the issuance of the DFR to ACL 's office at the consignee 's location ; this could be done in conjunction with the sending of an arrival notice and manifest , or separately . |
| 5 | The ideal book , he thought , for teaching would-be converts systematically what they needed to know was Augustine of Hippo 's De Rudibus Catechizandis . |
| 6 | An avenue Lord Owen wants to explore is compliance by Croats and Muslims in territory they control . |
| 7 | The old feudal tenancy , with its claim to perpetual rents , had disappeared in England in the 1660s and in the colonies Americans wanted to avoid being tenants of any sort . |
| 8 | So they do n't frighten them , you know , if you 're lying there you 're having a heart attack or you just had one the last thing you want to hear is sort of the noise of the siren , the panicking noise of a siren . |
| 9 | An aspect we were not able to cover was details of behaviour ( of suspect and the police ) leading up to the arrest . |
| 10 | The only problem you 're likely to encounter is jerkiness of movement as the nodes grow too far apart . |
| 11 | It was just why I 'm I mean wi the last meeting we had , took me sort of three pages to write what we 've got to do and each item that we 've got to do is sort of a couple of sheets of A four . |
| 12 | One of the first to emerge was DFDP from Atlanta Signal processing ( Fig. 1 ) , at one time marketed by Texas Instruments . |
| 13 | It was n't catwalk modelling , it was a private showing ; all she had to do was stroll through the small showroom , mount a carpeted platform faced with mirrors , look elegant and disinterested while the sheikh 's wives made their selections . |
| 14 | All Harry had to do was return to Swindon and await her word . |
| 15 | All the florist had to do was check through the dates listed in the book every afternoon to see if there were any standing orders for the next day . |
| 16 | When the Syrians said , ‘ We do n't know where the hostages are but we 'll be glad to help locate them , ’ all they had to do was pick up the phone . |
| 17 | And when they seemed too beguiling , all she had to do was think of Victoria , and Victoria 's dress account , and Victoria riding with him , and the woman he was meeting tonight — ten to one that was Victoria too . |
| 18 | All she had to do was look at the champagne the way she looked at me and you 'd be able to skate on it . |
| 19 | ‘ But all I needed to do was look at the support I got from the club and the fans when we were at the bottom last season . |
| 20 | All you had to do was drive off the ferry , find the main road , and drive straight to Dublin . |
| 21 | All she wanted to do was yield to it , because it was what she had wanted for the whole time she had been with him . |
| 22 | Allen claimed last night : ‘ The last thing I wanted to do was go to court . |
| 23 | When she 'd lain awake in the night realizing how upset and worried she was by Timothy Gedge 's visit , she 'd thought the one thing she would n't be able to do was Meals on Wheels with Miss Poraway . |
| 24 | The part was quite easy because all I had to do was stand about and wag my tail . |
| 25 | There was a tradition in Wales that when club or country wanted a front row forward all they had to do was stand at the pit head and whistle . |
| 26 | All I had to do was stand around pretending to pull on one end of a tug-of war rope while a load of peers pulled on the other , as Jerry stood by attracting the tabloids ' photographers . |
| 27 | I painted all mine white with some paint I had left over from an Airfix model of Apollo 11 but all I managed to do was clog up the mechanism . |
| 28 | I just could n't stand the cold any more … all I 'd have to do was roll over the side … it was time to end it all … anything would be better than this ! |
| 29 | All he had to do was wait until dusk , and then go out with the tide . |
| 30 | Many fans believed all they had to do was hand over the ticket stub for the Latvia game to get one for the visit of Jack Charlton 's men — that plainly is not the case . |