Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The officials were alleged to have poured what the prosecutor described as " unimaginable " amounts of government money into a private business enterprise called Art-B . |
| 2 | Alan Ball admitted his men had it all to do after his men crashed to South Africa , the Australian wicket went for a duck as a defending champion slumped said we are going to have to do it the hard way now , we just did n't play very , we did n't get it together against New Zealand in the first match and today we were never in the picture , our brothers never really had a chance of any attempt of a hundred and seventy , but full credit to South Africa they are a rate , a better to side |
| 3 | ‘ Well , owing to some inexplicable negligence , ’ — he sighed and shook his head — ‘ they seem to have given us the slip . ’ |
| 4 | As it is , I have reservations about the application of the user interface in the Windows version , and will have to wait to see what the next version brings before I can make up my mind any more firmly than I can at present . |
| 5 | Some Tory loyalist backbenchers said last night that this episode could not be compared to the attack on Mrs Thatcher by the then Sir Geoffrey Howe , which is acknowledged to have cost her the keys to No. 10 . |
| 6 | Well I would have liked to have known what the noise was last night , I 'm sure it was a video game or something . |
| 7 | So there will be a slight improvement on that position but erm I do feel that we have to continue to do them the costume plays we ca n't just say oh we do n't make a profit on it , we ca n't do it , I think that would be a very shortsighted erm philosophy . |
| 8 | So far I 'd managed to avoid giving him the exact address , but now he asked for it with a determined note in his voice — " Just in case I 'm down that way " and I was forced to invent one , praying that he 'd never check up on it . |
| 9 | To sum up , then , when planning to persuade ask yourself the following : |
| 10 | The task the reader is set is rather like that of completing a jigsaw puzzle , where we are given a few pieces at a time , and have to keep guessing what the rest of the picture will be like . |
| 11 | It 's a very psychological part — you have to keep saying what the scene is about in your head . |