Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was trying to sit where I normally sit . |
| 2 | All I mean is you have to accept that they really have heard it all before — the jokes about taking samples , wearing black stockings , so forth , so fifth . |
| 3 | These economists were ready to accept that there probably did exist a particular unemployment rate at which inflation was neither rising nor falling but they were unwilling to associate this rate with a state of overall full employment . |
| 4 | ‘ We 're prepared to accept that you just got caught up in a drug bust . |
| 5 | The voiders lingered by the body , however , bright enough to know that they still had some duty to perform with it . |
| 6 | However , in the social context of heroin use in a given community , it is just as important to understand how events are perceived by the participants as to know that they actually happened . |
| 7 | it made eating and doing a little more exciting to know that someone else had just ceased doing these basic human things for ever . |
| 8 | He would have liked to know that you still came to see me . |
| 9 | He wanted above all to know that he still lay safe and quiet in his nameless grave ; he was heavy and burning at heart with his longing to ask , but he would not . |
| 10 | Readers from last month will be glad to know that I finally tracked down the elusive Tequila based Marguerita in a Tex-Mex cafe in Covent Garden . |
| 11 | The burden of proof is shifted on to the defendant and although the prosecution does not need to prove that the accused intended that the impression be false and misleading , the defendant may need to establish that he reasonably believed that it would not be so . |
| 12 | The block surface is ignored as the cylinder is initially checked to establish that it successfully passes through the negative surface defining the interior boundary around the hole . |
| 13 | The patrol pounced and grabbed the surprised Germans , only to discover that they also had no water with them . |
| 14 | CHATTING to former England all-rounder Trevor Bailey during the Old Trafford Test , I was intrigued to discover that he once played football against Manchester United in front of 57,000 spectators . |
| 15 | Observing her as a well-balanced and apparently fulfilled woman , it surprised me to discover that she still lived with the unexorcised ghosts of a disrupted childhood . |
| 16 | In my experience , children find it extremely frustrating to be fired with enthusiasm for a topic but then to find that they simply do not have the skill to express themselves . |
| 17 | No doubt you are among the many who have tried every diet around only to find that they just did n't work . |
| 18 | It is not uncommon for a couple who have had the sadness of producing a heavily disabled or diseased baby to find that they later lose their desire for intercourse . |
| 19 | But interest is growing in alternative medical systems , both among patients and lay healers who have found them helpful , and among physicians and scientists , who are beginning to find that they really do have something to offer . |
| 20 | Montag is astonished to find that they too burn books , however they destroy only the cases which contain the words , the ideas can never be destroyed while they live on inside the people , to be written out once more to give joy after the ‘ Dark Age ’ has passed . |
| 21 | Strangely , apart from one or two specialist applications , we tend to find that we simply do n't need them ! |
| 22 | I began to feel myself being pulled further and further under the water , I screamed and swore but nobody seemed to hear or believe me and then my head went under and all I remember is a feeling of despair as I squeezed the tree trunk only to find that it simply crumbled in my hands . |
| 23 | You might be surprised to find that it only means an increase in activity of fifteen percent of what you 're currently doing , to achieve something that 's in year three , that you 've got as year three , and you might think , ooh , that 's what I 'll do for year two . |
| 24 | " No , " he said immediately , surprising himself to find that he actually believed it . |
| 25 | GRAHAM TAYLOR woke today to find that he still has at least one friend after the worst week of his life . |
| 26 | ‘ I was stunned to find that you still looked the same and I was very alarmed . ’ |
| 27 | Aileen Baker was delighted to find that she only needed to borrow 60 per cent of the purchase price of a three-bedroom flat she had her eye on . |
| 28 | The fact that two of our cones are sensitive to green is thought to indicate that we once lived in tropical forests , where this area of the spectrum dominates the scene . |
| 29 | I 'll find chives and parsley , ’ she added airily , making an effort to indicate that she also had forgotten the incident upstairs . |
| 30 | He could never be Shiona 's , even if he wanted her , and there was nothing to indicate that he really did . |