Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [pron] [vb -s] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They have a basic need to know that someone loves them , but some of these children are not secure about who they are and who loves them . |
| 2 | At first , when the L Dopa starts to work and he signals his awakening with some familiar Dr Niro facial ticks and mannerisms you think he might be blowing it . |
| 3 | ‘ No , I just want to know if anyone knows you 're here . ’ |
| 4 | Well I want to know if he loves you that much when 's he gon na take you away from all this ? |
| 5 | The fascination lies in trying to discover if she reveals anything of her true , gentle persona . |
| 6 | The multi-product firm might be awakened to the need to innovate if it finds its price-recovery margins being eroded . |
| 7 | There is no need to worry if someone asks you to ‘ pull down the elephant 's trunk ’ — why ? |
| 8 | Because we 've got sixties all over the place so maybe it was n't a brilliant one to try but it gives us some indication of what 's going on . |
| 9 | He says it 's a bit far to come but he thinks they pay expenses , so it 's nice . |
| 10 | As I have never been in the habit of working at my easel every morning from 8 am , I only feel inclined to work when something stirs me in some way . |
| 11 | ‘ Only there is a young lady as lodges with me , who asks me every day what Mrs Browning writes and is eager to know for she announces she lives for your poetry . ’ |
| 12 | Unfortunately it does not seem to carry much weight these days , people only want to trust when it suits them |
| 13 | I intend to see that it gets it . ’ |
| 14 | All in all , you will find that your chances of happiness together under the same roof will depend very largely upon your ability to respect and accept her individuality , to see that she gets her share of family affection , to make it possible for her to keep usefully occupied ( within her limitations ) in the home , and to engage as far as she can in all the outside interests she has always enjoyed . |
| 15 | Matilda stays where she is and it is up to you to see that she behaves herself . ’ |
| 16 | But he 's a bit petulant with Lonnie , who aims to see that he keeps his date at Hilton Head Island . |
| 17 | The smooth-phrased B.B.C. announcer , the amusing don , the self-confident politician , the jargon-perfect critic , the editor of the literary magazine — all are reducible within a few months to a bewildered defensive creature with hollow cheeks and desperate eyes whose only cares will be to see that he gets his fair share of the potato ration , that nobody steals his bed boards , and that he exchanges his cigarette ends for food or vice versa at the best possible price . |
| 18 | The quietly-spoken , 42-year-old director of Mona Lisa and The Crying Game , amongst others , is one of the most accommodating interviewees it 's possible to imagine , seeming to feel under sentence to talk until someone makes his stop . |
| 19 | But it 's hard to talk because it makes your jaws so cold ! |
| 20 | The type of abortion I am referring to is induced and I believe that the woman should be given the right to be able to choose whether she needs one , rather than certain religious leaders or laws . |
| 21 | It is a straight-down-the-middle view of the work , and given the number of rough edges I have to wonder whether it has anything more to offer than a dozen more successfully recorded alternatives . |
| 22 | The club however are believed to be in no hurry to agree until he proves his fitness . |
| 23 | It 'll be interesting to see if he makes it into the team . |
| 24 | With a flourish nine year old Loren Henney bursts into the new playroom … to see if it deserves her seal of approval . |
| 25 | I 'd like to try a perm to see if it makes my hair more manageable . |
| 26 | I shall quote a couple of paragraphs to see if anyone knows who said them : ’ Once implemented and through transition , I believe the new system will prove enduring and a vast improvement on the status quo . ’ |
| 27 | But this young one , a very spiritual guy , like a leftover from The Deer Hunter with a black headband and black jersey , said he wanted to shoo these journalists ; he had a revolver with him all the time , he is licensed to kill and he says he 'd shoot them if they came near , and I said ‘ No , please do n't do that , I 'll get in more trouble , ’ and he said , ‘ I ‘ ll just hit them in the knee . ’ |
| 28 | According to Henderson ( 1979 ) , ‘ no school can reasonably be so bold as to suggest that it has nothing to learn from other schools , from professional teacher-trainers or from educational scholarship and research ’ . |
| 29 | After watching the eye movements of subjects during REM sleep , and then obtaining reports from them of intense visual imagery , it seems only natural to assume that one has something to do with the other . |
| 30 | But it is charitable to assume that it has something to do with the kind of critic that Pound is . |