Example sentences of "[to-vb] [subord] [noun] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thereupon the world reverses its rotation and everything starts to deteriorate until God reasserts his control and lets the universe rotate once again in the same direction as before . |
| 2 | They were also difficult to find because people stole them from libraries or tore out chapters . |
| 3 | The Act also empowers the police to set up roadblocks to discover whether vehicles contain anyone who has witnessed , committed or is about to commit a serious crime . |
| 4 | From a place of comparative safety she was able to observe as Joe pushed his way onward , unaware of her move . |
| 5 | She began to wonder if Matthew knew himself that she was coming , that she was going to work for him again . |
| 6 | She was there to answer when Cleopatra asked her who she was laughing at , and gone by the time she was supposed to say , ‘ Heigho ! |
| 7 | The individual who is determined to remain calm in the face of aggression , even though he may feel he is doing the right thing , might wonder whether others look down on him and be tempted to behave as others think he should . |
| 8 | On her way to the house she stopped off in the Campo San Maurizio to see if Annunziata had everything she needed for the dinner she was preparing to welcome Comfort , and discovered that the English post had arrived with a letter from George Wilson . |
| 9 | The country 's suspension from the US system of generalized special preferences ( GSP ) ( which allowed underdeveloped countries to export products to the US duty free or with low tariffs ) was to continue until Paraguay improved its record on labour rights and provided more assistance with US anti-drug efforts . |
| 10 | They would go openly and honestly by day , he said , and pretended not to hear when Dorrainge said they were inviting all kinds of trouble . |
| 11 | He was about to give the order to advance when news reached him that his wife and five-year-old son had been abducted by three masked men outside their apartment in New York . |
| 12 | ‘ What am I going to do if Potter tells her she can stay ? |
| 13 | Bathsheba had planned to stay at the party for only an hour , and she was in fact preparing to leave when Boldwood found her alone in an upstairs room . |
| 14 | The following day , when Modigliani was due to begin painting his portrait , the writer Michel Georges-Michel paid a visit and was just about to leave when Bakst persuaded him to stay on . |
| 15 | He reported a clean break to his little finger , but was ready to field when Essex began their reply to Lancashire 's 321 all out . |
| 16 | He 'd only agreed to go because Lily told him it was a musical and had walked out the moment Bernadette started sinking to her knees in the fields . |
| 17 | Two years ago we reported on the seismic survey work being carried out in the Solent to determine if oil drilling there would be profitable . |
| 18 | It would therefore be reasonable to consider whether children find it offensive to be treated like children . |
| 19 | Katherine 's face dropped and Thomas was about to intervene when Jacob hushed him . |
| 20 | There will continue to be problems if science teachers are personally doubtful about girls ' ability to do science well ; even if their doubts are not voiced ( and anecdotal evidence suggests they sometimes are ) , girls are unlikely to respond unless teachers show they believe that girls have something to offer science as well as the reverse . |
| 21 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that notwithstanding the wording of section 8(2) of the Finance Act 1986 W. Plc. was not a member of the self-regulating organisation Lautro for the purposes of the Act and had no right of appeal to Lautro under the provisions of Lautro 's 1988 Rules ; that Lautro had a duty to act fairly not only to its members but , in appropriate circumstances , to those appointed representatives on which , in accordance with its rules , an intervention notice was to be served ; but that , in determining whether those affected by an intervention notice should be permitted to make representations before the notice was served , Lautro had to balance their interests against the interests of investors pending a full inquiry ; and that , having decided to serve the notice as a matter of urgency , Lautro should not be burdened with the necessity to decide whether time permitted it to receive representations before it served the notice ( post , pp. 575C–G , 576A–C , 577C–D , 579E — 580A , D — 581B , 582E ) . |
| 22 | God 's people are to be practical in their love , because we realise that we were once restrained and confined , unable to live as God intended us to live . |
| 23 | It 's an encouraging if surprising fact that children and young people are much less likely to smoke when parents tell them that they do n't want them to . |
| 24 | These two eminent gentlemen should be interesting to watch as Tyson rehearses his inimitable chat-up line , ‘ Put on somethin' loose , babe , I wan na **** you in the limo , ’ while Clarence discusses his collection of King Dong videos and picks the pubic hairs of his cans of Coca-Cola . |
| 25 | Lipchitz remembered her coming to watch when Modigliani painted his wedding portrait . |
| 26 | Word meanings are especially liable to change because people learn them by hearing them in context rather than by looking up the ‘ standard ’ definition , and the inferences they draw can vary . |
| 27 | He went out to check while Dalgliesh continued his exploration . |
| 28 | Excitement changed to despair as people realized it was n't the bus — only a car , which crawled past us . |
| 29 | She did n't have to ask if Christine knew what had been going on here . |
| 30 | The man , curious , looked narrowly at Corbett and was about to refuse until Selkirk showed him Wishart 's sealed warrant . |