Example sentences of "[to-vb] [indef pn] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should like to thank everyone in the Division for all the hard work which has gone into making 1990 a year of significant progress . |
| 2 | I hope you manage to see everyone during the holiday period , as I know how much that means to you . |
| 3 | Regardless of what company is involved in such matters and of whether it has a socialist supporter , a Conservative supporter or no political supporter at all , it is our duty as a House to enable everyone in the country to feel that his or her pension is well protected . |
| 4 | He pulled Carla into his arms and closed his eyes , feeling a vast , directionless violence , as if his task were to kill everyone in the world and the problem was how to start . |
| 5 | But on the other side , it is not necessary to interview everyone in the club if the proper statistical sampling rules are obeyed and if proper tests of significance are applied to results obtained . |
| 6 | To flash a badge was to risk someone in the crowd remembering his face and in the future , on another job , he could fingered as the stoolie he truly was . |
| 7 | I had needed to break our journey north int he capital to see someone in the tourist board 's head office . |
| 8 | The leader of the Peronist congressional bloc , José Luis Manzano , claimed to know nothing of the payments which another Peronist deputy , Luis Saadi , described as " odious " as well as being illegal . |
| 9 | The Director seemed to know nothing about the College . |
| 10 | Unlike Karelius and Fräulein Müller , the Frenchman seemed to know nothing about the opera or even the rudiments of music . |
| 11 | The members of his party appeared to know nothing about the opposition of the hierarchy to the earlier Bill , and Dr Browne only found out in October/November 1950 . |
| 12 | A dozen policemen rushed into the room and tried to herd everyone into the corners . |
| 13 | ‘ Excuse me , Dudley , I have to meet someone at the station . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ We believe she arranged to meet someone up the mountain . |
| 15 | ‘ We believe she arranged to meet someone up the mountain . |
| 16 | ‘ Harry said he was due to meet someone in the boathouse , so we went over there . ’ |
| 17 | Spencer said easily , ‘ I think you might have been a little more enthusiastic about such lovely slippers , they are a work of art , you must be very pleased to find someone with the talent to work as well as the best London shoemakers and at a fraction of the price , if I 'm any judge . ’ |
| 18 | I tell you what we 'll do , we 'll try to find someone on the way who knows the counter-spell and send him back to wake the Gnomes up . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ You could n't possibly have realised how big a task you 'd set yourself , trying to find someone in the whole of London . ’ |
| 20 | Once again it is up to the pilot to insist that this wing is held and not to accept someone on the upwind wing-tip . |
| 21 | They had interviewed a man from Bombay who claimed to have a degree in physics but turned out to be a defrocked dentist , and they had nearly offered a job to a man from Sri Lanka who seemed to know everything about the school apart from the fact that it was supposed to be for Muslims . |
| 22 | I 'm back with another Fox Report on Monday , but if you want to know everything about the sport and leisure that 's happening in the area , do make sure you listen to Fox leisure with Steve Priestley and Phil Angell tomorrow at two , and Steve Priestly is here , in person , after the news at seven with the Red Fox . |
| 23 | You need to know everything about the way she buys , the way she sells , the way she checks up that that girl who works for her has n't got her fingers in the till — everything about the way she runs that business . |
| 24 | We want to know everything about the Dove Trust and its officers . |
| 25 | However , it is possible to discover something about the relationship between clause structure and the processing of written language by using a subject-paced reading task . |
| 26 | He was struggling to pull something to the top of the dunes . |
| 27 | My sister was sent off to boarding school near Bournemouth to improve her health and was near starved , but Mother always managed to find something for the home fare — I remember a great day when she found the butcher 's bare and bought a goose that was available and that we certainly should n't have had it in normal circumstances and I was quick to see it was an ill wind that did nobody any good ! |
| 28 | On the one hand , as I wrote , I found myself wanting to alert readers to an increasing amount of detailed literature , across a wide range of disciplines , currently being reported ; and to indicate something of the complexity of the issues being pursued . |
| 29 | Write down examples of when you last ( i ) took on extra work in order to provide something for the addict in your life . |
| 30 | ’ To give examples , he suggests that a kayak should have a jettisoning pod to prevent entrapment situations without making it clear that the buyer is unlikely to find one on the market . |