Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [to-vb] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Law Commission committee says that this principle is not good enough ; sellers should be under a legal duty to reveal everything they know and ought to know about their property — which would oblige them to carry out a survey before offering it for sale . |
| 2 | Mrs Putt might want a stall cleared out and fresh straw put in for some company she 's expecting , or she 'll want me to hitch up a carriage so she can go visiting . |
| 3 | I move in the er public protection report that er Mr Chairman , the bell 's still going do you want me to hang on a minute or what ? |
| 4 | Help your children to make the most of their leisure time by encouraging them to take up a sport or join a local youth club |
| 5 | If they 're sick for seven days or less , you may want them to fill in a form saying so . |
| 6 | They asked me to set up a buffet for a press launch , then they said it was for me ! ’ |
| 7 | I knew it would n't hurt me to see how a gallery really functions , so I took the job . |
| 8 | I bet they asked them to fill in a form for it |
| 9 | You want me to blow up a railroad station ? ’ |
| 10 | Tamzin needs them to fill in a questionnaire . |
| 11 | Expect them to be hammered and they hold the eventual World Cup winners to a point : expect them to see off a side which had not won in the Championship for three years and they submit weakly . |
| 12 | Gary wants me to find out a bit more about it cos he wants a new one , another , well he wants a new one , cos we done a deal , get my bed , if we get the bedroom done |
| 13 | When you 've finished with the reptiles , I want you to round up a group of humans . |
| 14 | If the adviser wants you to make out a cheque to him , the alarm bells should start ringing . |
| 15 | RVS was a master printer and an amateur pianist , the latter facility enabling him to help out a friend who was touring the Glasgow districts before the First World War with a projector and a bag full of short silent films . |
| 16 | It is the only course in the United Kingdom which will qualify her to set up a dance and fitness college in the province — a business , she believes , which will afford her children security for the future while fulfilling their mother 's lifelong ambition . |
| 17 | Another has been tested by P T Breuer ( 1991 ) , who used it to speed up a game playing program . |
| 18 | ‘ My brother is but an earl , and yet you expect us to give up a king in exchange . |
| 19 | At 8.30am on his first day on the job , Mr Lobov summoned senior officials in his ministry and told them to draw up a plan for re-establishing state control over the economy . |
| 20 | She told me to hang on a bit , and then I was talking to this David Kendrew bloke — the one on the programme — the one Mum 's always on about . |
| 21 | Peter owned London Postal Services , and he offered me £5000 and told me to put together a package . |
| 22 | The single currency mortgage allows you to take out a loan in Sterling , which the lender converts into another currency . |
| 23 | When our children say , as they all do , ‘ but my friends are all doing this ’ , parents invariably say , smartly , ‘ and if they told you to jump off a cliff , would you ? ’ |
| 24 | The police advised her to take out a summons against her neighbours . |
| 25 | However , she seemed to have forgotten all about it , because she told him to pull up a chair and warm himself by the fire . |
| 26 | Anderson himself , in scene five , remarks on the fact that language allows him to 'show off a bit " ( p. 63 ) but this comment occurs in the context of his longest turn , which is the most obvious example of him violating the maxim of manner . |
| 27 | Again Ted demurred , but the Parliamentary Party 's unease over the procedure for new leadership elections caused him to set up a review committee under Alec Home . |
| 28 | I told her to make up a list of the contents now for her deposition the next day as I had forgotten to mention much of what was in my bag . |
| 29 | Just to show her who 's boss , I compel her to let out a shriek . |
| 30 | Break it to go round a planting bed , make a circle on which to stand a large plant pot or statue , or to give a paved area around a rotary clothes dryer . |