Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [to-vb] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the only thing I need to ask you about is that bloody great , bloody great memo , I 've said it so I 'll say it again it 's pinned up in my old tutor 's room what do you want me to put down on the document for the record of achievement on attendance ? |
| 2 | ‘ Does he want me to stay here in an English prison ? ’ |
| 3 | She used the cry of her voice to draw them to her , allowing them first to fly away and then encouraging them to swoop back at the height of their arc of flight . |
| 4 | We 're told it 's a very close thing , the decision not to participate erm and there were certain technical and theoretical reasons , I think , that led them to come down on the side of not . |
| 5 | But I did not want them to stay out in the cold all night , so I kept my window open to look out for them . |
| 6 | What do we want them to get out of the advertising ? |
| 7 | You do n't want them to grow up in a sterile environment . |
| 8 | Accordingly it is interesting to speculate to what extent these attitudes have caused British businessmen to adopt short time-horizons in making decisions — with negative consequences for longer-term growth performance — because their main objective is to acquire sufficient wealth to enable them to move on to the better things in life . |
| 9 | Two senior boys have expressed an interest in attending a course to enable them to participate more in the running of the club [ the J.G.V.A. has agreed to pay their fees ] a volunteer Diane Prior has joined the staff , Laura Brown has been given a date for mini bus driving test , two staff members have attended a Youth Work Conference for South West Edinburgh — G. Lightheart has ordered new equipment . |
| 10 | Two senior boys have expressed an interest in attending a course to enable them to participate more in the running of the club ( the J.G.V.A. has agreed to pay their fees ) a volunteer Diane Prior has joined the staff , Laura Brown has been given a date for mini bus driving test , two staff members have attended a Youth Work Conference for South West Edinburgh — G. Lightheart has ordered new equipment . |
| 11 | Their toughness and wounds are high enough to enable them to get away without a shield . |
| 12 | And booksellers were ready for it with pretty much the right books at the right prices to enable them to compete effectively for the consumer 's cautiously placed pound . |
| 13 | They asked me to go there for an interview , and from that they recommended a therapist who would see me at her home . |
| 14 | She asked me to join in like a kind of guinea pig and keep a weekly budget . |
| 15 | ‘ Michael asked me to come up with a funny line for him to say on leaving the house , ’ recalled scriptwriter Raymond Allen . |
| 16 | I met Charlie , and he asked me to come along to the Mothering Day Service . |
| 17 | One of the factors that led me to sign up with the DIA was the idea that I might be able to do something for my friend Jerry Levin , who had been taken hostage in Beirut by Hezbollah , but as it happened he was released before I got out there . |
| 18 | I had not looked through those volumes for many years , until these recent developments led me to get down from the shelf the Devon and Cornwall volume once more . |
| 19 | The court usher appeared then and asked them to move out into the corridor . |
| 20 | She was n't keen on her three rather quieter children being involved , and asked them to return home from the farm if the W children arrived to play . |
| 21 | In their early twenties they had a group called the Actors and RCA records asked them to come in for a meeting . |
| 22 | We want them to emerge solely as a result of cumulative selection of random mutations . |
| 23 | I want them to hear more about the world — Europe , South East Asia , the developing world . |
| 24 | ‘ Does Faye … or Dr Greene … want me to go in to the hospital ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ If they want me to stay on after the World Cup I will consider that . |
| 26 | And with divers on long bottom times , the supervisor needs them to return quickly to the basket , so that he can recover them for in-water decompression . |
| 27 | And yet , what is required , if teachers are ever to enjoy the prestige of true professionals , is to encourage them to reach out into the society they are there to serve , rather than for them to retreat behind their school walls . |
| 28 | Well , we had a talk and she invited me to come back in a few days ' time . |
| 29 | ‘ In fact , I could swear your image-maker wants me to come across as a free spirit , someone who does n't need the convention of a male escort — and I do n't . |
| 30 | Sometimes she wants me to work hard on the court and she is very serious and at home she is very nice to me . |