Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , just on the sub-ward level , of course there 's really , there 's a lot more investigations to go into targeting the resources , just I mean to target them in a city by having these standard mortality ratios for wards , but they 're all below ward level , and target the specific areas . |
| 2 | The historic state coach No 351 which was being restored at that time suffered exterior damage in the fire but it is now intended to restore it as a museum piece . |
| 3 | She says she did want him out of the house , but she did n't want to kill him as a court was going to evict him anyway . |
| 4 | At the age of sixteen , this writer had slept with an older , married friend of her Father ; she had arranged to meet him in a churchyard after dinner and they made love on a tombstone . |
| 5 | ‘ I was wondering whether you 'd arranged to meet her for a talk — to break the news to her ? ’ |
| 6 | Two months later this tram-driver stopped me : ‘ I want to see you for a minute . |
| 7 | For example , although we do not have in English the grammaticalization of the levels of respect that exist in Javanese , we do have means of expressing degrees of respect , largely by choices in the use of expressions : thus ( 31 ) would generally be a more polite request than ( 30 ) : ( 30 ) I want to see you for a moment ( 31 ) I wondered if I could possibly see you for a moment So by taking at first just the grammaticalized or encoded features of context in the world 's languages , we would have both something like a " discovery procedure " for relevant functions of language , and a constraint on the relatively vacuous theorizing that often attends speculation about the " functions of speech " . |
| 8 | He led them into the kitchen , chatting to Blanche and Dexter as if they were house guests rather than police officers who had come to interview him about a murder . |
| 9 | Since someone tried to kill him with a parcel bomb back in Lusaka , he 's moved several times and today still goes in fear of his life . |
| 10 | They 're ideal if you just want to lose it for a couple of hours , but try not to get hooked . |
| 11 | The reader should resist the temptation to think of the law as a closed set of rules and principles , and should strive to see it as a setting in which the business of politics and government is carried on . |
| 12 | and that if we want to borrow it in a couple weeks time |
| 13 | Summer in the country , was the toast echoing in Diane 's ears as she went back inside ; and she shuddered , and wondered if she could think up something really cutting to say the first time one of them tried to treat her like a servant . |
| 14 | I must look deep , deep into your soul and grow to trust you as a brother ! ’ |
| 15 | ‘ They tried to pull me into a scrum once and they invited me into the showers with them ’ — GAIL PARKER ( a lady referee ) on problems encountered when trying to control men . |
| 16 | ‘ On the rare occasion he bothers to leave that damn hotel — sorry , but you know what I mean — he just wants to drink himself into a stupor . |
| 17 | His General Practitioner was notified by telephone of his impending discharge and promised to visit him within a couple of days . |
| 18 | I ca n't actually recall all the numbers , but I remember I was in the States at one point and I took the album over and tried to sell it to a record company . |
| 19 | If she lives on her own and poor health has robbed her of a normal social life , it is to be expected that her loneliness may have created such a build-up of unexpressed thoughts , feelings and opinions that she may need to talk herself to a standstill before she is ready to converse with you , and interest herself in anything you have to say . |
| 20 | He felt hammer blows to his arm before Dean tried to stab him with a screwdriver . |
| 21 | He felt hammer blows to his arm before Dean tried to stab him with a screwdriver . |
| 22 | The other exercises were designed to help me with a problem of co-ordination in hammer-ons and in string skipping . |
| 23 | To perform conditional jumps , the computer has to select one from a set of two ( or more ) next micro-instruction addresses . |
| 24 | But it comes down to how openly you want to express yourself as a Muslim . |
| 25 | Left : If you want to replace a dishwasher that 's over 10 years ' old , or want to fit one into a kitchen with imperial size 500 mm wide base units , you 'll need a machine that measures 50 cm rather than the usual 60 cm wide . |
| 26 | The conductress tried to console her with a glass of sweet , strong tea but without much success . |
| 27 | When people are buying , another example of their purchasing power would be to say ‘ well , now I want this particular policy and I want to combine it with a power that 's available to me in that policy ’ . |
| 28 | The Soviet police concluded that he had been shot in the stomach by his dog as he tried to free it from a trap ( Reuters , etc , 6 March 1992 ) . |
| 29 | So we will need a tolerant and patient horse if we want to use it as a school horse , or a plough horse , or even a dressage horse . |
| 30 | If it did not exist , would anyone trouble to invent it at a time when , from the Atlantic to the Urals , socialism in all its manifestations is losing the argument to liberal capitalism ? |