Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [det] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a child , even though my parents were divorced and my mother did n't have much money , I would scream and shout whenever she tried to put me in some of my sister 's hand-me-downs . |
| 2 | Erm there 'll be seven lectures on this subject and that 's a fair number of course but it 's not enough to cover the full range of things that I 'd want normally to talk to you about and so what I 'm going to do is to aim to introduce you to some of the central concepts of foreign policy , of ways of analysing it , of the models that are used , the ideas erm er surrounding foreign policy and also to illustrate these with examples . |
| 3 | ‘ Are you going to treat me like this for the next ten years ? ’ |
| 4 | These general problem-solving strategies can be used to help you through many of life 's problems . |
| 5 | I 'm going to leave it like that for a couple of hours . |
| 6 | ‘ I thought you were never going to let me near any of your horses again . ’ |
| 7 | Now we 're going to share it with all of you . ’ |
| 8 | We begin to ask him for more of his love to love him more . |
| 9 | So he began to involve them in some of the decisionmaking about how their environment might be improved , their needs met . |
| 10 | He did not stop to warn them of any of the unseen hazards he was first to discover . |
| 11 | Okay so do you want to run us through some of the things that we have n't really discussed in detail of what we 're gon na talk about in here today , specifically have we , I mean I thought something along the lines of er the nature and extent of sexual variations in English , or any other language you want . |
| 12 | No one says you ca n't write it down do n't have to do it in all in your head do you . |
| 13 | He swung the gun upwards on his mount and was obviously set to cut me in half with his next pass when the knifehilt appeared in his chest , lodged deep between two bandoliers . |
| 14 | I , I do n't tend to do it like that at all , I do it very nearly go , it 's on the wrong side unfortunately . . |
| 15 | And they used to have to put it like that on these er pins all the way down . |
| 16 | McDunn does n't want to charge me with any of the other murders but they 're going to have to make a decision before too long because my initial time under the PTA is nearly up and the Home Secretary is n't going to grant an extension ; I 'll have to appear in court soon . |
| 17 | Only when forced into it by Nutty , by the fear of losing Firelight , had he come to accept it as such in his own mind . |
| 18 | They 'd fallen asleep , a head on each shoulder and she was determined to leave them like that for as long as she could . |
| 19 | The delicious and time-consuming dishes and sauces they used to make may no longer be possible for them , for many reasons , so there should be no hesitation in trying to interest them in some of the tinned and packet products which may be just as good for them if fresh milk has to be added . |
| 20 | EVOLUTION and the transmission of cultural forms , topics much discussed in Eliot 's youth , continued to concern him in much of his later work , and he retained a profound distrust of the idea of evolution as progress . |
| 21 | Bede 's commentary on aspects of seventh-century English life reflects the nature and extent of the traffic of gifts , particularly between royalty and senior members of the Christian Church ; the items and the materials serve to remind us of some of the primitive valuables seen in the pagan graves . |
| 22 | You were n't planning to use it for any of your own guests , were you ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ He wanted to marry me before any of this happened , ’ Ruth said . |
| 24 | ‘ But when it was finished , they refused to show it on any of their ships . |