Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [subord] i [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we forgot to dispose of the discarded furnishings , and six months later when I went to spend a few days with a senior Burmese colleague , he showed me with great satisfaction his small-town church , furnished with the discarded pews , pulpit , litany desks , with the collection bags being changed according to the ecclesiastical season ! |
| 2 | The last thing he said to me on Wednesday , ’ Jack ’ ’ he said , ‘ I 'll get along to your rave-up on Friday even if I have to knock the guts out of her . |
| 3 | And take my earring out when I go to have an interview . |
| 4 | I have to put him into kennels tomorrow as I have to go away for some time and they insist that he be fully vaccinated . ’ |
| 5 | If I owe a client a duty to increase the value of his investment portfolio then if I fail to take action which could enhance its value I am positively harming my client 's interests . |
| 6 | He was very pragmatic about why he had been drawn to cinema ‘ I came into films not because I wanted to make films . |
| 7 | My problems began some days later when I wanted to change the video mode . |
| 8 | It was about three weeks later when I happened to notice that the pupil of this eye had dilated to such an extent that it was now noticeable to everyone . |
| 9 | ‘ We were chat-ting in Sainsbury 's , Mrs Patel and I , rather more years ago than I care to remember . |
| 10 | He commented : ‘ I felt the time was right to make a personal move forward as I wanted to have direct control over my own destiny and re-invest into the Province . ’ |
| 11 | was ill , but there was no official way they could contact their employer and say , I need the day off because I need to sort something |
| 12 | One night , the wife pointed casually to a cupboard and told me there were some back issues of Cosmopolitan there if I wanted to look . |
| 13 | No come a bit earlier cos I want to set |
| 14 | ‘ Because I 've had it around for a lot longer than I care to tell you . |
| 15 | I did n't put an evaluation in because I wanted to discuss it orally with my adviser . |
| 16 | Reckon I 'm coming to well I ca n't come to that detention anyway cos I have to go to West Side Story tonight . |
| 17 | Yeah , erm , we , we thought we 'd got him calmed down at one point and he started up again and he was like that right the way up till I went to fetch Emily |
| 18 | Except that this condition clodhopped into view only because I intend to tell the unlipsticked truth to Gill . |
| 19 | But I am due to take a trip to the Indian Ocean shortly where I hope to go swimming in a warmer sea ! |
| 20 | ‘ I object to the principle of the PLR not because I wish to do hardworking authors out of money — I would be eligible for PLR but I have declined to register on principle . ’ |