Example sentences of "[verb] is [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One metric by which collocations may be measured and grouped is to rate them on a scale of probability . |
| 2 | ‘ The need to intern is staring us in the face , ’ he said . |
| 3 | " All I want is to see her in a place where she 'll be cared for . |
| 4 | The first thing the three must do is disentangle themselves from the past . |
| 5 | What you wan na do is leave it in the squash club , in the actual er court |
| 6 | There 's one thing we can do is take one from t' other . |
| 7 | All I can do is to tell them of the number and variety involved , and point them to some background reading . |
| 8 | We 're , we 're sort of just about , you know there 's the last minute things to put in , but , barring that , what we 've done is to put it in a lot of small bags rather than big cases |
| 9 | The C E C have had twelve months , the sections have been up and running , they should have learnt from the experiences over the last twelve months because all that they 've done is presented us with the same document with the exclusion of the one issue of the two year conference . |
| 10 | As you can see , so far six hundred organizations have registered with us and what we 've done is put them in a rather , rather flash booklet and the idea is that youngsters , their parents , teachers , youth leaders , scout leaders , anybody , gets hold of one of these booklets and in it , it tells them how to go sailing . |
| 11 | What he has done is to supply himself with a ridiculous experience by the telling of which he could entertain several hundred people , without having to undergo the dispiriting strain of suffering it first . |
| 12 | What I would like is to know something about the job I came here to do . |
| 13 | All you have to do is decide which of the puddings on these pages from Cadbury 's The Taste of Chocolate would be the perfect ending to each of the following menus . |
| 14 | So you can do it every other day , or whenever , whatever your organisational is , but what I used to do is do it on a Friday . |
| 15 | All you have to do is tell us about the worst computer nightmare you 've ever had . |
| 16 | So when the master comes back and says to then What have you done with your talents ? one the first servant shouts , Here , here are ten for your one , Here are five for your one , and he 's very cross with the third servant because he said , What 's the purpose of giving me giving you this money if all you 're going to do is hide it in the drawer ? |
| 17 | ‘ Martin and his team keep kicking the ball into the penalty area and all I have to do is nod it into the net , ’ the 31-year-old rider said . |
| 18 | ‘ The only thing to do is return them to the Romanians . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ What I 'm not prepared to do is commit myself to the club beyond that , until such time as a final plan , which I understand from the chairman was agreed in principle by all directors on Saturday night , has been formally ratified by all board members . |
| 20 | You 're not now , oh right okay that 's fine , the er , what I want you to do instead of writing , I mean two hundred words is , is probably feel nothing , but in fact because we want er it to be absolutely right , what I 'd like you to do this time is just write an appraisal , the contents thing er that we had last time we had if you like , content and appraisal and audience , but audience was only er , a sentence or two , I 'd simply like a , an appraisal , what your view of this is , if you 're writing that part of the review , so we 're only thinking in terms of a hundred words now , er what I 'd like you to do is to distribute yourselves over the laboratory , erm go wherever you want but do n't start talking with people , it 's not the , not the Cribben thing I just want to get on with the exercise that I 'm concerned with and write your appraisal , but obviously put your name on it and er if we meet back here thirty five minutes is that long enough for under a hundred words of excellent quality ? |
| 21 | They have come from a war-ravaged country where their parents or friends have thought the best thing to do is to get them on a plane to some safer place . |
| 22 | What I need to do is get him out the way . |
| 23 | What we 're going to do is take you to the nearest place you can get a bus . |
| 24 | All you have to do is introduce it into the plebs ’ soap . |
| 25 | All I have to do is position myself against the banner . |
| 26 | The only thing I 'm asking you to do is put them in the diary now . |
| 27 | All he wants to do is put you in a cage . ’ |
| 28 | When Colin is upset , all you have to do is have him with a teacup in his hand and his trousers not quite fitting . |
| 29 | All you 're doing is taking them from the objection , which is , well , we 're not prepared to give a decision , take them from that objection to where you want them do it with me , can you do it ? |
| 30 | All it is doing is assembling them into a package . |