Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is the only reason I agreed to write this message to you . |
| 2 | If this message is output again it shows that someone has had direct access to the ORACLE database . |
| 3 | ‘ As you know a little while ago there were discussions between this Office and Stephenson Harwood [ the applicant 's former solicitors ] about a proposed interview to be conducted under the terms of section 2 of the Criminal Justice Act 1987 and I promised to provide further details to them of our proposed course of action which is now given to you instead of them : ( 1 ) This Office intends to hold an interview with you under section 2 on Thursday , 13 June 1991 . |
| 4 | Do you think for one minute that I want to live next door to a stinking curry eater or a mugging , drug-dealing , sweaty black rasta ? |
| 5 | ‘ I want to teach these people to be practical and self-reliant , ’ Edhi said . |
| 6 | Conscious that the fat woman had seated herself on a stack of biscuit tins and was listening avidly , Joe said ‘ Er , I want to take some groceries to an old lady . |
| 7 | Finally , I want to mention two approaches to developing self-awareness and increasing self-esteem : transactional analysis and assertiveness training . |
| 8 | ‘ I wish I 'd made that point to the Committee . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I forgot to give this letter to you when we were talking . |
| 10 | In this matter , I seem to miss those issues to which you contribute articles : I have not seen one for many months now . |
| 11 | But you can imagine my surprise when I angled said state-of-the-art bins to the street , watched the long black car as it rolled up and saw the self-same guy step out of it . |
| 12 | And I remember saying one time to our doctor |
| 13 | Yesterday Trevor , a former science teacher at Staindrop Comprehensive , near Darlington , said : ‘ Because I want to keep good relations with my customers I decided to give full refunds to all 147 people who had tickets . ’ |
| 14 | Up until the age of 33 , I managed to push this turmoil to the back of my mind , although I 'd always had trouble with relationships because I was so full of self-doubt , and succeeded in destroying any relationship that seemed to be leading anywhere . |
| 15 | Although , like Shelley , I am not a believer in the Christian religion — as no intelligent person can be in our day — I do give strong credence to spirits . |
| 16 | I 'm just wondering er the statutory instruments we 're passing tonight er and I did raise this point to the minister about the drain on the private sector every time a rule and regulation is passed . |
| 17 | I did say happy birthday to her . |
| 18 | I knew that he had given about 4,000 volumes , but I had kept this information to myself . |
| 19 | I had imagined go-it-alone people to be temperamentally independent-minded and even rebellious — and perhaps to feel a kind of robust roguishness at cheating the taxman on principle . |
| 20 | I went through the drill that I had taught many times to my students , and with a little sideslip brought John 's creation back to earth . |
| 21 | I had hoped this year to be able to report a turn round and some substantial progress towards our target of achieving a nil deficit for the financial year nineteen ninety-one ninety-two . |
| 22 | I had felt this incident to be the last straw , but it was n't — quite As a misfit , I was not entirely alone . |
| 23 | Twelve pence , she reckoned ; perhaps if I had given ten pence to the beggar this would not have happened . |
| 24 | At Eton I had gone each day to Spottiswoode 's bookshop to follow the course of this war in The Times . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm sorry I had to throw old Rex to the wolves back there , ’ he said , without a trace of conviction . |
| 26 | Throughout the months preceding the launching I had paid numerous visits to Brooke Marine yard , either calling there in Venturous with the training crews , or latterly driving down from my home in Felixstowe , conveniently situated a mere forty miles up the coast . |
| 27 | I would have saved much time and pain if I had paid more attention to how I was racing . |
| 28 | Several years ago I wrote some pieces about the Psion Organiser , telling how I had devoted many months to trying to learn how to use this tiny alpha-numeric keyboard . |
| 29 | I 'd spent so much time on my own , sitting watching birds , or reading about them or drawing them , that I did n't make many friends , and those I had took second place to the birds . |
| 30 | WHEN I was about eight years old , I had to learn this answer to the question : ‘ What is God ? ’ in the Roman Catholic catechism : ‘ God is the supreme spirit who alone exists of himself and is infinite in all perfections . ’ |