Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Solicitors will not need to be reminded that for them to continue to act despite a conflict of interest is a breach of their duty to the court . |
| 2 | Poverty , he defined as ‘ having no surplus ’ , i.e. having the bare essentials much of the time , but nothing to spare to provide for a crisis such as unemployment , sickness or death in the family . |
| 3 | Both of them appear to suffer from a form of mental myopia in imagining the consequences of such proposals , and I am not here referring only to Mill-type consequences of harm brought about by unwise decisions . |
| 4 | Second , having set up syntagmatic units , we shall observe that many of them appear to operate in a variety of grammatical environments , and we shall have to ask ourselves whether some differences of grammatical usage of a particular form do not merit recognition as separate lexical items . |
| 5 | Erm , the executive are accepting all these motions but on a couple of them want to put in a speaker with a statement and er after twenty one will to put that statement to the C E C. I now call composite twenty abolition of Wages Councils South Western Region to move , G M B Scotland to second . |
| 6 | He 's not the kind of person any of them want to have as a friend . |
| 7 | When I asked to speak for a moment with Miss Lavenza , a manservant showed me into a living-room and asked me to wait . |
| 8 | ‘ Nor do I want to indulge in a post-mortem — although I suppose it 's an appropriate description , if the thing between us is now dead . ’ |
| 9 | I mean to compare with an elephant dropping , it 's small . |
| 10 | I mean to start as a group home , well I mean it , of all the places , A it 's not like an ordinary home |
| 11 | I do n't have time to play but , I mean to play in a concert band or anything but I might go and knock about with it for a while . |
| 12 | One week I failed to turn in an essay on the trade deficit . |
| 13 | ‘ I got to know after a time that he ad-libbed because he got bored with his lines . |
| 14 | ‘ I hate to sound like a detective , but there was a puddle outside the front gate and only one new set of tyre-marks between the Saturday night and the Sunday night . |
| 15 | I use it normally on a clean setting , but if I want distortion I tend to go through a BOSS Turbo Overdrive pedal and then into the Rock Box . |
| 16 | No , I tend to break into a crate of Nettles Old Fester . |
| 17 | The answer I tend to get off a lot of places is that I have to wait for twelve years |
| 18 | Will I need to invest in a Nitragon filter ? |
| 19 | Do I need to go to a lawyer ? |
| 20 | And if I could put that half a million pounds in context , as I tried to do in an amendment in Council yesterday evening , that is almost exactly the increase in charging for people going to day care facilities . |
| 21 | This seemed to me to be a pretty fair definition of hell , but I tried to look like a man who enjoyed such occasions . |
| 22 | I tried to apply for a credit card , but they refused me . |
| 23 | For my own purposes , I propose to treat as a way of life argument any claim that a particular policy decision would have significant consequences for the demographic , economic or social life of a community , or that it would significantly affect the atmosphere or symbolic existence of that community . |
| 24 | Talking straight to the hard-core men , he said , ‘ I want to apologise as an Englishmen for the way I have lived as a white man . |
| 25 | The central question I want to use as a peg on which to hang various theories is , ‘ Why are so few Christians aware of the direct threat of modernity to the Christian church ? ’ |
| 26 | I 'M getting married in less than two months and I want to lose about a stone before then to get in shape for the big day . |
| 27 | I wan , I want to la , I want to live for a bit longer . |
| 28 | That 's probably why I want to go for a dump now . |
| 29 | ‘ I want to go to a party and Mum wo n't let me . |
| 30 | Well now , I want to talk to a guy . |