Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " 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 | They sold their assets — empty sites , empty schools , council houses — in the hope this would permit them to continue to build with the money . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Certainly his terse telephone technique had annoyed me last night , but not enough to make me want to spit at the sight of him . |
| 5 | ‘ One of them asked to go to the lavatory . |
| 6 | When it was refused , some of them tried to climb over the wall . |
| 7 | Everyone has to join in the charade : ah , what a good family we are ! |
| 8 | We should extend the same decency to English people who come to live in Scotland , the vast majority of whom want to integrate into the community while retaining their own distinctive national identity . |
| 9 | But there again , not everyone cares to lead from the front , like Thatcher.He may lack his own philosophy , but he is a shrewd party manager . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And everyone tried to climb on the bandwagon . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He 's not the kind of person any of them want to have as a friend . |
| 15 | I got a bit carried away with Martha and dallied in the Arran Heritage centre over long — ‘ Everyone wants to know about the past and it is too late . ’ |
| 16 | Mr Waite , who was freed last November after five years in Lebanon , says on the ABC programme 20/20 : ‘ One day I asked to go to the bathroom . |
| 17 | I asked to speak to the person in charge of the station . |
| 18 | When I asked to speak for a moment with Miss Lavenza , a manservant showed me into a living-room and asked me to wait . |
| 19 | Yeah , I jus I skidded to stop on the back end of it . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 21 | In the light of the overall aim , set an immediate end result by answering the question ‘ What result do I want to achieve by the end of this interaction ? ’ |
| 22 | Imagine my shock when , just as I 'd begun thumping the bottom of the big brown pot , I chanced to look inside the bin and there , half buried in rubbish , was Cymbeline 's red plastic teapot . |
| 23 | I mean to compare with an elephant dropping , it 's small . |
| 24 | later than that , it 's er I mean to go to the crematorium at quarter past eleven , we would n't be back here before twelve o'clock . |
| 25 | ‘ I mean to get to the bottom of it , ’ said Lydia , only without much conviction . |
| 26 | I mean to start as a group home , well I mean it , of all the places , A it 's not like an ordinary home |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I would like to add that it is only the first of many Platinum Hotels I intend to open throughout the world . ’ |
| 29 | I shall also want to talk with you about the ffruit Trees I intend to plant against the wall next y Pump Court . |
| 30 | I can think of nothing less appealing than climbing into bed with you — which is why I intend to sleep in the ante-room . |