Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [to-vb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just find those subject the easiest to deal with : on the one hand , they 're the most tangible feelings I have to pull out of myself ; on the other , they make me want to make a stronger statement when I ultimately do that . |
| 2 | The Supreme Electoral Tribunal ( TSE ) announced on Nov. 13 that the parties of the eight remaining candidates , all of whom failed to secure a required minimum of 4 per cent of the votes , would lose their legal status . |
| 3 | Er does everyone want to do a general essay or do people want to do a s a specific thing ? |
| 4 | But if appointment as a lord of session was major patronage at any period in Scotland 's history , there was in the eighteenth century considerable demand for any post which could make use of legal education , for there is some reason to believe that the country was oversupplied with lawyers in view of the desperate efforts which some of them made to obtain a salaried post , no matter how minor . |
| 5 | Everyone needs to take a different approach . |
| 6 | They are not on the whole involved in direct teaching and , second , each of them has to have a separate viewpoint because the focus of the job is mainly outside that of any school . |
| 7 | the departments involved are heavily loaded , and none of them want to contribute a key person for this purpose . |
| 8 | In Walton village , next to the railway embankment where James 's mutilated body was discovered , everyone wants to add a new piece of information . |
| 9 | Very soon now they will be ready and then I mean to hold a great feast for all my people . |
| 10 | I mean to give an earlier example , when at the beginning of this century , Mendel 's laws of genetics were rediscovered and an enormous growth of genetics took place and indeed is still taking place , initially Mendelism was seen by it 's practitioners and by biologists as a whole as a challenge to Darwinism , as an alternative to Darwin , and great fights took place for twenty years or so between the Darwinians and the Mendelians . |
| 11 | I disdained to consult a medical dictionary , however . |
| 12 | ‘ As soon as my work here is finished ’ , he wrote to Constanze , ‘ I shall join you , for I intend to take a long rest in your arms ; and I shall really need it , for all this mental worry and all the rushing about in connection with it is really wearing me out … . ’ |
| 13 | However this time , whether or not a change of ownership makes any difference to that permission , I intend to lodge an official complaint . |
| 14 | I intend to use an external power filter . |
| 15 | I intend to make a great deal of money from this if my speculations are correct . ’ |
| 16 | The President and I agreed to establish a secure telephone link between our two offices . |
| 17 | I failed to deposit an accurate simulacrum of her visage and demeanour with the left-luggage clerk of memory ; but I think she was in a shirt of a hue between sage and lovage , atop grey stone-washed 501s , green socks and a ridiculously unaesthetic pair of trainers . |
| 18 | There are some marvellous graphics among these new breeds but , having never particularly liked comics , I failed to overcome a fundamental irritation with the medium of pictures and words combined . |
| 19 | I failed to get a single note out of it when I brought it back to the hotel . |
| 20 | I failed to place a cardboard cut-out of a male person lying , in a posture of total exhaustion , in one of the darker recesses of the living room . |
| 21 | I expected to see a huge hound , but not a creature like this . |
| 22 | I expected to find a privileged crew , tolerating me for some positive press . |
| 23 | Perhaps I should n't interfere but I hate to see a young man throwing his life away . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I hate to see a decent man making a mess of his life . |
| 25 | Usually when designing pictures I tend to use a particular leaf or flower because of its shape , colour or texture , and pay no attention to its species or variety . |
| 26 | I tend to live a normal life . |
| 27 | I tend to keep a tight rein at first , and gradually relax as I get to know them . |
| 28 | Thank you Chairman erm I do n't I need to say a great deal because the comments that have been made I think are very thoroughly and expertly covered most of the ground in terms of the the issues that are being raised and can I say that although er a number of Chief Officers , a number of departments and I suspect a number of committees will be looking at what has happened and er seeking in both to find out why it has happened and what might be done in the future erm I certainly recognize that it 's er a role responsibility of this committee and of er me and the Planning Department to consider the implications for strategic planning and for the related functions and that erm it wo n't be a , a , a happy task because er purely it 's something that all of us would have hoped had n't happened at all but I will er very er thoroughly er explore the issues and report it back . |
| 29 | Working the paint thickly with a knife I tried to create a jarring effect with colour and texture conveying the power and pain of the experience . |
| 30 | She says : ‘ I tried to have a good marriage , be a good mother and have a career . |