Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [pers pn] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I expect them to finish in the top two . |
| 2 | I expect her to preside over the abolition of wages councils and to be strong on industrial training . |
| 3 | I expect you to work on the assignments you owe me at home ! |
| 4 | Ten thousand pounds will build you the highest column in the world , and will produce an astonishing effect ; fifty thousand pounds would not serve to erect an arch , and when it was erected you would have doubted which , it or the Royal Exchange , was the more magnificent object ; therefore I exhort you to keep to the columnar form . |
| 5 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
| 6 | So I want you to enrol for the winter term at Auburn for one course . |
| 7 | ‘ I want you to drive to the Stapletons ’ house and then send the driver away . |
| 8 | ‘ I want you to put off the library today , ’ she would say . |
| 9 | I want you to go through the list and then supply some girls who will be unknown to any of the people here . " |
| 10 | No , no , no , no you could only do that , I want you to go on the Orient Express , yes . |
| 11 | When I switch on , I want you to go down the steps , sit down quietly on the floor by the end of the nozzle … and I want you to apologise . |
| 12 | I want you to go round the sun . |
| 13 | ‘ I want you to sit on the step and watch out fer yer Mum and come in and tell me when you see her . ’ |
| 14 | Now the next , I want you to look at the verse prologue of the play . |
| 15 | ‘ I want you to look after the boy , Hammond . |
| 16 | I called you over because I want you to look after the new lady . |
| 17 | I want you to come into the market . |
| 18 | I want you to think of the company you 're going to ring . |
| 19 | And I want you to think about the sound that you , not touching anybody ! |
| 20 | I want you to think about the sounds that you heard . |
| 21 | And I want you to think about the question that I ask you but I do n't want you to speak out the answers . |
| 22 | Now I want you to think about the person who he 's going to talk to . |
| 23 | ‘ I want you to begin at the beginning and tell me your life . |
| 24 | ‘ There 's a very special person I want you to meet at the concert tomorrow . |
| 25 | I want you to concentrate on the way the rooms themselves bring about certain kinds of behaviour . |
| 26 | ‘ Dave , I want you to stay at the office . |
| 27 | ‘ And I want it to go on the same way till I 'm free to offer you more . ’ |
| 28 | But there 's no , people who say things are off the record means that ‘ I do n't want to be , but I want it to get into the system ’ . |
| 29 | I urge him to go to the railway stations each weekend and to get the newspapers that are handed out free of charge . |
| 30 | But still if you read that carefully it does n't say he ca that they ca n't do it , the C E C. So I urge you to vote for the motion two five five . |