Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 He 's not the kind of person any of them want to have as a friend .
6 I mean to compare with an elephant dropping , it 's small .
7 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 .
8 I mean to get to the bottom of it , ’ said Lydia , only without much conviction .
9 I mean to start as a group home , well I mean it , of all the places , A it 's not like an ordinary home
10 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 .
11 I would like to add that it is only the first of many Platinum Hotels I intend to open throughout the world . ’
12 I shall also want to talk with you about the ffruit Trees I intend to plant against the wall next y Pump Court .
13 I can think of nothing less appealing than climbing into bed with you — which is why I intend to sleep in the ante-room .
14 ‘ There 's no need to share anything , as I intend to sleep by the fire , ’ she declared firmly , and punctuated her decision by draining her mug and setting it aside .
15 I intend to return across the Forth .
16 ‘ It was a trip of a lifetime and I intend to return to the States self-financed , I expect . ’
17 ‘ It was the trip of a lifetime and I intend to return to the States — self-financed , I expect . ’
18 For lunch I intend to go to the Strawberry Duck pub , Entwhistle , Saturday afternoon is free for shopping in Manchester 's Arndale Centre or whatever and for the evening meal the plan is to go to the new Indian take-away which has opened near Castle Irwell — the ‘ Tandoori Cottage ’ .
19 Mrs Keating shouted , ‘ I think you 'd better know , I intend to write to the school about this . ’
20 Judge Harry Walker , who gave Jim bail yesterday , told him : ‘ I intend to get to the bottom of this . ’
21 I intend to start with the Dwarf Angel , and after three months I will put in a very young Regal Tang , which I would keep until it is three inches long .
22 In this section I intend to focus on the way four of these problems have become interlinked , namely those of underachievement , the concern over indiscipline , and the need for social integration and the employability of particular groups .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 ‘ Gottle a geer ’ Gazza would undoubtedly be a tremendous asset to the team , but after Silvers recent professions of poverty , I tend to agree with the Guardian that this is a ‘ We are still a big club ’ smokescreen .
26 Denis Healey is another politician I admire , and I tend to agree with the view that he is the best leader the Labour Party never had .
27 No , I tend to break into a crate of Nettles Old Fester .
28 ‘ When I have evenings off , I tend to stay in the club lurking in the shadows reading : I am disinclined to meet friends .
29 The answer I tend to get off a lot of places is that I have to wait for twelve years
30 When I breathe in beside him I expect to recoil from the smell .
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