Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , just on the sub-ward level , of course there 's really , there 's a lot more investigations to go into targeting the resources , just I mean to target them in a city by having these standard mortality ratios for wards , but they 're all below ward level , and target the specific areas . |
| 2 | I intend to do it in a proper English accent ( You can do it ) . |
| 3 | It would have been a richer joy — but , indeed , as I so often tell you , I delight to picture you in a childlike serenity . |
| 4 | There are four key ideas in that sentence , and I want to underline them for a few more minutes . |
| 5 | Two months later this tram-driver stopped me : ‘ I want to see you for a minute . |
| 6 | For example , although we do not have in English the grammaticalization of the levels of respect that exist in Javanese , we do have means of expressing degrees of respect , largely by choices in the use of expressions : thus ( 31 ) would generally be a more polite request than ( 30 ) : ( 30 ) I want to see you for a moment ( 31 ) I wondered if I could possibly see you for a moment So by taking at first just the grammaticalized or encoded features of context in the world 's languages , we would have both something like a " discovery procedure " for relevant functions of language , and a constraint on the relatively vacuous theorizing that often attends speculation about the " functions of speech " . |
| 7 | No , I mean , there 's nothing to stop him arresting more British people , or er , any nationality , come to that , and saying well , they did stray into our territory , I 'm sorry about this , but er , we ca n't have that sort of thing , you 'll have to er , come and see if I want to release them in a few months . |
| 8 | When people are buying , another example of their purchasing power would be to say ‘ well , now I want this particular policy and I want to combine it with a power that 's available to me in that policy ’ . |
| 9 | Over the next 40 minutes or so I hope to take you on a review of the practical application of artificial intelligence ( AI ) in the field of aircraft maintenance within the RAF . |
| 10 | I like to compare him with a footballing genius , putting through passes others are too slow to take , and making moves that would be brilliant if only the rules were different . |
| 11 | I try to do it in a way that is n't too threatening and allows the opportunity to discuss things . ’ |
| 12 | Rather than to characterise Genetic Alchemy as definitive I prefer to view it as a valuable ‘ second generation ’ effort , considerably more scholarly than its predecessors but with more than a whiff of the critical and sceptical attitudes of the disciplines that focus not so much on the substance of science as on its character as a social institution . |
| 13 | Rather than seeing labourism within the narrow confines of a trade union dominated political intervention at the level of the state , I wish to consider it as a political culture within working-class experience at all levels , which can not be reduced to a bourgeois ethos , and which has as a major component ( but only a component ) the Labour Party . |
| 14 | But I need to see you for a moment . |
| 15 | If I have to lift them for a match of that importance then I might as well walk out of the job . ’ |
| 16 | I have to take it with a grain of salt . ’ |
| 17 | I learned Dimac from a lama in Tibet and my hands are so deadly that I have to keep them in a locked closet when they 're not in use . |
| 18 | You intend to pile them in a wall which will , |
| 19 | Start a hobby Contact your local adult education centre if you want to do it in a group |
| 20 | said you want to put 'em in a bag and shake 'em up . |
| 21 | If you want to display it on a device with different resolution , you have the following options : — |
| 22 | Or it may be that the question you are interested in has been discussed before , but that you want to develop it in a particular way , or to extend it , or to disagree with one of its premises . |
| 23 | But for UK and Irish holidaymakers who want to combine it with a Florida vacation , it is also an attractive deal . |
| 24 | ( Beware of those therapists who seek to charge you for a complete course of treatment at the very beginning , as it is almost impossible to know how well each individual will respond and therefore how many sessions will be needed . ) |
| 25 | Thank You'-You are about to deflate the small plastic paddling pool in the garden in which no infant has paddled for a month until you realise that it is now full of strange vegetation and even stranger swimming insects and you decide to keep it as a nature reserve . |
| 26 | If you try to push them under a place to see if it 's touching , you 'll find they get bent up and once there 's a bend in you ca n't smooth it . |
| 27 | If you attempt to cut it with a knife , remove the thick brown skin from the portion to be sliced , paying great attention to the direction in which you are cutting — it is very easy for the knife to slip and the blade must travel away from you . |
| 28 | The Senate is notorious for closing ranks against any young politicians who try to use it as a springboard for something grander . |
| 29 | I am prepared to forget all that if you agree to join us for a stroll on this fine summer 's day . ’ |
| 30 | When you save the file it will remain in 1-2-3 or Excel format unless you choose to save it as a Quattro Pro file by changing the file 's extension . |