Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] a [adj] [noun sg] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes — I make a real effort to cut out high fat foods |
| 2 | I make a determined effort to rummage around in the jumble of our years together for some of the intensity of feeling I had for her . |
| 3 | I want a bigger range to choose from and hopefully this role will help me . |
| 4 | I want a little thing to crack into . |
| 5 | And when I bribe a willing campesina to buy a train ticket for me — gringo tourists are not supposed to use cheap local transport but to stick together on the ninety dollar tourist train — I shall be continuing a gentle descent into the lushly green Urubamba valley that , eighty kilometres beyond the small town of Aguas Calientes , becomes thick , matted jungle ; becomes a hideout for Sendero . |
| 6 | I like a broken line to look a picture , one in which there are ‘ lost and found ’ edges and in which the tone of one part is the same as the area behind it so it seems to have no hard edge . |
| 7 | It 's a great beach but it 's not like my home beach of Port Philip Bay , in Melbourne , which is a bit messy , but seeing the sea I get a great urge to swim in it . |
| 8 | But I feel a certain obligation to make amends . |
| 9 | I do n't mean that I hope Alan Ayckbourn falls under a bus , but when I see a really good piece of writing I feel a real desire to emulate . |
| 10 | To obtain uniform segments I use a cutting jig to hold the plank at the desired angle . |
| 11 | Tt erm with the F P mailshot er I think a good question to ask would 've been why did you buy it , was there any reason behind it are you happy with it er when it came to referrals I mentioned the tennis club , something you could perhaps develop is , that 's interesting , which club is that |
| 12 | I think a good example to use with younger people with er pe with pensions as well is that the , the er the cutting down of funding that the government is making and it 's going to be hitting like the younger people and another important thing is like with the , with the Australia issue , I mean in Australia now it 's compulsory for everybody under the age of twenty five to have a personal pension and that r and that age rise is going to , that age limit is going to rise each time because they want to abolish the State pension completely and it was only , what , what about two months ago that there was , that there was er articles in I think it was The Times about them doing a similar operation in this country , you know ? |
| 13 | It is also important to create what I call a maternal genealogy to add to the paternal lineage which the current histories of art canonise — the succession of geniuses passing on the Olympic torch down the ages , man to man . |
| 14 | I 've a good mind to ask him for it after all . " |
| 15 | I 've a good mind to give it a miss . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've a good mind to go down to Mrs Wright 's now and get to the bottom of this , ’ said his Dad as Philip went upstairs . |
| 17 | I 've a good mind to go to the Bodega Bar with ye … they sell alcoholic beverages . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I 've a good mind to go and have it out with him here and now . |
| 19 | And there was a chap there — he was a sort of chapel preacher — and he says : ‘ Oh , ’ he say , ‘ I 've had enough on it ! ’ , he say , ‘ I 've a good mind to shoot myself , ’ he say , ‘ with this lot . |
| 20 | In fact , I 've a good mind to tell Sam on you . |
| 21 | So she said I 've a good mind to write to the manager so Bobby said you wan na leave well alone , forget he said . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've a good mind to get its number ! ’ |
| 23 | I 've a long way to go when it comes to these explanations . |
| 24 | ‘ Bloody hell — I do n't neglect that kid , I 'm a good mother to her , I 've a perfect right to go out of an evening . |
| 25 | ‘ I think I 've a perfect right to ask , certainly when an employee 's lifestyle is likely to affect the company , ’ he finished pompously . |
| 26 | If I 've a complicated feature to write , or a problem to solve , I usually duck out and go for a run . |
| 27 | Like asparagus , I take a long time to grow and am easily killed off . ’ |
| 28 | Robert : I need a long nail to go right through . |
| 29 | I need a strong man to protect me . |
| 30 | ‘ I need a fresh look to make a new start ’ |