Example sentences of "[pron] [vb infin] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was actually hearing Duane Allman that made me want to go for a powerful kind of electric sound . |
| 2 | Who would I want to fight with an old man ? " |
| 3 | They were not , they were not dispensed with , well one could look back in seventy eight and say retrospectively how that process could have been started considerably earlier , er the honourable gentleman knows perfectly well that er as the Maastricht bill was winding its way through here it was n't really practical to run this but indeed the processes were started before the governing legislation was on the statute book and I quite understand why honourable gentlemen opposite wish to make their party points , particularly those particularly those who were not in the house in seventy eight which er does n't I think apply to the honourable gentleman from from Birmingham , when he knows perfectly well that the same kind of machinery is used now was used then and it was used as fairly and as honestly and as completely impartially as the time allowed . |
| 4 | ‘ Nor do I wish to sound like a cynical old man . |
| 5 | Do I have to put on a special overall or something ? |
| 6 | Why should I have to live in a one-bedroom flat when others have spacious houses ? |
| 7 | ‘ Why did I have to fall for a suicidal maniac ? ’ she asked herself , and cleaned the flat from top to bottom to take her mind off the image of Jack dangling on the end of a rope above a muddy slit somewhere in subterranean Yorkshire ! |
| 8 | Can I afford to wait for a young child to discover such procedures ? |
| 9 | Only if none of these targets is available will I open fire on the big battalions with cannon . |
| 10 | Reception this time ; would I care to leave through the underground garage rather than the front doors and so escape the army of press who were filling the lobby ? |
| 11 | ‘ Do you want to go to the giving-out-food woman and say there 's three small hungry people down here ? ’ |
| 12 | Do you want to rent from a local authority , new town or housing association in the area to which you want to move ? |
| 13 | Oh do you want to stay in the social club ? |
| 14 | Do you want to know about a spectacular firework display ? |
| 15 | ‘ Do you want to play with a new BMW ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Do you want to come to a Finnish film festival at the ICA tomorrow ? ’ asks Pamela . |
| 17 | ( iii ) What changes , if any , would you expect to see in the real plot at 223 K and 323 K ? ( c ) 0.10000g of gas Y at 273 K had the following pV values at the stated pressure p : ( i ) Estimate graphically the value of pV at zero pressure . |
| 18 | She knew how badly one sister had treated you ; she quite obviously did n't want to see you become associated with the other … ’ |
| 19 | What ‘ books of reference ’ would you use to deal with the following enquiries : |
| 20 | What would you like to see in an ideal world ? |
| 21 | Would you like to go to a real gallery , Ruth , to look at some paintings ? ’ |
| 22 | So I said to her she said would you like to go to the Regal so I said I do n't mind . |
| 23 | Would you like to go to the old rink to do some skating ? [ drink ] |
| 24 | A lengthy article appeared in the Daily Telegraph entitled ‘ Would you like to live in a listed ruin ? ’ ; then pieces appeared in all the rest of the newspapers . |
| 25 | He looked at her and said , adopting roguishness , ‘ Would you like to come on a long journey with me ? |
| 26 | Er in the context of bulk transfers would you like to comment on the Good Committees conclusions on the bulk transfers of members between schemes and how they operate , and do you think that er there is widespread abuse or do you think er on balance your experience has been that where bulk transfers have taken place , they have taken place responsibly , but I would in that context ask you to comment whether there has been an unreasonable time delay where you have experienced bank bulk transfers between the transfer actually taking place in terms of employees being transferred from an undertaking to another undertaking and the actual transfer of their pension funds . |
| 27 | Did she hope to stand in a winnable seat at the next election ? |
| 28 | generated or whatever , who do you wish to pay to , and we have four erm electricity board , the gas board , the er er er credit card and the , ca n't remember what the fourth one is , you simply say I wan na pay number four how much do you wish to pay to the Royal Bank of Scotland and you say how much you wish to pay in , er in pence and it immediately says you wish to pay blah blah blah it will be done . |
| 29 | ‘ Do you have to go on the damned trip ? ’ |
| 30 | Do you have to listen to every single one of those tapes ? |