Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may want to instruct him to say each pair twice all the way through , without you having to ask for a repeat each time . |
| 2 | Essays will be a central part of your work , both during the course and finally in examinations where you will need to use them to demonstrate historical knowledge , skills and thought . |
| 3 | If at the time the issue arises the patient still has capacity to decide , they can not only explore the scope of his decision with the patient , but can seek to persuade him to alter that decision . |
| 4 | Yes it might I 've seen it spelt both ways . |
| 5 | What seems to be of more use to people are specific things they can do to help them achieve these states . |
| 6 | When the Minister had ended the meeting with the words , ‘ Now , Mr Sanders , what can we do to persuade you to put more investment in Ireland ? ’ the Englishman had replied , ‘ The best advocate you could have , Minister , to influence more investment in your country , is a local plant manager who consistently turns in good results , year after year . |
| 7 | Did you f did you feel did you feel safe living in the flats now ? |
| 8 | As for centre backs I 've no idea — ideally I 'd like to see him give half wit and Weatherall a good go along with Tinkler , Forrester and Sharp as I really ca n't see us winning the league after Saturdays shite performance . |
| 9 | Myself , I 'd like to see you take another try at Balaam . ’ |
| 10 | Er well Susan 's very much into music and erm I think she thinks she 'd like to earn her living that way but it 's a very hard way to earn a living . |
| 11 | Algy must remember to ask you to come next time I give a little party for her . |
| 12 | If you make college too comfortable nobody will ever want to leave it to do proper work . |
| 13 | There were accusations last night that doctors at the hospital should have realised she had classic symptoms of the disorder . |
| 14 | Taking the radical students ' ideals at face-value one might have expected them to see this incident as yet another example of oppression by a fascist regime and protest against it — after all , they protested enough when it used such methods against its own people . |
| 15 | His mother , he knew , would never have expected him to walk those yards alone had she known that he suffered such atavistic panic , but she had n't known and he would have died before telling her . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'd have expected him to have more sense , ’ said young Jonna tersely . |
| 17 | Listen to what they say — maybe some place coming free soon , maybe some place they could have let you have three months back but it went to someone else . |
| 18 | As I say if they took my wages into consideration they would have let us buy next door even . |
| 19 | Sadly he rejected this dual instruction and was lost on a low-level marking attack that , had Cochrane been aware that Gibson was not checked out at Warboys , his AOC would have forbidden him to fly that night . |
| 20 | Married to a sickly wife , then having to cope as a widower with a daughter who suffered fits frequently , finding work difficult to obtain , Thomas Titford must have felt he had enough crosses to bear for one lifetime . |
| 21 | Perhaps the court would have accepted it had that stipulation been explicit . |
| 22 | I was — like Flora with her mother — in the stupid position of being unable to put the one argument that would have made her feel some sympathy for me . |
| 23 | Kapuscinski exercises a personal charm which must have helped him to establish friendly relations with the people he met , and to gather material , and which can seem to befriend the Western reader . |
| 24 | His mother must have had him watched last night ; perhaps he was still being followed . |
| 25 | ‘ I would have thought they had enough country in Sweden , ’ Bragg said crossly , ‘ without his bothering about ours . ’ |
| 26 | Obviously Rune must have thought she harboured some grudge against him and had been anxious to prevent a potential display of hostility in front of his colleagues the next day . |
| 27 | Personally I would have thought you had more ambition than that . ’ |
| 28 | And I would have thought us giving five percent and , and there are other provinces that are giving more will ensure at least the the on twelve thousand we pay next year and therefore , starting with eleven and half thousand we paid this year and that provinces and in ourselves went further than that it is possible . |
| 29 | You could also try to persuade them to use recycled stationery . |
| 30 | Could have sworn I saw some tits in there today . |