Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll be looking at your statement later and I 'll probably want to see you in the next day or so . ’ |
| 2 | I shall quite enjoy taming you over the next couple of weeks . ’ |
| 3 | I realized I would need to convince them at the first opportunity that I was primarily a practical policeman and not an academic ; and I also noted that while the college was keen to list the academic qualifications of those on the course , the participants quickly justified Lewis 's assertions by playing them down to emphasize their history of praxis and practical mastery . |
| 4 | Oh we 're not , we do n't need to take it till the next one . |
| 5 | I 'd like to see them in the first division . |
| 6 | Wo would you like to try it for the next year , or few meetings ? |
| 7 | Perhaps they would like to choose it for the next one . |
| 8 | I would , therefore , like to invite you to the next meeting of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council . |
| 9 | But I do n't want to leave it to the last game of the season . |
| 10 | Only we I do n't , I do n't know about you but I do n't want to leave it until the last minute |
| 11 | He could have dropped me off the first time ! |
| 12 | It should be remembered that recovery is a process of improving perception and is not merely an intellectual process : if sufferers could fully see and understand what they were doing to themselves , they would not have done it in the first place . |
| 13 | GUIL : But if he gave it to me there 's no reason why you should have had it in the first place , in which case I do n't see what all the fuss is about you not having it . |
| 14 | Sir Kenneth Newman , to whom the report was presented , candidly admitted he would not have commissioned it in the first place ( it was commissioned by his predecessor , Sir David McNee ) , while the official Police Federation magazine ( Police , December 1983 ) concluded in an editorial : |
| 15 | According to Constanze , he received the news with painful resignation , saying that the situation would have enabled him for the first time to have sufficient leisure to write what he wanted , and to justify his growing reputation ; but instead only death awaited him . |
| 16 | McCarrick put them ahead in the eighth minute and they should have settled it in the 67th when Muir had a penalty saved , but Rimmer made no mistake from the spot to level the scores in the 83rd minute . |
| 17 | As the shop manager pointed out , it was the third time that month she 'd been late for work , and if they had n't needed her to turn up on time , they would n't have hired her in the first place . |
| 18 | I should n't have took it in the first place . |
| 19 | This section of the book is designed to help you come to terms with your deepest emotions and the people or events which may have caused them in the first place . |
| 20 | Should have taken it in the second half , but they could n't find the net . |
| 21 | ‘ If it was then Kevin would have killed them with the first bricks he threw and that would have been the end of the film . ’ |
| 22 | It was also one of the most economical , which was why Kolchinsky would have purchased it in the first place . |
| 23 | Why bother to do it in the first place ? |
| 24 | If I do n't manage to contact you in the next few days , I 'll still send these questionnaires in the hope of a splendidly useful response . |
| 25 | But there 's a big question mark over whether they could afford to keep him in the Third Division . |
| 26 | I have four sons and can not afford to take them to a first team game ( £10 each to get in ! ) |
| 27 | Two occupiers later the turbine is still doing its job and , I 'm sure , with proper maintenance it will continue doing it for the next century . |
| 28 | Our President has covered one or two major issues that concern us now and which will continue to concern us over the next few years . |
| 29 | Helen do you want to tell us about the next stage ? |
| 30 | ‘ In that case , ’ retorted Geoffrey , ‘ why did he agree to see him in the first place ? ’ |