Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Would n't want to meet him on a dark night , ’ breathed Arthur , trying to make light of the incident . |
| 2 | Be here on time and do your work well and I might consider hiring you on a regular basis once the child is born . ’ |
| 3 | I hope that he learns them well , because he will need to deploy them for a long time . |
| 4 | We are not advocates of the ‘ prosperity gospel ’ , but we do recognise that the people God definitely seems to entrust with finances are those whom he can trust to hold them with an open hand . |
| 5 | When the next version arrives , you might want to install it in a separate subdirectory ( in case it has a hidden bug ) and keep the old version for a few months . |
| 6 | In a free society , if trade unions want the rights of ownership , they can not expect to get them as a free gift and call it industrial democracy . |
| 7 | The T&G would like to support her with a clear conscience and every left-of-centre statement from her helps . |
| 8 | I 've been buying your magazine religiously for the last 18 months and would like to thank you for a great read . |
| 9 | ‘ We really appreciate your responsibility and concern and would like to thank you for the clear and reasonable explanation given . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ If I have to look at you , ’ Aunt Emily said without rancour , ‘ I should like to see you in a new dress . |
| 11 | ‘ When you 're through , sir , the CO would like to see you in the Orderly Tent . ’ |
| 12 | President of the Europe Commission , Jacques Delors , would like to see it as the only EC currency , but John Majors wants it to circulate alongside other currencies . |
| 13 | In a recent NCT survey , 19 out of 20 British people said they approved of breastfeeding in principle , but did n't like to see it in a public place . |
| 14 | MR IAN ROWDON OF HALCROW WOULD LIKE TO MEET YOU FOR AN INFORMAL CHAT/INTRODUCTION . |
| 15 | But he says the payout ca n't begin to compensate him for the devastating effect the accident has had on his life . |
| 16 | Something I do n't understand turned her into a neurotic depressed agoraphobic . |
| 17 | As I am drawing to a close , as I can find no further connections or criticisms of these two books however obvious or unobvious they may be , I would like to leave you with an appropriate quote from one of my books . |
| 18 | I would like to notify you of the following amendments to the planning permission for the above development . |
| 19 | If the hon. Member for Leicester , South ( Mr. Marshall ) would like to accompany me in the new year , I should be only too happy to take him on a tour and show him just how much is happening outside Belfast as well as in it . |
| 20 | The message from brokers is apply for shares , but do not look to hold them for the long term . |
| 21 | This is the BBC , and we 'd like to welcome you to a new series of Jackanory , which this year promises to bring you stories about subjects such as homosexuality and Aids . |
| 22 | Erm , I 'd like to welcome you to the Industrial Training Board , I spent about four and a half years with training scheme , and I actually originated in er , engineering , so er , I 've got a long track record , perhaps of training and er , an even long track record working , so I wo n't give you too hard a time . |
| 23 | Well we hope that erm by coming here you 've demonstrated that you do n't live in fantasy land so I 'd like to welcome you to the real world and in the real world we know that open systems despite the progress they 've made still struggle to replace the mainframe . |
| 24 | I am enjoying my writing career and would like to develop it into a full-time career if I can earn enough money . |
| 25 | Lastly , I would like to congratulate you on the new look ( suck suck ) , and I especially like the PD pages . |
| 26 | In the name of the International Lesbian and Gay Association ( IGLA ) , I would like to congratulate you on the positive stand that Amnesty International has taken at its recent International Council Meeting regarding people imprisoned solely for their homosexuality . |
| 27 | I 'd also like to congratulate you on the exceptional photographs in the Stephen Hawking article which were both honest and deeply moving . |
| 28 | You mean you would like to present it in a different way ? |
| 29 | I 'd like to get you on a slow boat to China ? |
| 30 | I 'd like to get it to a safe place . |