Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ On the rare occasion he bothers to leave that damn hotel — sorry , but you know what I mean — he just wants to drink himself into a stupor . |
| 2 | To perform conditional jumps , the computer has to select one from a set of two ( or more ) next micro-instruction addresses . |
| 3 | Yeah , yeah I hate people who park on the ramp and causes to put yourself to a hill start , they are a |
| 4 | Place and spirit of place is the inspiration of more poetry than we nowadays like to admit ; and to do that poetry justice , the critic needs to turn himself into a tourist . |
| 5 | It is not that the hearer has to decide which of a range of possible interpretations the speaker intended . |
| 6 | Only cos he wants to have you in a bath . |
| 7 | The trainer believes he still has time to get Rodrigo de Triano back to peak fitness for the 2,000 Guineas but stresses that the colt will not take his place in the Classic if the ground softens up : ‘ If there is even a touch of soft , he wo n't run ; he needs to have it like a road . ’ |
| 8 | Having acted in a Conservative manner , especially at election times , one starts to take oneself for a Conservative ( i.e. Bem , 1967 ) . |
| 9 | And my mum thinks a home she wants to take me to a psychiatrist or something . |
| 10 | The Labour Party must continue to reject the tax on the low paid , the young , the elderly , and needs to commit itself to a restoration of the Wages Councils , an increase in the power of the Wages Councils , and an improvement in the Wages Inspectorate , to ensure that all employers who break the minimum wages legislation be detected and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law . |
| 11 | It plans to do it with a range of shoes , which although a complete change from last year , still concentrates on the technical merits of StableAir . |
| 12 | He has bought the rights to a steamy book by Darling Buds Of May author H. E. Bates and plans to turn it into a TV movie starring his wife . |
| 13 | THE British government tends to see itself as a bastion of common sense where European environmental policy is concerned , weighing benefits against costs which more dogmatic governments ignore . |
| 14 | Just as surely God desires to lead us to a knowledge of genuine Christian fellowship , so surely must we be overwhelmed by a great general disillusionment with others , with Christians in general , and , if we are fortunate , with ourselves . |
| 15 | Studies of young mothers have found that history tends to repeat itself within a family , and teenage mothers tend to have children who in turn become teenage parents themselves . |
| 16 | In Esso Petroleum Co Ltd v Harper 's Garage ( Stourport ) Ltd [ 1968 ] AC 269 Lord Reid said : Whenever a man agrees to do something over a period he thereby puts it wholly or partly out of his power to " exercise any trade or business he pleases " during that period . |
| 17 | Six years on , the job almost seems to fit him like a glove . |
| 18 | Kent County Council , at least , has ben persuaded of the value of the Hybrid Bill and appears to favour it as a means of dealing with the Channel Tunnel Rail Link . |
| 19 | ‘ Susie seems to leave everything in a mess these days , even though she knows I care a lot about the way the flat looks . |
| 20 | So Abelard 's theory seems to present me with a challenge as formidable as climbing Mount Everest . |
| 21 | He 's watched the success of companies such as PowerSoft Corp and aims to cut himself off a slice with a new cross-system client-server graphical desktop development environment to build database applications . |
| 22 | He 's watched the success of companies such as PowerSoft Corp and aims to cut himself off a slice with a new cross-platform client/server graphical desktop development environment to build database applications . |
| 23 | ‘ Damn fog ; it 's rolling in as if it means to isolate us beneath a blanket . ’ |
| 24 | And he means to do it as a joke does he ? |
| 25 | If he tries to change him into a Lillie or Hadlee , the boy might lose his greatest asset — to bowl successfully at pace . |
| 26 | Tell a grown-up you trust if anyone frightens you or tries to touch you in a way which makes you feel unsafe . |
| 27 | By rejecting the decreets of the Lennox court , the bailie-depute forced the litigants to incur the charges of an action in the Court of Session , or , alternatively , as Sproull was said to expect , ‘ by this means to bring them to a composition ’ . |
| 28 | The doctrine of political neutrality seeks to implement it through a policy of neutrality . |
| 29 | The issue of homelessness is at the heart of the movie but Lane manages to integrate it within a storyline which could quite easily have walked out of a Charlie Chaplin film of 70 years ago . |
| 30 | He wo n't do it without help from his manager , a man who likes to present himself as a disciplinarian but who appears powerless to prevent his players misbehaving on the field . |