Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has felt the presaging shadow of death , and he goes to meet it in the old unchanging way of the wild — alone . |
| 2 | Once again he has to thank him for a new book , this time Nineteen Eighty-Four ( 1949 ) ; but now he sounds cool . |
| 3 | CCW wants to manage it as a National Nature Reserve , but this is being blocked by the IDO claim . |
| 4 | He wants to expose it before the whole world , but he needs your help . ’ |
| 5 | She wants to send them to the same private boarding school as her other partially sighted son , but her local council has refused . |
| 6 | ‘ The Palace wants to portray us in the worst possible light . |
| 7 | Nobody in particular , and I s I use the word him , nobody particularly wants to question him , nobody particularly wants to get him in a bad mood . |
| 8 | Cardigans and coats are difficult because your child has to approach them from the wrong side . |
| 9 | He wants to take her into the Royal Infirmary for tests . ’ |
| 10 | — JON Gittens , a key figure in Middlesbrough clinching a place in the new Premier League next season , wants to join them on a permanent basis from Southampton . |
| 11 | The Department of Transport wants to ban them from the ancient route for sixty days a year . |
| 12 | Unlike age , sex and social class , ethnicity as such has not been used as a census category ( though the OPCS plans to use it in the 1991 Census ) . |
| 13 | The new version of the bus , which meets the IEEE 1596–1992 interconnect standard , will be jointly designed by the two companies , and will be manufactured and marketed by LSI Logic , which plans to offer it as an ASIC core through its CoreWare Division . |
| 14 | 3 ) In the instruction manual for the BOSS ME-5 it says to take it to a recognised dealer to get the back-up memory battery replaced . |
| 15 | When she applies this to her test situations , however , she tends to interpret it in the narrow sense of explicitness rather than with reference to the higher orders of logic to which abstractness usually refers and which the general weight of her argument implies . |
| 16 | ‘ In addition I 'll give you whatever it costs to equip you with a suitable outfit to attend inter-views . |
| 17 | And their Aussie coach Peter Walsh intends to repay them for the huge gamble they took when giving him the job last summer . |
| 18 | The colour of his face always reddens just as it does when fat Margot , the launderess , who keeps me supplied with cups of sack , bends and dips to provide me with a generous view of the most famous cleavage in all of Surrey . ) |
| 19 | The drop of a hat , or anything else , is all it takes to turn you into a passion-packed romantic day . |
| 20 | The Capital Plan for next year appears to treat it in the same way as capital receipts from sales , with the total being pooled and divided between the various programmes . |
| 21 | THIS is one of those traumatic American dramas that aims to put you through the emotional mangle and spit out the pieces on the other side . |
| 22 | This appears to put him on the right side of the new rulers , even if Steaua were answerable to one of Ceausescu 's brothers . |
| 23 | If political struggle takes place for specific purposes and anticipated results , here Sartre seems to condemn it to an unending series of detours that will never arrive at their destination . |
| 24 | The ‘ Dust in the air suspended ’ seems to present us with a barren desert of death . |
| 25 | ‘ He was fit to be tied when I separated from Hugh , and he seems to blame me for the whole thing . |
| 26 | Nothing , other than ownership and the secret garden , appears to distinguish them from the other tenants around them . |
| 27 | Usually the word is applied at the immature stage before the eye swells with rising sap , often changing colour a little — which helps to identify it on a leafless stem . |
| 28 | The vessels ' hulls are completely intact , and the team hopes to raise them within a few years . |
| 29 | To create a separate agency for a particular task helps to remove it from the political arena . |
| 30 | The row centres on subsidies to French farmers — whose votes are vital if Delors hopes to make it to the French Presidency . |