Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , I thought it right to debate the report of the Select Committee chaired by my right hon. Friend the Member for Westmorland and Lonsdale ( Mr. Jopling ) because many hon. Members of all parties , which was not the case with the other Select Committee report , asked me to find an early opportunity to enable the House to give its initial response to that splendid and important report . |
| 2 | As Glumdalclitch was ill , I asked a young servant to take me down to the beach for some fresh air . |
| 3 | When recently I asked an enthusiastic practitioner to test the technique in maths , although they were themselves enthusiastic about language , I received confirmation of insecurity , of a self-confessed distraction from the task of teaching in favour of essentially a technician-type reliance on the scheme , and a domination of the teacher by the process of recording progress . |
| 4 | I asked the Assistant Commissioner to let me go to Helsinki and he refused . |
| 5 | It was a clear night , but the radar was a mass of echoes and I asked the Belgian contact to give me an estimated course and speed of our quarry , and as a result of this we were able to pick it up . |
| 6 | I mean they were pretty shambly when I got to them and I made a supreme effort to get everything going the way I wanted it to go . |
| 7 | An off night , I assured him , as we re-traced our twenty-mile drive to Palm Beach , where Robin wrapped himself in a blanket in front of the TV , soothing his cold turkey by watching videos of the local comedians , while I made a mental note to move my life and family to a flat above 42nd Street . |
| 8 | I made a mental note to ask about that . |
| 9 | I made a mental note to ask for an application form on the way out . |
| 10 | I made a mental note to make sure I got put on his side . |
| 11 | I made a mental note to seek revenge at the earliest opportunity . |
| 12 | I made a mental effort to visualise his new house , to create some mind picture , but gave up after a few seconds . |
| 13 | At one point I made a straightforward attempt to discover what principles were followed in the amalgamation of libraries which clearly would have involved duplication and manifold reasons for legitimate dispersals . |
| 14 | ‘ I made a conscious decision to go out as much as possible when I had the baby , ’ she says , ‘ because I knew the walls would close in on me if I did n't . |
| 15 | Ian , a 32-year-old salesman , says : ‘ I made a conscious decision to drink low-alcohol lager because entertaining , and therefore drinking , is what I do for a living . |
| 16 | I made an immediate resolution to give Aunt Hettie 15 bob of that each Friday night . |
| 17 | He added : ‘ I 'm happy I made the right decision to go back . |
| 18 | The 24-year-old star could have left in the summer but insisted : ‘ I know I made the right decision to stay . ’ |
| 19 | go to prison is , I mean the only people to go to mountain er was Nepal and they left in Wales and there they orin a region is from making |
| 20 | They wanted to make it work though and they could n't have made it work unless they had had the I mean the right conditions to do so . |
| 21 | Yes — I make a real effort to cut out high fat foods |
| 22 | I make a determined effort to rummage around in the jumble of our years together for some of the intensity of feeling I had for her . |
| 23 | I trust the Ministerial Committee to make decisions and bring recommendations . |
| 24 | I got a long way to go to get to high class . |
| 25 | ‘ I got a big score to settle with you two . ’ |
| 26 | The bare facts are these : in 1966 I got an open scholarship to do English at Oxford . |
| 27 | Thank God I 'm fully recovered , but I feel I need a fresh look to make a new start . ’ |
| 28 | So I walked across the moor , until I found a dry place to sleep , in the shelter of a small hill . |
| 29 | This girl who 's hair I do erm her little girl , Karla cor she 's if I found a little girl to look like her , I 'd have one ! |
| 30 | However , as he was insistent , I invited the original company to return , and return they did , still accompanied by Charles Wintour . |