Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [to-vb] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BETTY BOO and Boy George make a very Hattractive pair … even if one of them needs to cover up a lack of locks more than the other . |
| 2 | Course , I 'ad to 'ang about a bit until I saw yer go out , and afterwards I met 'im at the Elephant an' Castle . |
| 3 | ‘ Please send me by return the length of the holes at St Andrews as I intend to lay out a course on the common next weekend , ’ wrote another . |
| 4 | I tried to tidy up a bit when I first came to work here , but I soon found out I was wasting my time . |
| 5 | I tried to crush up a salt tablet in a cup and dissolve it in the water but she moaned when I held the cup to her lips and tried to turn her head away . |
| 6 | ‘ I promised to ask around a bit , and it occurred to me that the book might contain a clue . ’ |
| 7 | Queenie , come up to my office right away will you , I want to go over a mistake in the takings . |
| 8 | In this article , I want to acknowledge openly a number of tensions that I experience , and which I suspect others may recognise . |
| 9 | To illustrate this I want to mention briefly a list of ways in which the Milltown Action Team has been able to either increase employment or increase local people 's chances of gaining employment . |
| 10 | Next , I want to set up a couple of special features which will probably be planted in containers . |
| 11 | ‘ I want to set up a club for keen fly fishermen , all those anglers who pursue game fish like trout and salmon . |
| 12 | erm secondly , I want to say just a word about an idea that Gould , in particular , and Stanley had been fond of , namely the idea of species selection . |
| 13 | I want to calm down a bit . ’ |
| 14 | The problem is that I want to start up a shareware library , but I have no idea of how to obtain the shareware titles . |
| 15 | When I work in a particular area I want to know why a landscape looks as it does . |
| 16 | Independently , or in conjunction with BAIE or IPR or others , I hope to set up a seminar on Ethics in Communications , and wonder whether the PCC could be persuaded to be represented ? |
| 17 | If not , how could I begin to build up a support network ? |
| 18 | A subject I happen to know quite a bit about because we 've got seven and a half million square feet erm in development at the moment in Lutterworth at Magna Park . |
| 19 | Well , I happen to know quite a lot of clever , amusing , wise , energetic old people who are excellent company and among whom are several of my friends . |
| 20 | I 'm not sure what I like best , I seem to like quite a bit . |
| 21 | After a while I did something else I had n't done for several months : I began to rough out a poem . |
| 22 | I began to feel more a part of this vast foundation of the great Halton Experiment . |
| 23 | And I like to take quite a chunk of consolation from the fact they did nt beat us to the title … yet we beat them . |
| 24 | I like to make it [ the house ] nice , you know , and I like to spend quite a bit of time cooking and that . |
| 25 | Oh sorry , was I beginning to bang on a bit ? ’ |
| 26 | I decided to draw up a proposal for a book which would attempt a synthesis of structuralist and feminist ideas — not with any enthusiasm , and with the hope that it would never actually get done . |
| 27 | Against the advice given me at the Centre , quite deliberately I decided to have neither a counsellor nor a healer . |
| 28 | ‘ I managed to get away a touch early , ’ the endocrine specialist said as the car slid out of the parking bay and into the main driveway , then wound through the open , grassy grounds to join an arterial road that ran along the winding Brisbane River . |
| 29 | I want you every moment of the day and night and every time I try to fold up a map . |
| 30 | ‘ I try to build up a rapport with the callers and being able to speak a little French helps , ’ she said . |