Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Solicitors will not need to be reminded that for them to continue to act despite a conflict of interest is a breach of their duty to the court . |
| 2 | They sold their assets — empty sites , empty schools , council houses — in the hope this would permit them to continue to build with the money . |
| 3 | Certainly his terse telephone technique had annoyed me last night , but not enough to make me want to spit at the sight of him . |
| 4 | ‘ One of them asked to go to the lavatory . |
| 5 | When it was refused , some of them tried to climb over the wall . |
| 6 | Both of them appear to suffer from a form of mental myopia in imagining the consequences of such proposals , and I am not here referring only to Mill-type consequences of harm brought about by unwise decisions . |
| 7 | Second , having set up syntagmatic units , we shall observe that many of them appear to operate in a variety of grammatical environments , and we shall have to ask ourselves whether some differences of grammatical usage of a particular form do not merit recognition as separate lexical items . |
| 8 | Erm , the executive are accepting all these motions but on a couple of them want to put in a speaker with a statement and er after twenty one will to put that statement to the C E C. I now call composite twenty abolition of Wages Councils South Western Region to move , G M B Scotland to second . |
| 9 | He 's not the kind of person any of them want to have as a friend . |
| 10 | Mr Waite , who was freed last November after five years in Lebanon , says on the ABC programme 20/20 : ‘ One day I asked to go to the bathroom . |
| 11 | I asked to speak to the person in charge of the station . |
| 12 | When I asked to speak for a moment with Miss Lavenza , a manservant showed me into a living-room and asked me to wait . |
| 13 | Yeah , I jus I skidded to stop on the back end of it . |
| 14 | ‘ Nor do I want to indulge in a post-mortem — although I suppose it 's an appropriate description , if the thing between us is now dead . ’ |
| 15 | In the light of the overall aim , set an immediate end result by answering the question ‘ What result do I want to achieve by the end of this interaction ? ’ |
| 16 | Imagine my shock when , just as I 'd begun thumping the bottom of the big brown pot , I chanced to look inside the bin and there , half buried in rubbish , was Cymbeline 's red plastic teapot . |
| 17 | I mean to compare with an elephant dropping , it 's small . |
| 18 | later than that , it 's er I mean to go to the crematorium at quarter past eleven , we would n't be back here before twelve o'clock . |
| 19 | ‘ I mean to get to the bottom of it , ’ said Lydia , only without much conviction . |
| 20 | I mean to start as a group home , well I mean it , of all the places , A it 's not like an ordinary home |
| 21 | I do n't have time to play but , I mean to play in a concert band or anything but I might go and knock about with it for a while . |
| 22 | I would like to add that it is only the first of many Platinum Hotels I intend to open throughout the world . ’ |
| 23 | I shall also want to talk with you about the ffruit Trees I intend to plant against the wall next y Pump Court . |
| 24 | I can think of nothing less appealing than climbing into bed with you — which is why I intend to sleep in the ante-room . |
| 25 | ‘ There 's no need to share anything , as I intend to sleep by the fire , ’ she declared firmly , and punctuated her decision by draining her mug and setting it aside . |
| 26 | For lunch I intend to go to the Strawberry Duck pub , Entwhistle , Saturday afternoon is free for shopping in Manchester 's Arndale Centre or whatever and for the evening meal the plan is to go to the new Indian take-away which has opened near Castle Irwell — the ‘ Tandoori Cottage ’ . |
| 27 | Mrs Keating shouted , ‘ I think you 'd better know , I intend to write to the school about this . ’ |
| 28 | Judge Harry Walker , who gave Jim bail yesterday , told him : ‘ I intend to get to the bottom of this . ’ |
| 29 | I intend to start with the Dwarf Angel , and after three months I will put in a very young Regal Tang , which I would keep until it is three inches long . |
| 30 | In this section I intend to focus on the way four of these problems have become interlinked , namely those of underachievement , the concern over indiscipline , and the need for social integration and the employability of particular groups . |