Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They sold their assets — empty sites , empty schools , council houses — in the hope this would permit them to continue to build with the money . |
| 2 | Certainly his terse telephone technique had annoyed me last night , but not enough to make me want to spit at the sight of him . |
| 3 | ‘ One of them asked to go to the lavatory . |
| 4 | When it was refused , some of them tried to climb over the wall . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I asked to speak to the person in charge of the station . |
| 7 | Yeah , I jus I skidded to stop on the back end of it . |
| 8 | 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 ? ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ I mean to get to the bottom of it , ’ said Lydia , only without much conviction . |
| 12 | I would like to add that it is only the first of many Platinum Hotels I intend to open throughout the world . ’ |
| 13 | I shall also want to talk with you about the ffruit Trees I intend to plant against the wall next y Pump Court . |
| 14 | I can think of nothing less appealing than climbing into bed with you — which is why I intend to sleep in the ante-room . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | Mrs Keating shouted , ‘ I think you 'd better know , I intend to write to the school about this . ’ |
| 18 | Judge Harry Walker , who gave Jim bail yesterday , told him : ‘ I intend to get to the bottom of this . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ I agreed to stay until the morning . |
| 22 | I failed to turn on the light when the sky grew dark and heavy . |
| 23 | ‘ The fact that he took the 100m individual , when I could n't attempt the hat-trick because I failed to qualify for the event at the US trials through illness , is bound to increase interest when we get it together . |
| 24 | I suppose I had persuaded myself that sending men to prison was n't something I cared to do for the rest of my life . |
| 25 | Yeah oh yeah I did n't work anywhere else in Willenhall at all , and erm but we 'd got to be in for seven o'clock and if erm you were n't in for seven o'clock and sometimes I used to hear the bell began ringing when I got to go around the corner and get into the , but you had to wait a quarter of an hour before they would let you in and that was stopped off your money and my wage was eight and fourpence a week . |
| 26 | Well that 's what Breeze am keep telling me when I got to work in the morning it 's about the time of recession people should advertise more not less that maybe but the hard financial situation of the theatre finds itself in is to find that sort of money is very difficult at the moment . |
| 27 | I got to stick with the President and all I can think about.is those two and what they 're up to . |
| 28 | My binoculars I wore round my neck at the ready for all those puffins , razor bills and guillemots I expected to see on the way over . |
| 29 | ‘ Gottle a geer ’ Gazza would undoubtedly be a tremendous asset to the team , but after Silvers recent professions of poverty , I tend to agree with the Guardian that this is a ‘ We are still a big club ’ smokescreen . |
| 30 | Denis Healey is another politician I admire , and I tend to agree with the view that he is the best leader the Labour Party never had . |