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Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] [adv] [det] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	To do the line justice , it would take up the next six issues , so I intend to show you only some of the more interesting such as the First Class blank Privilege Ticket .
2	‘ Franca , darling , I want to see you very much , you know that , but — ’
3	‘ As long as you remember that I want to see you as little as possible .
4	I want to do it as much because of him , because he did n't get the chance to do it . ’
5	I want to try him again this evening . ’
6	See the thing is , what they 've said to me , because I 've been away now for nearly two years erm I 'd have to go back and do all the training again , which is a bit of a pain but its not too bad because I 've done it before sort of thing , she said to me oh yeah when you go I , I might come along and see if I like it , and we can do the training together she said , I manage to put her off that idea , manage to talk her out of that .
7	I do n't believe it , paid all that money for a digital said look at the about stuff , at the end of the day they , he is five a side football stuff like that , had I 've been thinking about joining again , but I do n't really know what I 'm gon na do after Christmas now even Karen said she would n't mind joining but I tried , I managed to put her off that idea .
8	I managed to get it early this year in Athens . ’
9	Duncan at L.A.B. dropped off my gear at the shops as he did n't have my address , when I went to get it only half was handed over .
10	‘ I had to set it up this way .
11	Either I have to give you so much information about myself that you are forced to admit that I could no more have killed my wife than Flaubert could have committed suicide ; or else I merely say , That 's all , that 's enough .
12	Erm one difficulty with with giving a financial report is so many things seem to happen quickly and a erm apart from the fact that there was a , a major finance resources comes from we , as well you see that I have to tell you now these have been done on the red letter assembly side and you may want to alter one there er according to reform I see the cost per erm person attending is not a hundred and twelve pounds , but a hundred and fourteen pounds and that means that we have forty representatives we 've got to try and find four thousand five hundred and sixty .
13	It was true I wanted to kiss her very much , but I felt that kiss was almost like a coin thrown to a poor common boy , and not worth anything .
14	Well you got to give it back some time , may as well get him to do it tomorrow when he 's in .
15	Later she phoned to tell me how much lighter she felt , as if a burden had somehow been lifted from her shoulders .
16	The limitation only comes if you want to blow it up any bigger than 8x10 — then you 've got to use large format ’ .
17	Then if you want if you want to invite them back that 's right , yes .
18	You do have courage , Hari Morgan , and never are you going to need it as much as you do now . ’
19	Are you going to tell them how much ?
20	You forgot to tell me how much I owe . ’
21	Would you care to tell me how that can be ? ’
22	‘ It 's just that I get real fed up with bozos like you trying to rip me off all the time .
23	No doubt she wanted to spare you as many decisions as possible . ’
24	‘ She wanted to tell you so many things , but you were too busy talking to listen .
25	And the benefit is , we want to do it again this year , that 's great !
26	It 's practically built now , the roof is just going on , and we hope to open it later this year .
27	We try to make it as much fun as we can .
28	It 's something we 've just had to accept , and we try to clip him as little as possible .
29	In assimilating a presentational form we have to take it in all at once , rather than sequentially , and there is nothing equivalent to grammatical structure underlying it ( 1942 : 90–3 ) .
30	You know we have to fight them off all the time .