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

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1 By factual I mean to question those aspects of us which no longer involve philosophical and theological questions which occupied our ancestors .
2 WITH over 100 others from various parts of Britain , I planned to visit many sites of historical interest and biblical fame .
3 I planned to amplify this change of mood by having different colour schemes .
4 you see and ther I su I suppose there was about ten or a dozen girls behind the counter because it was early and late turn for them because you see we were open , you see , until ten o'clock at night , you see , and er then , well , anyway , after that erm I heard about this job going as Assistant Manageress at Cambridge and er so I applied and the Manager said to me , I thought well I 'll be here ten years , erm I can be here until I 'm you know , donkeys years and er so he said well look you may not get a job because he said that another girl coming from Norwich to go to Cambridge to see the Manager as well as you and so you might not get it , she might get it , and , however , I went and er I , I met the Manager and the Manageress in the front office , the Manager 's office and we all had a chat but I did n't see the girl from Norwich , she must have gone some other day and anyway I got the job , you see , and er , and so I went to Cambridge as Assistant Manageress and I very well and I got to know all kinds of people , all nationalities being a university city .
5 Well it was a town then but since then it 's been made a city , you see , and I got to know all kinds of people and one gentleman came in there , used to come every evening and write a book and er , I used to look after him if I happened to be that end and er , you see , and then he 'd say , oh just an exchange you know about the weather and just in general thing and then I 'd leave him and he 'd get on with his writing and one day he said to me .
6 I expected to see all kind of things you know
7 and when you try t in the past when I tried to find some way of imposing discipline , there is no way because quite rightly , you 're not allowed to strike children , I never wanted to and I I hardly ever did at one school where there was a marvellous spirit of give and take I used to whip off my little black velvet slipper occasionally and whack some of the larger boys about the top of the thigh .
8 I want to see this bit of paper — if it exists .
9 I want to take this opportunity of thanking you , Mr … , and all the doctors and nurses here who have shown so much kindness to me .
10 Their taunts must have sickened her , so this ai n't the time to start mauling — even though I 've got a bulge in my pants like a bunch of bananas and I want to rip that nightdress of her and throw her on the bed .
11 ‘ Harry , ’ he said , ‘ I want to finish this portrait of Dorian today .
12 But I want to put another point of view .
13 But because I do not want to get led off into a critical discussion of the issues , I want to keep this part of the book as clear as possible of content , and keep focusing on process .
14 I want to get some feel of how serious it is .
15 Starting from a point further back in the development of a theory of television than that from which Steve Neale begins for cinema , I want to suggest some ways of thinking about television genre , which , though they will not deal with particular programme categories , may open out some more complex ways of thinking about the aesthetics and poetics of television .
16 And first I want to discuss this idea of hopeful monsters , which is a phrase which goes back to Richard Goldsmith , the geneticist , who argued that occasionally a single — well he was vague about what kind of mutation he had in mind , because he had really rather odd ideas about what genes were and so on but he held occasionally that some genetic change gave rise in some sense in a single dialectical leap to organisms strikingly different from their parents and that speciation consisted of the establishment of such hopeful monsters or macro mutations .
17 Well , whether they have to in France or not , but I want to know , as a person , whether I am French , English or whatever , I want to know that kind of .
18 I begin to get some idea of what the Roman games must 've been like . ’
19 Looking back , I seem to recall that summer of 1943 as a continuation of cloudless days and warm sunshine , with long pink and purple evenings filled with the roar and drone of aircraft taking off all round us .
20 ‘ Every year I like to do some kind of challenge to raise money for charity and to inspire others to raise money as well , ’ he told ACCOUNTANCY .
21 I like to have some sort of colour down as an underpainting first to kill the white of the paper — a similar process to an oil painter , and I start by wetting the paper with an old one and a half inch household painting brush and then quickly slash in some colour which slightly relates to what I see .
22 So I decided to do some investigating of my own .
23 I DECIDED TO PUT ALL SECTIONS OF THE LAKE AND RIVER SYSTEMS IN THE BACKGROUND
24 I struggled to make some sense of this new and appalling complication .
25 I offered to do any kind of work , teaching , sewing , cleaning , so that I could become independent again .
26 I felt very sorry for her by now and for want of knowing how to express my sympathy I offered to make another pot of tea .
27 But whether golfers are worth the staggering cash they seem to bank is quite another subject and , before he died , I chose to ask this question of Henry Cotton who , as a young man , won three Open titles , but comparatively small cheques to go with them .
28 I enjoyed the congratulations and little bit of adulation , but I managed to keep some words of my father 's in my mind .
29 ‘ Since I left you I managed to trace another ex-employee of INCUBUS .
30 With a little juggling I managed to get each section of the garment starting with lilac , shading to blue then to a yellowish pink .
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