Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [to-vb] in [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I can think of nothing less appealing than climbing into bed with you — which is why I intend to sleep in the ante-room . |
| 6 | One week I failed to turn in an essay on the trade deficit . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ When I have evenings off , I tend to stay in the club lurking in the shadows reading : I am disinclined to meet friends . |
| 9 | Will I need to invest in a Nitragon filter ? |
| 10 | And if I could put that half a million pounds in context , as I tried to do in an amendment in Council yesterday evening , that is almost exactly the increase in charging for people going to day care facilities . |
| 11 | In this case , the bouquet was a curved shower , the shape of which I tried to recreate in the picture shown opposite . |
| 12 | ‘ I expect to stay in the competition — Derry are favourites but Cup football all about shocks , ’ he warns . |
| 13 | In a statement issued on his behalf yesterday , the Labour leader , said : ‘ I am consulting with colleagues to inform them of the action which I propose to take in the wake of the election defeat . |
| 14 | Because I , I want to sit in the room where they 're both gon na be facing not sitting like an odd dog right . |
| 15 | Yeah and er , I said to Jane now I said now look before I go to Preston , I want to go in the pub |
| 16 | I want to go in the garden . |
| 17 | I want to take in the scenery . |
| 18 | ‘ I like the freedom of being able to decide , tonight for example , whether I want to stay in the flat or whether I want to go down to Gloucestershire . |
| 19 | I want to pull in the anchor with you and save the whale with you and bear a big child with you and live with you and know that we will never die . |
| 20 | ‘ I want to feed the ducks , and I want to play in the sandpit . |
| 21 | The kind of films I want to make in the future would be totally gay in sensibility , whatever that might mean , but totally about heterosexuals and aiming to seduce the general population . ’ |
| 22 | I want to buy in a minute |
| 23 | ‘ I want to help in the peace movement . ’ |
| 24 | Oh yeah , well that was where I learnt to swim in the canal on Road , er it 's the bridge that goes over Lane , near , near . |
| 25 | While these days I am deeply engaged in computer-based research , I hope to continue in the future my interests in English grammar , literary discourse analysis , semantics and pragmatics . |
| 26 | I was determined to get him , and must have been concentrating so intently on his movements that , like a fool , I forgot to look in the mirror until it was too late . |
| 27 | ‘ I forgot to plug in the timer . ’ |
| 28 | I was munching a meat pie and reading an early edition of the Standard when I saw them and then only because I happened to glance in the mirror . |
| 29 | Not until he was dead did I dare to go in the direction I wanted . |
| 30 | How many contracts am I going to get in a year ? |