Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [verb] [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I eventually had to place a book order after scouring the shelves of shops and libraries . |
2 | In 1976 and 1977 I published a number of papers in pragmatics , and these I eventually revised to make a book , Explorations in Semantics and Pragmatics , published by John Benjamins ( Amsterdam ) in 1980 . |
3 | I merely seek to end a war . |
4 | I trained every one of those dancers at LCDT — hand picked them — I only had to begin a movement and they would finish it . |
5 | I only began to smell a rat when he could n't come up with the documents he claimed to have . |
6 | I only have to take a moment to get my eyes strong and then I can push it out , this strongness , at anything at all so long as I am staring at it hard enough … |
7 | I only have to see a bottle of Orvieto and those desperate dawns rise up before me . |
8 | Now , I only have to get a Fender ‘ Eric Clapton ’ signature , a Marshall 30th Anniversary Limited Edition amp and a Bob Bradshaw rack ! |
9 | And er one day I was bathing Judy in the hut and the bell went and I just had to wrap a towel round her , you know , and run down to the sandy wadders And things got so bad , we went back to Khartoum |
10 | No that 's not I just thought to change a wash , cos I think they 've been on there rather a long time . |
11 | ‘ I just came to find a book … ’ |
12 | The last time this happened I just managed to catch a glimpse of his two black eyes , going down for the third time , before I landed him . |
13 | Well , come to the rostrum , I just wish to make a point first . |
14 | er one that occurs to me , no , no speaking on it myself , the jury might be interested , sometime I just like to get a feel of what a brochure looks like , not divided as it obviously has to be here , could , could we see a couple sometime , not , not now |
15 | And as luck would have it , I just happen to have a list of apparently germane truths which I have been maturing during the last month or so , after being worsted in various conversations . |
16 | I was in the US over the summer ( yes , I just happened to see a couple of the England games ) and it was the same there — ordinary match-going footie fans who like a drink and a bit of crack ( fun , that is ) , and who all supported loads of different teams mixing together happily enough . |
17 | I just happened to have a photograph . |
18 | ‘ No , I 'm sorry , I just wanted to see a nurse . |
19 | Erm , there 's also , I just wanted to say a bit about the ambulance er . |
20 | I 'm sorry , I just wanted to make a couple of points in response to erm things that people have said in relation to my opening statement , erm Mr Brook er mentioned the fact that er none of the employe none of the new settlement proposals of which he was aware , erm included an employment element , erm I just wanted to place on record the fact that our suggested reworking of policy H two does provide for an explicit land er amount of land for employment purposes , erm as part of the new settlement location , I wanted to say that because I , I 'm not invited to appear on your employment day , and I do feel that this is an important component of the the H two strategy , and clearly that employment component will be drawn from the Greater York allocation , the second point , Mr Sexton erm I believe said that in his view you could not find a site for a larger new settlement er within the or outside the Greater York er greenbelt , erm which would not result in physical coalescence with the existing villages in the area , now I 'm not sure whether he was referring to any particular size of larger new settlement , but I invite you to look at the er land range at one to fifty thousand er map of the area , and you will see that the area outside the greenbelt is characterized by erm a very rural area with sporadic villages , and my believe is that there are erm sites available within that area which could accommodate a larger new settlement , the planning point is of course the larger the new settlement becomes , I think the less that that the reduced number of sites you will have available to accommodate erm that proposal , because of its scale , and the third aspect I want to comment on Mr Cunnane and Mr Thomas erm said that Barton Willmore had not made a need argument for the new settlement , well if I 'm not mistaken that 's what we spent most of this morning discussing under policy H one , and I do n't erm I do n't wish , and I do n't suppose that I 'd be invited to repeat the comments made by Mr Grigson this morning , I do n't think there 's any need for that , but that establishes in our mind very clearly there is a need for a new settlement in the range of two thousand to two thousand five hundred dwellings , erm in the period up to two thousand and six , and I wo n't say anything more on that . |
21 | Bodie said , ‘ I just wanted to get a look at you before they spirit you away . |
22 | I could not re I did n't go , I er , I just wanted to have a look at them but I , I could n't resist it . |
23 | Maybe I just need to have a change . ’ |
24 | I , I just have er I just have to drink a lot that 's you know put me in first class and full of drink |
25 | Erm I just want to fake a letter . |
26 | He 'd be jolly with the guards , telling them , ‘ It 's OK thanks , I just want to lose a bit of weight , ’ and hold his belly , saying , ‘ Look at all this fat . ’ |
27 | I just want to take a shower . ’ |
28 | ‘ It 's all right , angel , ’ Bernice said , offering her hand and pulling the girl to her feet , ‘ I just want to take a look at this thing we 're in . |
29 | I just want to take a look . ’ |
30 | ‘ I just want to make a couple of movies a year . ’ |