Example sentences of "[pers pn] [to-vb] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In the 1987 budget , a " carryback " was introduced for BES investors , enabling them to carry back to the previous tax year relief on up to 15,000 invested .
2 My conclusion makes it unnecessary for me to proceed further upon the natural justice argument .
3 My father wanted me to go on to a Public School and I received special lessons in Latin Verse and in Greek ..
4 We had a grand doctor from London once , who told me to go out in the fresh air and try to get well .
5 In fact , he was the one who encouraged me to go down to the Lesbian and Gay Centre in Edinburgh .
6 It 's easier for you to experiment to see how it works than for me to go in for a detailed but boring explanation .
7 He waited for them to pass through into the central chamber .
8 On the ground floor he walked a few feet ahead , leaving me to trundle behind like a meek Arab wife .
9 It was they who inspired me to struggle incessantly for a better world .
10 ‘ Michael asked me to come up with a funny line for him to say on leaving the house , ’ recalled scriptwriter Raymond Allen .
11 ‘ In fact , I could swear your image-maker wants me to come across as a free spirit , someone who does n't need the convention of a male escort — and I do n't .
12 Well , we had a talk and she invited me to come back in a few days ' time .
13 While subjects were actually driving around they were required to give risk ratings , this may have caused them to concentrate unusually on the risky situations and think about them to a much greater degree than they would have normally .
14 But if more deaths among the female goats resulted from the aberrant male breeding behaviour in this population , what caused them to behave so in the first place ?
15 Before she undressed , Nicandra pulled back the window curtains , cold as glass in her hands , and stood between them to look out at the changed world .
16 It 's just I like to know where I stand and which bit of me to tense up before the rubber truncheon lands .
17 You do n't want them to grow up in a sterile environment .
18 Team 1 is concentrating on the basement and ground floor , so I want you to go up to the 4th level as team 2 will be putting out the flames on floors 2 + 3 .
19 ‘ Grimm , ’ he said , ‘ I want you to go deep into the ruptured entrails of Vasilariov to search for another hydra .
20 Nevertheless you also feel pressure on you to go back to the old ways .
21 ‘ I did n't ask you to come here in the first place , and I certainly did n't ask for your help out here .
22 I mean you may want to er for example , you know in some ways some of the responses may fit in quite nicely as a point on a scale or something like that , you may have some , you know , be able to in fact I advise you to come up with a fair number of quantitative type questions
23 That is why I want you to listen carefully to the dreaded DOs and DON'Ts I am about to give you .
24 I hope that this series of articles may have encouraged you to look again at the various stitch patterns which your machine can produce .
25 ‘ It is so good of you to look in on an old invalid when you must be so very busy at the office — what with the Dean 's compost heap yielding such unwholesome remains . ’
26 I 'd now like you to hear directly from a young person for whom access to one of our projects in the United Kingdom has made major changes in her life .
27 What I 'd like you to do just for the last ten minutes is to think of a member of staff you have who has a training need and think about how you will go about training them and the methods that you will use .
28 ‘ I want you to deal personally with the Potrovsky widow .
29 Playing the exact same solos every night on tour is good too , because the notes are firmly ingrained in your head and that makes it harder for you to mess up in a major way , which is something that could happen if you were winging it every night .
30 ‘ We 'd pay the going rate , and provide a car to enable you to get around to the various stores and liaise with curtain-makers and such . ’
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