Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [to-vb] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I intend to sit by you all night . |
| 2 | I hate to think of him dead and in so horrid a way . ’ |
| 3 | After the horror stories about the dogs I hesitate to go near my first one , but with us they are just big balls of fur . |
| 4 | I want to sleep in my old room , so what I do is take the mattress and stick it back in my old room . |
| 5 | I want to see inside your lovely house . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I want to whisper in your shell-like ear . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , but I want to talk to you first . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I want to talk to you first , about leaving here tomorrow . ’ |
| 9 | But what I want to do at my present moment is maintain my share of the business . |
| 10 | wanted this meeting to take place , I want to find out what the design philosophy is , long-term future-wise , and also , I want to get into their detailed design , so to try and establish how they determine the size of sh even simple things like pinion carved diameter , which dictates |
| 11 | ‘ I want to speak to you two in private , ’ he said , and so Joe and I left the pub and walked home with him . |
| 12 | ‘ Mama , I want to try on my new dress , ’ Anna said . |
| 13 | I have some pictures of it here , which I want to show to my hon. Friend . |
| 14 | But I want to look at them both and I will go through them as well and mark them for spelling and for for your punctuation and everything else . |
| 15 | So it happened that both Polybius and Posidonius were involved in exploring the lands of the West , and more conspicuously the lands of France and Spain — with the consequences which I hope to illustrate in my next lecture . |
| 16 | so I hope to hear from her this week . |
| 17 | I seem to get through it easier and it does n't worry me at all then . |
| 18 | She said , ‘ I like to ride for my own pleasure , but I 'm not at all sure I want to hunt . |
| 19 | ‘ I never felt that Jesus was a friend and I do n't think that I really ever loved him before this half but now he seems always near to me and I like to think of Him more than I ever did before Mama 's dying so suddenly and unexpectedly made a great impression on me … ’ |
| 20 | I like to think of us all as a successful unit and it 's disruptive for the others if one member persistently refuses to conform as you do . ’ |
| 21 | When I decide to talk to you this way , my hours are spiked as if we really have a date planned . |
| 22 | I try to think of something smart to say to hide the fact that I 'm beaten , and finally come out with a pathetic ‘ I could n't stay in this stink without puking on the carpet . |
| 23 | This leads to problems when I try to conceive of my own knowing , believing or thinking in behaviourist terms . |
| 24 | I entirely agree and there is nothing I wish to add on my own behalf . |
| 25 | The upper levels of the water will be inhabited by three Tinfoil Barbs which I need to move from their present home . |
| 26 | For example , ‘ Thank you , I think that tells me all I need to know about your previous jobs . |
| 27 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 28 | And I have to explain to them that , although it is now customary for every individual member to contest the deputy leadership , it is not yet compulsory under rule . ’ |
| 29 | I have to agree with our scandinavian bretheren 's sentiments . |
| 30 | On that proposition I have to agree with my hon. Friend . |