Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [vb base] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are unsure or you want to check current staff and service agreements then seek the advice of your trades union via a local steward or regional office . |
| 2 | One to the sea , which is about 80 miles away , and another to Sao Paulo which is quite near , and I hope to do some shopping for presents there before I come home . |
| 3 | My manager has given me permission for me to use the shop foyer for a whole day and I hope to get local radio and local papers to advertise the sale for me . |
| 4 | I have also been writing an evening class programme which a colleague and I hope to get some funding towards from the local enterprise culture . |
| 5 | As I said I 'll be talking about this in the next couple of weeks in the lectures and I hope to cover various things we did n't have time to touch on . |
| 6 | I use Porter paints on my own house and I try to convince other people to buy them . ’ |
| 7 | As well as keeping to the forefront our themes of quality and cost , this means coming forward with ideas on how things can be improved and I intend to introduce new initiatives during the coming year to help us focus on this . |
| 8 | And I intend to keep that promise . ’ |
| 9 | And I want to thank those writers with whom solid friendships were formed : Melvyn Bragg , Gordon Burn , Jeremy Paxman , Michael Walsh , Jay Rayner , Colm Toibin and Grub Smith , among others . |
| 10 | More needs to be done and I want to see more focus on this key area of economic policy . ’ |
| 11 | I 've gone off him since I met Tony but we do share a love of mother earth and I want to see this thing through . |
| 12 | ‘ There 's a world market of over £100 million a year in clean technology and I want to see British industry winning a much larger share of it . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Okay this is the fourth in our series and the second on the presidency and I want to do two things in this lecture . |
| 15 | try it again and I want to do two things for the rest of the morning . |
| 16 | And I want to stress this morning how essential it is that the link between the Labour Party and the unions be maintained . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've had a few more ideas … well , I 've thought about … areas I did n't think I could use that I now think I can , and I want to develop that stuff , and — ’ |
| 18 | Well I 'm , I 'm the same , I was talking to Rob the other day and er , I forget how I mentioned it , but I said something about , oh I think it 's because I was saying why do n't you come up like this week because he 's off this week , and er , he was making some excuse or other , oh I 've got three weeks off in the summer , oh I 'd sooner come up when I 've got this longest spell off , you know , and I want to get this chimney done and blah , blah |
| 19 | I said I 'd do it , and I want to get some sputum samples for analysis to make sure he has n't got a chest infection . |
| 20 | ‘ He rushes in with his chin exposed , and I aim to exploit that weakness . |
| 21 | I 'm thirty-six years old and I seem to own half Australia . ’ |
| 22 | And I seem to remember one house |
| 23 | It 's one thing if you 're fully staffed but if you think that whichever of my boys is on guard duty for the day is responsible for the shopping as well as the cooking , and I have to put another boy on guard as substitute to him and another at the disposition of the local magistrate , and I 've two out on motor-bike patrol — where am I when a case like this comes up and I 've got to be out ? ’ |
| 24 | and I have to record ten tapes by Monday which I have to get up at ten thirty in the morning when I 've got no school and take it back up to the school . |
| 25 | And I have to record ten tapes . |
| 26 | Erm , they write down nothing , they remember nothing , and I have to phone these clowns every other day , to make sure that they 're doing what we agreed they 're going to , otherwise I have no panels next month for my stand , and I would be up the creek . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's terribly expensive , and I have to make two trips a week , but I think it may be doing me good . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ My ability to concentrate is limited and I have to avoid stressful situations , which is why , for example , I have not given media interviews . |
| 29 | I regard myself as a service provider and I have to build good relations with other members of the company . |
| 30 | Earle I beg your pardon , and I hesitate to raise any appeal decision . |