Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [to-vb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The SNP , if it maintains its principles , need change nothing to collect the electoral windfall left by Labour 's rush to the right . |
| 2 | Trust me to choose the one man that would make it impossible . |
| 3 | PC-ometer We take the three ratings — CPU , DISK and VIDEO and combine them to get an overall performance mark . |
| 4 | They want them to obtain a good position and be independent , preferably in the city . |
| 5 | We do n't encourage them to give up their other sports , we just want them to have the same chance in tennis . ’ |
| 6 | You want me to live a middle-class life . " |
| 7 | You want me to throw the bloody thing , do you ? |
| 8 | Given the shortage of good creative talent , this is not that unusual , and if you find that your agency is using freelances , your immediate reaction should not be to fire them on the spot : give them credit for both knowing their own limitations and for buying good work from outside , always assuming that it is good ; but press them to get a permanent team working on your account soon — it is not in your interest to lose continuity of creative work on your account . ) |
| 9 | I want nothing to stop The New Hope from making its maiden flight three months from now . ’ |
| 10 | In fact it is just as misleading to ignore the packaging and expect someone to assess the new situation without any help . |
| 11 | And remember that most insurance companies expect you to pay the first part of any claim — usually £25-£50 . |
| 12 | ‘ I want you to join a scientific team . |
| 13 | Anyway since editing is the main problem , what we 're going to do this afternoon is , actually , I 'm going to show you another video and again it 's a very controversial one , again it 's used in , in teaching situations , again it has a biased point of view in the sense that it 's produced by National Power , er clearly as a P R job for introduction into schools erm and I want you to do the same exercise , but this time I want us to edit them among ourselves and what I 'm going to do is to get you to wri write your reviews and then we 'll divide into small groups , while you 're watching it I 'll co I 'll count how , however many people we 've got here , we 'll copy the reviews and in the same groups I want you to edit one another 's reviews and then er discuss them within the groups once you 've , once you 've marked them so we 'll get into the small , we 'll do the review we 'll write the review and then we will er , I distribute the , you can go and have a cup of coffee while we copy them , then we 'll distribute them , you can mark them , er individually on your own and then we 'll get into a group and you can criticize one another 's reviews , we 'll take them one at a time , we 'll probably be in groups of four , okay , but I 'll see , I 'll see how many , what the most suitable number is , okay so , if you , would you be kind enough to that |
| 14 | ‘ I want you to have a great time tonight , ’ he said several times , ‘ but do n't go without taking away 12 business cards . ’ |
| 15 | Yeah , but the thing is , what it 's , what it 's doing is that , they want you to have a normal conversation on . |
| 16 | You work so hard as my farm manager that I want you to have a larger share of the profits . |
| 17 | ‘ I want you to catch the first flight back from Brussels . |
| 18 | Seems they want you to address the European Commission on European industrial development . |
| 19 | Mr Brandreth said : ‘ Mr Hanley only arrived at his desk this week , but I have asked to see him as a matter of urgency because I want him to reconsider the whole question of the location of the Army 's pay and personnel centre . |
| 20 | ‘ And we want her to get a nice lot of money for it so that she can afford to go and visit her nephew up North , ’ added Mary . |
| 21 | Few of his ministers are saying , even in private , that they expect him to lose the next election . |
| 22 | Send a man into the field only half-armed with the facts and expect him to do a professional job . |
| 23 | We do n't believe he was infectious before May 21 and we expect him to make a complete recovery . |
| 24 | Philip Giles fell more than thirty feet onto a hillside while on holdiay in California but doctors expect him to make a full recovery . |
| 25 | ‘ Because they want everybody to have a Big Daddy with his leather belt keeping 'em in order — less for them to do , ’ he said . |
| 26 | However , analysts still expect it to manage a small improvement on 1991 's profits and dividend . |
| 27 | You expect it to go a little bit just a tiny bit off |
| 28 | Although languages differ in the extent to which they regularly specify the gender of human referents ( cf. English they and French ils/elles ) , we all readily recognize the distinction and expect it to reflect a genuine aspect of experience . |
| 29 | I want it to reflect the living area in the 1990s |
| 30 | and if you 're gon na send people to Northern Ireland and places like that you want 'em to defend the next soldier ? |