Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | You want to get to know me at a rate |
| 2 | We regret having to disturb you at a time when you are busy , but the matter is important . ’ |
| 3 | you certainly do need to keep them for a while . |
| 4 | Or if they do manage to put you in a bedroom , remember that you 've got a whole camera team there , and they usually want to do some extraordinary shot from very close up , so they put you right on the edge of the bed , probably on a board which you 're about to fall off at any minute . |
| 5 | ‘ Do please change me into a wolf , Mr Bilsiter , ’ said Mrs Hampton during lunch on the day of his arrival . |
| 6 | We 've come to see you as a friendly warning . |
| 7 | ‘ Someone has left us a private house in Colchester in their will and we 've decided to use it as a training house . |
| 8 | And believe it or not we 've got to put him on a high chair to enable him to manage his instrument . ’ |
| 9 | So I suppose you 've got to take it with a pinch of salt and it is n't true so some ways , but I do n't know . |
| 10 | ‘ If somebody 's already used a break it just means you 've got to use it in a better way . |
| 11 | But you 've got to treat it as a special case |
| 12 | ‘ I 've got to leave them in a taxi-cab in Inkeroinen . ’ |
| 13 | I 've got to do it for a week have n't I ? |
| 14 | You 've got to prick your eggs and you 've got to stand it in a dish of water . . |
| 15 | Then , turning towards his injured companion , ‘ We 've got to get him to a hospital , he 's hurt bad . ’ |
| 16 | Now that we 're in the war we 've got to bring it to a successful conclusion in a way which gives the best possible chance of lasting peace and security in the area . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've wanted to see you for a long time , ’ he said . |
| 18 | I 've been having to deal with electricity since the word go and I 've tried to use it in a musically creative and responsible way . |
| 19 | Interpretation of the restoration has broader implications for understanding Japanese history as a whole , particularly for the many Japanese historians who have sought to locate it within a Marxist historical framework . |
| 20 | Most British authors have followed Winkworth ( 1932 ) and regard Nucella as a genus in its own right , ( e.g. , Fretter & Graham , 1962 ; 1985 ) whilst North Americans have tended to treat it as a sub-genus of Thais . |
| 21 | ‘ However , there are a lot of good players from around Europe playing on the Swedish Tour and it made me realise what I have to do to make it as a pro . |
| 22 | Instead of switching allegiance to the ‘ unscientific ’ or , worse still , the ‘ sociological ’ cost-push hypothesis , most economists have kept faith with the concept of a determinate NAIRU and have attempted to recast it in a way which would help to explain why NAIRU tends to track the path of the actual unemployment rate so closely . |
| 23 | Over the last six months or so I have attempted to present you with a series of practical objectives designed and constructed to help achieve a higher degree of thoroughness in your command of the Pentatonic scale . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | His lengthy sabbatical and lack of match-fitness have combined to push him into a deeper , more thoughtful role . |
| 26 | Most of those who have studied the twentieth-century constitution have ceased to see it as a living , moving thing that has to be studied historically , that has to be studied in relation to interests and political forces , and that has to be understood within the context of larger developments within society and economy . |
| 27 | However , both the Warsaw Pact and NATO have changed since the 1950s , and although their military hegemony , based largely on phenomenal nuclear overkill capacity , remains unsurpassed , other blocs have arisen to challenge them on a variety of strategic issues . |
| 28 | I have become much more aware of the workings of my body and have begun to use it in a way that is much more economical . |