Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [prep] [pron] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would say it was reasonable , since under our current agreement I shall be totally cancelling out your debt , that you contract to remain in my employ for three years . ’ |
| 2 | Erm and so kids that do n't come on the Friday , tend to come with their parents on Saturday . |
| 3 | ‘ You never want to go into your reasons for doing anything , ’ Jessamy threw back at him . |
| 4 | ‘ I want to go to your flat in Islington , Terry . ’ |
| 5 | I want to arrange for my body to be closed up in a transparent plastic parallelepiped ’ . |
| 6 | I have suggested already that he is all The Dubliners combined — the lost child , the resigned girl , the lonely or frustrated man , the seeker of false comfort — now I want to come at his importance from a different angle . |
| 7 | ‘ If Enya did say , ‘ I want to work with my husband from now on ’ , it would be a sad day , ’ says Nicky . |
| 8 | Forget rolled on his back on the court in the seconds before Noah and other members of the team joined him . |
| 9 | He knows that we want to hear about his experience of Neighbours — ‘ They asked me to do Neighbours The Cyber Series , but I could n't go that far … feeling what it 's like to be in Jim Robinson 's shirt , what a waste of technology ’ — that we want tales of drugs and tripping , and an outsider 's observations on British cultural mistakes ( the shell suit ) . |
| 10 | I want to hear about your trip to Gallimaufry . |
| 11 | What I want to do up our steps on the twentieth of December |
| 12 | ‘ Now we want to build on our success by improving other estates . |
| 13 | If you want to chat through your idea before submitting it , give us a call on ( internal 28202 ) . |
| 14 | ‘ You mean because they want to care for your sister on their own ? ’ |
| 15 | Whereas early on cells develop according to their position in the embryo , with time their fate becomes fixed . |
| 16 | A couple of days later you are talking to a close associate and all your anger and frustration surge out as you let go of your feelings about the meeting . |
| 17 | They are the daily fare of our news bulletins , but we rarely stop to think about their relevance for our own state . |
| 18 | The costs covered by these grants vary depending on which type of grant applied for and this would , in the main , depend on the size of your company . |
| 19 | Once we turn to actual ethnographic cases , it is usually not very difficult to identify concepts which seem to overlap with our concept of ‘ aggression ’ , at least in some of its usages . |
| 20 | ‘ Some of our diners , ’ he said , ‘ seem to look upon our cutlery as a form of medicine . ’ |
| 21 | Several of the closed files on the BF seem to refer to their activity in Italy through their links with the International Centre of Fascist Studies , and the Foreign Office was aware that a British resident called Captain Strina was attempting to form a legion of the organization amongst expatriates in that country . |
| 22 | She could still return through the woods , retracing the silent path , past the clearing and its ancient Eros with blank sightless eyes , moss flaking from its pedestal like old scales , to find her car beyond the padlocked gates , its paintwork shimmering in the heat . |
| 23 | At the weekend when she had taken Balbinder to stay with his grandparents in Coventry , her brother had been trying to teach Balbinder to say ‘ can I ’ , or ‘ May I ’ instead of ‘ I want to ’ . |
| 24 | Even now , and though the events of June triggered a brief period of reappraisal , the British still seem besotted by their vision of China as a billion-strong market for their goods and services — and either unaware , or unimpressed , that their exports to Hong Kong itself are currently worth three times as much as those to its northern neighbour . |
| 25 | Noting that Buthelezi 's own organization 's membership was falling , and his anxiety about the growing popularity of the ANC , Maj. Botha warned that Buthelezi could " seriously consider throwing in his lot with the ANC with far-reaching implications for Natal and the RSA [ Republic of South Africa ] " . |
| 26 | While pregnant Senada Causevic and her four children begin to recover from their months of hell , Bob is mugging up on Russian so he is better able to share the fears and hopes of his new friends . |
| 27 | As soon as the developing eggs begin to move within their globes of jelly , the males lean forward and appear to eat them . |
| 28 | Her pulses were racing madly as he watched him tug his tie undone with a rough impatience , shrug off his jacket and begin to dispose of his shirt in the same cool , determined style . |
| 29 | The air in her lungs was stifling , fear rising in her throat like hordes of butterfly wings clamouring for release , choking her . |
| 30 | Would any readers out there like to comment on what sort of animal John Lukic could be compared to ? |