Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [prep] [pos pn] [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 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ Some of our diners , ’ he said , ‘ seem to look upon our cutlery as a form of medicine . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ’ . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 ] " . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | As soon as the developing eggs begin to move within their globes of jelly , the males lean forward and appear to eat them . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The air in her lungs was stifling , fear rising in her throat like hordes of butterfly wings clamouring for release , choking her . |
| 29 | I saw Joe , of course , and remember laughing at his description of how Morgan Forster had been interviewed by Alfred C. Kinsey for his researches into Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male . |
| 30 | There 's a power cut ; the lights go out and we light candles and gas lamps and end up — a hard core of seven of us ; Andy , me , Howie , another two local lads and a couple of the traveller boys — down in the snooker room where there 's a beat-up looking table and a leak in the ceiling that turns the whole of the stained , green-baize surface into a millimetre-shallow marsh , water dripping from each pocket and dribbling down the bulky legs to the sopping carpet , and we play snooker by the light of the hissing gas lamps , having to hit the white ball really hard even for delicate shots because of the extra rolling resistance the water causes , and the balls make a zizzing , ripping noise as they race across the table and sometimes you can see spray curving up behind them and I 'm feeling really drunk and a bit stoned from a couple of strong Js smoked out in the garden earlier with the travellers but I think this dimly lit water-hazard snooker is just hilarious and I 'm laughing maniacally at it all and I put an arm round Andy 's neck at one point and say , You know I love you , old buddy , and is n't friendship and love what 's it 's really all about ? and why ca n't people just see that and just be nice to each other ? except there are just so many complete bastards in the world , but Andy just shakes his head and I try to kiss him and he gently fends me off and steadies me against one wall and props me up with a snooker cue against my chest and I think this is really funny for some reason and laugh so much I fall over and have distinct problems getting up again and get carried to my room by Andy and one of the travellers and dumped on the bed and fall instantly asleep . |