Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , just on the sub-ward level , of course there 's really , there 's a lot more investigations to go into targeting the resources , just I mean to target them in a city by having these standard mortality ratios for wards , but they 're all below ward level , and target the specific areas . |
| 2 | If , as is postulated here , usage is determined by the meaning to be expressed , the answer must be that there are two different ways of conceiving causation in English , make representing it in a way that calls for the bare infinitive , cause in a way requiring the representation of abstract movement in time signified by to . |
| 3 | Two months later this tram-driver stopped me : ‘ I want to see you for a minute . |
| 4 | For example , although we do not have in English the grammaticalization of the levels of respect that exist in Javanese , we do have means of expressing degrees of respect , largely by choices in the use of expressions : thus ( 31 ) would generally be a more polite request than ( 30 ) : ( 30 ) I want to see you for a moment ( 31 ) I wondered if I could possibly see you for a moment So by taking at first just the grammaticalized or encoded features of context in the world 's languages , we would have both something like a " discovery procedure " for relevant functions of language , and a constraint on the relatively vacuous theorizing that often attends speculation about the " functions of speech " . |
| 5 | They 're ideal if you just want to lose it for a couple of hours , but try not to get hooked . |
| 6 | and that if we want to borrow it in a couple weeks time |
| 7 | Swap swap it with a duff one ! |
| 8 | I must look deep , deep into your soul and grow to trust you as a brother ! ’ |
| 9 | But for UK and Irish holidaymakers who want to combine it with a Florida vacation , it is also an attractive deal . |
| 10 | When people are buying , another example of their purchasing power would be to say ‘ well , now I want this particular policy and I want to combine it with a power that 's available to me in that policy ’ . |
| 11 | So we will need a tolerant and patient horse if we want to use it as a school horse , or a plough horse , or even a dressage horse . |
| 12 | And now they 've changed their mind and want to put me in a caravan . |
| 13 | said you want to put 'em in a bag and shake 'em up . |
| 14 | They 've spent years doing this sort of thing , now they 've decided that they want to do it for a living . |
| 15 | Start a hobby Contact your local adult education centre if you want to do it in a group |
| 16 | The couple have been offered a decoration grant of £210 , hardly enough , they say to turn it into a home . |
| 17 | Now they want to invite us to a football match at the next sales conference at Brighton in January . |
| 18 | The Pritchards have n't given up yet , but they say putting them in a council house would be like putting them in prison . |
| 19 | If you want to display it on a device with different resolution , you have the following options : — |
| 20 | Say thank you with a gift of gold from Beaverbrooks . |
| 21 | With machine knitting we tend to restrict it to a maximum of three stitches over three stitches because the machines are supplied with triple transfer tools . |
| 22 | Unusual coat colours and patterns can arise spontaneously by genetic mutation anywhere in the world , and breeders in different regions might quite coincidentally seize upon a colour mutation and henceforward seek to establish it as a mark of their breed . |
| 23 | Stop treating me like a kid . ’ |
| 24 | Over the next 40 minutes or so I hope to take you on a review of the practical application of artificial intelligence ( AI ) in the field of aircraft maintenance within the RAF . |
| 25 | You intend to pile them in a wall which will , |
| 26 | He says they seem to regard it as a holiday and those birds that are over twelve months old have been through this before and seem to look forward to it |
| 27 | It will have to be for us at least twenty one days , that 's the absolute rock bottom minimum I would have thought therefore the French I suspect have us over a barrel and we would have to cough up for the enormous expenditure of an extra building at Strasbourg which is not needed erm as I understand it er that er view I savoured I do n't erm have the details of that . |
| 28 | If girls deviate , they tend to do it in a way that causes far less disruption than boys , such as pretending to write when they are bored . |
| 29 | After spending a few months gauging public reaction , West Mercia Police intend to use him as a kerbside deterrent against speeding . |
| 30 | And as she fell she sensed him plunge to meet her like a meteor on fire , heard the sound he made against her sundered throat . |