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Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [indef pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Our attitude is that we want to see everyone in the six counties , whether Protestant or Catholic , active in the movement to attain civil rights for the people there .
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4	We want to do something for the voluntary sector .
5	Don ? t expect to understand everything at a first reading .
6	But once we have left school and have gone on to a different sort of existence , those relationships cease to have anything like the same meaning .
7	Now if you understand that , if you 're actually targeting , you want to get something into a national paper or local paper or something , you need to think at about your particular item you want to get across and think ‘ What sort of angle could actually be useful for that particular outlet ? ’
8	Second I want to say a few words about the efforts that have been made in the last twelve months to increase the G M B's role in the building and civil engineering industries and third I want to say something about the present serious situation in the building industry pay talks .
9	However before examining it I want to say something about the general response of community educators to the problems facing the working-class in N. Ireland .
10	Despair overtakes me as soon as I see the dreaded trolleys jammed together ; I always manage to pick one with a crab-like action ; my heart sinks and culinary amnesia sets in somewhere between the tinned fruit and dried pasta .
11	However , as we saw in Chapter 2 , many degree courses seem to have something between a large core ( 66 per cent or more , typically in the natural sciences ) and a small core ( 20–40 per cent , typically in the arts or social sciences ) .
12	I mean I 'm , I 'm , I 'm only going on the fact that I I tend to do everything on the cheap so I tend to get if I can find somebody who does photocopying I can do it then we 'll do it .
13	They are increased now obviously but erm , you know to put anything on a tuppeny fare then was well a ha'penny which was twenty five percent on terrible , every year we were going for a fare increase and in those days you really had to go through the Traffic Commissioners .
14	We train to do something for a particular purpose , to develop the performance of specific tasks or skills .
15	I do nt think they ve had one for a few years .
16	With projects that are more than ten years old you should give a lot of thought to the problems involved , and then decide to build something from the current issue of Everyday Electronics instead !
17	If you try to whisk something with a hard metal balloon whisk it is hopeless ; you want to use something supple .
18	A software crash generally happens when you try to do something in the same way — i.e. the crash is repeatable .
19	This mourning cleanses us of our false expectations and superficialities , where we try to flatten everything into a manageable world in which we are in charge .
20	There is now a ‘ hassles and uplifts ’ scale with which ambitious social psychologists try to quantify everything from the down value of a lost shoe to the up value of a birthday card from an old friend .
21	Of course , some humour can also be used in those books that do keep something of an implacable eye on people .
22	And that 's when you really start getting problems and they start treating something as a continuous function , and it 's not .
23	‘ You 've done something with a western that I 've never see before .
24	The tragedy is , we 've done nothing about the exclusive reliance on interest rates , we 've done nothing about the continuing erosion of jobs , and particularly so in the regions , er and this government has er wasted the summer months ; when it could have taken action it has merely compounded the problems that are of it 's own creation in the mismanagement of the economy .
25	The tragedy is , we 've done nothing about the exclusive reliance on interest rates , we 've done nothing about the continuing erosion of jobs , and particularly so in the regions , er and this government has er wasted the summer months ; when it could have taken action it has merely compounded the problems that are of it 's own creation in the mismanagement of the economy .
26	You look at the skill you did n't know you had , put a label on it and think : ‘ Yes I do do that ’ , whereas when you first walk in you think you 've done nothing for the last 18 years .
27	‘ I 've seen plenty in the last few months . ’
28	But I 've got one in the do-it-yourself shop here you see , and I thought I might as well put one in Val 's two shops .
29	I can quote you three particular instances where farmers have rung in with good information only to be told at the other end of the phone what the bloody hell have you rung us for and they 've got nothing within the local police whatsoever .
30	You 've got okay you 've got something like a six I do n't even know what time the train comes they change at different times , the one I 've caught was at five past nine train .