Example sentences of "[vb base] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I 'm , yeah , ern I wondered about sort of Executive Committee and er , I know you 're not very keen on that idea and it , it does tend to remove information from the ordinary members , if , if , you have a small group of people dealing with the business and , a , a separate lead . |
| 2 | No : if we want them to fall in love with us , we 'll just have to ignore them , and hope they do n't go away . |
| 3 | Unless you want me to get in touch with your father , that is ? ’ |
| 4 | We at Woodworker make every effort for accuracy , but suggest you check by phone before starting your journey . |
| 5 | ‘ I want you to go for dinner with me . ’ |
| 6 | While this is true , we want you to feel in control of your weight and to be able to interpret the minor fluctuations that occur from day to day . |
| 7 | I want you to get in touch with the Mayor and tell him I need to have the Council offices opened up . |
| 8 | ‘ Celia , I want you to get in touch with Ronnie Thrale at London Weekend . |
| 9 | Below are six requirements for a patio which we want you to place in order of importance : |
| 10 | And he knew that Marama , because of her title , would always be looked after if she stayed on Koraloona , so it would be wrong of him to be selfish and expect her to live in semi-starvation on a strange island . |
| 11 | ( Even her leaping into bed with him again . |
| 12 | The latest draft of the European Commission 's plan for telecommunications seeks deregulation of cross-border services within the Community from January 1996 and of all services , domestic and international , by the start of 1998 , Reuter reports from Brussels , and phone companies expect it to press for deregulation of phone service despite the industry 's reservations — ‘ It 's far too ambitious — we 're not opposed to deregulation but this is too fast , ’ Charlotte Pins , a director of corporate communications at Belgium 's Belgacom said ; France Telecom said it backed ‘ setting sights on 1998 or 2000 ’ as a deadline for freeing the phone service , but Community-wide rules on access to national networks , costs , tariffs and public service duties would have to be agreed shortly . |
| 13 | The average shrinkage level for 1991 is 24 p.c. of net profit , up a third over two years , and retailers expect it to grow in line with inflation . |
| 14 | In this sermon on prayer , I want us to think about prayer as a two-way conversation in which we talk to God and in which we listen to him as well . |
| 15 | For example , some historians have argued that Methodism and other non-conformist sects were deliberately encouraged by employers in the nineteenth century in order to placate the workers and persuade them to look for salvation in the next world rather than in this . |
| 16 | This is because as Dickens wrote his novels as weekly instalments he had to put enough into each instalment whether it be a couple of chapters or many , enough to captivate his readers and cause them to wait with eagerness for the next instalment . |
| 17 | Just let them read in bed for ten minutes or so , and then put the lights out . |
| 18 | Oh , please God , she prayed , shake Perdita out of this ghastly mood and make her happy again , and look after darling Violet and Eddie , and Gainsborough and Ethel , and please God , if you think it 's right , let me fall in love with a man who is n't married , who falls in love with me and do n't make it too long . |
| 19 | But , let me say by way of rejoinder , there is no necessary reason why things should not come about the other way round — with the personality regression preceding the growth in power of the state — and that even if this is a functional , rather than causal , relationship , it is nevertheless a significant one . |
| 20 | If the Chief those to also want to improve passenger comfort but let me say in spite of all this er th th th the customer still favour and that is why we will be supporting the Labour resolution because it is about the state of it is about yes to keep our eyes and sort of providing a whole range of integrated public transport that goes along in parallel with that same . |
| 21 | I imagine they walked in silence for some way after that ; putting a new idea into someone 's imagination , even if that imagination belongs to the cleverest young Fellow of the very grandest college , is like turning on the television — it takes a little time for the set to warm up . |
| 22 | I hope they get to bottom of it . |
| 23 | Most of his contemporaries would have shrugged their shoulders and let it remain as part of the natural order of things . |
| 24 | He brought it out of his trouser pocket , held the straight end and let it uncoil in front of her until the loop swung down . |
| 25 | Now , by way of change , let us move from drama to humour . |
| 26 | " Then let us burn in hell for it . " |
| 27 | ‘ Let us demand on behalf of humanity , because this is a crime against humanity , to take all measures to stop the genocide in at least one town , Gorazde , ’ he said . |
| 28 | Come , let us sing for joy to the LORD ; |
| 29 | At the time of writing , songs such as , ‘ We are here to praise you ’ , ‘ Come , let us sing for joy to the Lord ’ , or the old favourite , ‘ I will enter his gates … . ’ are appropriate . |
| 30 | ‘ Let us ask from beginning to end , from contention to resolution , and advance no plea or reservation of our own . |